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Comment Re:That's fairly easy (Score 1) 299

You don't need to find a toy that is gender neutral, but you have to give the kid what he or she is interested in! The problem isn't kids not being interested in the "opposite sex toy", it's parents being locked in their gender traditional point of view and their insistence how boys and girls "ought to be".

Comment IOMMU (Score 4, Informative) 125

Yes, when I saw this I thought that this was a reason to make motherboard IOMMUs a security feature. Also, the DMA destination memory pages should not have the executable bit turned on. Recent generations of Intel/AMD CPUs have provided the ability to turn that bit off.

Comment I'd rather think... (Score 1) 621

...that there are two kinds of parents. The ones that blame everything from video games to rock music to whatever else they don't understand for whatever their teenage son or daughter fucks up (because it cannot be their fault, no way) and those parents that understand that they, the parents, and their peers have a lot more influence on their kids development than video games, music, TV or whatever other makebelieve items their kids might fall in love with every could have.

Be honest: What do you think would have more influence on you, your behaviour and our outlook on the world? The schoolyard bully that beats you up or the virtual gangster that sells you a virtual hooker?

And then please answer why you think it should be different for your kids. Why do some parents think their kids are stupid? It's usually the parents where I'm fairly sure their kids are way smarter than their parents think. And most likely smarter than their parents are.

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 4, Informative) 51

It does seem insane. I mean how can the court not see that this case is clearly about killing vimeo and by extension video sharing sites. How can they expect all employees to be 100% diligent. It's never going to happen. If the only option to adhere to Safe Harbor is to have google class content filter Youtube is going to be the only game in town in the US.

The legal fees alone are the killer. Veoh won every round, but had to go out of business due to the legal fees.

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 4, Insightful) 51

Maybe it's not about killing Vimeo, but rather making it "play nice" the way YouTube has: Pay for sync licensing of the music and support the licensing costs with ads.

In my experience, their primary goal in every instance is to put people out of business, if at all possible. YouTube has been 'playing nice' with them for many years, but they haven't dropped the pending case.

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 1, Informative) 51

The blog post linked from TFS is a brief (~70 word) summary of the recent development with no links to other posts on your blog for the background on the story, only the big PDF of the decision.

The decision, IMHO, gives you what you need to know about the facts of the case in order to understand the significance of the decision. 56 pages is enough reading in my view, for our purposes. If you want more you can go on PACER and get hundreds of additional pages from the case file.

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