I suggest you check your local laws. Recording your neighbors having an argument without their knowledge and consent is almost certainly against the law.

Depending on location, it is illegal to record a conversation between two parties without those parties' knowledge. In some states, both parties are required to know, in other only one is required. That is why many video surveillance systems don't have sound capabilities. These are the laws many video peepers and upskirt video shooters were prosecuted under because there was nothing on the books about shooting video.

This is what happens when you can't sell papers, can't have a paywall, and ad revenues decline. What you don't realize that soon this will not be just the death of newspapers, but the death of what little true, professional, journalism is left. Soon, it will be all be bloggers, opinion panderers, and spin artists. If a person can't make money at a profession, that profession dies. Because everyone expects on-line news to be free and don't read newspapers anymore, print media are finding it harder and harder to make money, thus print journalists are finding it harder to make money.

It's nothing to do with kids getting age-appropriate material (this time). Their contention is that adult pedophiles first see pictures of children being abused (or anime versions, which are no different according to them) which then encourages them to go out, abduct, rape and murder children.

The obvious solution for the censor brigade is the same setup that mobile phone networks have largely switched to - heavy filtering by default (in this particular example, they want maximum google safe search as default on for everyone) so adult men can't find pictures or anime of naked children, and thus, will never go on to rape and murder real children. Tada! In order to see any sites that are otherwise filtered - such as legal porn, medical sites, art sites, any site to do with the town of scunthorpe - you have to register yourself as a dirty porn watching perv, which list presumably the police will be watching closely in case you start desiring to go on a child abduction and murdering rampage, and will explicitly discourage people from doing, thus keeping their minds clear of unpure thoughts in good Christian fashion.

That it achieves one of their other goals, the appearance of a kiddy-friendly internet with no adult-only activity ever, is just a happy co-incidence.

In a separate but parallel move, the Home Secretary is trying to revive the Snooper's charter - i.e. ISPs, webhosts, service providers such as google and facebook would have to keep extensive logs of what emails and websites UK users visit, which the police and security services can troll through at their leisure, looking for Islamic terrorists planning on chopping down passersby in the street with machetes. And probably now porn-viewing adults, in case they turn out to be child murdering pedo's.

It is the usual 'ban this filth, won't someone think of the children' attempts to whitelist the internet, but this time it's to protect the children from the men who murder them because they saw porn on the internet and decided to get the real thing. That child porn is ALREADY blacklisted by the list run by the IWF, and subscribed to by most ISPs, and he was getting stuff that wasn't on the blacklist, and thus filtering wasn't actually even doing the job they wanted it to when running as intended is being conveniently ignored.

That they and the home secretary don't have a damn clue about how the tech, ISPs or the internet work is a given. They see it as one giant branch of WH Smiths, and it's just like banning the sale of dirty magazines, and will obviously solve the problem once and for all, and anyone that tries to point out the flaws is in league with the terrorists and the pedo child murderers, and heaven forbid anyone express concerns about the Big Brother or Free Speech aspects.

No. The NRA wants every law abiding citizen to have the *choice* of whether or not to own firearms.

LK

BTW, who pays for the animals that are picked up by animal control?

For someone who is not a PETA supporter, you sure know a lot about them and their claims.

No, you are full of bullshit. You spouted PETA's propaganda. Here, let's look at one claim you make:

But, every governmental animal control agency in the United States accepts any animal turned in to them. They euthanize those that can't be adopted. Many non-profit, non-governmental shelters that do kill animals also accept unadoptable animals. The only shelters that tend not to accept the unadoptable are the no-kill shelters. You connect the dots. You are nothing but a PETA shill astroturfing as damage control

Did you know that south seas cannibalistic people referred to human meat as "long pork" because they say people tastes like pork. People, other other other white meat!

Those are only a problem if, like pigs and cows, you fail to butcher and cook it properly.

Because it's a full linux computer about the size of a credit card for $35 that runs on a couple of watts? That can do far more than say, an arduino (though arduino still rules for hardware interfacing).

For your average dev who can plop down the cash for a macbook pro or the like, it's terribly underpowered. For someone on a tight budget of money and/or power, such as for maker builds or students, it's pretty awesome. I have one running as a headless personal web server/gitbox because I can and it beats the hell out of the electricity cost of running a full blown x86 server for that job.

Getting a much snappier hw-accelerated GUI is no small thing either.

Then you're not really paying attention.

While the NRA wants to be pretty much free from the dictated rules of others, PETA wants to be the one dictating.

NRA: Leave us alone, we're doing our thing.
PETA: Stop what you're doing or we'll harass you.

See the difference?

LK

I never thought of it that way before. That's a very apt comparison. They're both groups of annoying assholes who do far more harm than good to the causes that they claim to care about.

Bravo.

LK

This website is full of people because it is a social/community website. It is run by people; the articles are selected by people, edited by people, and commented on by people. Have you forgotten you are person, the singular of people? When one looks at the articles selected by the editors who are PEOPLE, and the comments by the PEOPLE who make up the body of the website, one sees an obvious bias. Saying that 500,000 people shouting and moderating down 50,000 means there is more than one view is completely disingenuous. Keep digging, Skippy, I am sure you are going to bury me in that hole you are currently have to look up to see out of.

No, you called him a shill because he called out Slashdot on it's hypocrisy when it comes to proprietary vs FLOSS solutions. Classic ad hominem. It may be off topic but it is still true. You mention new and immature, which is a perfect description of PHP, Ruby on Rail, and all the newer technologies. It is really amusing watching you try to counter the truth by spewing hate at MS. Not only are you proving my point, you are continuing to prove mystikkman's point. Keep digging, Skippy, I am sure you will get out of your hole any time now.