Heh. Thanks.

The paragon of higher education - a government info session about something the media is in a tither about. That's as likely to be useful as Reefer Madness is to depict reality.

You're arguing from a less-informed position than someone starting fresh.

You parroted, you mean.

What I claim is that arresting people who molest children will change the molestation statistics. Assholes like you making up and spreading legends about pedos and kiddy porn, etc, is just confusing the issue and drowning out useful discussion. Most molestation of children isn't done by people with a specific kid-fixation, they're opportunistic rapists.

And porn isn't the problem, people who rape are the problem.

Since you're taking requests, how about you stuff a sock in it until you realize how little you know. Your 'break the cycle' nonsense is harmful. Yes, it's sick but it's also almost totally uncorrelated to actual abuses.

There's another reason you don't have much to offer. But it's not my rudeness. And thanks, but I can read the source material myself without your teaching.

Well, only the ridiculous and useless laws.

Oh, and how do you know this? Hung out with enough pedos? You know, it's incredibly rare - if you meet any/many you may be attracting them by your behavior.

No, that's the standard rant about porn in general. It'll drive men to not want real women, etc. Never with any evidence.

Of course not, child porn is illegal so there are no numbers. But it's no more likely to be different than the same.

Idiot. Kids were being abused a long time before there were suggestive photos of them. Breaking the cycle doesn't involve cameras, it's far deeper with basic attitudes toward children as property.

I've seen people who wouldn't believe their fence was down. And people who won't believe their information security systems are broken.

In both cases you have to grab someone by the nose and make them look before their cows (metaphorical or otherwise) eat your (likewise, metaphorical if appropriate) garden.

The researcher probably can't countersue to be paid for pointing out this vulnerability, but it's a shame. One bogus lawsuit deserves to be answered with a bigger one.

You certainly shouldn't feel they've been hurt or harmed in any way. That's sort of how rape is treated in religious communities - like the victim is now forever damaged, and that's the most harmful thing you could do to them - "you're irrevocably broken, but not in a way *you* can see".

Let's say someone laid their video camera on the ground while at the beach, playing a game, and your daughter wandered by and sat, pantless, in front of their video camera for a while. What part of her has been hurt? Where is the injury?

So then they take it home and discover the video - and one of them likes it and masturbates to it furiously. Still, where is the injury? What possible mechanism is there by which this could harm your daughter?

And, if you're going to talk about someone posting the photos, that's only damaging because family and friends would feel shamed by it and inflict that on the child.

So no, no damage is done if someone takes pictures of your kids naked (excepting any force or coercion used to take the photo, etc). That's just ridiculous.

Your child is just as good today as yesterday, regardless of the pervert. When we all act like this not only will we have a more open society where less abuse will happen, but we won't shame the victims into suffering in silence.

You'd make a lousy neighbor. I've spent much of this year literally testing our neighbors' fences (and our own) - destructively even - kicking at posts as hard as I can, etc, to find even signs of weakness. Then we trade lists of weak spots with them and cooperate on fixing the fence.

To further improve your writing, remove excess words.

That's ridiculous.

If the masses were right nothing would need to be said, and nobody would be offended. But that's not how it works. Everything is discovered by a small group first and propagates to others. But the masses, if we were to listen to them, wouldn't have any of it because they hadn't heard it yet. Circular, and useless.

All rights not only must reside in the individual to offer any protection to individuals or the collective, but government only has legitimacy through the people it represents and they wouldn't very well sign their essential freedoms away to do so. The rights are inherently the people's. No constitution, treaty, or law, can take it away.

Thanks, that could be helpful.

Does that leave you with the wrong OS version for that hardware?

If you want to sit and passively wait for pics like the rest of us, sure. But if you want to collect information more easily by saying "We'll treat it well", you had better.

That asset is worth less, and thus given more freely, because it's encumbered with conditions. Pretending the conditions on an asset go away on transfer is ridiculous. If you buy land where someone else has the water rights, for instance, you cannot remove that right by simply selling the land - even via bankruptcy. That personal information is seen differently is a legal aberration, and part of the reason nobody respects "the law".

The real way to deal with this is rent the involved CEOs' houses (as if for a movie shoot) and go bankrupt, selling the houses (which we all agree are not yours to sell) for pennies on the dollar. Because that's what they're doing to people.

Do you have an expectation of privacy when broadcasting signals? No. Of course not. And that's why, despite the USA's stupid laws, we encrypt our radio communications.

But it should be reasonable to expect the company selling you an encrypted phone not sell you out without a warrant.

Without the phone company identifying your phone for the snoopers you wouldn't stand out from the other anonymous devices. And because they refuse to use DOS-resistant protocols (ie, the phone only answering location queries from devices it trusts, like the base station, and not some random spoofer), you have a crippled device serving more as a leash than a phone.

If PETA was having a protest and someone used the police over-reaction there to rob a bank elsewhere you'd probably blame the demonstrators. A bunch of people were DDOSing an auth server. Meanwhile someone hacked into a website. The two are only coincidentally connected because no cover was needed and the DDOSing didn't open the hole.

To the degree the general populace is as willfully ignorant as you, fuck them. Your hardship in going to Walmart and buying donuts is meant to be interrupted by protests - it's what makes you look around. If you pay attention, Sony wasn't properly providing what they claimed to be. If you wouldn't leave your credit card info laying in a public washroom you shouldn't give it to Sony. If a script kiddy gets through your security with standard tools it's your fault as a service provider. It's not the 90s anymore.

You should feel lucky if the service interruption kept you from registering. If you already were registered call your credit card company and say that with being forced to use the console online for the full experience, and them being so lax with your credit card and personal info, that you want to return it and get a refund.

To the degree that that actually happened, then good. It's exactly what should have happened.

But if you believe that you probably believe anything you hear. They'll patch the specific hole used, and a few others, and drop the issue because they've got a monopoly on serving play station owners. They don't need to compete on quality. Post-purchase you're screwed.

Your standard is pretty weak - you care about the material, not the result. I want furniture that won't break in regular use and isn't just overbuilt to cost more. Particle board is bad in some uses, 'solid wood' bad for others.

It sounds like your 'real furniture stores' are just pretentious crap-shacks selling the same lame workmanship but in more expensive materials or they'd have given you better standards.