I must have a dirty mind.
I just finished reading this article on Techdirt, one of my most favorite websites on the net today. Real quickly, the authors really understand technology as it relates to business - something I know a great deal about as its what my career is all about.
So as you can see from the article, the Utah governor wants to move all porn traffic to some other port. Now besides this being attempted before with the whole .xxx domains, the attempt to move all porn to some other port besides 80 is near impossible. Not only is hard to identify traffic and force it to alternate ports, forcing someone to route to a specific port is improbable and will be circumvented eventually. The entire net would have to change, really, and you know how hard it is to get standards in this day and age.
But the idea that you can protect people from content by segregating it just smacks of ignorance. Elected officials and policy makers only make themselves sound uneducated and ignorant about technology when they come up with and promote these crazy ideas. While its ok to want to keep adult content away from children, forcing the technology to change human behavior is not the way to go.
The best way to keep mature content is through good parenting. Good parents will place their computer in a public place, talk to them about on-line predators, and discuss the websites that they find objectionable. Its not easy but no one ever said parenting was.
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I was browsing the iTunes Music Store earlier and noticed something cool when I looked at the new Modest Mouse album, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. You could pre-order the CD just like any other album but when you did, it would charge your account the 99 cents now and download their one song, Dashboard. When the CD is released, however, the balance of CD will download but you will be charged the full price of the CD minus the cost of the single - something new as far as I know.
People have been asking for this a long time and it looks as if they got it. I’m not sure if its new to iTunes 7.1 only but nevertheless, its new to me and its something I’ve been looking for in my favorite music venue, too. I wish I had that when I bought the Fall Out Boy track, “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race”. What they need to do now is to extend that to CDs already released. Then it would make iTMS the best way to get music (that is if you don’t mind the crippling DRM that the industry slabs on).
Has anyone else noticed this in other albums or is it just Modest Mouse?
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When I heard the announcement that Parallels had released another (and final) version of their OS virtualization software, I decided to give it a try. The way I figure, the $80 or so it costs will pale in comparison to the headache I would feel if I got rid of my PC. Now I don’t plan on getting rid of my PC but if I do, its good to know that I can do so without missing the essential apps I have used for years. The money is also worth it for me to “play” with new or beta OSs without having to damage my XP or my Ubuntu partitions. In fact, after I get done with creating an Ubuntu image, I’m going to install another one but this time the server LAMP version.
So far, I love it! XP installed without a problem (which I can’t say happened on my real PC) and the Ubuntu install is going smoothly. If I get things to work well, I’ll install Parallels on my wife’s computer, too, so she can use XP. Of course, for me to do that, I need to uninstall my XP (don’t want to get in trouble with the Windows Gestapo Association).
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I saw someone reading a magazine called Public Service: for decision makers in government.
Talk about a contradiction in terms.
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