Posts by Maharg

Nomnomnom, wrong wrong wrong

“Oh no a woman has dared offer her opinion about the future of the internet!! Cue outraged howls of indignation from men...”

Everyone is saying the same things about ‘Call me Dave’ Cameron as they are Claire Perry, yet because she is a women you feel the need to defend her and not him and say the reason people are having a go at her is because they are sexist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy

“Predictable. No doubt she'll come under a hail of abuse on Twitter from Trolls soon.”

An internet “Troll” is someone who posts comments on pages and threads to either disrupt, trick or annoy, example - posting a topic on a forum titled

“Can someone help please? I don’t know if I should I feed live crickets and bugs to my baby...”

Once clicked on full text is seen

Can someone help please? I don’t know if I should I feed live crickets and bugs to my baby snakes, or should I stick with dead ones until they are older, and at what age can they ‘hunt’ them at?

The ‘Troll’ uses the character limit in the topic header to turn what could be seen as a normal post into something that plays a joke on the users of the forum,

Another simpler example is in computer games when pretending to be a novice gamer, asking silly questions, example

Troll – How do I find the (item) to complete the (name of) mission?

Helpful Gamer – Its located in the (place name)

Troll – How do I get there?

HG – Look on the map

Troll – How do I get the Map?

HG – Press the M key

Troll – Whats a “M” Key?

Other gamer – Lol Don’t feed the trolls

What you are describing on Twitter when people post vile threating posts are bullies and in some cases are breaking the law

“Kids are using the internet more and more and we absolutely need to stamp out unsuitable material.”

No, We need to stop kids from viewing unsuitable material, not remove it, child pr0n is already illegal, this filter will not make even the smallest amount of difference when it comes to child p0rn, it doesn’t work like that, pedophiles don’t use Google to find images, it doesn’t work like that.

The ‘unsuitable material’ this will filter out is pretty much anything, for example I can’t use my mobile phone to find information about problems with my mobile phone because Orange think ‘Sony Mobile Web Forum Help’ is unsuitable because as a ‘web forum’ they don’t know what the content is, so it’s blocked.

So what can we do? If only there was some kind of parental control on that can be ‘activated’ to not allow your kids access adult content, oh wait, most internet providers have this option, all it needs is the parent to turn it on.

The difference is that currently if I want to stop kids using ‘my’ internet to view ‘adult content’ I have to say so, I have the choice.

when they go ahead with this stupid idea if I want to use ‘Sony Mobile Web Forum Help’ I have to contact my ISP and be put on a list to say I am a pervert who likes watching the most degrading smut filled snuff films.

“Clare Perry is absolutely right that we need filters in every device that will block this stuff out. “

As said before, we already do, people just need to be told to how to do it.

“Shame on anyone who disagrees.”

Shame on anyone who thinks this will a) Work, b) make any kind of difference c) absolves them of having to take responsibility in their parenting

In other words, we need to Educate, not Regulate.

Re: Ammunition

"Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders"

Re: No one cares about you.

In that case, how do you suggest they gather evidence to see if you are doing anything wrong? Or would you rather just wait until something happens?

I guess you have an issue with CCTV cameras as well then? Or what about Policemen walking around the street? “Stop looking at things Mr Policeman, you might see me!”

This is passive surveillance, unless you do something that warrants their attention, they are not looking at YOU, nobody cares about you, get over yourself.

Re: what a load of old bollocks

I was sending MMS on a Sony T68 back in 2003, I know because I only just sent it off to a charity and had to delete all the pictures my girlfriend had sent me. It also had blue tooth, something that I couldn’t understand why 5 years later wasn’t on an iPhone, “how else am I supposed to send you this Paris Hilton GIF?”

Re: tales, of a sort

Just a few points to continue this, while I again, agree with much of what you said, you assume that Louisiana would have fallen to the British Empire, but could it not be assumed that any attack on Louisiana may have resulted in not only an adequate defence, but even a reversal and invasion of British/American lands by the French (and Spanish)? (Much in the same way when the US invaded Canada in 1812 the White House ended up being burnt down?) After all, the French (and Spanish) were hardly a force to be trifled with, they managed to stop the Royal Navy from bringing its full might in the American Revolution by attacking the Caribbean, and it’s not like a march into the 13 Colonies would be comparable to Russia in the winter.

As for the import of slaves stopping in 1808, that law may have been passed, but it was not enforced on the American side, and Slaves continued to be bought and sent to the US up until much later, between 1808 and 1860 the Royal Navy freed and transported back to Africa over 150,000 slaves being transported across the Atlantic, and while the majority would have ended up in Spanish lands a large number would have been headed to the US.

You are also forgetting that with the Louisiana Purchase came a large number of slaves, 10,000 in Missouri alone.

As for the measurements,

The imperial UK gallon, = 4.54609 litres,

The US gallon, = 3.785411784 litres

UK Pint = 568 millilitres

US Pint 473 millilitres

But in the interest of cross Atlantic relations, I will let you fill it with fizzy cold piss water, or Bud light or whatever its called, instead of the brown murky warm crap we drink over here!

Re: Difference between ‘crippled’ and ‘attacked’ @AC

Reminds me of the Simpsons where Homer and Grandpa are escaping in a car from people angrily shaking their fists at them “Shake harder boy, they’re getting away”!

Not just Microsoft

You can guarantee they have everything else, If you don’t want The Man ® to have the chance to look at your emails the best bet is to use some Russian, Iranian or North Korean option, then at least the Americans will have to put some effort into spying on you (and being aware that the Russia, Iran or the Norks are already doing it, probably without a court order).

On a side note, as I have stated before I am not really worried, I am under no illusions that they can see what I am doing if they want, I am a realist, anyone who thought this ‘could’ not happen if they wanted it to is very naïve, the surprising thing for me is thy bothered getting any legal backing, and while I don’t subscribe to the ‘if you have nothing to hide…’ mentality the amount of time, money and man power it would take to monitor everyone’s email, phone calls, movements and online presence is ridiculous, it’s more a case of ‘I am so unimportant I really doubt they would bother’. That is until Obama announces his new plan to combat unemployment and the NSA has 100 Million new jobs going, then I will get worried…

Re: English acronyms ... only 26 letters

My dad had a similar issue when I was showing him facebook, he wondered why everyone kept stating their support for a Loyal Orange Lodge,