Ksadya / Comments

Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 8:22pm

if ya aint sposta eat egg, stay away from the egg rolls. If you're otherwise healthy, indulge every once in a while.

Reference: Study: Chinese Restaurant Food Is Unhealthy

Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 8:17pm

and 100% of me thinks it was a show put on to distract us while something more sinister was going on at the white house.

Reference: 60% of Britons think Iraq war was wrong, poll shows

Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 3:03pm

Usually, the argument here is that simple steps such as block-words/phrases be instituted. But words are exactly that, words, not content. Determining what is legal and illegal based on how somebody words a file is: Useless - hax0r = hacker, M0v13 t1tl3 = Movie title, etc. Google is an expert at interpreting such substitutions. Unfair - I hate "I *heart* Huckabees" could be a legal video, critiquing a legitimate movie. Block-words would fail to recognize that it's a movie review. Censorship - I *heart* this, that, and everything else. Who's to say I don't heart my friend Huckabees? Another simple feedback mechanism is "Do you feel that this video is being distributed illegally (yes/no)" Obviously, malicious users could easily click yes to everything. Digg's popularity has attracted numerous bots. There is a black market for falsely tagging web content. If I have a car wash, and somebody's filming a personal video in front of my car wash, I could set these bots to vote the video as being illegally distributed, even though the video was made under the conditions of fair use. Simple mechanisms are never simple. If you think it's so simple, do it yourself. -- Full time programmer

Reference: The case against YouTube