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A South Carolina politician is hoping to stop computer owners in his state from viewing pornography.
State Rep. Bill Chumley, a Republican from Spartanburg, told his hometown newspaper that his Human Trafficking Prevention Act would require manufacturers or sellers of computers or other devices that access the Internet to install digital blocks to prevent the viewing of obscene content. Blocking websites that facilitate prostitution would also be required, he said.
If a purchaser wants the filter lifted, he or she has to pay $20 to have it taken out—provided the person is over the age of 18.
Also at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
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South Carolina to Debate Pre-Installed Porn Filter on New Computers
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 3, Touché) by kazzie on Tuesday December 20 2016, @05:37AM
Pay $20, or FORMAT C: ?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 20 2016, @07:18AM
http://www.howtogeek.com/106873/how-to-use-fdisk-to-manage-partitions-on-linux/ [howtogeek.com]
C: is a figment of a twisted imagination.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:05AM
As a happy full–time Linux user of 8½ years, I'd say /dev/sd* has to be the product of a deeply twisted imagination as well.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:15AM
The best thing about /dev/sd* is - we don't have to remember all that stuff every three months! Our drives are mostly "set it and forget it". ;^)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @04:46PM
Maybe they are now. I started back in the /dev/hd* days. Drives didn't move around and you knew exactly which drive was which connection. With /dev/sd* setups, the drives were notorious for moving around. Hence why by-id, by-uuid, by-label, and by-path (and later by-partlabel and by-partuuid) exist at all.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @01:51PM
Newbie. I've been using Slackware since 1994.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:08PM
Really? With the Windows (DOS, really) lettering scheme, a drive letter could be a partition, a full drive, anything, and there's no rhyme or reason to it beyond some archaic tradition that A: is floppy 1, B: is floppy 2 (which is why you never see a B: drive...), C: is the first HDD, etc.
I'd say it makes a hell of a lot more sense the way Linux does it. /dev/ means devices, sd means "scsi/serial-ata disk", a-z or whatever are which disk in order, and 1-whatever are partitions. If I see /dev/sdb3 that means "devices, scsi/sata disks, second disk, third partition." Tells me exactly what and where.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Funny) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday December 20 2016, @12:21PM
Obviously, this qualifies Linux as a hacker-tool to circumvent the filter of the OS. (Everyone knows that the OS of a computer is MS Windows.) Probably there are some options to instrument DMCA to punish circumventing the good Windows Access Control by using such evil communist hacker tools.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @05:15PM
Or the nuke from orbit option: put linux disk in the DVD reader, choose install icon, you're done.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday December 21 2016, @06:59AM
How long a cable do you have on that DVD drive?