File Sharing — Harmful to Children and a Threat to National Security 342
jkrobin writes to mention that a recent report from the US Patent office calls peer-to-peer file sharing harmful to children and a threat to national security. "Interestingly, the report makes numerous references to RIAA and MPAA legal actions against file actions, as well as cites a 2005 Department of Homeland Security report that government workers had installed file-sharing programs that accessed classified information without their knowledge."
children (Score:3, Funny)
good thing it's 80 pages (Score:5, Funny)
They're going for the high score! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:good thing it's 80 pages (Score:5, Funny)
Not only that..... (Score:5, Funny)
Also may cause dizziness, insomnia, psoraisis, and the Creeping Crimean Crud.
The cause of the fall of the Roman Empire? File sharing.
JFK's assassins? File sharers.
Besides, file sharing isn't mentioned in the Bible, so it must be forbidden by God.
Chicken Little (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and while we're at it, Wolf! Woooooooooooooolf!
Re:Paper -- also Harmful to Children etc. (Score:5, Funny)
If you take a heavy-stock piece of high quality paper, fold it into quarters, grasp the edges, and slam your arm down to force air through the middle flap, you can create a sound that will stop an airport in its tracks.
The Etch-A-Sketch brand has been revived and is being offered as a paper-replacement tool, but Microsoft has expressed doubt that the One Etch-a-Sketch Per Child program will work.
There's no patch for human stupidity (Score:4, Funny)
How about changing the title to: Human Stupidity-a Threat to National Security?
priceless (Score:5, Funny)
Paper -- Harmful to Children etc. (Score:2, Funny)
Think of how many times you have cut your finger on the edge of rough paper. And now, can you tell me that paper is harmless to children and not a threat to national security? I don't think so.
I, for one, think this law will enable greater national security and protect the children from harm.
Re:Paper -- also Harmful to Children etc. (Score:5, Funny)
We need to abandon earth and become a space-faring civilization - otherwise our children's children will be plagued by potential weapons (rocks) to use against one another.
I call for a disbanding of the NRA (The national rock association)
When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading COMMUNISM (Score:5, Funny)
The "When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading COMMUNISM!" poster dates back to 2000; it only took us seven years to go from wacky parody to grim reality.
Re:children (Score:5, Funny)
Do not leave your house, place your hands on the wall and wait, a mind correction team will be with you shortly...
Re:Not only that..... (Score:5, Funny)
(And the Feeding of the N-thousand, of course; if Jesus is going to go round making thousands of unauthorized copies of someone else's bread, he can hardly send you to hell for sharing a few tracks, now, can he?)
Re:Not the real issue.... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, imagine if they had p2p in Star Wars:
FULL DEATH STAR PLANS!!!NO KIDDING!!!!.R2D | DroidFile | 5.1 Gb
deathstarschematics.r2d | DroidFile | 5.1 Gb
Death Star 1of20.r2d | DroidFile | 250 Mb
Re:They're going for the high score! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't forget greenhouse gasses. (Score:3, Funny)
So a baby seal walks into a club...
Re:Stop the INSANITY! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Paper -- also Harmful to Children etc. (Score:5, Funny)
Not true! You can bring a rock on an airplane, but try boarding with a pair of scissors...
Re:Stop the INSANITY! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm Irish, you insensitive clod! How dare you give our national identity to the Russians!!!
Re:Stop the INSANITY! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They're going for the high score! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stop the INSANITY! (Score:3, Funny)
I think its more like the media is the car, the State of Fear is powered by them, the government is the driver.
and the rest of us are being taken for a ride.
Re:good thing it's 80 pages (Score:5, Funny)
Re:bogus and reality check (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stop the INSANITY! (Score:5, Funny)
IN SOVIET RUSSIA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Paper -- also Harmful to Children etc. (Score:3, Funny)
So we need to keep the rocks to defeat the scissors.
But wait, we need scissors to beat paper!
But wait, we need paper to beat rock!
Uh-oh.
Re:Stop the INSANITY! (Score:3, Funny)
You mean freedom files, right?
Re:Stop the INSANITY! (Score:3, Funny)
I was just trying to be funny... now where did I put my beer............
It's the bats. (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds me of when my brother got busted with pot. He lost his car and about $3k in fines and court costs. My parents blamed pot. Although pot didn't do that to him the government did. Pot only ever got us high.
Funny thing. A friend of mine smoked some pot and totaled his car. The police issued lots of fines but missed his stash. He did not blame the cops, government or pot. He blamed those damn bats that ran him off the road.
He first saw those bats on a Madonna video, which he watched on Youtube and then shared by accident with Communist China. Arguably, the bats, and P2P by extension, are both a menace to corporate profits and a national security risk. They sure did him harm.
I don't even want to mention the spiders he's talked about.
Re:Not only that..... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:bogus and reality check (Score:1, Funny)
if you know how to grow a good potato crop, it doesnt do you much good if someone else can kick you off the land that's suitable to grow it on.
physical resources and information are complimentary. can you imagine how screwed MacGuyver would have been without a tube sock, matchbook, toenail clippings, sodium hypochlorite, wire and a used condom?
Re:children (Score:3, Funny)
And remember, kids, every time you kill a kitten, God masturbates...
Re:children (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stop the INSANITY! (Score:4, Funny)
You're just jealous because I'm better than you.