Non-IT News Thread
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
I didn't read the article but not only is that against child pornography laws. It also goes against any number of state and federal privacy laws, as well as digital intrusion and digital espionage (although that may only be for state actors) laws.
And specifically using a position of state mandated authority as a means of exploiting children!
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
(as has been tested / is being tested in court) can a minor be charged with creating/distributing child pornography. . .
Yeah, this is a disaster.
The laws are no where close to keeping up. Not really a surprise.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Finally, somebody sees it. Now the question is, are they going to do something about it? If so, will America follow suit? Probably not.
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
will America follow suit?
lol no
Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
will America follow suit?
lol no
Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...
What is the most likely means of achieving this (since ignoring timezones isn't really possible for computers), is to do it a state at a time since we already have two that don't use DST iirc.
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@kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
will America follow suit?
lol no
Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...
What is the most likely means of achieving this (since ignoring timezones isn't really possible for computers), is to do it a state at a time since we already have two that don't use DST iirc.
Write a letter to the President. Maybe he can add to his list, right under his "Build a wall" list item.
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Why isnt ignoring TZ possible? All transactions done in UTC, no TZ data, everything would be so much simpler.
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
will America follow suit?
lol no
Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...
What is the most likely means of achieving this (since ignoring timezones isn't really possible for computers), is to do it a state at a time since we already have two that don't use DST iirc.
Write a letter to the President. Maybe he can add to his list, right under his "Build a wall" list item.
He would say something stupid like "Back in my day, there was only EST and it was better than the 24 TZ we have today."
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Who said anything about getting rid of time zones? We're just talking about getting rid of Daylight Savings.
Time Zones functions as they should.
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Theyre just as stupid as DST
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
Who said anything about getting rid of time zones? We're just talking about getting rid of Daylight Savings.
Time Zones functions as they should.
Yeah TZs are needed. To keep time of day mostly the same around the world. Daylight savings is just pointless.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
Theyre just as stupid as DST
So, what? We go back to clocks at the train stations? When ever the sun is directly over us, that is when noon is going to be? Everybody going to a single time would get confusing.
So if somebody in the UK wanted to arrange a meeting with me in Texas, they're going have to figure out when I am up and at work in order to attempt to schedule accordingly. Plus, what would make Greenwich Mean time so special that everybody should go to that? Because they were the first to establish the official time?
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
Theyre just as stupid as DST
Umm, WTF?
So who gets to decide where UTC is on a timezoneless world?Humans are Diurnal and function based on daylight. This is why things like sundials existed before timezones were thought up.
There is nothing wrong with making "noon" be the local time when the sun is at its zenith for everyone.
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@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
Theyre just as stupid as DST
Umm, WTF?
So who gets to decide where UTC is on a timezoneless world?Humans are Diurnal and function based on daylight. This is why things like sundials existed before timezones were thought up.
There is nothing wrong with making "noon" be the local time when the sun is at its zenith for everyone.
The other thing is that if you start setting your clock to a time sufficiently far away you end up performing activities in the same day (set of daylight), but are different days (calendar). Not really optimal.
