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Mortimer Jazz
10-09-2003, 01:41 PM
muhaha
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994246
pheasant_plucker
10-10-2003, 06:57 AM
Interesting, my only concern would be that if it were not edited or moderated it could be abused.

What if people decided to start posting lots of personal details about people, whilst many claim public officials do not have as much right to privacy as "normal people" the families of said officials could be affected by this. Or maybe I'm being too wishy washy and liberal.




Anyway, morty jizz, I've been to your shopping site and was wholly disapointed that there were a number of categories missing.


Wheres the pornography category?
Under which category can I buy a wife from Russia?
Which category covers miscellaneous farm animals?


other than that it seems mostly satisfactory.
Mortimer Jazz
10-10-2003, 08:30 AM
yeah, but you can do that on any peer to peer.
Hmmm, what's your address these days.....??

And you're right, it is frighening - I'm sure people will be persecuted for things that are not their fault.

Farm animals eh. Heheh, you not been caught yet? Remember to stay away from fields near railway lines!
pheasant_plucker
10-10-2003, 08:37 AM
I'm back in Cornwall full time now agter finishing my Masters Degree course, and have been fortunate enough to find a relatively good web dev job. Mostly working with ASP.NET and C# with SQL Server management.

As yet I have not been caught, my night vision goggles allow me to practice my hobbies in the dead of night.
Mortimer Jazz
10-10-2003, 09:32 AM
Finished already?! Blimey. What's your language of choice these days then? C#?

Are you still doing any flash and have you used MX2004 pro yet? I read somewhere that it was a cross between VB and .NET but I wouldn't have a clue how true this was.
vilehelm
10-10-2003, 09:43 AM
My main question is how the heck is this different than any number of web sites out there already? The internet must have zillions of sites out there that watchdog and track government officials, instead they should make a search engine specifically for such sites.

Removes all liability.
pheasant_plucker
10-10-2003, 09:47 AM
It was only a 12 month course s when I finish my dissertation (due next september) I can claim my MSc.

The course covered Delphi, C and Java but my web language of choice has always been PHP. This place is very MS friendly though so we use C# and ASP.NET. I haven't used Flash since I left Dublin really and haven't even looked at MX or MX2004.

ASP.NET is pretty powerful with loads of classes available but it seems a bit over complicated to me. The stuff I'm doing now I could have done in a day with PHP buts its taking me over a week with ASP (but I am learning aSP.NET and C# as I go alaong)