On 1/20/2011 3:36 PM, Warp wrote:
> UncleHoot<jer### [at] questsoftwarecom>  wrote:
>> http://www.efa.org.au/category/censorship/mandatory-isp-filtering/
>
>    "The good news is that the European Parliament are already skeptical of
> mandatory filtering. Will national governments be so sensible?"
>
>    Not the Finnish government, at least.
>
>    (What is even stranger, and scary, about the Finnish internet censorship
> is that not only is the exact list a secret which ISP's must not divulge,
> but the exact authority or authorities who decide what goes into the list
> is also a secret. Nobody outside the government and the police force knows
> who is making the decisions.)
>
That is any entirely different problem. Such filtering is kind of like 
stretching a net across a river, with random sized holes and **hoping** 
it only catches fish, the right *kind* and *size* of fish, and misses 
tree branches, otters, recreational boaters, boulders, and what ever 
else ends up going down stream. Short of an AI based system, which can 
process stuff like a person, **not a filter**, it just isn't going to 
work *period*. Sane people know this, stupid people imagine computers 
are "magic", and all they have to do is demand someone make it happen, 
and it will work, somehow, eventually...

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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