Because you have a poor ISP. No proper ISP should block anything (except maybe child porn, but that's a slippery slope). Change your DNS to either Google's (8.8.8.8) or OpenDNS.
If you live in a repressive country prohibiting pornography you should get a VPN. I'm satisfied with my choice of strongVPN.com
#2 is patently false and the biggest reason I don't try to train people not to use Google as their URL bar. It is not cool when a tween kid tries to visit the Poly Pocket web site and finds something very different.
#1 is partially true. It won't block somebody trying to get around it, but it will prevent #2 from happening.
And a breast is the least of concerns with some of the trash parked on misspelled domains.
Most definitely. My 8-year old girl is going to have to learn about fisting and BDSM at some point. Preventing that would just make me crazy and over-protective.
Raise your kids like you want, but I would argue that the potential positive gain to be had from telling your daughter that you trust her to be responsible and come to you if she has problems is far far far greater than the: [probability that she will randomly run into that while she is still 'too young'] multiplied by [whatever harm that could conceivably cause].
I know protective parenting is all the rage, but think about it rationally.
I don't even know how to respond. It is not a fabricated concern because it happened to my kids' babysitter in my house.
Having experience with what happens when a kid goes down a pornography rabbit hole, the worst that can happen is a screwed up life. Will seeing porn guarantee a screwed up kid? Of course not. Does porn have the ability to screw a kid up? Yes.
I'll take a few steps to keep my kids and those who come to my house safe so I have the opportunity to provide a foundation so when they come across it, they aren't screwed up by it.
Kids are not miniature adults with the same ability to reason about and process data as adults. Scary movies ae "just information", yet can leave scars on some kids that don't fade for a long time.
I realize the HN crowd is strongly libertarian and wants to believe in individuals having full control of themselves and their environments. I'm drawn to that because I have similar beliefs. But that is something kids grow into. My oldest is almost there, my youngest is not even close.
My generation was the latch key generation. Parents didn't want to be bothered with kids. That gave rise to the overprotected generation (which, believe it or not, my wife and I have spent a lot of effort keeping our kids out of). Maybe we are cycling back to an under-protected philosophy, but I will have no part in that.
You can make whatever assumptions you want about my parenting and even vote accordingly (even though I've tried to keep within the bounds of HN commenting, when it comes to kids, I get passionate and may have stepped out of the lines). I'm comfortable with my four well-adjusted, successful, experimental kids. That is all I care about, though having come from a shitty childhood, I will try to give others information I've gleaned through research and experience to prevent their kids from experiencing the same. I have no problem with them telling me to go to hell.
Oh, and, really, you think you can tell me I've made terrible mistakes as a parent when you know nothing about me but a few sentences you've read on the Internet? You feel good about that?
Kids are not miniature adults with the same ability to reason about and process data as adults.
Correct, which is why you walk them through the process the first few times. Your approach is to hide the information and hope for the best.
But that is something kids grow into
No, it is not. Reasoning is a skill, and an understanding of human psychological impulses and drives is something that should be part of a child's upbringing. This can and should start as soon as the child's old enough to read or watch TV.
Oh, and, really, you think you can tell me I've made terrible mistakes as a parent when you know nothing about me but a few sentences you've read on the Internet? You feel good about that?
Sure. Your kids are eventually going to be voting on what information adults can and cannot have access to, and it sounds like you're not preparing them to make decisions I'd agree with. So I'm objecting as strongly as I can without crossing any lines.
Adobe, at its roots, has always been a company that builds toolsets that allow people to create content. What they haven't built, they've bought, e.g. Macromedia.
Internally Flash has been their flagship media platform product. Consider that one of the reasons Flash gained such massive popularity and install base was that for the longest time, the Flash runtime in browsers was really the only way to do advanced graphics and interactions on the web.
Fast forward to the last couple of years and we've seen the advantages of Flash being eroded by advances and standardizations of HTML5 technologies. This has been boosted by the marginalization of Internet Explorer by Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Only since IE9 has Microsoft made a serious attempt to play catchup. Flash was almost always needed to get earlier versions of IE to do anything approaching advanced.
I would propose that what we're seeing now is simply Adobe adapting to the marketplace. While they will continue to try and push Flash, it seems that at least some groups inside of Adobe feel the wind shifting and are working on the next generation of content creation toolsets for modern CSS3, javascript, and HTML5. Whether people will actually use their authoring tools will depend on how good they are and how easy to use. Notice I didn't mention price. People will pay big money for superior tools. If their new tools aren't doing the job developers need, they won't buy.
So no, I don't believe Adobe is giving up on Flash. As for open standards, I think its more a matter of them following where the market is heading rather than taking a stance.
Looks like it. Seems like it's a war where everybody wins.
EDIT: But yeah, I don't think they're giving up completely on Flash, considering we'll still need it for some things until pure HTML5 doesn't cover all corners.
