<...> it becomes a personality, it becomes a presence in their home <...>.

плюс, еще один документальный фильм.

ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems. ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory, but its first use was in calculations for the hydrogen bomb. <...> The ENIAC’s design and construction were financed by the United States Army during World War II. The construction contract was signed on June 5, 1943, and work on the computer was begun in secret by the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering starting the following month under the code name “Project PX”. The completed machine was unveiled on February 14, 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania.

ну, а про то, что было дальше — вы и так знаете.

An Ipswich man has admitted downloading graphic cartoon porn images featuring child characters from The Simpsons and The Powerpuff Girls TV shows.

The 28-year-old is now a registered sex offender and will have to report to police after pleading guilty in Ipswich District Court to having the bizarre images on his computer.

via.

The proposed Australian Government clampdown on smut just got a whole lot broader, as news emerged of a ban on small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.

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Breasts came under the spotlight a year ago, as Senators Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett commenced a campaign against publicly available porn. Rounding up magazines from corner shops and filling stations, Senator Joyce claimed that publications featuring small-breasted women were encouraging paedophilia.

The result of this campaign is now visible in the decisions being made by the Australian Classification Board, which is beginning to apply RC (refused classification) categories to such material, as opposed to the previous X-rating. According to Fiona Patten, Convenor of the Australian Sex Party: “We are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup size.

ну, то есть, понятное дело — каторжанам и надзирателям по вполне очевидным причинам (культурный багаж, среда обитания, blah-blah) должны больше нравиться сиськи поувесистее, но не в законодательном же порядке?

сейчас они, конечно, от всего открещиваются, но как-то совершенно неубедительно, впрочем:

A spokesperson for the ACB told me today that publications which contain offensive depictions or descriptions of persons who are or appear to be persons under the age of 18 (whether they are engaged in sexual activity or not) must be classified RC. They said the Board classifies publications on a case by case basis, in accordance with the Guidelines for the Classification of Publications, the Code and the Classification Act and that the Publications Guidelines do not specify breast size.

ухахатываюсь.

An ambitious new work by Brody Condon, Case is a reading of the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson in a rehearsal-like setting. Combining Gibson’s 1980s dystopian techno-fetishism with early twentieth-century abstraction, faux “virtual reality” scenes will unfold via moving Bauhaus-inspired sculptural props accompanied by the Gamelan ensemble Dharma Swara.

The event at the New Museum is the premiere of Case, which will also be performed at a small outdoor community theater in rural Missouri in summer 2010. The New York production of Case will feature many of the ten cast members from the upcoming Midwest event, such as political activist (and notorious local hell-raiser) Ray “Bad Rad” Radtke, who stars as the main character Henry Dorsett Case, a drug addict and computer hacker hired to execute an impossible cyber crime. Case will also feature Brooklyn-based performance artist Sto as Lupus Yonderboy, leader of the techno-anarchist gang the Panther Moderns, and the actress Sasha Grey as the street samurai Molly. The script has been prepared by the writer Brandon Stosuy, with sound design by Peter Segerstrom, and graphic props by Breanne Trammell.

Саша Грей (в роли Молли) — это знаменитая порнозвезда, между прочим^[1], что, несмотря на логичность (памятуя роман), все равно удивляет:

Sasha Grey feels more like a character from Virtual Light, to me, but then she feels so *exactly* like that. Heh.

не получилось, впрочем, ровным счетом ничего, если верить зрителям. так что обидно, хоть и в любом случае заинтриговало.

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^[1] — определенно, раздел Early life в случае с порнозвездой 21 года от роду звучит несколько двусмысленно.

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it’s your reputation that’s stolen.

и вот наконец-то: любой (и любая for sure) теперь может оказаться подсуден, любого можно отправить шагать по этапу.

Not to be outdone, their proposed new Law goes significantly further than the English one, creating the very real possibility that travellers could depart London with nothing but legal pictures on their laptop – and pull into Edinburgh Waverley facing arrest for their hard-drive smut.

для остальных же британцев счет идет на часы:

next week (January 26 to be precise) it will become a criminal offence (in England and Wales) to possess pictures that the government deems to be “extreme porn”.

до чего же омерзительны эти современные пуритане. скованы, зажаты, потеряны. всепоглощающи.

Two out of the three Virginia judges involved with Dwight Whorley’s case say cartoon images depicting sex acts with children are considered child pornography in the United States. Judge Paul V. Niemeyer noted the PROTECT Act of 2003, clearly states that ‘it is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exists.’

я вот хочу понять — если это всего лишь нарисованная картинка (и нет потерпевшего, ага), то почему нельзя? очердная лживая пуританская мораль, закрывающая глаза на действительно существующую трагедию путем уничтожения любых о ней свидетельств?

и что делать с убийствами на киноэкранах? с изнасилованиями? а в компьютерных играх? со всеми теми изображениями нарушений закона, которые тоже всего лишь “картинка” без потерпевшего?

это и есть ингсоц в действии. уже сегодня.