Posts tagged: wikipedia
Pediphial. Pediphial. Pediphial. Took me a while to get what that was supposed to mean.
Atheists kill whole world.
![Apparently Salad Fingers has its own article.
”[The first] episode introduces us to Salad Fingers and his love of touching rusty spoons.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4d6x8sUNi1qzv5zlo1_500.png "Apparently Salad Fingers has its own article.
”[The first] episode introduces us to Salad Fingers and his love of touching rusty spoons.”")
Apparently Salad Fingers has its own article.
”[The first] episode introduces us to Salad Fingers and his love of touching rusty spoons.”
The first userbox I made had to of course be AFI-related. w00p.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrightBlackHeaven/UBX/AFI
(For the non-affy-savvy, it’s a reference to a lyric in “The Missing Frame”.)
I’m slightly confused as to what they’re trying to say here. .-.
i don’t even
I can’t find my “How about no?” macro.
“Srsly.”
(from ReadWriteWeb: Wales Puts Founder Pen Away at Wikipedia, For Now
Jimmy Wales has withdrawn from actively editing, as a “founder,” (ie, under a “Founder’s flag”) Wikipedia, the massive online encyclopedia he helped to create, and its allied and subsidiary websites. (Wales remains the Founder-Member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees and has all the same editorial rights as any other of the organization’s volunteer editors.)
Last week, Fox News started asking representatives at companies that have donated to the group’s Wikimedia Foundation for comment on their discovery that Wikimedia Commons had a large collection of photographs that could be described as pornography, even as child pornography. On hearing this, Wales apparently began unilaterally to delete images from the group’s servers. This set off a great argument among the encyclopedia’s editors.
According to an editor and volunteer at the organization, Wales was not forced out but withdrew as a peace offering to editors who were irked with his decision. …)
^lul. “Srsly.”
Wikipedia founder tries to remove alleged kiddie porn, then gives up editorial privileges
My guess is that this kind of bullshit is why Steve Jobs is giving us freedom from pr0n. It’s not for our sake, it’s for Apple’s.
They’ve already been blasted time and again for fucking up the approval process on otherwise innocuous apps. The level of subjectivity involved with pornography is staggeringly more dangerous to vet, and there’s an infinite number of ways it could go wrong.
Can you imagine how hard Apple would be raked over the coals for even accidentally allowing child porn in the app store? Just change Jimmy Wales’ name for Steve Jobs’ in that article, then realize that Steve is the number one stakeholder at Disney. “Public Relations Blunder” doesn’t even begin to describe the consequences of that faux pas, let alone the legal costs.
Furthermore, from a practical business perspective, in order to facilitate a pornographic app store Apple would have to pay dozens upon dozens of employees to look at porn all day in order to judge it’s worthiness. A huge waste of money and an HR disaster waiting to happen. Beyond that is the fact that the app store is an international effort. We can get away with a hell of a lot in this nation and what’s downright mundane here is a sin worthy of being stoned to death elsewhere (or worse).
Apple doesn’t need any of that bullshit, and that’s why there will never be a pornographic app store. If you want one, the web is still a touch away.
