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Travakian posted:Yes, it's a Rebel, and yes it shoots HD. Think of it as a 'higher-end' Rebel (compared to the idea of the Rebel series being consumer/home-use devices)... but if you're looking into investing in a DSLR for video use, consider at the Canon T3i (also called 600D); it's got a few features that beat out the t2i as far as video-capturing goes. Alright. I was thinking of eventually getting a Canon Rebel DSLR camera anyways. I'd ideally want to keep picture and HD video capture to one camera to simplify things and to reduce the amount I would need to pack in going to another country (i.e. Taiwan) as well as for travel. Also, would you recommend Premiere Pro over Sony Vegas Pro 10? What are the major differences between Vegas Pro and Movie Studio HD Platinum besides price? Should I also look at getting Photoshop CS 5 for image editing or just use freeware like GIMP and Irfanview?
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Right, I'm wording this very carefully, but it's something I've always been curious about, and given recent events, my curiosity has peaked again. As you know, Reddit has a sub Reddit for posting legal, but disturbing given the context, pictures of minors in sexual situations. Now, using legal pictures of minors on public forums must make you a pretty piss poor paedophile. My question is, how do paedophiles go about getting their truly terrible material? Obviously they can't just type child porn into Google. My hunch is that the proper child porn no doubt exists on the dark web, sites hidden from Google without domain names, but barring knowing the address, how would a paedophile get it? What I've always suspected is that clandestine communities exist in the public web that require a lot of work to find, then access where people can get information about finding the relevant sites, but I could be wrong. Could someone more knowledgeable than I tell me if I'm right on this? For obvious reasons, I don't want too much detail on this, I'm just genuinely curious about the whole concept of a second tier internet which 99% of people aren't aware of/able to access.
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Experto Crede posted:Is this what you are thinking of? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web
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Not being someone who jerks off to children I can't speak with certainty, but I'd imagine a goodly amount of that poo poo is handed around Usenet, IRC channels, and P2P programs like Kazaa or whatever the kid(dy fiddler)s are using these days.
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Experto Crede posted:My question is, how do paedophiles go about getting their truly terrible material? Obviously they can't just type child porn into Google. You probably can, although I admit I'm not super-inclined to try. First, note that the laws vary by country. Some have no laws against possession, some none against distribution, others not even laws against production, and I'm sure some just say you can be a porn star at 16 but not 15. So there probably are sites that are called "Bob's Child Pornium" that are just that and are hosted in countries where the authorities don't give a gently caress or legally can't. There also definitely sites that are off the web. An example would be The Onion Router, usually just called TOR. The TOR network has sites on it that can only be accessed if you go through the TOR anonymizing network which you can access either by downloading a pre-configured webbrowser or an addon to firefox. You can generally only find a TOR site if someone tells you about the url, ie you get referred from someone who already knows it and trusts you. Freenet is another example of the same idea. The NYT recent published an article about a child porn board being busted with some brief details about how it operated.
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Experto Crede posted:As you know, Reddit has a sub Reddit for posting legal, but disturbing given the context, pictures of minors in sexual situations. Now, using legal pictures of minors on public forums must make you a pretty piss poor paedophile. This always weirds me out. "minors" is such a vague category. A baby? Sure. An infant? Sure. Elementary, sure. What about a girl who's 17 years and 6 months old? Is that disturbing? What about when she's 17 and 11 months old? 18? It really doesn't have anything to do with age since most people can't tell after a certain point of physical maturity. Just a pet peeve. Experto Crede posted:My question is, how do paedophiles go about getting their truly terrible material? Obviously they can't just type child porn into Google. Probably usenet, IRC, TOR, filesharing services. I know that in Japan, for example, a lot of the pedo paraphernalia is distributed either through the Perfect Dark P2P network or clandestine websites that will mail you DVDs. Yeah. DVDs.
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Gobbeldygook posted:You probably can, although I admit I'm not super-inclined to try. First, note that the laws vary by country. Some have no laws against possession, some none against distribution, others not even laws against production, and I'm sure some just say you can be a porn star at 16 but not 15. So there probably are sites that are called "Bob's Child Pornium" that are just that and are hosted in countries where the authorities don't give a gently caress or legally can't. Huh, I didn't know their were sites you can only access using tor. But the concept is basically similar to what I imagined. You need to find someone with information who is willing to share it. My curiosity is satiated. Thank you!
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tarepanda posted:What about a girl who's 17 years and 6 months old? Is that disturbing? What about when she's 17 and 11 months old? 18?
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There are extremely attractive 17 year olds but I wouldn't hook up with them because they're 17 and that's creepy. So that's my take on it.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:There are extremely attractive 17 year olds but I wouldn't hook up with them because they're 17 and that's creepy. So that's my take on it. Yeah, but what bothers me is how... for example, you get a picture of some girl and you're told that she's a 20-year-old college student and a friend's ex-girlfriend. You think it's fine, you masturbate to it, whatever -- she's hot. One day you find out that she's simply an over-developed 16-year-old high school kid. That mental switch from "yeah, yeah, YEAH, HOT GIRL gently caress YEAH" to "oh, gross, so underaged" is what interests me in particular. tarepanda fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Oct 3, 2011 |
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tarepanda posted:Nice veiled insinuation there. There's nothing veiled about that at all, he is saying you're probably either a creep or a teenager. It's about as veiled as a punch to the balls.
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tarepanda posted:Yeah, but what bothers me is how... for example, you get a picture of some girl and you're told that she's a 20-year-old college student and a friend's ex-girlfriend. You think it's fine, you masturbate to it, whatever -- she's hot. One day you find out that she's simply an over-developed 16-year-old high school kid. That mental switch from "yeah, yeah, YEAH, HOT GIRL gently caress YEAH" to "oh, gross, so underaged" is what interests me in particular. I don't really get off on girls facebook pictures either so... yeah. I'd still think the girl was hot when I heard she was 16 but it would be weird and creepy if I actually met her and tried to hook up with her. I wouldn't even date/try to hook up with an 18 year old in highschool now. I'm 23 and graduated and all that; it's just weird for people in completely different life phases to be messing around like that. edit: And the weird thing isn't guys that find one 16 year old attractive because I'll guarantee everyone has done a double take when they see a girl jogging or working at a restaurant or something, the weird thing is guys that seek that out specifically, because they're obviously just going after the most easily manipulated person they can with no regard for what they're doing to that person. Fork of Unknown Origins fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Oct 3, 2011 |
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:I don't really get off on girls facebook pictures either so... yeah. I'd still think the girl was hot when I heard she was 16 but it would be weird and creepy if I actually met her and tried to hook up with her. I wouldn't even date/try to hook up with an 18 year old in highschool now. I'm 23 and graduated and all that; it's just weird for people in completely different life phases to be messing around like that. Agreed. Nobody was talking about meeting.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:I don't really get off on girls facebook pictures either so... yeah. I'd still think the girl was hot when I heard she was 16 but it would be weird and creepy if I actually met her and tried to hook up with her. I wouldn't even date/try to hook up with an 18 year old in highschool now. I'm 23 and graduated and all that; it's just weird for people in completely different life phases to be messing around like that. I usually ignore these arguments, but that's a pretty clear idea of why someone that's mostly adjusted to normal society would see all of these things as wrong. "Phases of life" is much more effective than arguing about specific ages and laws and history than anything like that. The vulnerability of a young person is intangible and defies precise math-based discussions on age and all that. Reddit's blowing up right now about the male's natural state of being able to "sense fertility" and other bullshit, but the fact that people who are at an age where the inherent wrong of overlapping such a personal issue with an emotionally immature person (relative to the creepers age) is lost is so loving weird and I don't know why it offends some people so much to say that it's hosed up to have pics of teenagers to jerk off to.
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And what is child porn anyway? Sometimes a guy just likes to invite kids into his van and pay them to try on clothes while he videotapes them. For art. Is that child porn or just plain capitalism? Who's with me here?
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OrangeGuy posted:Alright. I was thinking of eventually getting a Canon Rebel DSLR camera anyways. I'd ideally want to keep picture and HD video capture to one camera to simplify things and to reduce the amount I would need to pack in going to another country (i.e. Taiwan) as well as for travel. Well that's definitely the camera for you then. As far as lenses go, that's a whole massive other discussion, but I am of the school that the lens makes the camera. The better glass, the better image. There's a reason great lenses are so expensive. That said, the stock lens you can get with the t2i (or t3i, which is a better camera if you can afford it) would probably be just fine for what you're doing. The difference between editing software is really the same as the difference between operating systems. They generally do the same thing, it's just a matter of what interface you feel more comfortable with. For example, with the t2i, it shoots files, obviously, and they're .mov files. They're encoded in a codec called H264. Some editing software can work with these files natively, and some editing software requires you to convert them to a more useable format (the aforementioned Final Cut Pro 7, for example, requires you to convert them if you don't want to have to render every time you change the edit, while Final Cut Pro X does not require this. Those of us that do this professionally still prefer 7 for many other reasons that I can't go into detail on, despite this fact though.) I would say download a few trials, see what you like, and stick with it. All editing software is not the same, but it generally all does the same stuff, and more than likely it's all capable of doing what you're planning on doing with it, so it really comes down to a personal preference/cost thing. If you ever have to start creating EDLs for online sessions, or exporting OMFs for sound mixes, or taking XMLs from timelines to reconform R3D files, them you can start worrying about the intricacies of what editing system is best for your workflow. Until then, it's more of a comfort/convenience thing. In the same vein, GIMP is probably fine for what still image work you want to do, but if you ever get into serious photo editing, Adobe Lightroom is a pretty awesome program for editing images, and the way it works with the RAW files your DSLR can shoot is pretty enlightening. Anyway, this is definitely not a small question anymore, so I'll leave it at that.
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RaoulDuke12 posted:Awesome, I really appreciate the advice! I'll ask on the Dork Room for further questions about the t3i (basically need to start saving up now  ), but would anyone here be open to PMs asking about Sony Vegas Pro and the differences between the Pro versions of Sony Vegas/Adobe and the cheaper Movie Studio Platinum/Essentials versions?Thanks again!
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My own question, here-- I was working at a studio once where everybody had these really nice(-looking) desktop speakers; they were darkish wood sides, with the speaker equipment being black. I understand it's terribly vague, but does anyone know of any speakers that fit the bill?
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I wasn't sure if I should put this here or in the Ask us about the forums thread but here goes: A friend of a friend purchased a Something Awful account Thursday night September 29th 2011 and still hasn't received it. He was definitely charged on his credit card for it and received an order number, yet never received an e-mail containing the account information. He has tried e-mailing support@somethingawful.com three times, and Lowtax once. No responses. I am merely acting as a messenger for my friend's friend because he doesn't know how else to receive the account he paid for. What should he do/who should I contact in order to get him his account??
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Redkist posted:I wasn't sure if I should put this here or in the Ask us about the forums thread but here goes: http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=188 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2472443&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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OrangeGuy posted:Awesome, I really appreciate the advice! Yeah, I'd have to look through the features to figure out which one is better for what, but I can probably help you out.
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So, what's the best digital camera for shooting child porn? (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 3, 2011 20:39
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Ludovic posted:JOBS question: Here's my stupid/small question, mainly for people working in HR or in a hiring position at their company. You could keep trying, but I don't think you'll be hearing from them again, and you probably wouldn't want to if you're having strange encounters with others in the company. Keep your options open and keep interviewing at other places. You might want to talk with the former employee some more too.
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Anyone (Americans) have one of those cluster style lock mailboxes? What if you lose the key to it? Does the USPS handle that?
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I want to cancel a contract(with a martial arts school if it matters) my contract requires me to give the school 30 days notice. Can I give notice via e-mail or does it have to be done in person/snail mail?
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CatchrNdRy posted:Anyone (Americans) have one of those cluster style lock mailboxes? What if you lose the key to it? Does the USPS handle that? Yeah, I think you're supposed to go to your local office. If you know what time your mail person comes, you can always try to waylay them and ask.
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dokomoy posted:I want to cancel a contract(with a martial arts school if it matters) my contract requires me to give the school 30 days notice. Can I give notice via e-mail or does it have to be done in person/snail mail?
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CatchrNdRy posted:Anyone (Americans) have one of those cluster style lock mailboxes? What if you lose the key to it? Does the USPS handle that? What do you mean, "cluster style lock mailboxes?" In a post office? Outside a neighborhood? In an apartment? Some of them are handled by the USPS, some of them are handled by the residential area. If it's handled by the USPS, go to your post office and as for more help; if it's handled by the residential area, ask the manager.
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dokomoy posted:I want to cancel a contract(with a martial arts school if it matters) my contract requires me to give the school 30 days notice. Can I give notice via e-mail or does it have to be done in person/snail mail? You can give notice in any way you see fit. If you think that they're going to make a big deal out of it, claiming that you didn't give proper notice, your best method is registered mail - then you have proof that they received it, and when they received it. If you don't anticipate any real issues, in person or by email is fine.
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CatchrNdRy posted:Anyone (Americans) have one of those cluster style lock mailboxes? What if you lose the key to it? Does the USPS handle that? I live in a condo and I have one. Earlier in the year the box needed to be replaced and we all had to go pick up a new key at the post office. I'm not sure what you do if you lose your key, I would imagine the post office would know what to do about that though.
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Not sure where to ask this... I went to see Skrillex live last night (he's a DJ). He had this technology where it basically mapped a live avatar of him behind him on a video screen. It would follow any of his movements to the letter like motion capture technology. It could be whatever he wanted, like a weird tron character, or a robot, or a zombie. It was insanely cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVNWUAaWJmc So what exactly was it?
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JaundiceDave posted:what's the song in this video It's in the title. It's based on this if that's what you mean.
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the posted:Not sure where to ask this... My guess would be custom Kinect software. I googled "skrillex kinect" and got this post by the guy who did the lighting. There are more articles about the lighting, but you should check out Kinect Hacks to see why I would think it was Kinect, and for other cool stuff that's being made with it.
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I have some interactive Flash things for learning some languages, just short interactive versions of basic textbooks, and I was wondering if there's an easy way to pull sounds out of them. I'm looking to get the readings of individual words and the full sentences, both things offered in the Flash itself, but I don't know where to begin.
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Can anyone tell me what the gently caress is going on with these Wall Street protests?
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If a solar panel is powering something in an area without any natural light, say as a panel powering an automated sink faucet in a windowless bathroom, then shouldn't it technically be called something else?
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change my name posted:If a solar panel is powering something in an area without any natural light, say as a panel powering an automated sink faucet in a windowless bathroom, then shouldn't it technically be called something else?
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TetsuoTW posted:What light is powering the faucet in this hypothetical bathroom?
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