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  1. ISP's already don't return searches for key words relating to peadophilia, voluntarily, they were not told to by Govt. - is that a problem? You have also been taken in a little by the OP who embellished the facts. There is no phonecall involved, this initially relates to only the 4 major ISP's so there are 2 options for you to avoid it. Either untick the boxes/opt-out or go with an ISP that isn't participating. Not all ISP's will use network level filtering, the other option is software based, so just uninstall the software from your PC.

    The government will not be drawing up lists of things to ban there is already a group of independent organisations that look at that for the ISP industry:

    The Internet Watch is an independent self-regulatory body, funded by the EU and the online industry, that already does much of this without any input from the Govt.

    http://www.iwf.org.uk/about-iwf

    http://www.iwf.org.uk/about-iwf/news/post/366-iwf-response-to-prime-ministers-statement

    UK Safer Internet Centre

    http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/about

    http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/about/news/comment-on-prime-ministers-speech-on-child-internet-safety-

    Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS).

    UKCCIS is a group of more than 200 organisations across the government, industry, law enforcement, academia and charity sectors, who work in partnership to help keep children safe online. It's board consists of ministers, ISP's, , Tech Industry, charities and independent organisations.

    https://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/safeguardingchildren/b00222029/child-internet-safety

    So that is how it works, it isn't 1984 at all. It's easy for people who don't know how democracy works to believe conspiracy theories because they lack the knowledge to think critically about it. That is the point I was trying to make, if you don't understand how things work and don't have the knowledge to form an evidence based opinion, you can easily fall into the trap of beleiving anything you read. The Demos study I linked to makes that point. Check out the previous pages where Maturin was fooled into thinking I was posting links to Hitler speeches. This points to the fact that he isn't capable of objective critical thinking and too easily takes things at face value, anyone else here suffer from the same problem?

    Thanks for a reasonable contribution Mattar. You have made a few points that I would like to counter.

    1. The scheme will enforce that later this year all new customers of an ISP will be asked at account opening whether they would like to opt in to receive adult content. Given that most people open new accounts for telephone and broadband via the telephone, a customer service agent will be asking the question at that time. All existing customers will also be contacted by next year.

    2. Idependent organisations like you have listed are commonly reffered to as think tanks. Member of those organisations are either appointed or must apply like any other job. Not at all democratic, or a feature of a true democracy.

    More generally, I don't think anyone could say that it is a bad idea to protect kids from exposure to adult content, on the internet or otherwise. Yet once again in this country, parents are being relieved of their legal responsibility to protect their children from harm.

    If parents aren't able to educate their kids on the dangers of the world, internet safety or making responsible choices it should be analogous with neglect. As a strong supporter of child safety I call for a raft of tough sentencing for neglectful parenting, updating the legislation to include the new forms of neglect a parent can put upon their child, additional funding for social education in schools and reforming the already incompetent/desperately overworked social work system in the UK.

    Don't tread on me because John and Margaret down the road can't take the time to talk to their offspring. Fine them, lock them up, community service order, enforced parental education classes. If allowing your kids access to x-rated content isn't a crime now, it should be, and if it is, enforce it!


  2. ROFL how did you bisect yourself so skillfully with Occam's Razor yet leave the tinfoil hat intact? If you wish to construct a brand new conspiracy theory out of this, it's best to know the subject and not make basic factual errors. Also when trolling the offtopic thread - make sure your friends and acquaintances don't add to your thread - gives the game away. Preferably use a second account like some of the others here do, you work in the right area so probably will not face any recriminations, oh and write as if you don't speak english well, it's the fashion, just don't slip up and become fluent again every 3rd post. If you are that hungry I don't mind feeding you so carry on..... ;)

    I'm not trolling, this is a topical conversation on what is happening in my country and around the world.

    To say what we are talking about is a conspiracy is to imply that it is hidden, it's not. I read about it most days on the news. This has been censored or that has been censored, some more sites have been added to the secret list by the high court.

    I don't have any friends or acquaintances on these forums, I really haven't posted very much at all. Why would I use a second account for talking in the off topic section?

    English is my first language, I'm from Glasgow. Everyone else managed fine to understand what I am saying, so that's just rude.

    These are serious issues which will continue to affect everyone that uses the internet for the free flow of information, all opinions are welcome, but there is no need to resort to cries of TROLL! just because you disagree. I think most on these boards are mature enough to debate you sensibly without resorting to such base measures.


  3. I still don't get why you are running around like headless chickens over this? If you have Talk Talk you might already have the network level filter service - Homesafe.

    You just untick the boxes? (if you are the account holder, if not you have to beg the account holder rofl)

    So what is the problem, opt-out of it, untick the boxes?

    Speaking personally, the problem that I feel strongly about is that this is disagreeable issue X that our glorious leaders have deemed that a citizen must be placed on a database to partake of. This information would be held most probably by the individual ISPs, but this provides little comfort. I believe in the last year, the government security agents (i.e. police, MI5) have made more than 500,000 demands to see private data of it's citizens, most likely to fight the black plague of "terrorism" (don't get me started on that).

    A future approaches my country. A future in which my government tells me what is acceptable to think. Today it is issue X, I worry about tomorrow and issue Y. Is Issue Y far left or right wing political opinions, is it criticism of the current Westminster regime, or is it any issue that the people in power feel like on any particular day? I don't know, but right now my government is gathering the tools of oppression around them. Do you blame me for thinking they might use those tools?

    Would you trust your politicians with the same power?

    As soon as a system is in place and functional it will be all too easy for the government to add additional subjects to its "child protection list". Pornography, sites that violate copyright, islamic extremist material, political opponents, labour unions, radical political parties; where could it end?

    This system is all set to go ahead with no protection for the fundamental rights of the individual. How difficult would it be for a particular influential business to use the tools of government to dictate what is able to be seen by the public? Not difficult, it happened at least twice this week already.


  4. As some of you guys may have seen, today Prime Minister Cameron has announced that within the next year all UK ISPs will be compelled to block pornography for new customers as standard, with an opt in phone call required to unblock the sites.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

    This is the latest move in a trend that should worry all people in the UK and beyond, most recently including the courts blocking piracy related websites on the insistence of private corporations, and keeping the list of such blocked sites a secret. The argument for blocking piracy centers around protecting children from harmful content, which I'm all for but personally believe that it is a parents responsibility to look after their kids and not the state's - but I digress.

    If you are also concerned about a road that starts with "someone please think of the children" and could lead to such extremes as blocking of voices critical of the current regime/ "insert anything that the gov't whims on a particular day", and you are a current UK resident, please consider signing this e-petition and make your voice heard. Personally I have also written to my local gov't MSP and MP and I implore you to do the same.

    If you are not a UK resident please consider contacting your own government representative, if it can happen in the UK any number of politicians from around Europe and beyond will be looking greedily at how far the British people can be pushed, and making plans of their own.

    Thanks for your time.


  5. Looks sweet. Really understanding the concept but here is the part where I go a bit mad and suggestion a million things that may or may not give you any ideas. But hey, I can't model :( so at least I can do this. Ready. Set. Go.

    Offroad tire model pic

    Front Brushguard pic

    3rd passenger turret for LMG, HMG, GMG, TOW, AA, and whatever else your heart desires.

    Wider wheel base for offroad capability. pic

    Suspension model that is visible for the visual awesomeness pic

    A more level roof with rollcage surrounded by plate armor on the vertical areas of the cab. pic

    Removable top hatch?

    Armored windscreen. pic (Just the windscreen/windshield not the whole thing.)

    Headlights with a more modern angular style. A little less boxiness and a little more sexy curves if possible

    Places where gear is hanging (I.E. Rucks, gasoline cans, antennas, radios, and on and on.....) pic

    Mud flaps pic

    Preferably working gages with LED looking lights inside (long way off but hey, shoot for the stars right?) pic

    Amphibious capability? pic

    Well I'm out of breathe, hope this helps you in one way or another. :)

    These are all great ideas, I like that we are thinking on the same lines. What do you think for the paint job, camo or solid?

    brad7; Yeah as I said it will be armed with a rear facing LMG.

    Brain; That is quite a vehicle. Looks like a massive quad bike! I do like the utilitarian look of it, thanks for the link! :)


  6. Looks sweet. Any particular real world counterpart to compare or you are getting inspiration from?

    Yeah actually, I was looking at a mix between this and this, so not too far off of what you were thinking. I could definitely do a bad ass buggy version of the same chassis.

    Have been working on the concept model a little more. It's very rough but it gives an idea of what I'm aiming for.

    ErLatF9.jpg


  7. Hi guys,

    I was looking at the units we already have and thought we could use a light transport/ combat reconnaissance vehicle. I have a little concept that I knocked up in half an hour and I was wondering what you guys thought and if it was worth taking forward.

    DUobcMQ.jpg

    TDJsuCe.jpg

    I'm thinking a three person light reconnaissance jeep, open top, with maybe a rear mounted light machine gun. It's just a concept but if there is any interest i'll put this bad boy together.

    Any thoughts?


  8. What you could do is have the waypoint where you want your divers dropped, and say, 100 meters before that have a waypoint with unitname FlyInHeight 5; in the on act section. That will make the the unit fly at 5 meters when it passes the first waypoint.

    What I would do with the second waypoint is unitname FlyInHeight 30; in the act, and put a countdown of 20 seconds by adding 20 to the min mid max fields and making sure countdown is clicked instead of timeout.

    That would get the chopper to fly 100 meters from the drop point, get down to 5 meters then fly to the drop point, wait for 20 seconds, then fly to your next waypoint at an altitude of 30 meters.

    Instead of the countdown you could set up a trigger and sync it to the drop point.

    Make sure to name the helicopter something, and use its name instead of unitname.


  9. Hi guys, I did a search to see if this was common knowledge or not but didn't find anything.

    Just want to let those of you who don't know already that the order of the diary entry intel module in the editor affects the order in which the entries show up in the map screen.

    The entries list with the most recently placed module at the top, so if you want situation first in the list, place it last, i.e;

    Situation > place last

    Mission > place second to last

    Execution > place third

    Support > place second

    Comms > place first

    Hope this helps as it was doing my head in.

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  10. I have been having a problem animating a simple model of a glock I threw together to learn the workflow of modding in the arma series.

    The model is made, textured (crudely), I have model.cfg and config.cpp made up, but I can't figure out how to animate the parts of the gun e.g trigger

    I have a named selection in o2 that I want to move when the gun is fired, so have set up my skeleton and model cfg's bone and section, with the named part I have named in LODS in O2, but no animation comes forth.

    A few questions,

    1) Is the actual movement in the animation defined in the model.cfg or in the keyframes in o2

    2) Are the bones and sections from the model.cfg simply the named selection in o2, or am I missing something?

    I have been to the wiki pages on model configs and animating models, but I cant see where I am going wrong.

    I'll include my model.cfg, I can't see anything blatantly wrong with it, but this is my first attempt so who knows.

    class cfgSkeletons
    {
    
    class Default
    {
    	sectionsInherit="";
    	sections[] = {};
    	skeletonName = "";
    };
    
    class SCO_Glock21_Skeleton : Default
    {
    	isDiscrete=0;
    	skeletonInherit="";
    	skeletonBones[]=
    	{
    		"slide",
    		""
    	};
    };
    };
    class cfgModels
    {
    class SCO_Glock21
    {
    	sectionsInherit="";
    	sections[]=
    	{
    		"slide"
    	};
    	skeletonName="SCO_Glock21_Skeleton";
    	class Animations
    	{
    		class slide
    		{
    			type="translation";
    			source="revolving";
    			selection="slide";
    			axis="";
    			memory="";
    			sourceAddress="loop";
    			minvalue=0;
    			maxvalue=1;
    
    		};
    
    	};
    };
    };
    

    Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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