[51885] in Cypherpunks
Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mutant Rob)
Sun Mar 10 20:42:01 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 20:36:23 -0500
From: Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
> I have added a pornographic image to my web site as an act of
> real civil disobedience. I urge others to do the same.
Yawn.
I'd would not call it pornographic. Indecent (legalise), yeah. Porn?
No. Don't make the same erroneous distinctions that the pro-CDA folx
make...
> In the course of doing this, I discovered that on windows, Netscape
> makes jpegs of naked pretty girls look like crap.
It would take much longer to process the image without dithering of
some sort. Displaying jpegs in high quality is CPU intensive.