NODE 68b79fc4Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
jamesd@echeque.comMon, 11 Mar 1996 01:35:35 +0800
At 10:31 AM 3/9/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
> Perhaps we should put up our own protest web sites with one or two
> explicit sexual images as real civil disobedience?
I have added a pornographic image to my web site as an act of
real civil disobedience. I urge others to do the same.
In the course of doing this, I discovered that on windows, Netscape
makes jpegs of naked pretty girls look like crap.
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NODE c7d18884Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
Ed Carp <erc@dal1820.computek.net>Mon, 11 Mar 1996 01:54:15 +0800
On Sun, 10 Mar 1996 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.
>
> In the course of doing this, I discovered that on windows, Netscape
> makes jpegs of naked pretty girls look like crap.
Check your screen resolution, and make sure it is displaying 256 colors
or more. If it's set to 16 colors, it *will* look like crap. Also might
want to check the Preferences property sheets in Netscape.
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NODE ab03bef3Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:47:22 +0800
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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.