In Bible is text: "At the end of the world, children will turn of they parents".

I do not known, why operating system should provide check boxes to allow/disallow what children can do? I understood why creating API to ask how old child is, but criteria OS should provide check boxes? How to implement this, what rights should be settable, etc?

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Idea seems to not be that bad as many people told. Currently there is no mechanism to check age in many places, but should. But any other implementation than field in passwd is bad. Of course - there should been an options to put X into this field, meaning no information, so give full access.

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English is not my strong side. I am aware verify could mean check, so maybe OS been forced to check how old are users - not just asks.

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Quoting: liloventWhy aren't they sueing the owners of these games, Microsoft, Take Two and Electronic Arts?

Also, why isn't Epic Games and GOG sued over it, as well as all of the key vendors? Are they next in line to be sued, when Valve gives in?

This is copyrights owner right to select, who they will sue. I think MS is trying to destroy Valve/Steam. Did you remember court battle with Novel against rights to Unix?

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Copyright shit. If I have license shop with boxed games, I can sell these boxes, right?

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I am 127 years old. This is my computer and nobody should blame me for lie to prompt shown by my computer.

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Quoting: Eocene84As someone who doesn't have kids (thank God) and never will, I'm really tired of being punished because other people can't or won't parent their children, which makes the government feel the need to step in. Hopefully the state I live in, Colorado, doesn't do something like this.

I am sorry to inform you that the term "protect the children" is actually used everywhere where a law would otherwise be hard to enact. All these laws popping up everywhere recently are not about children, never were and nowhere will be.

I think most politician had bad childhood, so they do everything to protect children :-D .

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I am above 18, so I will tell: I have 120 years - no matter how old I am. Does telling your age should not be prohibited? Why Google, MS and other should known, how old you are?

Quoting: Eocene84As someone who doesn't have kids (thank God) and never will, I'm really tired of being punished because other people can't or won't parent their children, which makes the government feel the need to step in. Hopefully the state I live in, Colorado, doesn't do something like this.

I always told: add special tag to http, so it will inform material is for adult. Parents will install special browser on children PC, which will cut every material marked with that tag. No nonsense law!

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I am above 18, so I will tell: I have 120 years - no matter how old I am. Does telling your age should not be prohibited? Why Google, MS and other should known, how old you are?

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I hope they do not search for reason to made GNU illegal.

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