Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn 174
bruce_the_loon writes "They have blamed viruses. They have blamed neighbors. They have accused police of planting it. In rare cases, they have admitted downloading it. This is the first time someone has accused a cat of downloading child porn onto their computer. This seems like a defense almost too stupid to be made up."
Florida (Score:3, Insightful)
I feel embarrassed saying I'm from Florida sometimes.
Re:Florida (Score:5, Insightful)
Yep,... that's why the state has it's own Fark tag [fark.com],... =)
Re:This happens a lot (Score:3, Insightful)
Ceiling cat wanted to know what the big deal was.
Now I *know* ceiling cat has supernatural powers- an image hosted by Ebaumsworld that hasn't been illegally watermarked by them.
It's such a shame how they've gone downhill since that thieving, dishonest piece of shit Eric Bauman sold the company.
Re:Florida (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course, then reality sets in. The best refutation I can think of is the amounts. If the car downloaded thousands of kiddie porn images, then there should be lots of other kinds of images (perhaps 100s of thousands) along with them.
Now, I have downloaded a fair amount of porn myself since I was 16 and first got online (15 years now! wow...) anyway.... in that time, how many times, looking for porn or not, did I stumble on child porn.
The answer: Once. While on usenet and doing the old "download multiple messages and string them together" on my Apple 2 GS which took about 5 minutes to render a JPG in black and white online... well...
I built up a collection in those days... and one of those pictures it turned out was child porn (which wasn't evident until it was viewed on a more powerful machine with much better resolution, and in color years later)
So one, out of, several thousand images over 15 years, was child porn. It turned up on usenet.... which nobody really uses for porn anymore as far as I know.
I MIGHT believe this guy if a handful... 2 or 3 or something images were downloaded. I might even believe he did it himself accidentally. However.... this argument just doesn't fit the evidence.
The only other way it would make sense is if it was taken from the cache of a freenet node he was running. However, I would think a specific case like that would be mentioned in the article, and would not necessitate the "cat story"
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-Steve
So when cats masturbate... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:This happens a lot (Score:3, Insightful)
"and it my shit a cataleptic fit."
WTF?? I think you should be content with redundant and be glad there are no -1 Idiotic or -1 Disgusting mods.
Re:There is software to protect against this... (Score:3, Insightful)
This teaches your cat that getting on the keyboard is bad even if humans aren't watching.
Or more likely, given that this is cats we're talking, it trains your cat to walk on your keyboard in patterns that won't be caught by the software.