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Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Post by AnaniasAnanas »

sk0g wrote: post #58
f-jin wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside from using the term "waifu" instead of something like "wife" / "SO" / "girlfriend", the comment itself seems fine to me. I've heard stories of low computer literacy in Japan from other sources as well, it is quite interesting.

Well, if I'm not wrong, waifus are fictional characters people take on as a SO of sorts. So it doesn't even qualify as an anecdote, IMO.

Pretty sure that he just tried to use a cute japanese-sounding term to describe his Japanese wife without necessarily knowing what it means.

Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Post by james_s_tayler »

sk0g wrote: post #58
f-jin wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside from using the term "waifu" instead of something like "wife" / "SO" / "girlfriend", the comment itself seems fine to me. I've heard stories of low computer literacy in Japan from other sources as well, it is quite interesting.

Well, if I'm not wrong, waifus are fictional characters people take on as a SO of sorts. So it doesn't even qualify as an anecdote, IMO.

Wrong in this case. My actual wife is Japanese.

She often gets me to help her out with very, very, very basic things on the computer. She's relatively smart outside of that, speaks fluent English and graduated uni both in Japan and overseas. But it's as if the basic foundation for working out new abstractions on a computer just aren't there. Which is how the discussion came up. I was curious why such a level of computer illiteracy would be present in someone who grew up in the 90s/00s.

People are shocked at hearing about that minister who says he never touched a computer. I was equally shocked when my wife casually told me she never touched a computer until entering University. I wouldn't have thought that to be possible given how much technology I grew up around in the West. I assumed it would have been the same in Japan, but it can't have been.

I guess in a way it doesn't surprise me. On the outside Japan looks like this super technologically advanced country and in reality they still send faxes. It's half stuck decades in the past and halfway planted in the future.

Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Post by AnaniasAnanas »

innocentoldguy wrote: post #78

I don't have a lot of respect for Japanese police. It seems they while away their time inventing entrapment scenarios, arresting people for pranks, apparently, and measuring car accidents for hours on end, but don't do a damn thing when something serious is going on. For example, there have been several cases in the news over the years where women go to the police to complain that they are being stalked, only to have…

> raped by over 100 men

I think you mean less than. The wikipedia article that you listed said that "approximately 100 people knew about Junko Furuta's captivity" and that only some of them participated in the rape.

Still, that's quite horrifying.

Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Post by james_s_tayler »

y4mi wrote: post #72
sk0g wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, if I'm not wrong, waifus are fictional characters people take on as a SO of sorts. So it doesn't even qualify as an anecdote, IMO.

you're definitely not wrong. a waifu is not a human. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waifu

My friends sometimes use it in an ironic sense to refer to my wife who is Japanese.

Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Post by PavlovsCat »

soraminazuki wrote: post #69
lozenge wrote: post #33

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Is the punishment for groping on trains still apologising to the victim on a train platform?

I don't know where you've got that idea, but I'm pretty sure gropers go to jail.

From an article mentioned by another poster:

> As for sexual assault, groping and molestation on crowded trains and elsewhere is so widespread (and so unlikely to be reported to the police) that NGOs such as the Osaka-based Chikan Deterrence Activity Centre suggest that almost every young woman experiences it at some point.

https://www.tokyoreview.net/2017/08/myth-japans-bored-police...

Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Post by [deleted] »

innocentoldguy wrote: post #78

I don't have a lot of respect for Japanese police. It seems they while away their time inventing entrapment scenarios, arresting people for pranks, apparently, and measuring car accidents for hours on end, but don't do a damn thing when something serious is going on. For example, there have been several cases in the news over the years where women go to the police to complain that they are being stalked, only to have…

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Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Post by skybrian »

nwallin wrote: post #80
skybrian wrote: post #67

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Has anyone ever been harmed by Google Analytics? I am skeptical.

That's precisely the point. The law doesn't make code which causes harm illegal, it makes code which does not operate in accordance with the user's intention illegal. Think about that for a second. Think about every program ever written which did not operate in accordance with the user's intention. Literally every bug is punishable by three years in prison. This is a classic example of legislators saying "We don't un…

Thank you, I missed the sarcasm. I thought the comment was quoting and agreeing with the law.

Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Post by AnaniasAnanas »

james_s_tayler wrote: post #82
sk0g wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, if I'm not wrong, waifus are fictional characters people take on as a SO of sorts. So it doesn't even qualify as an anecdote, IMO.

Wrong in this case. My actual wife is Japanese. She often gets me to help her out with very, very, very basic things on the computer. She's relatively smart outside of that, speaks fluent English and graduated uni both in Japan and overseas. But it's as if the basic foundation for working out new abstractions on a computer just aren't there. Which is how the discussion came up. I was curious why such a level of compu…

It might be a bit offtopic but I am just wondering, how did you two meet?
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