Does anyone else get the impression that the Segway is turning into the next Macintosh? A techie device with a small but rabid (or enthusiastic, depending on if you're a Machead) following. If we consider walking/biking to be the IBM PC (i.e. choice of the masses) we can dived those users into the majority, who couldn't care less about the Segway, and the minority who just hate it (about as much as Windows users hate the Mac).
Hate to be the one to break the news, but trying to replace the US governemt would be called treason or an act of war (depending on where you live) in this day and age. That, however, is a tangent I won't off on right now.
The problem with making somethign illegal, is that this opens the law to very broad interpretation by the next sue-happy person that sees a way to exploit it. The real solution here, IMHO, is to just leave MS alone. Yes, I'm sure many here hate the plan, but your logic is correct, you just have the organizations reversed. If you don't like MS products, don't use them, don't frequent businesses that use them, and certainly don't work in a workplace that uses them. Yes, this might make your life hard, but if you and everyone else realy disagrees with how they run a business, they will eventually be forced to succumb to the economic roadblock. The dollar, and not the lawbook, is the real power of the people. Hiding behind the government does nothing more than give Them more power, something that we _really_ don't need.
Look, I grant MS may be satan incarnate, but get a clue before you attribute every little problem you have to them. I can view that page using Netscape 4.51 just fine. Being on Linux doens't mean you should be using out-of-date software.
Using ActiveX was a good way for them to make their point as MS is still the most popular OS/Browser for the average user.
I'm willing to bet that this could just as happily been done in assembler or C. (Admittedly, this would make it a pain to use over the Web, but Java may work just as well.)
Perhaps you're in another country, but children's rights here in the States are quite limited. This is why they are required to attend school, can have a curfew imposed upon them by the local government, can't vote, etc.
I see nothing wrong with parents requesting a child to open his personal documents (or boxes, or whatever) in their presence. I don't see this as accusatory, but as precautious.
Personally, when I was a kid, I wouldn't have cared if my parents had gone through my things. Yes, I was involved in my share of things that I shouldn't have been- but I was willing to take the risk of getting caught because of my own belief system and how I felt about those things.
If a child is so afraid for a parent to find out about something, it tends to indicate one of two things to me. Either (1) the parent is truly abusive and the child shouldn't be in their care to start with, or (2) the kid is smart enough to know he shouldn't be doing it and too dumb to stop. I see nothing wrong with a parent stopping a child from doing something that stupid.
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Does anyone else get the impression that the Segway is turning into the next Macintosh? A techie device with a small but rabid (or enthusiastic, depending on if you're a Machead) following. If we consider walking/biking to be the IBM PC (i.e. choice of the masses) we can dived those users into the majority, who couldn't care less about the Segway, and the minority who just hate it (about as much as Windows users hate the Mac).
Eh.. maybe it's just me.
Hate to be the one to break the news, but trying to replace the US governemt would be called treason or an act of war (depending on where you live) in this day and age. That, however, is a tangent I won't off on right now.
The problem with making somethign illegal, is that this opens the law to very broad interpretation by the next sue-happy person that sees a way to exploit it. The real solution here, IMHO, is to just leave MS alone. Yes, I'm sure many here hate the plan, but your logic is correct, you just have the organizations reversed. If you don't like MS products, don't use them, don't frequent businesses that use them, and certainly don't work in a workplace that uses them. Yes, this might make your life hard, but if you and everyone else realy disagrees with how they run a business, they will eventually be forced to succumb to the economic roadblock. The dollar, and not the lawbook, is the real power of the people. Hiding behind the government does nothing more than give Them more power, something that we _really_ don't need.
Look, I grant MS may be satan incarnate, but get a clue before you attribute every little problem you have to them.
I can view that page using Netscape 4.51 just fine. Being on Linux doens't mean you should be using out-of-date software.
Using ActiveX was a good way for them to make their point as MS is still the most popular OS/Browser for the average user.
I'm willing to bet that this could just as happily been done in assembler or C. (Admittedly, this would make it a pain to use over the Web, but Java may work just as well.)
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Perhaps you're in another country, but children's rights here in the States are quite limited. This is why they are required to attend school, can have a curfew imposed upon them by the local government, can't vote, etc.
I see nothing wrong with parents requesting a child to open his personal documents (or boxes, or whatever) in their presence. I don't see this as accusatory, but as precautious.
Personally, when I was a kid, I wouldn't have cared if my parents had gone through my things. Yes, I was involved in my share of things that I shouldn't have been- but I was willing to take the risk of getting caught because of my own belief system and how I felt about those things.
If a child is so afraid for a parent to find out about something, it tends to indicate one of two things to me. Either (1) the parent is truly abusive and the child shouldn't be in their care to start with, or (2) the kid is smart enough to know he shouldn't be doing it and too dumb to stop. I see nothing wrong with a parent stopping a child from doing something that stupid.