Does this mean that if me and my bunch of |-r4d pirat3s st3al the next st4r wars epis0de before it comes out and thr0w it on the n3t that it will be inv4lid for an award?@!$ george lucas - j00 w1ll be 0wn3d$#@!!!!! (even m0re than 1 0wn3d n4tal1e p0rtm4n l4st n1ght)!!
BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition is about to be launched to the public at the main site in a number of minutes from what I can gather. What's most intersting, is the file there named "BeOS4Linux.tar.gz". This would indicate that Be will be allowing BeOS 5 Personal Edition to not only be installed/run on top of Windows, but also on Linux systems, yet this was not announced in any of the pre-release information. Anyway, good luck to everyone trying to download it, and if you wish to read documentation such as hardware compatability lists and the like, you may want to try http://www.beeurope.com/ instead, to prevent the Be.com web servers getting hammered to the point where they are unaccessable.
This is a fair ruling. Are owners of shopping malls held responsible if people perform illegal activities within them? This is a topic that the current generation will debate forever, until computers are integrated so tightly into our society that it is no longer an issue. The issue here, and also in a lot of other stories that appear here, is that of whether real-life ethics and laws should apply to this "electronic world" that has been created following the rapid spread of networks, in particular, the Internet. This Prodigy ruling, as well as many others in the same vein as it, will continue to happen. Scott182
Is an issue such as this one diverting Australian computer/Internet users minds from other real Australian computer issues? Sure, this may represent a slight invasion of privacy by ASIO. Yet it is hardly different to what already goes on with police search warrants. How often would a power like this be used? Any information that ASIO would be interested in would not be stored on a public server, instead, to gain this information, the Australian government would just follow avenues which are already in place to physically obtain the machines they wish. This issue is diverting Austrlians from the Internet Censorship issue which will be in place in less than a month now.
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Does this mean that if me and my bunch of |-r4d pirat3s st3al the next st4r wars epis0de before it comes out and thr0w it on the n3t that it will be inv4lid for an award?@!$ george lucas - j00 w1ll be 0wn3d$#@!!!!! (even m0re than 1 0wn3d n4tal1e p0rtm4n l4st n1ght)!!
BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition is about to be launched to the public at the main site in a number of minutes from what I can gather. What's most intersting, is the file there named "BeOS4Linux.tar.gz". This would indicate that Be will be allowing BeOS 5 Personal Edition to not only be installed/run on top of Windows, but also on Linux systems, yet this was not announced in any of the pre-release information. Anyway, good luck to everyone trying to download it, and if you wish to read documentation such as hardware compatability lists and the like, you may want to try http://www.beeurope.com/ instead, to prevent the Be.com web servers getting hammered to the point where they are unaccessable.
This is a fair ruling.
Are owners of shopping malls held responsible if people perform illegal activities within them?
This is a topic that the current generation will debate forever, until computers are integrated so tightly into our society that it is no longer an issue.
The issue here, and also in a lot of other stories that appear here, is that of whether real-life ethics and laws should apply to this "electronic world" that has been created following the rapid spread of networks, in particular, the Internet.
This Prodigy ruling, as well as many others in the same vein as it, will continue to happen.
Scott182
Is an issue such as this one diverting Australian computer/Internet users minds from other real Australian computer issues? Sure, this may represent a slight invasion of privacy by ASIO. Yet it is hardly different to what already goes on with police search warrants. How often would a power like this be used? Any information that ASIO would be interested in would not be stored on a public server, instead, to gain this information, the Australian government would just follow avenues which are already in place to physically obtain the machines they wish. This issue is diverting Austrlians from the Internet Censorship issue which will be in place in less than a month now.