What is the purpose of government... as a whole. To administer, and to implement the wishes of the people. The FBI is a department of government and as such should fall under the same moral and ethical obligations.
Surely the fact that information is sent electronically should mean it is treated no differently from paper or phone calls.
Does the government have the right to open mail addressed to you? Does the government have the right to listen to your phone calls?
The answer is yes of they have "reasonable" grounds to suspect you have or will commit a criminal act.
The solution is not specific legislation or objection based upon medium, but an application of exsiting pronciples to a new meium.
I just got a "Renewal" letter from Internet Names Group. They have a little red badge on the letter that says "provisional registrar"... which sounded dodgy. The thing that gave it away was them asking for my domain PIN, which would never be needed for a renewal.
They also say you agree to the terms and conditions at a URL on their website. The page referenced doesn't exist on their website renewals)... but the terms I found seemed fairly nasty.
I have contacted my existing registrar (Melbourne IT), and they haven't even replied to my email. Maybe they don't care if all of their customers are getting changed over to another registrar...
I will be scanning the letter in (pdf), and posting it a bluecouch in the next 12 hours... need to get home from owrk;)
The company is surprisingly enough Pengiun... and you can still get them at places like K-Mart, Tareget, Dimmey's Forges, and in the bargain basement at Myers/Grace Brothers.
It is all good and well to argue the benefits and drawbacks of banner ads in software.... but what about the root cause of developers wanting to do this?
If piracy is the cause of developers advertising in their software, do they really think that by making it free they will be any better off. Sure a company like VISA may sponsor cuteftp... which I have seen in my beta of cuteftp... but if people crack cuteftp and remove the banner advertising.. will Visa continue to sponsor ?
I know that the Visa ads in cuteftp really shit me. I probably have the ability to remove them.. and hopefully somehow I will find away, because I would prefer not ot have them taking up my space.
The bottom line is that people want the best of both worlds. They want it free, and we want it pure. And if it isn't pure, they will hack it until it is pure, write a crack and release the crack so that others enjoy the purity. In the end the advertiser loses, ceases sponsorship, and as such the developer gets no money anyway.
This may be great in the short term, but in the long term it would never work.
I rememeber the days when I got my hands on my first computer. It was an Apple ][e and I thought it was the greatest thing ever invented. I automatically associated this joy with the Apple logo sitting on the keyboard, and subsequently the Apple company.
It may have been costly for apple to provide the computers below retail cost to schools, but the effects of that lasted for years, and resulted in numerous sales of their computers.
The question has to be asked: will students associate the same feelings of loyalty towards an operating system as they do the hardware it is running on?
Maybe they will have familiarity with the environment, and maybe they will be familiar with clicking on icons, but will they really get to compile a kernel, and download source and compile their own applications ? Surely not in a school environment.
What is more likely to happen in a scenario like this is that the company that sells hardware to the school, will get a good reputation for the machine being stable, when in fact it is Linux that is the cause of the stability.
As Apple was wholely responsible for both the OS and the hardware, much of this got tied into the mutual benefit of Apple. This is not the case with Linux, as it is not the owner of the hardware.
I believe a more profound effect could be achieved through providing grants and technical resources in teaching students how GNU/Linux works, and what they can do with it. Do we want to educate a generation of end users of an OS, or do we want to produce a generation of people who will look at whatever they have on their PC, and then try to find innovative ways of using it to meet their needs ?
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What is the purpose of government... as a whole. To administer, and to implement the wishes of the people. The FBI is a department of government and as such should fall under the same moral and ethical obligations.
Surely the fact that information is sent electronically should mean it is treated no differently from paper or phone calls.
Does the government have the right to open mail addressed to you? Does the government have the right to listen to your phone calls?
The answer is yes of they have "reasonable" grounds to suspect you have or will commit a criminal act.
The solution is not specific legislation or objection based upon medium, but an application of exsiting pronciples to a new meium.
They also say you agree to the terms and conditions at a URL on their website. The page referenced doesn't exist on their website renewals) ... but the terms I found seemed fairly nasty.
I have contacted my existing registrar (Melbourne IT), and they haven't even replied to my email. Maybe they don't care if all of their customers are getting changed over to another registrar...
I will be scanning the letter in (pdf), and posting it a bluecouch in the next 12 hours... need to get home from owrk ;)
The company is surprisingly enough Pengiun... and you can still get them at places like K-Mart, Tareget, Dimmey's Forges, and in the bargain basement at Myers/Grace Brothers.
I think they are around $5-10 still
It is all good and well to argue the benefits and drawbacks of banner ads in software.... but what about the root cause of developers wanting to do this?
If piracy is the cause of developers advertising in their software, do they really think that by making it free they will be any better off. Sure a company like VISA may sponsor cuteftp... which I have seen in my beta of cuteftp... but if people crack cuteftp and remove the banner advertising.. will Visa continue to sponsor ?
I know that the Visa ads in cuteftp really shit me. I probably have the ability to remove them.. and hopefully somehow I will find away, because I would prefer not ot have them taking up my space.
The bottom line is that people want the best of both worlds. They want it free, and we want it pure. And if it isn't pure, they will hack it until it is pure, write a crack and release the crack so that others enjoy the purity. In the end the advertiser loses, ceases sponsorship, and as such the developer gets no money anyway.
This may be great in the short term, but in the long term it would never work.
I rememeber the days when I got my hands on my first computer. It was an Apple ][e and I thought it was the greatest thing ever invented. I automatically associated this joy with the Apple logo sitting on the keyboard, and subsequently the Apple company.
It may have been costly for apple to provide the computers below retail cost to schools, but the effects of that lasted for years, and resulted in numerous sales of their computers.
The question has to be asked: will students associate the same feelings of loyalty towards an operating system as they do the hardware it is running on?
Maybe they will have familiarity with the environment, and maybe they will be familiar with clicking on icons, but will they really get to compile a kernel, and download source and compile their own applications ? Surely not in a school environment.
What is more likely to happen in a scenario like this is that the company that sells hardware to the school, will get a good reputation for the machine being stable, when in fact it is Linux that is the cause of the stability.
As Apple was wholely responsible for both the OS and the hardware, much of this got tied into the mutual benefit of Apple. This is not the case with Linux, as it is not the owner of the hardware.
I believe a more profound effect could be achieved through providing grants and technical resources in teaching students how GNU/Linux works, and what they can do with it. Do we want to educate a generation of end users of an OS, or do we want to produce a generation of people who will look at whatever they have on their PC, and then try to find innovative ways of using it to meet their needs ?