I suspect that Dvorak gleaned his article from this one at BBC News. Summarized, it says that TiVo hasn't caught on in the UK because of its £400 (US$600) price tag and £10 monthly fee, and because its main function is recording television, which you can do with a video (VCR) for £100.
Sometimes it pays to read the foreign press. BBC news reports that Cadbury has called for an end to child slavery... Does that mean I hafta free my Oompa-Loompas?
Anyone been following reports of Starcraft's rather obscene popularity in South Korea? (Breakfast cereals, rock bands, cartoons, &c.) Methinks South Korea MUST be up to no good.
We have really got to get a handle on what qualifies for felony credit in this country. Now grafitti and cracking are felony crimes? Let's remember that felony convicts are forever forbidden fromholding public office, or more importanty VOTING! We're to deprive someone of their sacred rights to vote just because they hacked their high school? I can see doing it for causing bodily harm, but for a little computer security issue?
All metaphors and analogies aside, is cracking really a felony offense? Will we put people in jail for 10 years, effectively ending any chance they had to be productive (if a bit subversive) members of society, simply because they pissed AT&T off? Waving a gun at old people, abusing little kids. That's really despicable stuff. But breaking someone's precious computer? Put them in the can for 3 months, fine them good, and put them back out on probation. Get them a computer security job where they can play their security games in a supervised environment and get them back in to life. A 17 year-old kid, prosecuted for felony hacking? Give me a break... They fear what they can not begin to understand.
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect that Dvorak gleaned his article from this one at BBC News. Summarized, it says that TiVo hasn't caught on in the UK because of its £400 (US$600) price tag and £10 monthly fee, and because its main function is recording television, which you can do with a video (VCR) for £100.
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Sometimes it pays to read the foreign press. BBC news reports that Cadbury has called for an end to child slavery... Does that mean I hafta free my Oompa-Loompas?
Anyone been following reports of Starcraft's rather obscene popularity in South Korea? (Breakfast cereals, rock bands, cartoons, &c.) Methinks South Korea MUST be up to no good.
We have really got to get a handle on what qualifies for felony credit in this country. Now grafitti and cracking are felony crimes? Let's remember that felony convicts are forever forbidden fromholding public office, or more importanty VOTING! We're to deprive someone of their sacred rights to vote just because they hacked their high school? I can see doing it for causing bodily harm, but for a little computer security issue?
All metaphors and analogies aside, is cracking really a felony offense? Will we put people in jail for 10 years, effectively ending any chance they had to be productive (if a bit subversive) members of society, simply because they pissed AT&T off? Waving a gun at old people, abusing little kids. That's really despicable stuff. But breaking someone's precious computer? Put them in the can for 3 months, fine them good, and put them back out on probation. Get them a computer security job where they can play their security games in a supervised environment and get them back in to life. A 17 year-old kid, prosecuted for felony hacking? Give me a break... They fear what they can not begin to understand.
Bennu
If they're going to keep this up I think it's about time Los Alamos got its own news icon.