(Now we just need solutions for people scattered in dense forest, deep mountaion valleys, spread WAY OUT on deserts, on small islands far from land, or moving about on the roads, skies, and high seas...)
Some of us enjoy being able to go WAY OUT into the desterts, or on small islands and NOT being connected. It's actually quite refreshing to take a week away from email, pagers, cell phones and everything else except the land.
I too graduated from a High School that used Bess to filter content. Bess was an addition in my junior year, and until then the librarians wandered about the library keeping watch over what each user was doing. After Bess they went back to their desks and read or filled out paperwork. Funny how I never once saw porn loaded before bess was installed, but after Bess was installed it became common practice of rebellion in my school to leave some variety of porn loaded in a browser when you walked away from a terminal. Every month the school newspaper (which wasn't filtered by bess;-) ) would publish a list of web based email services that allowed POP access that were not yet blocked by Bess and people would then set up new accounts to continue getting our email. Our last measure of rebellion was printing a copy of the page that told us Bess had filtered the site we wanted to access every time a site was blocked. This resulted in literally tens of thousands of copies being made (all using school paper, toner, ink and network time) of the blockage message. Nightly we would collect them, and (again using school supplies) number each of them from that day and tape or staple or glue them to the walls, floor, cielings, lockers and every other inch of flat space in the building (we had a 1500 student HS, 4 floors, 20 ft valuted ceilings). At the end of the 2 years we tallied up the surface area covered by the paper and sent the results to the school district anonymously.... they were very disturbed to hear that they could have wallpapered the inside and outside of our 4 floor building over 300 times with the paper we used.... the note also made it clear this wasting would not cease until Bess was removed from our network. We still have Bess, and the papers still go up nightly during the school year.... what can I say other than we have faith in Civil Disobedience? Trancendentalism forever... C. Phillips
I'm on the west coast, does anyone know if this will be tape delayed so it will show at 6pm on the west coast too? It wasn't on at 3pm PST which translates to 6pm EST... and BTW, aren't we on daylight savings time now, PDT and EDT?
Anyone sit down and give both these articles a serious read? Did any of you who did, really sit down and think about them?
The *single* biggest proof to anything Goldstein said was Palmer's entire interview.
Goldstein's entire interview: The individual exists today in the form of the hacker. The corporation seeks to destroy the individual to further its own ends.
Palmer's entire interview: There is a threat to business which must be stopped, this threat is the hacker.
Hrmm... seems like one confirmed the other, the question we must each ask ourselves is, "Am I an individual, or a corporation?"
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(Now we just need solutions for people scattered in dense forest, deep mountaion valleys, spread WAY OUT on deserts, on small islands far from land, or moving about on the roads, skies, and high seas...)
Some of us enjoy being able to go WAY OUT into the desterts, or on small islands and NOT being connected. It's actually quite refreshing to take a week away from email, pagers, cell phones and everything else except the land.
I too graduated from a High School that used Bess to filter content. Bess was an addition in my junior year, and until then the librarians wandered about the library keeping watch over what each user was doing. After Bess they went back to their desks and read or filled out paperwork. Funny how I never once saw porn loaded before bess was installed, but after Bess was installed it became common practice of rebellion in my school to leave some variety of porn loaded in a browser when you walked away from a terminal. Every month the school newspaper (which wasn't filtered by bess ;-) ) would publish a list of web based email services that allowed POP access that were not yet blocked by Bess and people would then set up new accounts to continue getting our email. Our last measure of rebellion was printing a copy of the page that told us Bess had filtered the site we wanted to access every time a site was blocked. This resulted in literally tens of thousands of copies being made (all using school paper, toner, ink and network time) of the blockage message. Nightly we would collect them, and (again using school supplies) number each of them from that day and tape or staple or glue them to the walls, floor, cielings, lockers and every other inch of flat space in the building (we had a 1500 student HS, 4 floors, 20 ft valuted ceilings). At the end of the 2 years we tallied up the surface area covered by the paper and sent the results to the school district anonymously.... they were very disturbed to hear that they could have wallpapered the inside and outside of our 4 floor building over 300 times with the paper we used.... the note also made it clear this wasting would not cease until Bess was removed from our network. We still have Bess, and the papers still go up nightly during the school year.... what can I say other than we have faith in Civil Disobedience?
Trancendentalism forever...
C. Phillips
I'm on the west coast, does anyone know if this will be tape delayed so it will show at 6pm on the west coast too? It wasn't on at 3pm PST which translates to 6pm EST... and BTW, aren't we on daylight savings time now, PDT and EDT?
Anyone sit down and give both these articles a serious read? Did any of you who did, really sit down and think about them?
The *single* biggest proof to anything Goldstein said was Palmer's entire interview.
Goldstein's entire interview: The individual exists today in the form of the hacker. The corporation seeks to destroy the individual to further its own ends.
Palmer's entire interview: There is a threat to business which must be stopped, this threat is the hacker.
Hrmm... seems like one confirmed the other, the question we must each ask ourselves is, "Am I an individual, or a corporation?"