I have to agree with iths, harming a non-sentient human is the same thing as harming a mature person.
And we aren't talking about harming here, anyway, though.
We're talking about a mercy killing, just like in old yeller.
A baby is by no means a sentient being. As stated in the original post, I think people do regard the potential for intelligence too highly. In this case inteligence wouldn't develope, or, even worse, it would and be cursed to a miserable life.
I was a sysadmin for a small company, and I kept tabs of every little thing that happened with our servers, mail server included.
I used a "pretend I'm the post office" method. I could look at a message's outside, (ie; sender/reciever), Weigh the message (size), and I could make sure that there wasn't an excess of them going in and out.
This kept everyone happy, I could rest assured that an employee wasn't running a spam service from the mail server, and the employees had the piece of mind that I wasn't paging through thier mail.
That being said, doing anything personal and or non business related on your work e-mail account is just asking for it. Of course that's easy for me to say (working at an ISP, having many shell accounts, blah blah), but in the day and age of @yahoo @hotmail and @excite etc addresses being free, there are better ways to e-mail your best friend with that list of "image" websites you collected over the week end.
Even if it was made illegal to read employees mail, the only people who would be in a position to report it would be the ones doing it.
There are more of us adults than non adults by a vast number. People want to rate things, go ahead, then parrents can install software that allows only sites that are rated kid safe.
The rest of the world isn't stuffed with the task of reorganizing everything for a part of our culture that can't even vote.
To get back to the subject at hand, there is nothing wrong with this bias as long as it is recognised and able to be controlled for. The major problem arises with publicly-funded education: the cost of private education rises until only the middle and upper classes can afford to choose what focus their childrens' educations will have (the poor can still get into private, esp. parochial, schools on scholarships and work-study programs, but it's made more difficult). Many who can afford it don'r make their own arrangements regarding education because it's easier just to pack them off in the morning to the same old place.
Furthering the gap in technology awareness and skills between the poor/lower middle class and the upper/middle class. Hmm, and I thought just a few months ago the government was claiming it was going to be taking action to combat this.
However, this nails it, I won't be having kids until I can afford to put them through private school. My overall distaste for most public school systems combined with a government funded canpaign to basically ensure my kids don't grow up to be like me will keep my future children out of their grasp.
I wonder if the new (ie; the one nobody can decide what it's gunna be based on) OS will run on these... Did they have plans to back port the OS to the old hardware or where they going to just release the new OS for the new line?
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We will meet this the same way we protect our Windows Boxen from the mass of lame exploits: Firewalls.
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Firewalls allow us the option to only maintain a single choke point, instead of having harden everything with an IP in a network.
Now the question is how the average home user will setup a firewall
I have to agree with iths, harming a non-sentient human is the same thing as harming a mature person.
And we aren't talking about harming here, anyway, though.
We're talking about a mercy killing, just like in old yeller.
A baby is by no means a sentient being. As stated in the original post, I think people do regard the potential for intelligence too highly. In this case inteligence wouldn't develope, or, even worse, it would and be cursed to a miserable life.
I was a sysadmin for a small company, and I kept tabs of every little thing that happened with our servers, mail server included.
I used a "pretend I'm the post office" method. I could look at a message's outside, (ie; sender/reciever), Weigh the message (size), and I could make sure that there wasn't an excess of them going in and out.
This kept everyone happy, I could rest assured that an employee wasn't running a spam service from the mail server, and the employees had the piece of mind that I wasn't paging through thier mail.
That being said, doing anything personal and or non business related on your work e-mail account is just asking for it. Of course that's easy for me to say (working at an ISP, having many shell accounts, blah blah), but in the day and age of @yahoo @hotmail and @excite etc addresses being free, there are better ways to e-mail your best friend with that list of "image" websites you collected over the week end.
Even if it was made illegal to read employees mail, the only people who would be in a position to report it would be the ones doing it.
"Who will watch the watchers?"
Hmm, perhapse this is why Slashdot's YRO section was created?
Hopefully we can amass support and eventually organize enough support to go on the offensive as the previous posting showed other groups are doing.
Just yesterday I wrote Lotus a letter regarding Australian Senator Alston implying the Lotus supported internet regulation.
I've never done anything like that in my life.
Hopefully other people were similarly effected.
There are more of us adults than non adults by a vast number. People want to rate things, go ahead, then parrents can install software that allows only sites that are rated kid safe.
The rest of the world isn't stuffed with the task of reorganizing everything for a part of our culture that can't even vote.
Sigh.
Furthering the gap in technology awareness and skills between the poor/lower middle class and the upper/middle class. Hmm, and I thought just a few months ago the government was claiming it was going to be taking action to combat this.
However, this nails it, I won't be having kids until I can afford to put them through private school. My overall distaste for most public school systems combined with a government funded canpaign to basically ensure my kids don't grow up to be like me will keep my future children out of their grasp.
I wonder if the new (ie; the one nobody can decide what it's gunna be based on) OS will run on these... Did they have plans to back port the OS to the old hardware or where they going to just release the new OS for the new line?