No, you do have a *reasonable* expectation of privacy and anonymity in public.
What you don't have is a expectation of complete privacy in public, so the key is what is reasonable. Example: Getting your picture taken by a camera on a street corner is reasonable, but afterwards identifying/recording you by name using facial recognition with every high school yearbook in the country is not )
I disagree, the bill of rights was written well enough in the beginning to forbid nonsense like this. "foreseeing the future' wasn't really necessary.
Until a case gets to the supreme court ( and if they are willing to hear it ) lawmakers are by definition free to interpret the constitution as they please. its part of the checks and balances we have.
Besides, if you open it up and start messing with the bill of rights you can kiss it ll good bye. Many in washington would love to gut the thing and feel its just in their way.
I didn't say others don't, i was only commenting on the OP's attitude that its a *requirement*, since not everyone needs to for it to be useful in an educational environment I don't agree that it is...
Why do you need an 'account' in the first place for a piece of hardware?
Sounds like a company begging to go down in flame to me. Do they have this 'ownership transfer clause' in their EULA? It would still be insane, but I'm curious.
If you cant get your taxes e-filed due to a crash, its no different then not being able to get to the post-office due to your car not starting because of a defective battery.
Sure, you should be able to return/exchange the product as being defective but you don't get your IRS fine paid.
And we are talking consumer grade products here, if its specialized there should be some severe penalties if the product doesn't perform. ( such as a heart monitor for example )
When this day comes, of course there will be a few people that get around it as there are always hardcore dissidents, but the mainstream user, which is the majority of the market, will be up the creek.
I also see one day that you wont be able to find anything commercially available that wont have the controls built in, or any content. And the same theory applies, sure there will be some of us that will just build our own ( or hang on to legacy hardware like it is gold ), but the grandmother down the street cant do that and will get stuck with a DRM-Media box and have her view of the world controlled and filtered.
To having ALL your content controlled by an external entity.
Want to read that PDF of the 'communist manifesto'? You wont if its no longer on the approved list, and since non DRM files wont open any longer either you are stuck. Remember only terrorists/pirates/etc have non DRM files.
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No, you do have a *reasonable* expectation of privacy and anonymity in public.
What you don't have is a expectation of complete privacy in public, so the key is what is reasonable. Example: Getting your picture taken by a camera on a street corner is reasonable, but afterwards identifying/recording you by name using facial recognition with every high school yearbook in the country is not )
I disagree, the bill of rights was written well enough in the beginning to forbid nonsense like this. "foreseeing the future' wasn't really necessary.
Until a case gets to the supreme court ( and if they are willing to hear it ) lawmakers are by definition free to interpret the constitution as they please. its part of the checks and balances we have.
Besides, if you open it up and start messing with the bill of rights you can kiss it ll good bye. Many in washington would love to gut the thing and feel its just in their way.
We all have our own idea of what a netbook is/was.
Don't want my car part of anything not under my complete control and with no monitoring by anyone other then myself by sitting in the drivers seat.
Just re-record it at a 2x higher compression rate, then you have a "lesser quality sample" that falls under 'fair use'.
Oh, and that should cover my copy too.
ya, it will be gone tomorrow. *yawn*.
I didn't say others don't, i was only commenting on the OP's attitude that its a *requirement*, since not everyone needs to for it to be useful in an educational environment I don't agree that it is...
Why do you need an 'account' in the first place for a piece of hardware?
Sounds like a company begging to go down in flame to me. Do they have this 'ownership transfer clause' in their EULA? It would still be insane, but I'm curious.
Why is 'markup' a requirement for it to be useable in the classroom?
i have *never* defaced one of my textbooks, ever. Even my lab books remain pristine, as i made any notes on blank paper instead.
If its funded by tax dollars i want my money back, or a free kindle DX of my own.
I should have a say-so in how my $ is spent.
Only takes one mistake to have your reputation decimated.
If you cant get your taxes e-filed due to a crash, its no different then not being able to get to the post-office due to your car not starting because of a defective battery.
Sure, you should be able to return/exchange the product as being defective but you don't get your IRS fine paid.
And we are talking consumer grade products here, if its specialized there should be some severe penalties if the product doesn't perform. ( such as a heart monitor for example )
Get the cash while you can, then go start something else. Rinse and repeat.
From what i understand some places in Europe already ban anything that even looks like a gun, such as replicas.
Idiots.
When this day comes, of course there will be a few people that get around it as there are always hardcore dissidents, but the mainstream user, which is the majority of the market, will be up the creek.
I also see one day that you wont be able to find anything commercially available that wont have the controls built in, or any content. And the same theory applies, sure there will be some of us that will just build our own ( or hang on to legacy hardware like it is gold ), but the grandmother down the street cant do that and will get stuck with a DRM-Media box and have her view of the world controlled and filtered.
To having ALL your content controlled by an external entity.
Want to read that PDF of the 'communist manifesto'? You wont if its no longer on the approved list, and since non DRM files wont open any longer either you are stuck. Remember only terrorists/pirates/etc have non DRM files.
Until the very hardware you run has it embedded, and is hard linked to the OS you are required to run to get online.
Then good luck.
One step better, stick the VM on a truecrypt hidden partition, in case you don't have time to dispose of anything...
Ok, just kidding.. :( Sux to be us US PowerPC holdouts and be stuck with a 2.x version.
Just like being simply accused does not make it true.
Or even simpler, ghost your system 'before' and restore it 'after'.
In your example, it might be hard to explain why what is installed didn't exist at the earlier point in time.
But would they give you the chance to do either, could they just show up at the door with a warrant?
Encrypted external drives would be the way to go.
Personally i had a roots supercharger.
And my PC had a 'slow down' button, when pushed it slowed, when released it went faster. Sort of anti-turbo :)
Perhaps the better products will survive?
He friends with Theo perhaps?
( its a joke, laugh )
But at least if you drop a book, you can still pick it up and read it. Worst you do is bend a corner.
Drop your kindle, its time to cry.