Good point about the Japanese Americans trusting safeguards. Of course we all know it's happening today as well to middle eastern men.
The fact is you cannot limit your use of technology without sacrificing huge amounts of convenience (and constantly explaining to people why you only communicate through carrier pidgeon). The only thing you can do is trust that the Foxes in the administration aren't out to get you. Unfortunately, the current administration treats civil liberties like an obstacle rather than a goal. This is frightening.
If you're saying this doesn't affect you, ask yourself if you feel comfortable doing a google search on "Athiest Cookbook" or "Mosques" or "jihad". Doesn't that make you wince just a little about the flags that may be set off somewhere. Now imagine you're an arab american, a full blown citizen, thinking about doing the same queries. Intellectual curiosity is being stifled and everyone is living in fear to some degree because of our own government.
What can we do about it? Damned if I know. Donate to the ACLU. Don't vote the US Department of Faith into office again. Write your congressman.;)
at least in this great country of ours you always have a way to voice your opinion. At the next election he can march right up to the polls and...d'oh!
As with any analogy applied to software this tends to fall apart when areas become grey. What if the candy handed out was fine for 99% of the population, but one percent happened to be severly allergic to it. The store posts a sign with the ingredients, but some of the one percent die in a Martin Short-esque bloated haze of agony. Who, if anybody, is liable?
You're a small software company, and do reasonably extensive testing on your software and all of the components it installs. You inform the user of exactly what you're installing and where to find documentation on it. In one percent of cases un-installation of that software trashes the user's TCP/IP stack and causes hundreds or thousands of dollars in resource time. Who, if anybody, is liable?
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Good point about the Japanese Americans trusting safeguards. Of course we all know it's happening today as well to middle eastern men.
The fact is you cannot limit your use of technology without sacrificing huge amounts of convenience (and constantly explaining to people why you only communicate through carrier pidgeon). The only thing you can do is trust that the Foxes in the administration aren't out to get you. Unfortunately, the current administration treats civil liberties like an obstacle rather than a goal. This is frightening.
If you're saying this doesn't affect you, ask yourself if you feel comfortable doing a google search on "Athiest Cookbook" or "Mosques" or "jihad". Doesn't that make you wince just a little about the flags that may be set off somewhere. Now imagine you're an arab american, a full blown citizen, thinking about doing the same queries. Intellectual curiosity is being stifled and everyone is living in fear to some degree because of our own government. ;)
What can we do about it? Damned if I know. Donate to the ACLU. Don't vote the US Department of Faith into office again. Write your congressman.
at least in this great country of ours you always have a way to voice your opinion. At the next election he can march right up to the polls and...d'oh!
As with any analogy applied to software this tends to fall apart when areas become grey. What if the candy handed out was fine for 99% of the population, but one percent happened to be severly allergic to it. The store posts a sign with the ingredients, but some of the one percent die in a Martin Short-esque bloated haze of agony. Who, if anybody, is liable? You're a small software company, and do reasonably extensive testing on your software and all of the components it installs. You inform the user of exactly what you're installing and where to find documentation on it. In one percent of cases un-installation of that software trashes the user's TCP/IP stack and causes hundreds or thousands of dollars in resource time. Who, if anybody, is liable?