At the risk of promoting my own work... I recently started http://netsafetyguide.com/ to address these kinds of situations. The goal of the site is to offer down-to-earth, practical news and tips about Internet safety and security.
One of the tips that you will find there is to use limited (non-administrator) accounts for the untrained/uninterested users. Moving my teenagers to these accounts greatly reduced my frequency of reformats.
In Canada, the royalties from the Private Copying Tariff are divided among authors, performers, and makers as follows:
(a) 66 per cent, to be shared between the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the Canadian Mechanical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) and the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada (SODRAC), on account of eligible authors;
(b) 18.9 per cent, to be shared between the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada (NRCC) and the Société de gestion des droits des artistes-musiciens (SOGEDAM) on account of eligible performers;
(c) 15.1 per cent to the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada (NRCC) on account of eligible makers.
In 1997 I published a study in Communictions of the ACM that showed the same results. Then we were studying a local FreeNet system and asking users what affect getting online had to the time that they spent on various activities. TV watching was the most reduced activity, following by sleeping and playing computer games (this pre-dates online games). Listening to the radio and socializing with friends (off-line) were the two activities that showed an increase after users went on-line.
So if people are lying about their activities, at least they are doing it consistently.
The
Globe and Mail is reporting that the planned re-creation of the Wright brothers' flight was a miserable failure, with the flyer dropping off the end of a wooden track into a mud puddle. Apparently heavy rains were causing a problem.
It is my understanding that the purpose of questions like "your job" and "your annual wage" and "any family in the US" is to determine your likelihood of LEAVING the US. That is, the screening is to prevent illegal immigration, and to not search for terrorists per se.
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At the risk of promoting my own work... I recently started http://netsafetyguide.com/ to address these kinds of situations. The goal of the site is to offer down-to-earth, practical news and tips about Internet safety and security. One of the tips that you will find there is to use limited (non-administrator) accounts for the untrained/uninterested users. Moving my teenagers to these accounts greatly reduced my frequency of reformats.
(a) 66 per cent, to be shared between the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the Canadian Mechanical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) and the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada (SODRAC), on account of eligible authors;
(b) 18.9 per cent, to be shared between the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada (NRCC) and the Société de gestion des droits des artistes-musiciens (SOGEDAM) on account of eligible performers;
(c) 15.1 per cent to the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada (NRCC) on account of eligible makers.
See http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs/proposed/c10042004 -b.pdf
for the details.
There is actually a fairly large literature on usability and security. Have a look at the HCISec Bibliography at http://www.gaudior.net/alma/biblio.html
In 1997 I published a study in Communictions of the ACM that showed the same results. Then we were studying a local FreeNet system and asking users what affect getting online had to the time that they spent on various activities. TV watching was the most reduced activity, following by sleeping and playing computer games (this pre-dates online games). Listening to the radio and socializing with friends (off-line) were the two activities that showed an increase after users went on-line. So if people are lying about their activities, at least they are doing it consistently.
The Globe and Mail is reporting that the planned re-creation of the Wright brothers' flight was a miserable failure, with the flyer dropping off the end of a wooden track into a mud puddle. Apparently heavy rains were causing a problem.
It is my understanding that the purpose of questions like "your job" and "your annual wage" and "any family in the US" is to determine your likelihood of LEAVING the US. That is, the screening is to prevent illegal immigration, and to not search for terrorists per se.