We considered this, however, it was very likely that rather personal things about me were written in it (it is a diary after all). I don't know who might be reading it in 100 years (or maybe in 5 years - I do rock climb...). I didn't want this.
An old girlfriend of mine died in a motorcycle crash. While she was still alive, she told me her password for her e-mail account (my name - easy to remember). I only logged into her account once while she was alive (she was standing next to me and asked me to do so), so I know the password was correct.
Hours before she set out on her fateful trip, she sent me an email which I only received after getting the phone call. At this point, I tried to log in to her email account to see if she had left behind anything else there but access was already blocked.
After the funeral, we cleaned out her apartment. We found her diary (I knew she had one). However, she never explicitly said anything to me about whether I should read it. Diaries are a private matter, so when her stepfather gave it to me (her mother had passed away already and her half-brother was just too young), I went over to her best friend's house, we talked about it and decided that we would burn it in the fireplace together.
My point is, common sense should have some say. In spite of any agreements with Yahoo!, etc., if my name is the password and I know it, wasn't this proof enough that she had agreed that I should be allowed to access her email? On the other hand, without explicit permission, I'd never read someone's diary, it's too private. Perhaps his Yahoo! account was Justin Ellworth's diary of sorts....
Actually if you look at the last issue of Science:
EUROPEAN CLIMATE: Mild Winters Mostly Hot Air, Not Gulf Stream Richard A. Kerr Science 2002 September 27; 297: 2202 (in News Focus)
(sorry but you need to be subscribed), you will see that most meterologists believe that Europe's mild climate is due to absorption in the North Atlantic rather than the Gulf Stream.
I remember that a group wanted to design a GPLed cpu core ww.f-cpu.org but their website hasn't been updated in some time. What about something like this?
Not true. Look for Mac emulators and you'll find several that require an image of a the Mac bios to work. People would just pirate them and run it on cheap PCs.
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We considered this, however, it was very likely that rather personal things about me were written in it (it is a diary after all). I don't know who might be reading it in 100 years (or maybe in 5 years - I do rock climb ...). I didn't want this.
An old girlfriend of mine died in a motorcycle crash. While she was still alive, she told me her password for her e-mail account (my name - easy to remember). I only logged into her account once while she was alive (she was standing next to me and asked me to do so), so I know the password was correct. Hours before she set out on her fateful trip, she sent me an email which I only received after getting the phone call. At this point, I tried to log in to her email account to see if she had left behind anything else there but access was already blocked. After the funeral, we cleaned out her apartment. We found her diary (I knew she had one). However, she never explicitly said anything to me about whether I should read it. Diaries are a private matter, so when her stepfather gave it to me (her mother had passed away already and her half-brother was just too young), I went over to her best friend's house, we talked about it and decided that we would burn it in the fireplace together. My point is, common sense should have some say. In spite of any agreements with Yahoo!, etc., if my name is the password and I know it, wasn't this proof enough that she had agreed that I should be allowed to access her email? On the other hand, without explicit permission, I'd never read someone's diary, it's too private. Perhaps his Yahoo! account was Justin Ellworth's diary of sorts ....
Actually if you look at the last issue of Science:
EUROPEAN CLIMATE: Mild Winters Mostly Hot Air, Not Gulf Stream Richard A. Kerr Science 2002 September 27; 297: 2202 (in News Focus)
(sorry but you need to be subscribed), you will see that most meterologists believe that Europe's mild climate is due to absorption in the North Atlantic rather than the Gulf Stream.
Jack
I remember that a group wanted to design a GPLed cpu core ww.f-cpu.org but their website hasn't been updated in some time. What about something like this?
Not true. Look for Mac emulators and you'll find several that require an image of a the Mac bios to work. People would just pirate them and run it on cheap PCs.