What exactly is the process of having the wiretaps executed by AT&T? Is the EFF expecting AT&T to determine if the taps are legal or if the warrants are valid? Shouldn't that be a judge's job or is there some standard procedure AT&T neglected to follow?
You are probably right about the fact that companies seem more and more intent on comodifying a level of "peace of mind" whose demands only grow as we become more and more intolerant of unforseen or imponderable events (i.e., life). However, skin cancer is no joke. My father has skin cancer he got from working in the middle east during the 70's when watching out for the sun wasn't as common as it is now. Every year we worry his cancer could pass to other organs and become more threatening, every couple of months he has to undergo expensive and often painful treatments. Believe me, skin cancer is no joke, and if you could have peace of mind for a few bucks, it would be a worthwhile investment.
I remember reading somewhere that if we harvested plankton from the ocean, we could use it to feed humanity. A sudden reduction in the currently used land area for food production means we would have to adapt, and probably the adapting period would be an unpleasant one, but I'm not sure it's a certain death.
You're joking, but you're not that far off the mark. Increasingly, global media like cnn or some major newspapers, are careful not to piss off the chineses. The reason is that if they do, they will lose out in the large english-speaking chinese market in the case of news sources, or market for trasnslated media, in the case of the entertainment industry.
The result is that increasingly the chinese standards are becoming global standards, not just for technology, but for media content as well.
Indeed, at least google does the exact same thing. There was an interesting article in Salon a while back about the way in which foreign IT firms play a big and subservient role in chinese official efforts to censor the net. You can find the article here.
The taboo must be pretty strong. I had privately been suspecting that sooner rather than later China would start producing porn as their costs must be pretty competitive, and we all know there is a pretty big niche for asian content. Perhaps in time we will see the financial interests in producing chinese porn coalesce and finally outsource our "adult entertainment".
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What exactly is the process of having the wiretaps executed by AT&T? Is the EFF expecting AT&T to determine if the taps are legal or if the warrants are valid? Shouldn't that be a judge's job or is there some standard procedure AT&T neglected to follow?
Not trolling here, this is a serious question.
What do you think?
I think you should include links with the examples you mention.
You are probably right about the fact that companies seem more and more intent on comodifying a level of "peace of mind" whose demands only grow as we become more and more intolerant of unforseen or imponderable events (i.e., life). However, skin cancer is no joke. My father has skin cancer he got from working in the middle east during the 70's when watching out for the sun wasn't as common as it is now. Every year we worry his cancer could pass to other organs and become more threatening, every couple of months he has to undergo expensive and often painful treatments. Believe me, skin cancer is no joke, and if you could have peace of mind for a few bucks, it would be a worthwhile investment.
I remember reading somewhere that if we harvested plankton from the ocean, we could use it to feed humanity. A sudden reduction in the currently used land area for food production means we would have to adapt, and probably the adapting period would be an unpleasant one, but I'm not sure it's a certain death.
You're joking, but you're not that far off the mark. Increasingly, global media like cnn or some major newspapers, are careful not to piss off the chineses. The reason is that if they do, they will lose out in the large english-speaking chinese market in the case of news sources, or market for trasnslated media, in the case of the entertainment industry.
The result is that increasingly the chinese standards are becoming global standards, not just for technology, but for media content as well.
Indeed, at least google does the exact same thing. There was an interesting article in Salon a while back about the way in which foreign IT firms play a big and subservient role in chinese official efforts to censor the net. You can find the article here.
The taboo must be pretty strong. I had privately been suspecting that sooner rather than later China would start producing porn as their costs must be pretty competitive, and we all know there is a pretty big niche for asian content. Perhaps in time we will see the financial interests in producing chinese porn coalesce and finally outsource our "adult entertainment".