I'm Brazilian and that is really not true. Orkut is here what Facebook is at the U.S., it's "the" social networking site. Almost everyone with Internet access have a orkut. And as a mainstream communication tool, many people use it to offend, scam, spread fud, and all sorts of bad things.
Here, if you are being damaged by offending posts, anonymous or not, you can get help from the police. And if it's a anonymous post that couldn't be tracked, who's to blame? Apparently the judge understood (and I do too) that Google is to blame because it created that communication medium. If Google made it anonymous, it took the risk this medium would be used to this sort of (illegal) thing. Something like "if it wasn't for Google creating this orkut thing, this would never have happened... and someone needs to be held responsible for this."
Yeah, we believe in freedom of expression on the Internet. But "your freedom ends where the next one's start". This freedom do not gives you the right to offend others. You have the freedom to say whatever you want, as long as you don't use this freedom to clearly offend someone.
Just some info about the voting machines here in Brazil:
- The votes are stored in two mirrored flash memory cards, so if one fails the data can be recovered from the other - like a RAID array; - The data on them is encrypted; - Only a few authorities have the password/key; - There are police officers near the machines all the time when they're being transported; - All the voting machine software is proprietary and it's illegal to make software for the voting machine (of course the only exception would be the company who made the voting machine O.S. and apps)
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And she would have won a Darwin Awards...
I'm Brazilian and that is really not true. Orkut is here what Facebook is at the U.S., it's "the" social networking site. Almost everyone with Internet access have a orkut. And as a mainstream communication tool, many people use it to offend, scam, spread fud, and all sorts of bad things.
Here, if you are being damaged by offending posts, anonymous or not, you can get help from the police. And if it's a anonymous post that couldn't be tracked, who's to blame? Apparently the judge understood (and I do too) that Google is to blame because it created that communication medium. If Google made it anonymous, it took the risk this medium would be used to this sort of (illegal) thing. Something like "if it wasn't for Google creating this orkut thing, this would never have happened... and someone needs to be held responsible for this."
Yeah, we believe in freedom of expression on the Internet. But "your freedom ends where the next one's start". This freedom do not gives you the right to offend others. You have the freedom to say whatever you want, as long as you don't use this freedom to clearly offend someone.
I guess Dr. Evil must be happy now...
Btw, shit floats...
I, for one, think it wasn't irresponsible to burn that Win98 CD. To me that was, in fact, a demonstration of the usefulness of the thing.
Last time I heard about this "Adam and Eve" thing, it didn't end so well...
Hadouken!
Just some info about the voting machines here in Brazil:
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- The votes are stored in two mirrored flash memory cards, so if one fails the data can be recovered from the other - like a RAID array;
- The data on them is encrypted;
- Only a few authorities have the password/key;
- There are police officers near the machines all the time when they're being transported;
- All the voting machine software is proprietary and it's illegal to make software for the voting machine (of course the only exception would be the company who made the voting machine O.S. and apps)
(and sorry for the bad english
I think this will make IE's buggy rendering engine even more buggy... I hope that most of IE7 users go to Firefox because of this
OMG... It's beta... I thought it was the final release :P
I'm on Brazil using Firefox and I watch a lot of videos at Google Video...
I'm no expert but Charles Darwin was a british naturalist, right?