Time Running Out on Kid Email: We hear about a lot of less-then-wonderful things being done "in the name of the children!", but this one's pretty good, actually. E-mail can get a child in over their head pretty quickly; my sister recently got in over her head, and she's 18! Still, while the ideas good, the government really should stop passing laws that they don't already know how to enforce; odds are, if they can't figure out how to enforce it today, they aren't going to figure it out anytime soon.
Time Running Out on Kid Email: We hear about a lot of less-then-wonderful things being done "in the name of the children!", but this one's pretty good, actually. E-mail can get a child in over their head pretty quickly; my sister recently got in over her head, and she's 18! Still, while the ideas good, the government really should stop passing laws that they don't already know how to enforce; odds are, if they can't figure out how to enforce it today, they aren't going to figure it out anytime soon.
iCraveTV Out For The Count: "Groups representing the TV, film and sports industries have forced Canada's iCraveTV.com to permanently close its Web site, ending any possibility it will resume showing TV programs without permission, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters said." Goodbye, ICraveTV.
If you prevent the transfer, you may not be granted a license, but I think explicit permission should always be asked... and if it's not in the license agreement (which it never is, because they actually want you to read that and if they put a requirement of giving your information there, you might get spooked), I don't personally feel terribly obligated to give good information.
Where's the part about "and be able to prevent the information transfer if they feel uncomfortable about it"?
"'I don't think there's anything wrong with targeted banner advertisements,' he said. 'But there needs to be more information. A person should know what's happening to information about them and what's going on with the software in their computers.'"
There will be counterexamples, of course, that's the nature of statistics. I'm wondering if there's a trend. I hope some larger weblogs pick up the survey and help people participate without seeing this analysis first.
Unfortunately, my sample is too small to say anything, and I am uncomfortable pointing out examples, as that might be percieved as an attack ('Your opinion on the Amazon patent is wrong because you are ignorant of the software industry' is a rather unpolite tack to take.). So, take that for what it's worth I supposed.
As I cruised the weblogs for the opinions of people regarding the Amazon patent, I thought I noticed a correlation between the person being in the computer field in a more-or-less professional manner, and thinking the Amazon patent is bad. It seemed to me that those who worked in the computer industry were likely to think the patent is wrong (and the more they worked, the stronger the dislike), while those who worked in other industries tended to think there was nothing wrong with it.
Please participate in the survey before reading this, because I don't what to skew the results.
If you're reading this, please participate in this survey; I'd like to write about it later today, if the results come out the way I think they will from wandering around the weblogs.