Rogel @ August 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
As annoying and disturbing the idea of banning the use of certain words is, I doubt the ability of practically implement it. It is the idea, that the government should be busy telling people how to behave, that anger me. However the focus should be not at the stupid idea of banning words, nor at […]
Rogel @ May 5, 2007 # 3 Comments
This is bad on so many levels:
Spy-in-the-sky cameras are being used to identify householders who are wasting the most energy and to shame them into turning the central heating down.
Thermal images of homes have been taken by a light aircraft fitted with military spy technology to record the heat escaping from people’s houses. […]
Rogel @ May 1, 2007 # 7 Comments
Reading this post confirmed what I suspected for long time. While the issue of abortion in general, and late term abortion in particular, is a complicated moral issue - the motives of many participants in the debate aren’t.
A fair debate can be about who can make the priority decision, in what terms would we prefer one […]
Rogel @ June 13, 2006 # 2 Comments
Recently I received an e-mail with very disturbing news:
Hello,
I wanted to let you know that I found your email address along with mine in an email that MySQL.com sent out! I ran all the email addresses into Excel and found over 9,000 email addresses! I was extremely upset about this as I am sure you […]
Rogel @ June 3, 2006 # No Comment Yet
eWeek reports on companies that are screening workers’ e-mails. The magazine describes this phenomena:
“SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)—Big Brother is not only watching but he is also reading your e-mail.
According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read […]
Rogel @ June 2, 2006 # No Comment Yet
On my laptop at home I’m using Zone Alarm firewall , which I like very much. Today I got from them advertisement e-mail attempting to sell this :
Anonymous Surfing protects you and your family from online identity theft […]
Rogel @ May 15, 2006 # 3 Comments
During the weekend I was reading very well drafted opinions about how the government, and the telecom companies, did not do anything wrong obtaining the call record of the entire population.
Chris argued that not only the actions discussed were completely legal but they did not violate any right. His assay is, […]
Rogel @ May 12, 2006 # One Comment
Dealing with Qwest wasn’t my best business experience. As a business to business I found dealing with them almost the worst from the RBOC’s . However today I’m only praising Qwest and its management. While all the other Telecom companies granted the NSA request to our private information Qwest alone declined this request […]
Rogel @ May 12, 2006 # One Comment
It is interesting to check the position of those who proposed the global online freedom act regarding the news about the unholy cooperation between several phone companies and the NSA . It is easy to be indignant about Google’s and Yahoo!’s cooperation with the China’s government oppression, but what about what is happening at […]
Rogel @ February 19, 2006 # No Comment Yet
In its answer to the DOJ’s subpoena Google write:
“Google users trust that when they enter a search query into a Google search box, not only will they receive back the most relevant results, but that Google will keep private whatever information users communicate absent a compelling reasonâ€.
Unless they live in China, I guess…