Ethics & Technology (prescribed text)

[den]

The next time Herman Tavani suggests writing a book on technology-related issues, I want the cranky_editors to take him aside and show him a print-out of the jargon file, then quietly give him a sound thrashing with it.

And paper cuts.

With lemon juice.

Comments

[weibchenwolf.livejournal.com]

*peers*throwing a CPU through a window. So just the CPU, no fan or heatsink. Nah, I doubt that would work... it'd just bounce off.

It's interesting to note that breaking a window with a computer is somehow magically different to throwing (say) a chair through that same window. One is cyberassisted, and one isn't...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

what if you use a computer chair?


If I read the term cyber~ outside this book I will be very annoyed.

[weibchenwolf.livejournal.com]

*hastily deletes her comment?*

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

heh. I meant in a published work.

[pipibluestockin]

*hands you the salt shaker*

Why wait for his next offence? That is offensive enough.

Salt those paper cuts as well.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I think I have some rock salt somewhere...

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Wow, beating someone with a computer is different from beating someone with a television now? Cool.

I know the medium's the message anymore, but lordee.

[charles.livejournal.com]

But what if it was a digital TV?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Then it falls under the cross media ownership laws.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Good gravy. Someone paid him for that?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

He uses the term "cyber" all the time, when he should be just using "computer." That chart was just one of many he produced.

*flame*

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Ohh, he'th juth tho thyber-thexy! *fans himself with a copy of Wired*

No No No! They've got it all WRONG!

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Cyber-related crimes are like, blowing up the planet Voga, or unleashing Cybermats on defenseless populations, or trying to blow up the Tardis with Cyberbombs.

Feh. They just don't have a clue about their terminology.

Re: No No No! They've got it all WRONG!

[jamesb]

... and I'll bet there's not even one mention in the book of the importance of gold in the fight against cybercrime ...

Re: No No No! They've got it all WRONG!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

nope, not one mention of gold.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

I think that chart is too vague. Does wanting to rip the hard drive out of a school computer for eating your disc after they swear it's een fixed a jillion times justified? Will hurling said unreadable floppies angrily into the trash lead to harder stuff?:D "They never go into *detail*!" - Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

[baxil.livejournal.com]

I disagree. The man is a comedic genius. I could only make it through to "Physical assault with a computer" without bursting out laughing.