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andrewducker) wrote2012-03-07 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2012-03-07 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2012
- Ken Clarke defends secret courts. I, of course, think they're an awful idea.
- 6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
- Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.
Is there a reason why voting has to happen on one day? Give people a week to vote, with daily updates on the ongoing count!
- Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
- Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords. (And they can, frankly, fuck off)
- Dammit, I find myself largely in agreement with esr on Hollywood, piracy and the internet
- A man who informed police when he found child abuse images on his computer has not been allowed to be alone with his daughter for four months.
- How I became Amazon’s pitchman for a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant on Facebook
- On Writers Block
- I hadn't realised that Gillian Anderson stood on a box for The X-Files
- Either be offensive, or don't be offensive. Being offensive and then pretending you weren't is just dumb.
- Rather than a mansion tax we should be sorting out council tax
- Romney vs Mr Burns - can you tell which quote belongs to which one?
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I wrote a long post and deleted it because I started rambling, but I think "it's ok to give people readily abusable power because you trust them never to take advantage of it, even if nothing's stopping them" and "it's ok, if people want it, the free market will provide it" are arguments that seem insidiously reasonable, but don't actually work in real life...?
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Would you trust an 18 year old not to fuck up your $20 million a year sports program without oversight?
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And it seems like, to me, getting a social networking password is like the phone tap, not like acting professional. But I think many people assume it is a little thing that doesn't matter much. So to be persuaded I don't need fifty-seven million arguments why "assuming it's a little thing that's obviously helpful and doesn't matter, isn't it fair to require it", I need an argument why it's a little thing, rather than a circumvension of anti-wiretapping laws...?
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I don't think that the phone tap or the facebook passwords are little things. I do, however, think, that universities have the right to protect themselves and if you give a giant amount of money to someone they can sign away their general rights - if they want to - in exchange for the cash.
Obviously they should understand this before they take the $100k - but if you take a hundred thousand dollars in exchange for letting your facebook be monitored I think you've made a good deal.
Fuck it, if someone wanted to pay me $100k to monitor my facebook for four years I'd take the money.