ah see i think the opposite given some of the bizarre legislation people are coming up with especially with regards to RIAA's war on piracy and the WikiLeaks kerfuffle. It's obvious to me that the people trying to regulate the internet and make these laws have absolutely no idea what is going on.
the whole thing to ban or otherwise negate encryption practises when it comes to the police or government is laughable and scary at the same time.
Coupled with the recent news story about that kid who was prosecuted and is a registered sex offender for having a picture of himself naked as a minor I am not at all confident in the current generation's ability to sensibly hash out the laws we need. It['s not shameful really though; tech moves so quickly! In just 15 years I've moved from a nokia 3210, with snake as it's game, ringtones I had to text a number off the tv to get or figure out and program myself, 2 or 3 lines of text and 140 characters per text message to a Lumia 920 which i can play the friggan Sims on, remote into my desktop and control (we can play ff14 this way, it's insane), i can browse the net, chat for free, take better pictures on it than i could on any camera i had previously owned. My ringtone doesn't even matter because everyone skypes me on my phone, i have my email there, I can use all of that stuff in the middle of nowhere (except my dad's ffs)
I didn't get a phone til i was 14, these days parents send their 7 year olds out with a phone just in case of emergency. Hell you can get phones now that only call 4 preset numbers and have no screens or anything especially designed for younger children in daycare (or to torture your teenager LMAO).
The main issue with us remembering the birth of the internet is "golden age" thinking where you tend to remember the old days as being somehow better and simpler. Wasn't life better and simpler when you had rotary dial phones? not really. I wouldn't trade my smart phone and fibre optic cables and my tablet for anything.
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Jeezo we've gone so far off topic xD great discussing this with you though :D
Edit: Hell we can't even convince the government that the Internet should be a utility and not a luxury
ah see i think the opposite given some of the bizarre legislation people are coming up with especially with regards to RIAA's war on piracy and the WikiLeaks kerfuffle. It's obvious to me that the people trying to regulate the internet and make these laws have absolutely no idea what is going on.
the whole thing to ban or otherwise negate encryption practises when it comes to the police or government is laughable and scary at the same time.
Coupled with the recent news story about that kid who was prosecuted and is a registered sex offender for having a picture of himself naked as a minor I am not at all confident in the current generation's ability to sensibly hash out the laws we need. It['s not shameful really though; tech moves so quickly! In just 15 years I've moved from a nokia 3210, with snake as it's game, ringtones I had to text a number off the tv to get or figure out and program myself, 2 or 3 lines of text and 140 characters per text message to a Lumia 920 which i can play the friggan Sims on, remote into my desktop and control (we can play ff14 this way, it's insane), i can browse the net, chat for free, take better pictures on it than i could on any camera i had previously owned. My ringtone doesn't even matter because everyone skypes me on my phone, i have my email there, I can use all of that stuff in the middle of nowhere (except my dad's ffs)
I didn't get a phone til i was 14, these days parents send their 7 year olds out with a phone just in case of emergency. Hell you can get phones now that only call 4 preset numbers and have no screens or anything especially designed for younger children in daycare (or to torture your teenager LMAO).
The main issue with us remembering the birth of the internet is "golden age" thinking where you tend to remember the old days as being somehow better and simpler. Wasn't life better and simpler when you had rotary dial phones? not really. I wouldn't trade my smart phone and fibre optic cables and my tablet for anything.
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Jeezo we've gone so far off topic xD great discussing this with you though :D
Edit: Hell we can't even convince the government that the Internet should be a utility and not a luxury
Thank you as well for a very enjoyable discussion :)