It's More Than A Blog - no need to add water and stir, just take it straight up
Came to life: on December 31, 2004 23:59 PM
Not a journalist, but highly opinionated
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BLOGmmmmmyasssssToday's posts brought to you by the word Security and the sixteen-year old kid seen below that is forcing his way onto your computer without you knowing it. That kid is about to send you a package that will direct your computer to send e-mails to everyone on your contact list. The package is not very nice. It will secret itself onto everybody's computer and do something very bad when directed to by that sweet 16-year old kid.By the way, if you have a sweet sixteen-year old that hides in his bedroom and uses a computer, I'd certainly like to come over to your place and give your head a beating. Kids are getting into a world of shit because of parents that don't supervise their children's internet activities. It is a sort of child abandonment and you should he cuffed for allowing it to happen.
What Is A Refusenik And How Is He Screwing Up ?The novelist Jeremy Cameron has his own website. He can tell you its address (www.stowbooks.co.uk), but he has never visited, because he doesn't know how to.
Times Online has an article up that tells us, "Technology is at a crossroads. While the Oxford Internet Survey (Oxis) reports that 70% of internet users thinks computers are important or very important to everyday life, 30% of UK homes don't even have one. Of those online, 63% believe technology is 'making things better', yet, bafflingly, a quarter of people who use computers do not regard them as important. Among the nation at large, almost one in three (29%) described themselves as complete technophobes when quizzed by pollsters from Continental Research." At 58, Cameron is a technology refusenik. Although the internet and all it offers are only as far away as a phone line, Cameron is perfectly happy doing without. 'I can't think of any way in which the internet would enhance my life. What I'm interested in is writing, reading, playing tennis, going to the mountains and working on our allotment. I don't need the internet for any of that.' Cameron is not alone. Although it has never been cheaper or simpler to go online, more than a third of the UK population cannot, or will not, get connected. Take-up has run into the buffers, levelling off at 60% of the population, just one percentage point past the tide mark reached two years ago. What's more, new research by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) reveals that it is not only money, age or education that is stopping people going online. Many people remain unconnected by choice. They are digital refuseniks. Times Online goes further to state, "Poorly protected home PCs now pose the biggest threat to computer networks belonging to businesses and governments, according to cyber crime experts, who say that the increasingly organised nature of hackers and internet fraudsters requires a more organized response." |
