RE: [DDN] Student of Concern

2005-05-20 Thread K Wong \(UVic\)
That's probably the most absurd thing I have seen in a while. The deadline for submission of comments is next Friday. Here is the docket of the source: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-6057.htm ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by RIN 0694-AD29, by any of the following

RE: [DDN] Charity Advantage? Net Cruiser Technologies Inc.

2005-05-09 Thread K Wong \(UVic\)
Their domain is registered to Net Cruiser Technologies Inc. out of PA. A search on Google turned up some government sites listing their program and links to out of date Urls, a few of which are archived. About Net Cruiser Technologies, Inc.

RE: [DDN] Re: The digital divide and the idea of public computing

2005-03-14 Thread K Wong \(UVic\)
I agree with you that technology is a tool. My issue is with the term just. When you state that technology is *just* a tool you are minimizing the important and often obscure biases within the technology. The issue is subtle, but I believe it is significant. To use your car analogy, there is

RE: [DDN] The real digital divide (fwd)

2005-03-14 Thread K Wong \(UVic\)
One of the best books I have found on the subject of technology and American Indians is Jerry Mander's In the Absence of the Sacred: The failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations. It was published by Sierra Books, San Francisco in 1991. Mander's book leans to the left at times,

RE: [DDN] Lifeline/Link-Up Violations - Order Admonishing Verizon

2005-03-12 Thread K Wong \(UVic\)
Thank you Valerie for bringing this notice to the attention of the DDN. It is incredible that a small telco would be fined $20,000 for not publicizing to one reservation and yet Verizon would get admonished for ignoring eleven over three years. At least Qwest took the high road, paid $250,000, and

RE: [DDN] Copyrights

2005-02-23 Thread K Wong \(UVic\)
From my limited knowledge of US intellectual property laws, the issues you raise fall under synchronization rights. When you take a song and synchronize the music to a film or presentation, you need to clear rights with an agent of the artist or whoever owns the copyright to the song. The Harry

RE: [DDN] broadband strategies for developing countries: civil societyviews?

2005-01-17 Thread K Wong \(UVic\)
This is great news that they are considering rolling out broadband in your country. It is also to their credit that civil society organizations are being consulted; too often these things are populated by business and government exclusively. When this is allowed to occur, the programs take on the