Nov
18

School Employee Loses Job Over Vulgar Comment Online

Filed Under (Computers/Tech, Media) by Scott Jones on 18-11-2009

Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/kurt-greenbaum-man-loses_n_362406.html

This is an interesting situation for discussion! The user violated both the school’s acceptable use policy (AUP) and the newspaper’s site terms of use (TOU). The school and the paper each have the right/responsibility to enforce their own policies. But is it appropriate for them to work together? I would have expected the guy’s account on stltoday.com to be suspended. But calling the user’s employer over a TOU violation… wow. Is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch now taking on responsibility for enforcing the AUPs of every business a user may be connecting from? Having established a precedent, could they now be sued for NOT doing it in the future?
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Nov
16

The Prisoner Remake :: First Impression

Filed Under (General) by Scott Jones on 16-11-2009

This is neither a completely new interpretation of the concept nor a faithful re-make of the original.  It’s somewhere in between and ends up being…  nothing.  So far, anyway.

There are many mistakes that stand out.  The one that irritates me the most for some reason is that they explain why Six resigned.  In the original, it ended up being quite key that we never knew, precisely because it was irrelevant.  (And, of course, asking the question was the obsession of his captors.)  The original stayed on target with the theme of a man who maintained his identity (and therefor his freedom) despite his circumstances.  It didn’t cloud the issue with irrelevancies, most especially in the early episodes.  Why can’t American TV writers resist the urge to tell the audience everything.  Less is more, dammit.  Besides, in this version just what the heck is it They want from Six?

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