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The Internet brings it to light. Everyone knows it. Everyone does it. Everyone accepts it. Everyone can check it. At the pre-dawn of the Information Society, information is being pushed until the files flicker.
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Bert Brecht opined that legally opening a bank was easier than robbing one, both coming to the same thing, though. The Basel II Treaty clearly proves him wrong on the first point because of its rating provisions; on the second point, it is at least conceded that stealing large sums of cyber money hurts up-front investment and only leads to cyber loot.
Internet“ is used here — as is commonplace by now — for all kinds of data telecommunications via the ”interne protocol“ (TCP/IP), hence for FTP, WWW, E-Mail, etc too.
Given the number of households cudgeling in every which way, there is a supraculturally enormous contrast in the thresholds of inhibitions between individual use of force and use of force by an authority. In `isolated’ and in `social’ contexts, human beings communicate differently in a significant manner, something which is deemed to have pre-ethic roots.
A famous and controversial experiment by psychologist Stanley Milgram of Yale University in 1963 tested an average person’s willingness ( 40 American men of different age, profession and education) to obey authority and to execute draconian measures and even inhumane orders (cf. in the net DEAUX/WRIGHTSMAN: Social Psychology ).
Cf. a D 21 call: “Customers must above all be informed about the full name of the company and the identity of the provider, commercial registration, its seat, its electronic and geographical provider address. A person responsible and answerable to customers must be named.”
www.cepis.orgwith additional hyperlinks
in a similar fashion, so are the services of Deutsche Telekom, German Railways, the Municipal Corporation etc.
No one can say how much time was spent already on the adoption of “several patched” Linux versions. Most OS users never open the source.
Even an overwhelming majority of `heavy users’ begin to lose their hitherto boundless faith in the Internet — over the issue of Internet payment.
The 1,257 million clicks on www.bsa.delast year corroborate the rising sensitivity and high demand for information. The numerous downloads of information brochures or software tools demonstrate the concern of users about inadvertently illegal use of software: cf. www.bsa.de/presseecke/2001/Bs021–03.html
Cf. Spiegel Online,Networld of 2.11.2001.
as opposed to heise online, 8.11.2001.
So named after Herostrates who set fire to one of the Seven World Wonders, the Artemis Temple in Ephesos in the year 356 B.0 in order to become famous.
Cf. JohnHorvath: The Next Wave: Internet Insurance,Telepolis of 04.03. 2000: “Following this came the lawyers. Whenever a large sum of money is involved, you can expect to find them. With their talents at twisting and manipulating reality beyond all reasons, many were sure that we have now reached the end. Yet, although there has been a marked increase in litigation involving copyright and domain name disputes, online civil disobedience against the long arm of the law has been effective in keeping at least a portion of computer-mediated civic discourse alive.”
One can, of course, prepare a separate mailshot without enclosures — but I have never seen it done in myriads of mails.
Such tedious waiting cannot be delegated away to a software agent as yet. All users are mindful of the `hourglass’ and mini breaks like this contribute overall to massive waste of time.
Not just a short message, this is frequently being abused as `cheap SMS’.
Details will not be given here for reasons of patent law.
Cf. H. Kubicek, D. Klumpp, A. Büllesbach, A. Rossnagel: Innovation@Infrastruktur, Heidelberg 2002.
Cognitope,“ in its capacity as an `instant’ creation and ostensibly claiming Latin-Greek parentage, has but one raison d’etre: to replace the dreaded expression `world of knowledge.’ Why did I create it? Everyone does it.
DieterKlumpp: “Neue Medien — alte Probleme: Das Gestaltungspotential kann durch neue Fragestellungen vergrößert werden”, in: Eckart Gottwald, Regina Hibbeln, Jürgen Lauffer (Eds.): Alte Gesellschaft — Neue Medien,Opladen 1989, pp. 93–98.
Remarks by Tuomi, made at first workshop of the Stiftungs-Verbundkolleg Information Society of the Alcatel SEL Foundation in Berlin, November 8`h, 2001. Tuoni is a renowned scientist with Nokia.
NicoStehr: “Knowledge, Markets and Biotechnology”, Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C. Canada, March 2000; in: John de la Mothe, Jorge Nios1(Eds): The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology,Boston (Kluwer Academic Publishers) 2000.
A word of heartfelt gratitude goes to Mr. Harry U. Elhardt, a Brussels-based regulatory and policy expert in European electronic communications, whose advice, expertise and guidance were invaluable in producing this treatise in the English language.
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Klumpp, D. (2004). Tricksters on the Internet: eCommerce, Data Mining and the Parallel Context. In: Koslowski, P., Hubig, C., Fischer, P. (eds) Business Ethics and the Electronic Economy. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06189-3_7
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