On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:19:40AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Lars Hansson wrote: > > >On 8/28/07, Die Gestalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? > > > >Because it would violate his parole? Who cares anyway? > >If you can't do the time don't do the crime. > > We should all care, because there's actually an important question > buried in this: to what extent is it acceptable for 'the government' to > demand that someone make substantial or expensive changes in their life > merely for its convenience? >
It is acceptable to the extent that the guy did something illegal, is being punished for it and should consider himself happy that he is allowed to use a computer still. If he were using his ubuntu in a constructive way, he would not be forced to run Windows today. Tough luck. -- sysadmin & coder @ http://www.evilkittens.org/ coder @ http://www.exalead.com/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
