tex@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (06/27/91)
I see that you get really pissed off about phreaks poking around where they shouldn't, but what about coorporations poking around where they shouldn't, in your presonal finances? They SELL the information they have about you to others without their consent. Hell, they even try to sell your own information to you! Is this wrong? If you think it is you had better get a new social security number, pal. Maybe they could set an example by asking our permition to disclose credit information to others. When they do that, I'll ask them if they mind if I write/distribute a file about how their ATM machines work. As a member of the scientific community I feel that the lunatic fringe is where the revolutionary new discoveries/inventions/ inovations are created, NOT in the main stream university setting. Main stream science is great for backing up current knowledge and finding details of current theories. Unless someone has called you a fool or a criminal when you propose a new idea, you have not contributed anything to the direction of science. [Moderator's Note: While it is true that science is best served by people who are not all bound up in the frequently constricting environment of a bureaucracy -- thus the 'outsiders' who refuse to conform to the rules often times are the real heros -- I would not agree with you that there is no need for Harvard, the University of Chicago, and countless other institutions of that sort since the 'lunatics' can discover/facilitate whatever needs to be done. PAT]