[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Mining User-Generated Content for Security - MINUCS 2009

[Linas Vepstas]

2009/8/12 Kais Dukes <kais.dukes at jqurantree.org>:
> Here is a good quote by Richard von Weizsäcker:
>
> "There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning
> responsibility, looking away, keeping mum."


Yes, well, money is tight and employment chances are always
uncertain.  It is nice to supplement one's pay with consulting
contracts from marketing companies or the NSA or Homeland
Security.    You never know what sort of disappointment you can
run into when expressing concern or a contrary opinion, who
knows, one's career may be in check. Besides, we're all busy,
and who has time to debate ethics? I get headaches even thinking
about it, cause you know people debating ethical questions are
always kind of soft-in-the-head, kind of crazy, and never want
to give up the point they're holding on to, even when they're clearly
wrong.  So I don't see why a conference should give voice to these
crazy-loon ideas anyway. Its just not the right forum.

-- linas

Special notice to the sarcasm-impaired: the above message
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not as it seems.

> Sent: 12 August 2009 11:15
> To: corpora at uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Mining User-Generated Content
> for Security - MINUCS 2009
>
>
>
> Well said Adam. I find the wilful blindness of this conference to the
> significant moral and legal issues that it should consider startling.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Adam Kilgarriff
> Sent: Wed 8/12/2009 09:16
> To: Jakub Piskorski
> Cc: corpora at uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Mining User-Generated
> Content for Security - MINUCS 2009
>
>> Submissions that focus on legal questions stemming
>> from snooping, spying, privacy infringement or violation, etc., will not
>> be
>> considered relevant to the Theme of the Workshop
>
>
>
> Hey we're the guys inventing the next Atom Bomb, we're much too busy to
> discuss ethics
>
> 2009/8/11 Jakub Piskorski <jakub.piskorski at frontex.europa.eu>
>
>
>
> -------------------
>  SECOND  CALL  FOR  PAPERS
> -------------------
>
> Mining User-Generated Content for Security - MINUCS 2009
>
> 9 December 2009, Venice, Italy
>
> web: http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs
>
> email: minucs [ad] cs [dot] helsinki [dot] fi
>
> This event is co-located with the First International Conference on User
> Centric Media - UCMedia 2009 (http://www.usercentricmedia.org/) in Venice,
> 9-11 December 2009

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