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People that talk on their cellphones are so incredibly annoying. When you hear some teenager yapping away on their phone which is glued to their ear you just want to punch them in the mouth. Likewise, when some jackass is texting on their cellphone when you're trying to watch a movie, it's really annoying. This raises one ethics issue with mobile communications: is it right to hurt people who annoy you while talking on their phones in public? Unfortunately, the Criminal Code of Canada says it isn't (when I become Supreme Dictator it will be legal). Seriously though, mobile communication raises many issues of etiquette and ethics when you have to reconcile the rights of the individual to use a phone and the right of society to not be really annoyed with said individual. Many businesses have been forced to put up "No Cellphone Use" signs, and many more people completely ignore said signs. No one wants to hear some dillweed talking about his urinary tract infection. Nobody.

The usage of cellular telephones also raises some legal issues. The FBI originally accessed cellphone conversations and logs without a warrant because a judge never ruled on the legality of doing it until a case was taken to the Supreme Court. The FCC had to pass directives barring people from accessing the 800MHz to 900MHz radio bands with radio scanners so that they could not listen in to people's cellphone conversations (this became a non-issue when cellphones went digital because the data is encrypted and encoded - but since some analog service still exists the directive remains standing). Some people claim that if a radio wave is passing through their bodies or on their property it is trespassing and as such they have the right to access the radio wave (this defence fell flat on its face but I must congratulate the person who thought it up, it is rather brilliant). Laws about use of phones have had to be written as well. The image on my left shows an act that is illegal in many states and provinces, and even some countries. Because driving with a phone is incredibly distracting, and it has been shown that people talking on their cellphones are too distracted to drive, people have voiced their concerns over people talking on phones and driving on roads that are already filled with irresponsible people who shouldn't herd cats much less drive cars (if you live in Richmond you'll know what I'm talking about).

Using Blogger, Delicious, and Wikispaces made me really hate Delicious and really start to hate Blogger. Delicious is (to me) a tool that had to make a niche for itself. It was some idiot's idea and he had to make people want to use his site. I would much prefer to just put a bookmark in my bookmarks folder instead of having to tag it on some website for all to see, and I much preferred the old URL (del.icio.us). Blogger is an OK tool, but I wouldn't want to use it every day. A real blog engine like Wordpress is so much better. So, so much better. Blogger offers little functionality and too little customization. Some actual software would be much better than an online solution. All things considered, Wikispaces seems like the best technology to me to work with. Everyone already knows how to use a Wiki, they're easy to edit, you don't need a lot of functionality, and it's much more neat of a presentation than Blogger or Delicious. I think the technology that would be the hardest to work with is Delicious, as by itself it is basically useless. It needs other supporting technologies to explain the context behind the bookmarks and why you chose them.