It's unfortunate that humans are the only animals who go out of their way to prey on their own kind.
Personally, I do a lot of shopping online. There are so many advantages: convenience; immediately knowing whether or not the item is available; someone else does the driving; nearly instant comparison shopping and reviews; whatever. But, drug dealing online - but, of course it was bound to happen, with as much other questionable activity that there is online. We need to be smart consumers!
Tim Berners-Lee (the real inventor of the Internet) wanted the world to have immediate access to information mining. I wonder if he could foresee the level of scamming (is that a word?) that would be unleashed, once the Web was made available to the public.
This is such a frightening story. Susan, what a brave consumer investigator you are!
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It's unfortunate that humans are the only animals who go out of their way to prey on their own kind.
Personally, I do a lot of shopping online. There are so many advantages: convenience; immediately knowing whether or not the item is available; someone else does the driving; nearly instant comparison shopping and reviews; whatever. But, drug dealing online - but, of course it was bound to happen, with as much other questionable activity that there is online. We need to be smart consumers!
Tim Berners-Lee (the real inventor of the Internet) wanted the world to have immediate access to information mining. I wonder if he could foresee the level of scamming (is that a word?) that would be unleashed, once the Web was made available to the public.
This is such a frightening story. Susan, what a brave consumer investigator you are!
May 23, 2008 - 5:00pmThis Comment
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