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Comment: That is exactly what will happen with igoggles. (Score 3, Informative) 331

People (drunk, ignorant, criminal, other, or any combination of the aforementioned) will attempt to shove it up your ass...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/steve-mann-attacked-paris-mcdonalds-digital-eye-glass-photos_n_1680263.html

Comment: Re:Only one question remains. (Score 1) 58

by MRe_nl (#43102633) Attached to: Researchers Put Numbers On China's Microblog Censorship

Where in my post did I use the terms evil, overlord or scumbag? Your lack of reading comprehension in no way entitles you to using the paranoid moron dreaming idiot idiom, but I shall attempt to refrain stooping to your level.

Censorship and surveillance are tools. When used by our servants and representatives to enable and cover up secret police, secret laws, secret sentences, state-sponsored abductions, torture and assassinations I think we have every right to be concerned.

It is probably hard for you to comprehend, but there are (many) Chinese who believe there's no place like China, and many Russians who believe Russia is the bastion of liberty on this planet.

Comment: Only one question remains. (Score 1) 58

by MRe_nl (#43092427) Attached to: Researchers Put Numbers On China's Microblog Censorship

How do you prefer your censorship?
Overt or covert?
And the same could be asked of surveillance.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82701103/Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED

Plomo o plata, I think journalism/blogs/social media are as censored in Russia, Europe and America as it is in China.
The tactics might differ but the strategy is consistent.

Comment: Isaac Asimov wrote about this idea in the 50's. (Score 1) 294

by MRe_nl (#43079649) Attached to: Do Kiosks and IVRs Threaten Human Interaction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun

"The book focuses on the unusual traditions and culture of Solarian society. The planet has a rigidly controlled population of twenty thousand, and robots outnumber humans ten thousand to one. People are strictly taught from birth to despise personal contact. They live on huge estates, either alone or with their spouse only. Communication is done via holographic telepresence (called viewing, as opposed to in-person seeing)".

Comment: Alpha Centauri applicable. (Score 5, Insightful) 326

by MRe_nl (#43023407) Attached to: DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master".

        Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"

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