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Comment: Re:Sheesh (Score 4, Insightful) 222

by s.petry (#43763023) Attached to: FBI Considers CALEA II: Mandatory Wiretapping On Every Device

I believe you miss the point, which is that the Police state started creeping in long ago. For posterity, it had to creep in.

Long ago, a Police state could occur in a swoop because a massive army of police could run down on an unsuspecting public. Advancements in communications have made the level of secrecy required to build up such an army nearly impossible. To think that the people in power didn't realize that fact is sheer idiocy.

This is why it's a progressive amount of force and liberty erosion combined with a massive media campaign, and has been for at least 20 years. The amount of propaganda is increasing with every EO that erodes some civil liberties. In addition, the rhetoric to pit average people against each other has been increasing from media and politicians as well.

It is, a very well coordinated attack. Lots of people have been catching on and voicing alarm calls. Others are clueless as they simply live in the proverbial cave (Plato/Socrates). Still more hear the alarms but fear cognitive dissonance and change so much that they deny what is very plain to see if you care to look.

Comment: Re:I'm pretty sure I'm already sterile (Score 2) 307

Which is why we have known cases of human sterilization due to exposure to radar and microwave frequencies at high power? If you ever work in the industry, you would see warnings on the equipment that call that aspect out (Civilian and Military).

I think we have a spoiler fail!

Comment: Re:Not even close (Score 1) 478

by s.petry (#43756593) Attached to: Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy

*shrug* seems like you make a whole lot of assumptions about what I stated. If you immediately jump into bed with anyone you meet, I'm not really with you since you have to know the risks of being that promiscuous. If you have an STD and sleep with someone, sure I'm with you. If you are dating someone and not sleeping together, and you are getting treatment for a STD, do you need to disclose? And before you pull out your straw man, the majority of STDs are not AIDS and Herpes that are with you for life. The majority are strains of syphilis and gonorrhea which are easily cured.

Seems like you and Larry have lots in common, everyone's situation must match your view and not their reality.

Comment: Re:Not even close (Score 1) 478

by s.petry (#43748773) Attached to: Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy

Opening up all the statistical information contained in the medial records of the entire population could certainly be a massive benefit to the whole of humanity.

Huh? Name one benefit, just one. And no! Marketing information for some company is not a benefit to humanity. There is no benefit to opening up medical records for anyone to review. Maybe to some other species we have yet to meet, but sure as hell not to humans.

You currently go to a doctor that has your history and can make decisions based on that history. If you change doctors, you need to approve a form allowing the transfer of your old records to the new doctor. I think that your current doctor should have your history. I don't believe that your insurance company should be able to make you change doctors. Those decisions were placed in your hands for good reason.

Comment: Not even close (Score 5, Insightful) 478

by s.petry (#43748609) Attached to: Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy

The only reason to worry is to be insured? How about not being discriminated against in all kinds of areas (namely job hunting)? How about not pissing off a girlfriend when you have to clear up a STD from an Ex or a bad decision? How about not wanting the family to know you have a terminal disease?

There are many reasons we want to keep our health issues private. I'm not going to discount that being able to talk to someone is helpful, but that is not even close to making them available to everyone all the time.

Comment: Re:The quick answer: (Score 1) 106

by s.petry (#43748509) Attached to: Google Betting Its Google+ Systems Know What's Best For You

Horse shit! You don't need an app to ask you "Do you want to talk to Joe?". You either want to talk to Joe or don't, and if you are dependent on a reminder to talk to people it's time to get off the computer. You don't need a computer to index your photo's, but yes certain aspects of an auto-indexer could be nice. Except what if you don't want your pictures shared to the world and searchable by everyone? You know, private memories of Grandma's last big trip and such.

The shepherd is the guardian of the sheep. The shepherd should not be picking up the lambs and carrying them around because, well, fuck.. Why would a lamb ever learn to walk? Call a parasite a parasite, and a shepherd a shepherd, and be honest about who is who.

Comment: Re:One teensy detail (Score 1) 389

by s.petry (#43740875) Attached to: Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain

To me that is not the only obvious problem. We lack the technology to do what the brain does, period. The brain processes much differently than a computer. 3D connections allow correlation of data that simply does not happen on a computer, and can't happen until we have working 3D computers. What ever they come up with as a simulation, won't be a simulation at all. It's going to be a whole lot of linear processors running as fast as it can, that won't match what a human brain can do.

Comment: Re:You have consented to large government (Score 1) 104

by s.petry (#43736835) Attached to: Australian Government Initiates Covert Internet Censorship
No offense, but I'll have to do some research since I'm not in Australia. Your statement does not back what I have read here in the US, which is that people had to turn in guns and, that if you did keep them there is little ability to actually use them. Components had to be removed and stored in separate locations, ammo restrictions on keeping rounds, etc.. Much like the gun laws in the UK where a common person really does not have a gun.

Comment: Re:You have consented to large government (Score 1) 104

by s.petry (#43736615) Attached to: Australian Government Initiates Covert Internet Censorship
WTF? Are you mentally handicapped or just trying to voice propaganda? The 20th century saw Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, etc.. etc.. etc.. so you are absolutely full of shit. WW II was to stop Hitler, after corrupt people in other countries gave him money, weapons, and power.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- G.B. Shaw

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