Comment FS & brain strip-mining (Score 1) 182
Nice April Fool's joke, but I like this part - pretty good reason why this kind of software should be free software:
What especially concerns privacy watchdogs like Heilman is the possibility that Rupert Tollefsen's TR operating system, if such a thing can be created, might contain not only the ability to pick up signals to the brain, but to feed them to
the user's brain as well. Researchers who have worked on proto-TR projects say this capability--known alternately as "complete-loop functioning," or "reciprocity"--is the Holy Grail of 21st century information technology.
What especially concerns privacy watchdogs like Heilman is the possibility that Rupert Tollefsen's TR operating system, if such a thing can be created, might contain not only the ability to pick up signals to the brain, but to feed them to
the user's brain as well. Researchers who have worked on proto-TR projects say this capability--known alternately as "complete-loop functioning," or "reciprocity"--is the Holy Grail of 21st century information technology.
