Comment This doesn't set a good precedence (Score 1) 1746
No matter what he believed, this kind of tomfoolery doesn't bode well for public discourse in america
Comment When an article asks a question... (Score 1) 1216
The answer is usually no.
Comment The Lesson Learned (Score 1) 256
Always use a VPN when you regularly use internet that isn't yours. If you don't, you are essentially handing over your right to privacy.
Comment The Unabomber (Score 1) 754
Surprisingly, the unabomber had something to say along about this problem 20-odd years ago:
if the use of a new item of technology is INITIALLY optional, it does not necessarily REMAIN optional, because the new technology tends to change society in such a way that it becomes difficult or impossible for an individual to function without using that technology. This applies also to the technology of human behavior. In a world in which most children are put through a program to make them enthusiastic about studying, a parent will almost be forced to put his kid through such a program, because if he does not, then the kid will grow up to be, comparatively speaking, an ignoramus and therefore unemployable.
Comment I've always wanted to relive my youth (Score 1) 214
Two dying brands from the 90s in one place. We just need to round up the remnants of Gateway now.
Comment Re:Five minutes too long (Score 1) 852
Either that or some kind of Atlantis tie in, but that would have been just as cheesy as what they did in the actual end of the series as well.
Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? 1272
gabec asks: "This weekend my mother bought a grille lighter, something like this butane lighter. The self-scanner at Kroger's locked itself up and paged a clerk, who had to enter our drivers license numbers into her kiosk before we could continue. Last week my girlfriend bought four peaches. An alert came up stating that peaches were a restricted item and she had to identify herself before being able to purchase such a decidedly high quantity of the dangerous fruit. My video games spy on me, reporting the applications I run, the websites I visit, the accounts of the people I IM. My ISP is being strong-armed into a two-year archive of each action I take online under the guise of catching pedophiles, the companies I trust to free information are my enemies, the people looking out for me are being watched. As if that weren't enough, my own computer spies on me daily, my bank has been compromised, my phone is tapped--has been for years--and my phone company is A-OK with it. What's a guy that doesn't even consider himself paranoid to think of the current state of affairs?" The sad state of affairs is that Big Brother probably became a quiet part of our lives a lot earlier. The big question now is: how much worse can it get?
