Fighting For Privacy With Art and Words

HomeSkillet writes contributes this link to an interesting NYT feature on the recent works of privacy activist, wearables pioneer and artist Steve Mann. Mann has been mentioned here a few times before, but in light of current moves to scan, monitor and track your every move by subtle and unsubtle means, it's never been more relevant. Can anyone suggest a non-registration source for this story?

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Kill All Muslims. Exterminate Islam. Vengeance !

[Anonymous Coward]

Our precious dad cry out for vengeance:

1. Kill all Muslims.
2. Kill all Mohammedans.
3. Kill all Arabs.
4. Kill all Towel Heads.
5. Kill all Camel Jockeys.
6. Kill all Dune Coons.
7. Kill all Islam.
8. Nuke their countries to hell.
9. Nuke them again.
10. Death to Islam.

I menstruate on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I piss on Mohammed.

Re:Kill All Muslims. Exterminate Islam. Vengeance

[Anonymous Coward]

And fudge packers

(fuck do I hate that time delay bull shit reply fucking crapping shit)

Lack of privacy?

[digitalunity]

Oh well. You should have no expectation of privacy:
1. At work
2. At school(limited privacy(lockers for example)
3. Outdoors

If I get mugged, I want those cameras there.
If my car gets stolen, I want my spankin new OBD-III car to tell me where it's at(and turn itself off).
I just want new technology to be for the people; not used against us.

Any of you conspiracy theorists would be terrified if you had access to the NCIC database. Get over it.

digitalunity

*BSD is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

BSD is dying

Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *SD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

*BSD is dying

Re:BOYCOT WHITES WITH BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES!

[Anonymous Coward]

Jews are a seperate (superior) race to white people.