Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running

wildfrontiersman writes "NY Times article, Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running, quote: 'Because of the inroads the Internet and other digital network technologies have made into everyday life over the last decade, it is increasingly possible to amass Big Brother-like surveillance powers through Little Brother means. The basic components include everyday digital technologies like e-mail, online shopping and travel booking, A.T.M. systems, cellphone networks, electronic toll-collection systems and credit-card payment terminals.' This is too scary. I am now ready for a little less convenience and a little more privacy. How about you?"

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Making history

[NorthDude]

Dear fellow Slashdotters,

Soon enough, many of you are going to be ingesting many litters of cheap wine, beer and
turkey. This will be a time of disappointment for everyone when you will open your
gift and realize that the dream of this so incredibly l33t Zaurus handheld has
vanished and instead materialized into YAFCCD (yet another f**cking Christmas
CD) or even YAFWPOFYM (yet another f**cking wool pullover from your
mother). You will also have to face many long hours, politely explaining to your
uncle (formerly referred to as Joe User) that you wont fix is computer again this
year, scratching your head to find the absolute words which will instead make is
mind focus on nagging your 18 years old blonde cousin, the one which you think
about while you wan.... Well you know what I mean. You will also have to tell your old
grandma that you are not at school anymore and that no, you don't have a girlfriend
yet and that no, you are not gay. To undergo the assaults of all your aunts telling you
that you are fatter then last year will be just unbearable. You will suffer, it will be
hard. You will want to turn back, swearing you won't come back next year. On the
way to uncle "Joe user" house, you will see numerous wooden Santa Claus on the top
of almost all houses, representing the originality of each and everyone in this O so
wonderful world at this time of the year.

Yes fellows, those will be hard times. But fear not! Remember that you are not alone.
We, as a community must virtually hold each others because only united will we survive!
When in despair, sit back for a while and try to remember all the wonderful
duplicate stories you had the chance to read over here. Think about all those amazing
flame wars you fought. Remember all the great typos and think about the ones in
needs, because in Soviet Russia, spell checkers are correcting you. Take 3. 2. 1. step
back and profit brothers because this is our destiny. Remember all those boring
Friday afternoon when you got modded down as Troll for posting a link to this real
gem, this unique piece of art. I look forward to bash
The Beast (tm) with you again my friends, pursuing this never ending quest which is
to bitch about any conceivable companies, lawyers, governments, laws, closed
source software, or anybody which does not approve what we say, from our
theological ideas to our rocket science knowledge passing by our insatiable appetite for
pushing new, novel ways of compressing porn.

Yes fellows, together we can make it, together we can survive away from our keyboards.
Keep the faith and go thru it like a real geek, in the most profound slashdotter spirit.
I hope this is only the beginning, that many will come and join us. I hope that this
tradition will find its way thru time as years and century pass by, long after I will no
longer be, when all my lines of code will have vanished to /dev/null, that my body
will have rotten since a long time and that my soul, the one and only, which gave me
the power to procrastinate all day long at your side on the great highway of informations will have
disappear from the memories of the two or three persons who coincidently happens to
know me, I hope that this tradition will still remain; as a mark of our passage, of our
endless sense of getting nowhere soon.


Sincerely, deep from my disturbed mind,
Happy Holydays.

NorthDude.

Re:Hahahaha I laugh at!

[Dolemite_the_Wiz]

ROFL