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Gates and Security

Posted by michael on from the news-and-abuse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Orwell was wrong about Big Brother! Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates told a homeland-security conference on Wednesday afternoon that Orwell's dystopian vision of the future, in which Big Brother used technology as a form of social control, 'didn't come true, and I don't believe it will.'" Other tidbits about this security conference: Gates had his own troubles with security (Drudge is copy-and-pasting from a subscriber-only Roll Call story). Gates is apparently trying to sell interoperability to HomeSec. Meanwhile, Microsoft viruses continue unchecked.

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  1. Re:Oh yeah? I call shovel time... by garcia · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I am saying that due to the widespread use of Windows (and development of applications made SOLELY for Windows that are REQUIRED for everyday use) we are FORCED to use it.

    I would love to say that there are acceptable amounts of quality software available for "free" OSs, but there's not.

    Until the day comes when we can run all software regardless of OS we are going to continue to be forced to use Windows software.

    Not EVERYONE can just drop Windows.

  2. Re:Orwell's vision was true! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    That said, many people (Myself included) would say that what we see now from our own, non-Communist Governments approximates pretty closely to the totalitarian regimes of 20th century communist states, and uses a few tricks that are used by INGSOC & Big Brother throughout 1984.

    Oh bullshiat. If democratic governments were like that you would've been hauled away for those comments. Don't be a fucking idiot and compare democracies and communist dictatorships. It's apples and oranges you fuckhead.

  3. Re:Orwell's vision was true! by ratamacue · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    While Orwell supported the concept of Communism, he was appalled at the way in which it was being bent and twisted into Stalinism

    There is no way that it can't. Commumism is, by definition, force. In order to implement it, you need force -- otherwise it wouldn't be communism.

    So just in case any of you were thinking "gee, wouldn't communism be great, if they could just figure out a way to implement it without oppressing the people", drop that thought right now. It's impossible by the definition of communism.

    There is no such thing as voluntary communism, because communism is rooted in force (involuntary association). If you eliminate the force, you eliminate the communism.