Gates and Security

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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[Anonymous Coward]

penis bird call! Where are you, birdy?

Re:Oxymoron

[Anonymous Coward]

MOD PARENT UP!! +1 INSIGHTFUL

It's so true - these douchebags love to post incredibly stupid comments and the gay moderators turn it into a strokefest. How fucking base and low can the comments be? Try having an actual discussion instead of blind MS bashing.

These fags that post shit like "Bill Gates sucks" are no better than the people who post comments like, "I don't use Linux because my time is valuable."

Both comments don't offer any valid criticism or discussion but just seek to spout off a viewpoint that is backed by nothing. Fuck you assholes. You piss me off.

Be calm!

[Realistic_Dragon]

We have nothing to fear from survalence devices running on Windows - the staff will be too busy rebooting them to actually get any monitoring done.

When they start running them on *nix, then you have to worry :o(

Re:Oh yeah? I call shovel time...

[garcia]

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.

GODDAMN FUCKTARD MODS!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

You steaming piles of cat shit!!! Motherfucker has a fucking point....don't cry like little bitches and mod him down....

fuck, i hope the meta-mods strap you over a 55gal barrel and sodomize your anuses with Garden Weasels (tm).

Re:Orwell's vision was true!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Orwell's vision was true!

[ratamacue]

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.

Never fear, fellow fuckhead!

[Anonymous Coward]

I M2 all negative moderations "Unfair". We're fucking the system and that's what counts!

You really don't get it.

[I'm a racist's.]

a database is a collection of facts

Nope. A database is a collection of data. It makes no assertion about the factual nature of such data. Moreover, law enforcement tapping a phone line will have to infer things from the conversation, otherwise, what's the fucking point?

Listen to your typical "Yo", and you will find Whites, asians, and/or hispanics that have the same speech patterns as an urban hoodlum

That's the point. It "sounds black". Even if it's a white guy talking, one of his characteristics is that he sounds black. He might also have a certain tattoo. Either of these things can be used to identify the individual. When someone is described as "sounding black" people automatically connect that to an easily identifiable pattern of speech. Of course, that characteristic is common to niggers, which is why it specifically makes reference to blacks (thus, it's likely that the person is a junglebunny).

As far as prostitution goes, what if someone has a smart-alec kid who changes the answering machine message one day? What if you happen to catch an amorous couple role playing over the phone? If that was not complicated enough, even if you have a prostitute, is she the street-walking drug huffing type, or the high-priced corporate concubine, or the Hollywood Hiede with a regular stable of influential patrons?

If you overhear Martha Stewart getting ImClone info over the phone, it could just be Martha roleplaying with her buddy...

In such a case, a database is used to organize observations, in order to establish the validity of that data by combining it with other observations, be they auditory, visual, or whatever.

african american

You can only use this term for people who hold dual citizenship in both America and some African country. If you really want to push things, you could use it for someone who was born in Africa and immigrated here. Being black does not qualify anyone to be African-American, being white and from South Africa does qualify them. The word nigger is unambiguous and will work quite well.