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Big Brother Gets a Brain
Gregus writes "The Village Voice delves into the DARPA's latest plan to track people and vehicle movement in cities, ostensibly for urban warfare, though this would be really handy watching 'suspicious' people in any city. "The goal, according to a recent Pentagon presentation to defense contractors, is to 'track everything that moves.' " The actual DARPA RFP and briefings. I just feel more safe all the time."
It's like Newtonian Physics to them.
They just want to know where we are, and what we're doing at all times, so that they can extrapolate what we will do next, and thus know the future.
I mean, it's not like this raises privacy concerns or anything
Mod Note: Funny, Insightful, Interesting... g'luck, I think it's all just measuring our cycnicism right now : )
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If Darpa is getting a brain, Does that mean Hussein is getting a heart, and the part of Dorothy is being played by Bush Jr?
(And introducing Ret. Gen. Powell as Toto.)
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Guy: Hey, I was on holiday all last year, abroad. I didn't file a return because I didn't make any money.
IRS man: No you weren't. You were in San Francisco all year.
Guy: Oh. I didn't know you could find out that kind of thing.
IRS man: We have photos. Look, some of them are quite good.
Guy: Oh yes. Can I have a copy of that one of me selling stolen car radios at the beach?
IRS man: How about that one? Your hair looks really cool in that one.
Guy: Great!
IRS man: We'll add it to your bill...
Of course! It's not like they could be more reflective to make them easier to track via eye or anything. It MUST be big brother, right? Right?
If it bothers you that much, you can cover it up with some left over tin foil from your hat.
I'm not too bothered if someone is tracking where I go and where my car goes within a city.
You're obviously not married.
Commander: Sweet mother! IFF signal!?
Operator: Unknown, sir!
Commander: Damn it! Any units ready!?
Operator: Negative, fifth armour is stuck in a traffic jam at Main street!
Commander: Damn it all to hell! Get me NORAD on the line, someone inform the president!
Operator: Visual confirmation coming in by TrackSat2 Delta... NORAD will be notified, unable to notify the president sir!
Commander: Explain yourself!
Operator: The president is driving that segway, sir!
Commander: By all that's unholy...
Hate me!
Yeah, but can they see me with my foil hat on?
Linux: Helping nerds look smarter since the late 90s.
Too bad for them, though, that keeping tabs on my position will cause them to lose track of my velocity...
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
In the true penny-arcade style, I propose the following:
We gather a large group in a major urban center. Taking our cars, we drive en masse along a pre-planned route that, to the pattern-matching machine, will appear as a giant wang on the map.
This wang will be awe-inspiring, perhaps enough-so to cause the AI in the machine to become envious, thereby destroying it.
President: What's that on the map? Some sort of terrorist cell!?
CIA guy: Ummm....
President: I want answers!
CIA guy: Well... It appears... to be a... wang, sir.
President: Wang, eh? That some sort of dirty bomb?...
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