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dmf writes "News.com is running a little piece about Microsoft's forays into researching aspects of social computing. With AOL Buddy Lists, Yahoo Messenger, Friendster, and other mappable relationship environments, is it possible the information will soon be used against you? Scenarios such as governments tracking private citizens, investigating terrorist links, political groups finding potential donor lists, marketing departments finding affinity groups, and other easily imagined data mining opportunities could open the doors for information abuse and misinterpretation of individual ties. What implications can it bring in the future of the personal life?"

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  1. My brain, my body, my stomach, my eyes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My brain, my body, my stomach, my eyes, and my ears were under severe attacks this past day and night by Henry( Hank) Rumbarger( name called out from the high-tech machine), an employee of KBR (Kellogg, Brown & Root), a subsidiary of Halliburton. Hank Rumbarger,I did not renew my Professional Engineer license for the year of 2004 --the license which I believe that David M. Austgen, a project manager of The M. W. Kellogg Company helped me a lot to obtain that in 1991 -- and I have told you that I do not want to work for you,, so please end this kind of attacks or let me know that you were not the person who controlled the high-tech machine. Please read the following five letters, investigate the case, and/or response. Thank you.

    Letter 1:

    Charlie Wang
    [ADDRESS DELETED]

    December 16, 2003

    To Whom it may concern:

    The high-tech machine in my letter is a very general term, meaning a very complicated device which may combine different functions of machines, such as computer, satellites or radio stations, and some mechanical and electrical systems. The pain I endured most is my brain, my skin, my eyes, my ears. my throat, and my body. My short memory is very bad because my brain has been constant under attacks no matter when I read, when I played tennis and computer games, when I watched TV, and when I was sleeping. the most frustrating thing is, when I was reading, I was constantly disturbed by voices and images, which, I speculate, can be transmitted through satellite, radio station, and/or brain wave. My skin felt very sharp pain as cut by a knife when it was under attacks. My eyes were under severe attacks while I was playing computer games, which can cause very temporarily blurred vision and/or tears. My ears will fell loud ring sounds and/or voices when they were under attacks, and it could happen any time, especially at night while I was sleeping. There are more regarding how I felt about the pain I suffered through the brain, throat, and my body, and I will tell more details if I go to the courts.

    Now, you know how dangerous this high-tech machine is. I tried my best to tolerate it to keep it as a secret and not to terrifying people, but whoever using that machine has no intention to stop but increasing it's power to damage my body. We all have responsibility to stop the person (persons) to abuse this high-tech machine, not just for myself, but also for the children and for this country. Thank you for your time.

    Sincerely,
    Charlie Wang, P.E.

    Letter 2:

    Charlie C. Wang, P.E.
    [ADDRESS AND PHONE DELETED]

    January 19, 2003

    To whom it may concern:

    I would like to tell you something which I have kept in my mind for a long time. How long is it? It is about five months. You probably think it is not long. All I can say is that it is all relative. If you live happy, five months is really too short and too fast. If you suffer unpleasant attacks on your brain, ears, eyes, mouth, fingers, heart, stomach, liver, and feet for that period of time, you know time just passed so so slow. You must ask why I kept it in my mind for so long. I only can say there are so many reasons. but once I tell you that those attacks were done by a very high intelligent machine (or machines), you can understand how complex this issue is.

    I was contract pipe stress engineer for Fluor Daniel from January, 2002 to May, 2002.
    I believed I performed my job very well, but I got laid off anyway. In July, this high tech. machine started to approach me at night and day. I could not fall asleep for the first week, because it attacked my brain or my ears all the time. I could hear different voices, but most important of all, I heard the names, Hank(Henry) Rumbarger and M. W. Kellogg. Henry Rumbarger was my supervisor while I was working as a permanent pipe stress engineer from 1989 to 1991 at M.W.Kellogg. After the first week of attacks, I slept better, but the attacks on my brain, ears, eyes, heart, stomach, and liver continued. In a few days, the a

  2. FUCK SLASHDOT, FUCK ISRAEL, FUCK YOU AMERICUNTS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. Sad, sad, sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sad is the day when Slashdot is behind news.com on a technology story.

  4. MOD PARENT UP +1 TRUE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i miss laughing at JonKatz. fortuanetly michael is picking up the slack nicely.

  5. MOD PARENT UP, MOD GP UP, MOD STORY DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    michael is gay.

  6. remember shiny side out by cyrax777 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When making your tinfoil hat remember its shiny side out.

  7. Re:GNAA etc by Saltation · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    more goats

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  8. PLAGARIST!! MOD PARENT DOWN by scumbucketisaplagiar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This comment is a direct copy of this comment.
    scumbucket has a history of doing this.