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China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages
maggeth writes "Early reports on the AP (via Yahoo) indicate that China will begin monitoring and censoring SMS communications in real time. China's 'great firewall' is infamous, but the move to censoring SMS has been slow due to technological roadblocks. Algorithms are used to identify key words and combinations of words that might be associated with 'political rumors and "reactionary remarks,"' and the system automatically notifies local police. Something to think about on your Fourth of July weekend!" Reader ackthpt adds links to coverage at the BBC and The Register, asking "What next, a massive government database system to track every message and contacts between people?"
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
Bob Dylan
(Mod this post up if you are against the current US actions in Iraq and other parts of the world)
Slashdot says too few characters per line. So I must add this to the message to make it acceptable. So I guess I will just have to keep typing until it lets me post this. No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding, ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. They train young men to drop fire on people but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplane because its obsene. If you wake up at a different time and in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. Man I am running out of quotes to put here and it still says too few charecters per line. No man should go though life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning, for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind. There's no need for solitude. So love life for what it is, and form no preconceptions whatever in your mind. Going back & forth I cross the Canada border, unguarded, guilty, smuggling 10,000 thoughts. a world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a resident
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
I've heard a rumour that someone was recently commited to a psychiatric ward for criticising bush; but haven't been able to verify it online.
If so, we're already there.
flamebait?? suck dick flamebait you bitch, who the fuck modded me down??
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