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Using Technology To Enforce Good Behavior

Posted by Soulskill on from the hey-it-works-for-dogs dept.

Ismellpoop writes "With the new year upon us and resolutions being made to change unwanted behavior, many tools are now available to help people stay in line, such as a GPS-enabled app that locks down texting once a car gets rolling and a program that cuts off credit-card spending. Another device monitors your workout and offers real-time voice feedback. Have we entered an era in which electronics serve as mother, cop and coach because we can't manage our own desires?"

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  1. Re:How is this any different than my alarm clock? by spun · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why not just fit everyone with a V-chip. If they have impure/illegal/un-patriotic/ thoughts they get a shock.

    AT least then we will all have the means to send Saddam back to hell if he ever escapes.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  2. Re:Employers using it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So now, apparently, he's overweight and prone to seizures.

  3. Re:Flamebait! by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Flamebait question. Computers? Being used to automate things? STOP THE PRESSES!

    We can't! They're automated too!

  4. Re:How is this any different than my alarm clock? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it my mother because it wakes me?

    Only if you dream of having sex with it

  5. Re:The blurb misses something in the proposition. by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    I refuse to let anyone tell me what to do, especially past-me. Who does that fucker think he was, making decisions for me? When he told our wife "I'll pick up groceries on the way home," did he have any idea how tired I would be after work? No, and he didn't care, because it's not him picking up the groceries, he is gone, he is only a shadow of the past, and I am the one who has to pick up the groceries. Well, fuck it. It's not like I'm hungry now. If future me gets hungry, he can get his own damn food. But knowing him, he'll blame me for not getting it for him now, the sanctimonious prick.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  6. Re:How is this any different than my alarm clock? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is this 'alarm clock' app you speak of? The iPhone doesn't appear to have such a thing.