But the firemen don't need to burn paper books, they just need to wipe your kindle (of 1984, if I recall (in great irony)), close down the websites and prevent your iPad from accessing anything outside the walled garden.
How long before Publishers and the RIAA are hunting down camps of vagrants, people who recite to others "I am The Grapes of Wrath" or "I am The Beatles" ?
We are headed for some dark times. They didn't have to burn our books. Instead, they gave us electronic toys, and we burned the books for them.... And they control the electronic toys. So now we are screwed.
I agree with the other poster who replied to this. There are no decent women. If they are good looking, they are crazy. If they are fugly, then there's a chance they have a brain, but by the time you find out, you're really not interested. It's a no win situation and what I've discovered after 20 years of dating, is that I'm happier by myself.
Frankly, the sex isn't worth the effort to acquire it. If everything was that much work, nothing in the world would ever get done. Much, much simpler and more effective to pay for services when you're horny, get it over with, and then get back to what you're doing (i.e. work or hobby). If your hobby *is* women, then fine, maybe you're one of those people that prefer the agony.
Now, don't think of me as misogynist, I get along fine with my female co-workers, and I'm very much the gentleman. I've simply made the decision that I'm not going through the "pursuit" process anymore, because the goal isn't worth the effort.
Yeah, this won't be abused by greedy bastards. It's DMCA all over again, but now for electricity. Coming next, Sony demos batteries that charge you by the volt. Want to use your cell phone to make a call? There's a bill for that!
The movie takes place in Britain, which is a bit more level-headed than the USA...
Here in America, the police would just mow down the crowd with machine-gun fire and call it a day. Sure, there would be some news reports about police brutality, and some videos would show up on Youtube, but that would be about it.
In this Post-9/11 world, we need to take great pains that individual citizens not have access to corporate data. That's hacking.
And Hacking is Terrorism.
By looking at corporate data, you have violated that companies laws of privacy, which they are entitled to, since they pay off congressmen. You however, as a citizen are not entitled to privacy, and to prove it the government is flying a drone over your house RIGHT NOW, spying on you looking at the data on the hard-drive.
Please sit down and wait for the authorities to arrive. If you are co-operative, they may only pepper spray you, although some are tasered for good measure.
After a few years in Guantanamo you may be released back into the general public, but that's only after you've been properly waterboarded to reveal the names and addresses of any other hackers you know.
Or if I were you... I'd throw that drive in the fire, pack my bags and head to Mexico RIGHT NOW.
And then the government blames the crash on radio interference, and then demands that, in the interest of protecting children, we give up all our electronic equipment that might cause RF interference.
In the meantime, in pirate-land... "Hey, wanna crash a drone? There's an app for that!"
Dick Cheney, while trying to shoot down a drone over his house, shoots some guy he knows in the face.
The most dangerous man in Silicon Valley sits alone at a cafe...
Or something like that is how the chapter about Steve Jobs started. At the time the book was written, Steve was still running NeXT and was bitter about being kicked out of Apple.
I have to wonder how that chapter is going to be updated, now that Steve is universally hailed as a genius. A lot has happened since the book was written. Pixar, iMac, iPhone yadda yadda.
And with Steve's biography on the shelves and Accidental Empires... well, not, I also have to wonder if this is the author's way of staying relevant, considering that when the book was written the entire concept of mobile computing had yet to be realized.
Carriers are crying all the way to the bank. Anyone selling the iphone has seen their sales jump as people ditch their carriers in a mad scramble to get the hottest phone on the market.
A story came out last week detailing that Apple is now one of the biggest phone makers on the planet. This is from a company who's primary market was computers. Clearly, they are doing something right if everyone wants what they are selling.
If the carriers don't like the iPhone, stop selling it, and watch all your business dry up. That's how the free market works, capitalist pigs.
And I'm realizing that if any of my local friends knew anyone who was single, they would have set me up with them by now, as my dating "history" is well-known and fully documented.
That only works when you're in similar geographic locations. If I'm in New Jersey and my friend's friend on facebook is in Minnesota, that's not really going to work out so well.
Or am I the only person in the world using facebook to keep in touch with friends I don't get to meet with every weekend anyhow?
Maybe I'm just not terribly smart... but how the heck did you date via facebook? I see dating sites ADs on facebook, but don't see any way to view other people's dating profiles on facebook itself (and how do you initiate contact -- since if they aren't a "friend"?)....
Needless to say, you're either better looking than you are giving yourself credit for, or there's something else going on there as you are having much better luck than I am. I've spent the last decade online dating, and have had exactly one serious relationship in that time (and by serious, I mean I wasn't directly paying her to sleep with me) -- and that was a Singles Cruise meet-up. Never met anyone online at all that was ever willing to have sex.
With few exceptions, everyone I know has something about that them distinguishes themselves. If you can't name it, then maybe you don't know yourself as well as you should.
Maybe it's a hobby, maybe it's your compassion, maybe it's your love of a particular bad song from the 70's, maybe it's just the way you hold your fork while eating, but each individual is just that, and recognizing that and making that your own is what places you as the center of your own universe.
You need to define what makes you, you. Otherwise you're a social security number and that's it. And if you still haven't found out who you are by now, then maybe you're not ready for dating of any sort.
And if you're really early to the brothel, you're the most popular guy in the room.Because you're the only guy in the room with 30 hot woman who want your $50....
If you're from some other wierdo religion, you are scored down. EHarmony's dirty little secret is that their "29" personality traits that they score you on is really all about if you're the right religion.
Notice of course that they never tell you exactly how their matching algorithm works.
The 5 worst dates I ever went on were through eHarmony. They weren't just a complete waste on time and money, they were one of the reasons I gave up entirely.
I mean, OK you met your wife... Goody for you, you're one of the lucky ones, maybe you're white, christian and from the midwest. I don't know.
But, it seems to me that their matching ability isn't really all it's cracked up to be, because my experience wasn't just bad, it was beyond bad.
#1) Women don't actually want to go out with you. What they want is a male "pen-pal". They want you to write long emails to them which they can read in Starbucks while sipping their lattes.
#2) Avoid any woman who's profile claims she isn't seeking anyone who plays games or has baggage. Because she's the one who's playing games and has baggage.
#3) Yes, yes, yes, we all love wine, good food, long walks on the beach. Tell me what's unique about you, not what makes you the same as everyone else!
#3) After more than a decade of online dating, I've decided I'm happier by myself anyhow. When I crave "companionship", there are services for that.
Your mistaken assumption is that they are supposed to report the news. That is not their primary function. It is to get ratings, sell newspapers, magazines, or get people to click on ads at their website.
To this end, they would rather run stories about Snookie or Kim Kardsahian.
YOU are not relevant. Unless of course, you're willing to appear in a bikini, have a reality show or sex tape, and boobies. In that case, you matter. Otherwise, get lost.
The American public couldn't care less about censorship. Their rights have already vanished in a puff of smoke and mirrors. They are oppressed under paranoid government, but as long as they have a StupidBowl, America is Number One.
And Please.... Censorship in Arizona?? This is a state that refuses to recognize daylight savings time, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's holiday, and issues a gun license to a known psychopath. Censorship doesn't even rate very high in their list of crimes as a state.
As the United States tries to get their out-of-control spending more in-line with the rest of the world, what seems to be first on the chopping block? Basic research and science. Meanwhile, the government is doing everything is can to limit the freedoms of citizens and making it more difficult to enter or leave the country.
It looks as though America is on a fast-track to going from superpower to third-world nation. Oh yeah, it'll still be the bully of the globe militarily, but that will be at the cost of the entire middle class, and frankly, that enormous military will be turned against it's own citizens when the riots start.
With religious zealots running the show, it won't be long before we're talking about how great it was when the USA had electricity, and the Middle Class enjoyed a lifestyle that was the envy of the world. You guys are turning into Romania, but with nuclear weapons.
Hey, don't hide your Credit Card Number.... That's terrorism!
I like how banks are now telling us on one hand to cover the PIN pad at ATMs while entering your PIN so it can't be picked up by webcams, and the government meanwhile is telling us that any movement to conceal what we're doing is terrorism.
So, if I'm trying to protect my privacy on the internet, I may be a terrorist, but if I'm carrying a fully-loaded assault rifle on the streets, I'm just a red-blooded American patriot asserting my rights.
Sort of like, if I blow up a school or army base, I'm a terrorist, but if I blow up an abortion clinic, I'm passionate about saving God's children.
Or my particular favorite: If a brown-skinned individual dares to open a Mosque within 100 miles of ground zero, it's debated hotly on the airwaves, and politicians even try to block it, but if Neo-Nazis or the KKK decide to march through a Jewish or black neighborhood, that's their first amendment rights, and not even questioned.
We're talking about millions or possibly billions of dollars for all this equipment crap, the logistics, the overtime pay for the local cops, the extra Feds, yadda yadda...
And where is all this money coming from? You can bet your sweet ass the NFL isn't spending a dime of its own money for all this. The NFL is like the roach motel of money: dollars go in, but they don't come out.
So, in Eric Cantor speak, how much medicare and social security is being cut to pay for all this, since the government isn't allowed to spend a fucking penny (remember how we lost our AAA credit rating?) without serious cuts elsewhere to pay for it.
Or is that only the case for programs the democrats want, and football is another matter entirely? I'm amazed that politicians will mouth off for hours on the floor of Congress about some minor bill for a park and how that's going to bankrupt the USA, but they feel they've got the money to burn for this crap?
You've gotta be kidding me. Excuse me, but this USA is bankrupt, fools! There are no jobs. The middle class is falling into poverty. Didn't you hear the Republican State of the Union response? How do we have the cash for this nonsense?
Sorry kid, Granny can't get dialysis because we hadda' gamma ray through six inches of steel to find nothing. Because we're frigging terrified of a bogeyman, a bodgeyman who we need to spend 15 billion to defend ourselves against a guy with a $12 rifle.
Look at our history since 9/11. It's appalling: Billions spent. Trillions spent. And yet, we can't defend against simple roadside bombs made from leftover munitions and a cell-phone. The bad guys spend $5 and we spend 50 Billion to defend against the $5 -- those numbers are NOT sustainable. It's insanity.
If I recall, Google was almost $100 a share when it IPO'ed and I thought that was way too much. So I did not buy, because I couldn't figure out how they were going to sustain that.
Well, I was quite wrong because Google went up to $200 then $300, then $400 and has been at something around $500 a share for the last 6 or 7 years. Crazy.
So, I don't know what to think about Facecrook. On one hand, I find the company utterly despicable. On the other hand, companies that are utterly despicable tend to go up in value -- a lot.
They are going to be the top dog in social media for at least the next 5 years, which is enough time to buy some shares, watch them go up in value, and then sell in about 3 or 4 years with no regrets if it goes up further.
I call shenanigans. The story has all the hallmarks of being manufactured.
#1) It's from Fox News, a known organization that will lie, lie, lie, violate the law, lie some more, and then lie to cover up the law violations. Oh, and they lie.
#2) "According to sources in the hacker community" == something I heard on Reddit. A rumor.
#3) You don't have to physically move machines to a new host -- There's this thing called FTP I'm sure the author knows nothing about.
#4) Wikileaks is already redundant across the globe. What would be the point of putting machines on Sealand? This is also something the author doesn't understand.
#5) Sealand, if they were to be the sole host, like the author implies, doesn't have the bandwidth to serve Wikileaks.
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And that's up 21% from yesterday's close. This looks like a pump and dump so they can afford lunch.
Bradbury was right on target.
But the firemen don't need to burn paper books, they just need to wipe your kindle (of 1984, if I recall (in great irony)), close down the websites and prevent your iPad from accessing anything outside the walled garden.
How long before Publishers and the RIAA are hunting down camps of vagrants, people who recite to others "I am The Grapes of Wrath" or "I am The Beatles" ?
We are headed for some dark times. They didn't have to burn our books. Instead, they gave us electronic toys, and we burned the books for them.... And they control the electronic toys. So now we are screwed.
Is this not the greatest bit of dialog in the history of cinema?
I agree with the other poster who replied to this. There are no decent women. If they are good looking, they are crazy. If they are fugly, then there's a chance they have a brain, but by the time you find out, you're really not interested. It's a no win situation and what I've discovered after 20 years of dating, is that I'm happier by myself.
Frankly, the sex isn't worth the effort to acquire it. If everything was that much work, nothing in the world would ever get done. Much, much simpler and more effective to pay for services when you're horny, get it over with, and then get back to what you're doing (i.e. work or hobby). If your hobby *is* women, then fine, maybe you're one of those people that prefer the agony.
Now, don't think of me as misogynist, I get along fine with my female co-workers, and I'm very much the gentleman. I've simply made the decision that I'm not going through the "pursuit" process anymore, because the goal isn't worth the effort.
Or your TV won't turn on!
Yeah, this won't be abused by greedy bastards. It's DMCA all over again, but now for electricity. Coming next, Sony demos batteries that charge you by the volt. Want to use your cell phone to make a call? There's a bill for that!
They are gonna "charge" for your "charge"...
The movie takes place in Britain, which is a bit more level-headed than the USA...
Here in America, the police would just mow down the crowd with machine-gun fire and call it a day. Sure, there would be some news reports about police brutality, and some videos would show up on Youtube, but that would be about it.
In this Post-9/11 world, we need to take great pains that individual citizens not have access to corporate data. That's hacking.
And Hacking is Terrorism.
By looking at corporate data, you have violated that companies laws of privacy, which they are entitled to, since they pay off congressmen. You however, as a citizen are not entitled to privacy, and to prove it the government is flying a drone over your house RIGHT NOW, spying on you looking at the data on the hard-drive.
Please sit down and wait for the authorities to arrive. If you are co-operative, they may only pepper spray you, although some are tasered for good measure.
After a few years in Guantanamo you may be released back into the general public, but that's only after you've been properly waterboarded to reveal the names and addresses of any other hackers you know.
Or if I were you... I'd throw that drive in the fire, pack my bags and head to Mexico RIGHT NOW.
And then the government blames the crash on radio interference, and then demands that, in the interest of protecting children, we give up all our electronic equipment that might cause RF interference.
In the meantime, in pirate-land...
"Hey, wanna crash a drone? There's an app for that!"
Dick Cheney, while trying to shoot down a drone over his house, shoots some guy he knows in the face.
The most dangerous man in Silicon Valley sits alone at a cafe...
Or something like that is how the chapter about Steve Jobs started. At the time the book was written, Steve was still running NeXT and was bitter about being kicked out of Apple.
I have to wonder how that chapter is going to be updated, now that Steve is universally hailed as a genius. A lot has happened since the book was written. Pixar, iMac, iPhone yadda yadda.
And with Steve's biography on the shelves and Accidental Empires... well, not, I also have to wonder if this is the author's way of staying relevant, considering that when the book was written the entire concept of mobile computing had yet to be realized.
Carriers are crying all the way to the bank. Anyone selling the iphone has seen their sales jump as people ditch their carriers in a mad scramble to get the hottest phone on the market.
A story came out last week detailing that Apple is now one of the biggest phone makers on the planet. This is from a company who's primary market was computers. Clearly, they are doing something right if everyone wants what they are selling.
If the carriers don't like the iPhone, stop selling it, and watch all your business dry up. That's how the free market works, capitalist pigs.
And I'm realizing that if any of my local friends knew anyone who was single, they would have set me up with them by now, as my dating "history" is well-known and fully documented.
That only works when you're in similar geographic locations. If I'm in New Jersey and my friend's friend on facebook is in Minnesota, that's not really going to work out so well.
Or am I the only person in the world using facebook to keep in touch with friends I don't get to meet with every weekend anyhow?
Maybe I'm just not terribly smart... but how the heck did you date via facebook? I see dating sites ADs on facebook, but don't see any way to view other people's dating profiles on facebook itself (and how do you initiate contact -- since if they aren't a "friend"?)....
Needless to say, you're either better looking than you are giving yourself credit for, or there's something else going on there as you are having much better luck than I am. I've spent the last decade online dating, and have had exactly one serious relationship in that time (and by serious, I mean I wasn't directly paying her to sleep with me) -- and that was a Singles Cruise meet-up. Never met anyone online at all that was ever willing to have sex.
And I'm 6'1" 190lbs -- I'm not fat nor hideous.
With few exceptions, everyone I know has something about that them distinguishes themselves. If you can't name it, then maybe you don't know yourself as well as you should.
Maybe it's a hobby, maybe it's your compassion, maybe it's your love of a particular bad song from the 70's, maybe it's just the way you hold your fork while eating, but each individual is just that, and recognizing that and making that your own is what places you as the center of your own universe.
You need to define what makes you, you. Otherwise you're a social security number and that's it. And if you still haven't found out who you are by now, then maybe you're not ready for dating of any sort.
I know who am I am. Do you?
And if you're really early to the brothel, you're the most popular guy in the room.Because you're the only guy in the room with 30 hot woman who want your $50....
If you're from some other wierdo religion, you are scored down. EHarmony's dirty little secret is that their "29" personality traits that they score you on is really all about if you're the right religion.
Notice of course that they never tell you exactly how their matching algorithm works.
The 5 worst dates I ever went on were through eHarmony. They weren't just a complete waste on time and money, they were one of the reasons I gave up entirely.
I mean, OK you met your wife... Goody for you, you're one of the lucky ones, maybe you're white, christian and from the midwest. I don't know.
But, it seems to me that their matching ability isn't really all it's cracked up to be, because my experience wasn't just bad, it was beyond bad.
#1) Women don't actually want to go out with you. What they want is a male "pen-pal". They want you to write long emails to them which they can read in Starbucks while sipping their lattes.
#2) Avoid any woman who's profile claims she isn't seeking anyone who plays games or has baggage. Because she's the one who's playing games and has baggage.
#3) Yes, yes, yes, we all love wine, good food, long walks on the beach. Tell me what's unique about you, not what makes you the same as everyone else!
#3) After more than a decade of online dating, I've decided I'm happier by myself anyhow. When I crave "companionship", there are services for that.
Your mistaken assumption is that they are supposed to report the news. That is not their primary function. It is to get ratings, sell newspapers, magazines, or get people to click on ads at their website.
To this end, they would rather run stories about Snookie or Kim Kardsahian.
YOU are not relevant. Unless of course, you're willing to appear in a bikini, have a reality show or sex tape, and boobies. In that case, you matter. Otherwise, get lost.
The American public couldn't care less about censorship. Their rights have already vanished in a puff of smoke and mirrors. They are oppressed under paranoid government, but as long as they have a StupidBowl, America is Number One.
And Please.... Censorship in Arizona?? This is a state that refuses to recognize daylight savings time, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's holiday, and issues a gun license to a known psychopath. Censorship doesn't even rate very high in their list of crimes as a state.
As the United States tries to get their out-of-control spending more in-line with the rest of the world, what seems to be first on the chopping block? Basic research and science. Meanwhile, the government is doing everything is can to limit the freedoms of citizens and making it more difficult to enter or leave the country.
It looks as though America is on a fast-track to going from superpower to third-world nation. Oh yeah, it'll still be the bully of the globe militarily, but that will be at the cost of the entire middle class, and frankly, that enormous military will be turned against it's own citizens when the riots start.
With religious zealots running the show, it won't be long before we're talking about how great it was when the USA had electricity, and the Middle Class enjoyed a lifestyle that was the envy of the world. You guys are turning into Romania, but with nuclear weapons.
I fear for our planet.
Hey, don't hide your Credit Card Number.... That's terrorism!
I like how banks are now telling us on one hand to cover the PIN pad at ATMs while entering your PIN so it can't be picked up by webcams, and the government meanwhile is telling us that any movement to conceal what we're doing is terrorism.
Dudes, get your message straight.
So, if I'm trying to protect my privacy on the internet, I may be a terrorist, but if I'm carrying a fully-loaded assault rifle on the streets, I'm just a red-blooded American patriot asserting my rights.
Sort of like, if I blow up a school or army base, I'm a terrorist, but if I blow up an abortion clinic, I'm passionate about saving God's children.
Or my particular favorite: If a brown-skinned individual dares to open a Mosque within 100 miles of ground zero, it's debated hotly on the airwaves, and politicians even try to block it, but if Neo-Nazis or the KKK decide to march through a Jewish or black neighborhood, that's their first amendment rights, and not even questioned.
We're talking about millions or possibly billions of dollars for all this equipment crap, the logistics, the overtime pay for the local cops, the extra Feds, yadda yadda...
And where is all this money coming from? You can bet your sweet ass the NFL isn't spending a dime of its own money for all this. The NFL is like the roach motel of money: dollars go in, but they don't come out.
So, in Eric Cantor speak, how much medicare and social security is being cut to pay for all this, since the government isn't allowed to spend a fucking penny (remember how we lost our AAA credit rating?) without serious cuts elsewhere to pay for it.
Or is that only the case for programs the democrats want, and football is another matter entirely? I'm amazed that politicians will mouth off for hours on the floor of Congress about some minor bill for a park and how that's going to bankrupt the USA, but they feel they've got the money to burn for this crap?
You've gotta be kidding me. Excuse me, but this USA is bankrupt, fools! There are no jobs. The middle class is falling into poverty. Didn't you hear the Republican State of the Union response? How do we have the cash for this nonsense?
Sorry kid, Granny can't get dialysis because we hadda' gamma ray through six inches of steel to find nothing. Because we're frigging terrified of a bogeyman, a bodgeyman who we need to spend 15 billion to defend ourselves against a guy with a $12 rifle.
Look at our history since 9/11. It's appalling: Billions spent. Trillions spent. And yet, we can't defend against simple roadside bombs made from leftover munitions and a cell-phone. The bad guys spend $5 and we spend 50 Billion to defend against the $5 -- those numbers are NOT sustainable. It's insanity.
If I recall, Google was almost $100 a share when it IPO'ed and I thought that was way too much. So I did not buy, because I couldn't figure out how they were going to sustain that.
Well, I was quite wrong because Google went up to $200 then $300, then $400 and has been at something around $500 a share for the last 6 or 7 years. Crazy.
So, I don't know what to think about Facecrook. On one hand, I find the company utterly despicable. On the other hand, companies that are utterly despicable tend to go up in value -- a lot.
They are going to be the top dog in social media for at least the next 5 years, which is enough time to buy some shares, watch them go up in value, and then sell in about 3 or 4 years with no regrets if it goes up further.
I call shenanigans. The story has all the hallmarks of being manufactured.
#1) It's from Fox News, a known organization that will lie, lie, lie, violate the law, lie some more, and then lie to cover up the law violations. Oh, and they lie.
#2) "According to sources in the hacker community" == something I heard on Reddit. A rumor.
#3) You don't have to physically move machines to a new host -- There's this thing called FTP I'm sure the author knows nothing about.
#4) Wikileaks is already redundant across the globe. What would be the point of putting machines on Sealand? This is also something the author doesn't understand.
#5) Sealand, if they were to be the sole host, like the author implies, doesn't have the bandwidth to serve Wikileaks.
And remark, "Wow, I'd destroy that." -- you're to be arrested for terrorism????