User: BorgCopyeditor

Re:They missed Orwell's biggest point

On: MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong

The point of 1984 was not so much that there would be technology sufficient to implement totalitarianism (which as others have pointed out, we have today). The main thing was that "whoever controls the past controls the future".

I thought it was "the state shall conquer love," but then, I thought that was the point of Civilization and its Discontents, too.

Re:2008 headline - MIT Optimistic, Orwell Right

On: MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong

With the war on terrorism we don't have justification for increased monitoring?

You misspelled "pretext."

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Re:Pseudohashes?

On: Perl 5.8.0 Released

There's a comment about pseudohashes being depreciated

$depreciate = "decline in value";
$deprecate = "recommend against using";
if($deprecate != $depreciate) {print "Not the same word!\n";}

:)
BCE
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Re:Deep linking implications

On: Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal

There are technological ways around deep linking, of course. Checking the Referer header in an HTTP request is one option

True, so long as you don't mind locking out all user agents that can't or won't send a REFERER.

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