On 07/05/2014 09:59 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
I was watching a panel discussion on ubiquitous computing - the chip
in the toaster, etc., and the vast, interconnected networks that are
resulting from that. I have also been watching all the breakthroughs
in optical tech, self-driving cars, and autonomous robots. Current
civilian drones are now capable of tracking every human being and
vehicle, inside a five square mile box, even within a city. No doubt
the military can exceed that coverage.
What I've never understood is why people who are so unimportant that
they couldn't possibly be of interest to anyone, much less a
government, are so paranoid about people "snooping on them." Sure
sounds like an overdose of self-importance to me. :-)
Except that the Nasty Snooping Assholes seem to want to get the "goods"
on everybody to blackmail them. So if you download a movie they've "got
ya" for future reference. Even my brother-in-law, who usually doesn't
pay any attention to these things, asked me yesterday about cameras on
new TVs. I told him some "Smart TVs" had them so that folks could
Skype with the TV and along with the Netflix apps, etc, could add $200
for extra profit.
And these are not surreptitious because they are mentioned as a
feature. Anything to sell folks a new TV.
Big brother actually is here and wants to turn ordinary unimportant
citizens into "criminal masterminds." The best thing to do is poison
their database with useless information.
