There must be something the FDA injects in our food to keep us from losing our minds and staging mass riots across the country.

Where is Chuck Norris to fight against oppression and save us all from the evil dictatorship? (Sorry, Missing In Action is on tv)

I’m guessing micro-SD cards under a normal sized band-aid.

Reading things like this and the other posts related to the generally corrupt state of the US makes me feel pretty depressed. The Naomi piece only makes things worse. Other than bitching on a blog I wish I had answers. The only answer I have is the belief that somehow the truth will prevail.

I tell myself various things so I don’t lose it completely. Like: It’s always been this bad. We just have this new technology, the internet, that allows us to see the political sausage being made. And other other thought that, ok, now that a lot of people know how ugly this all is maybe there will be some real changes. It will take time and won’t happen overnight, just relax.

But that’s a hard stance to keep when you read the Naomi article.

It’s a little too bling (and too pricey) for my tastes, though.

I’ve personally been thinking of fitting a USB stick into a lipstick case precisely because I’m a paranoid nut and don’t feel comfortable carrying my data across the border. I haven’t had a chance to experiment with it yet. Maybe somebody on Instructables will come up with something.

Lets be realistic here, they’re just covering their ass with a concept like that. It’s the US government. It’s already been well established that any electronic data of a sensitive nature in their possession is just going to end up missing for a few months.

Why is it you guys aren’t storming Capitol Hill? Where are your pitchforks and torches?

Signed,
Canada

I fear the first A.I. has been created. It is at the meme stage only so far, but it can only grow since nothing seems to oppose it. It’s manipulators and tendrils are multiplying every day. One day,it will cross into the mainframe of daily life and you will never be free of it. Every single daily action will be scrutinized and any non-compulsory action will die aborning since there will be no point. You already limit your actions in what you risk, you are starting to limit or eliminate your travel. You are self-censoring and forgoing all kinds of formerly available choices since there is no point in arguing with power-mad, unaccountable idiots.
This new creature does not have to be self-aware to want to grow and survive. It won’t even notice eating you. Which is appropriate since the vast majority won’t even notice they are being consumed. How old today is a child born Sept 11th,2001?

None of which is to say that I disagree with the policy. I’d vote for people who would vote for it. But doing it this way is not kosher.

* Rumors only need some elements of truth.

Every day I feel even less like a citizen, and more like a prisoner.

“Oops, my bad. I thought I was going to the United States. I must have went the wrong way.”

“This is the United States.”

“It can’t be. Those sort of things aren’t allowed in the United States”

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that I have some MP3s (legally obtained, of course) on my hard drive. The Feds copy these MP3s and send them off to Langley to see if there’s a message steganographically embedded in them (along the lines of “Paul is dead”). Somebody just became a copyright violator.

I wonder how the US government would square this with their obvious enthusiasm for preventing copyright violation.

We thought management was crazy implementing this.

A few months later the news was full of stories on project ECHELON and improper transfer of Aerobus bid info to Boieng via the CIA and HQ started to look pretty smart.

If we don’t cut the crap we are going to loose out on a huge chunks of global business.