Posted on 06/13/2007 5:08:53 AM PDT by libstripper
Household computers are under threat from a UK government scheme. But the programme, which involves trading in personal computers for low-tech access points and relying on network-based applications for everything from playing video games to doctoring holiday snaps, could help to save the planet in return.
The UK government has announced that it will be launching a pilot project for the scheme in Manchester in 2008. Details are still fuzzy, but the basic idea is to replace PCs in tens or hundreds of households with simple access points, perhaps in TV-top boxes, and establish a system of central servers to do all the hard work. The aim is to do away with redundant computing power by delivering processing power and storage as a commodity from a central source, the same way that electricity is distributed by a national grid.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Any PC grabbing scheme like this must be fought as tenaciously as any gun grabbing scheme. The purpose of both is the same, robbing us of our freedom.
“A little here, a little there.........”
Amen, libstripper. We need to resist such as this here in this country with ever fiber of our beings.
Great post!!
Big Brother!
Any power I have is not redundant, and cannot be replaced by power held in the hands of the government. The two are not only not interchangeable, but almost antithetical.
This is why we've got to lie down and die to resist the "global warming" scam. It's so breathtakingly broad in its potential regulatory scope that it will enable Marxists totally to impose their will on the most minuscule aspects of our lives because everything we do involves emission of CO2.
Replacing your and my computer power with computer power in the hands of the government is just like replacing our guns with guns in the government’s hands.
If you don’t agree with us...part of your brain must be redundant..we’re going to take it from you.....
Apparently, Britain has never heard of shared computing in the search for cures for Cancer, MS etc.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
cool post. great tagline.
Don’t think for a Second that they would BILL YOU for extra CPU clock cycles like they do for Bandwidth. I have 2 Intel Macs and they are STILL TOO SLOW... If I had to rely on Government tools.... Yee Gads !!
/ GOVERNMENT
BS. The aim is to have the Iron Fist of the State decide what the peons have access to. Can't have them thinking by themselves. If the Brits haven't learned from the BBC being a state monopoly and feeding out their leftist spew, they deserve what they get.
I was watching that james bond movie wit halle berry in it. the villian mentions global warming in the chase with bond. that is probably where gore got the whole idea...
Don’t the Brits have to pay a TV Tax that pays for the BBC? Perhaps with so many people receiving content on their PCs, they are not buying and watching TVs anymore. Good bye (and good riddance) to the BBC. I wonder if this is just an attempt to stop the inevitable.
... and the day after this happens, your monitor becomes the “telescreen.” Thanks for the warning, Eric Blair! Too bad nobody listened.
This is the community Bus syndrome. You can drive your car or take the bus.
You can own a PC or you can own a terminal.
Reminds me of the internet fantasy of the late 90’s where no individual/personal computer would ever need a hard drive. All programs and saved info would be just floating around the net, available only to you via magic (or credit card). The pitch was computers would then be less expensive because they’d have less hardware making them less prone to hacking, easier to control content and give socialist the warm fuzzy feeling of big brother.
Didn’t work then, won’t work now.
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