[KoRn]

/mark

[Tainan]

"To continue reading, register here and become an Insider..."

...ans that registration would, no doubt, require an email address....hmmmm...


Just commenting on a seeming incongruous situation. I do and am "registered" at several websites.

Good points made in the article and I have seen/heard this well-founded argument made before.

[AlexW]

I have been in radio communications all of my life, starting as a ham in 1958, up to being in the two-way radio business
and even owning a 2 channel mobile phone company, pre cellular days.

I have to say that the internet and cellular phones are markers for the end of times.
While I love both, deep inside I am beginning to see the damage that both have started.

[campaignPete R-CT]

ping my tracking device

[gogogodzilla]

"I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone," says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. "It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop."

I suppose it's too much to ask for him to realize that if you turn the phone off and remove the battery... it can no longer function as a tracking/surveillance device. And if you want to use it, all you'll have to do is put the battery back in and power it up.

[R. Scott]

Anyone tracking me would be bored out of their skulls.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone,” says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. “It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop”

All the time?? Not when you turn it off.

[Tublecane]

“I’m not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I’m not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop.”

A) This is not “The Dark Knight”

B) If you’re that concerned, take out the freakin’ battery when you’re not using it

[Tublecane]

“Nearly three decades into his quest to rid the world of proprietary software”

Part of me wishes civilization could go on holiday and private property disappear, allowing these guys to realize what a drag their “creative commons” utopia would be.

[dfwgator]

“We all have cell phones, so come on, let’s get real. We all have cell phones, so come on, let’s get real. Cell phones... Let’s get real.” - Weird Al Yankovic