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Posted on 12/08/2003 9:45:47 AM PST by Tribune7
It is understandably difficult for Americans to worry much about the future. We are the wealthiest, most powerful society in human history, and as many astoundingly silly expert predictions have proven, it is notoriously difficult to imagine the future as being anything but a linear projection of the status quo.
But an ominous new technology is appearing like a small cloud on the horizon. It is being embraced by a consortium of the world's largest technology companies and it threatens to completely overturn the computing world as we know it.
Twenty years ago, Microsoft was an integral part of the personal computer revolution, and fulfilled Bill Gates' daring dream of a personal computer on every desktop. But now, Microsoft has gone to the dark side and embraced an evil vision. Instead of liberating individual creativity through the personal computer, Microsoft hopes to use a Trusted Computer to chain the individual into the digital bondage of consumer serfdom.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
At any rate...
It is understandably difficult for Americans to worry much about the future.
Funny; I thought the whole reason for the recession was that Americans were worried about the future. Now, if he'd said it's understandably difficult for Americans to worry about the future of personal computing, I'd have to agree.
The Totalitarian Control Group is a consortium, led by Microsoft, intended to force all computer users into a new computing paradigm. This new paradigm, based on the Non-Governmental Social Control Box or NGSCB, will be the new PC standard, according to Bill Gates, and "will allow computers to be used in ways they currently aren't secure enough to be used for."
Hmm, I think I get it. This is a joke, right?
So you click on the site and give them a hit. If you do it for the Post & LA Times, you may as well do it for the good guys.
Sure, that's fine, as long as the link to the original article never goes bad. That's always been the reason for posting entire articles.
Or to put it in words that hit closer to home, gentlemen, Trusted Computing spells an end to anonymous porn. Among other things.
Uh oh. This just got series.
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