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1 posted on 11/30/2008 2:05:43 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

This guy didn’t see Ed TV I’ll bet.


2 posted on 11/30/2008 2:09:32 PM PST by DejaJude (Proud denizen of the fighting fringe.)
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To: neverdem

It says the group dynamic was more successful.

Did they accomplish the task?


3 posted on 11/30/2008 2:09:48 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your power dry, folks)
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To: neverdem

“But even its practitioners acknowledge that, if misused, collective intelligence tools could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of... “

How much you want to bet the RATs will be pushing these on people in a few years, leaving out the “trading freedom” part?


4 posted on 11/30/2008 2:10:13 PM PST by RWB Patriot ("Let 'em learn the hard way, 'cause teaching them is more trouble than they're worth,")
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To: neverdem
he liked this deal: in exchange for letting researchers track his every move, he receives a free smartphone.

Goes to show that book smarts and survival smarts are not the same thing.

5 posted on 11/30/2008 2:11:18 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: kozanne; KriegerGeist; marajade; Dr. Eckleburg

Thought you might like.


6 posted on 11/30/2008 2:17:50 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: neverdem

Some geeks will do anything for a free cell phone.


7 posted on 11/30/2008 2:20:45 PM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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To: neverdem

Hell, Just chip ‘em, tag ‘em to the money supply, disallow what you want and get it over with ...


10 posted on 11/30/2008 3:20:07 PM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: neverdem

As news, like economic indicators, are typically not real-time...and if you don’t think there are programs that track and relate and associate EVERYTHING you do right now, you are fooling yourself.

They can predict patterns of behavior by purchases, phone calls, digital TV channels watched, websites surfed, transportation used...GPS...tolls...anything with electronic interface, including cameras with face recognition (see Las Vegas, subways, etc.). Don’t forget the thousands of intersection cameras that record every license plate that cruises by...

I have a friend that datamines for a living and has 100 computers working day and night gathering data for his business (legal poker site analytics). He is a small guy...
If you think the FBI/CIA/NSA doesn’t already track this, you are in denial.


11 posted on 11/30/2008 3:33:51 PM PST by wac3rd (Conservatives are not always Republicans...and vice-versa.)
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To: neverdem

>> could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of ...

Ha, too late for dreams.


15 posted on 11/30/2008 3:54:20 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
Turn off an idle computer, or leave it running?

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FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

16 posted on 11/30/2008 4:23:17 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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