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January 22, 2012 at 11:26 pm
The more I read about stuff like the more I’m glad I don’t read el Reg and Wired anymore. And I wrote for the former for years. I have about as much in common with people who’d actually buy such things … wait a minute, I have zero in common with them. However, once or twice a year I read about nerds who wear networked computing devices to track their every move, record everything they eat, how much they whatever so as to compile statistics to help them be smarter, evolve and maybe live forever. Or at least to 100. The easy way to avoid stealth phone home clothing in the future, of course, is to be in poverty. The powers that be aren’t interested in pattern-of-live habits of those on foodstamps or those in jobs that pay so little — like selling the high-end clothing at the mall — that they live three or four to a room.
January 23, 2012 at 9:34 am
I have never been able to deal with Wired or Slashdot. I like El Reg’s snark.
By the way, maybe you can enlighten me on this, which has puzzled me ever since I started using a proper OS: Why is it “Slashdot” and not “Dotslash”?
January 23, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Ya got me there.