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I'm not saying that it doesn't, just for w...

2010-02-22T02:45:01.011-06:00

I'm not saying that it doesn't, just for work purposes and safety I love it and have fully given over to big brother :) 95% of my job is traveling, I sleep in a hotel room more often each year than I do my own bed. I can see how it could be scary, but due to necessity I have become desensitized.

Jessica - The tracking stuff is a double-edged swo...

2010-02-21T08:49:57.766-06:00

Jessica - The tracking stuff is a double-edged sword. It is great to find lost people but it does have a bit of Orwellian we-must-know-where-everyone-is-at-all-times feel to it.

Big deep breaths. :) My company can pretty much ...

2010-02-21T03:29:50.215-06:00

Big deep breaths. :) My company can pretty much track me down to the minute via my credit card activity and phone use, just about any cell phone user can be tracked to their location as well. Since I every now and then have customers ask me lovely questions like "How long would it take someone to notice if you go missing?"...I kinda like that feature.
There are other things that creep me out a bit more, like Police baiting. Did you know that the cops in Chicago actually bait poor people into crimes? They will arrange for a loaded Escalade to somehow end up in the poorest areas unlocked, and then they just sit around and wait for someone to try to steal it. Once someone does they use OnStar type tech to disable the car and lock the person into the vehicle.
If this post is disjointed very sorry, it's 3:30 and I'm sleepy but somehow not sleeping :)

If they read my mind, they'd know I'd be t...

2010-02-20T20:32:19.353-06:00

If they read my mind, they'd know I'd be thinking of the wrong number!

Nicole - That is a scary thought. I have to wonde...

2010-02-20T19:52:12.096-06:00

Nicole - That is a scary thought. I have to wonder if we've already been implanted....

Michelle - I agree. My thoughts from time to time are certainly far from pure.

Stacy - I will have to read that book! Feed my paranoia.

Stephanie - That is terrifying! And at a school just makes it worse for some reason.

Very unnerving, isn't it? I was just reading a...

2010-02-20T19:21:35.425-06:00

Very unnerving, isn't it? I was just reading an article about a high school that issued a laptop to each of its students with a web cam installed so they could keep tabs on the user. They claimed, reasonably, that they needed this to prevent theft. But they actually *used* it to invade someone's privacy when the student was at home.

I'm with you! I read The Broken Window by Dea...

2010-02-20T15:06:01.548-06:00

I'm with you! I read The Broken Window by Deaver last year and learned lots of creepy things that are taking place just through what we buy and our use of anything but cash. And this whole brain scan thing is crazy. Since when is 70% accuracy good enough to start pidgeon-holing people Crazy.

This stuff is creepy, isn't it? The idea of b...

2010-02-20T13:44:45.613-06:00

This stuff is creepy, isn't it? The idea of being judged based on our thoughts is the worst though. If they are truly going to go all Minority Report on us, then they better build bigger jails because almost every human would be arrested based on their thoughts.

It does make one fantasize about living off the gr...

2010-02-20T10:31:18.898-06:00

It does make one fantasize about living off the grid. I always figure that once stuff like this becomes public knowledge,it's already been going on for years anyway.