off: here's a small news flash for MS Products Users

[andy baxter]

thomas fisher wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008 10:51:24 andy baxter wrote:
>   
>> Richard wrote:
>>     
>>> Well, for those of you whom use Microsoft Products... at work.<sick>
>>>
>>> this might change you mind....(to push linux even more)
>>> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.
>>> ece
>>>       
>> The paper was talking about this just as a human rights issue, but this
>> isn't the whole point to me. Yes it's intrusive on a personal level, but
>> it also points, I would have thought, to broader problems in our
>> society, and with the technological imagination of companies like
>> microsoft. The only kind of company who would want to use this, I would
>> have thought, is one where trust between management and workers is
>> non-existent, and the management want to squeeze every last bit of
>> productivity out of people who probably shouldn't be so stressed in the
>> first place. Which is more of a social/political issue than a
>> technological one. What does it say about MS and the companies who might
>> be attracted to this kind of 'solution' that they see the research
>> leading to this as a useful contribution to the world's knowledge?
>> (Answers in words of more than 4 letters...)
>>     
>
>    With the degree that fascism has been adapted into the mainstream 
> of "modern" behavior this becomes a new key to really control everyone by a 
> select few. I suspect such technology already is deployed under the auspices 
> of " national security" with non but a few being privy to it.
> "They" become "god!"
>   Work place control. Voting machines. Airport security. Job interviews. 
> School administration. National borders. Police interrogations. Prison 
> administration. Probably in due time traffic intersection scans, and of 
> course by that time license plates will contain chips. Orwell was right on 
> target. Erich Fromm's book titled "Escape from Freedom" is a very 
> enlightening read.
> Onward into hell
> Tom
>
>   
I'm not that pessimistic. I reckon there's a limit to how much a few 
people can control the behaviour of everyone else before the systems of 
control and manipulation collapse under their own weight.