Comments on: Next Step–Tracking Brain Chips http://novatownhall.com/2012/05/12/next-step-tracking-brain-chips/ Where you are held accountable for your convictions and record Sun, 19 May 2013 04:05:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Wolverine http://novatownhall.com/2012/05/12/next-step-tracking-brain-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-61623 Wolverine Thu, 17 May 2012 02:49:53 +0000 http://novatownhall.com/?p=8851#comment-61623 Actually, Reb, that drone capability for reading texts isn't really needed. All you have to do is join Face Book or Twitter and the suckers will tell you everything you could ever want, not excluding the size of their undies, the last time they ovulated, and whether or not sonny boy may be a closet homosexual. Reminds me of the "intelligence service" for old Marse Robert. They got all the Union military secrets they needed by reading the Yankee papers, obligingly passed over by the Yankee pickets. Actually, Reb, that drone capability for reading texts isn’t really needed. All you have to do is join Face Book or Twitter and the suckers will tell you everything you could ever want, not excluding the size of their undies, the last time they ovulated, and whether or not sonny boy may be a closet homosexual. Reminds me of the “intelligence service” for old Marse Robert. They got all the Union military secrets they needed by reading the Yankee papers, obligingly passed over by the Yankee pickets.

]]> By: ACTivist http://novatownhall.com/2012/05/12/next-step-tracking-brain-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-61544 ACTivist Tue, 15 May 2012 17:14:13 +0000 http://novatownhall.com/?p=8851#comment-61544 Being the drone man that you are, it appears that the military can now fly drone surveilance in the US with no oversight but by the Pentagon. Talk about invasion of privay! You are being watched and we must stop this before it gets off the ground. Being the drone man that you are, it appears that the military can now fly drone surveilance in the US with no oversight but by the Pentagon. Talk about invasion of privay! You are being watched and we must stop this before it gets off the ground.

]]> By: Wolverine http://novatownhall.com/2012/05/12/next-step-tracking-brain-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-61529 Wolverine Tue, 15 May 2012 09:07:53 +0000 http://novatownhall.com/?p=8851#comment-61529 Holy Cow!! Now they are proposing street lights with talking surveillance cameras. Accidentally drop a gum wrapper on the street, and the camera will tell you to pick it up or get your ass out of there. Next thing you know, we'll get robots which can perp walk you in cuffs to the nearest police station. Save a lot of money on police salaries and benefits. And I hear those drones are getting so good that they may be able to read the text right off your IPod. Makes the old days in East Berlin seem kind of benign. Holy Cow!! Now they are proposing street lights with talking surveillance cameras. Accidentally drop a gum wrapper on the street, and the camera will tell you to pick it up or get your ass out of there. Next thing you know, we’ll get robots which can perp walk you in cuffs to the nearest police station. Save a lot of money on police salaries and benefits. And I hear those drones are getting so good that they may be able to read the text right off your IPod. Makes the old days in East Berlin seem kind of benign.

]]> By: Wolverine http://novatownhall.com/2012/05/12/next-step-tracking-brain-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-61453 Wolverine Sun, 13 May 2012 23:05:11 +0000 http://novatownhall.com/?p=8851#comment-61453 And then there is that little black box (Event Data Recorder) installed in many of our vehicles under the aegis of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), ostensibly to collect better data on vehicle speed and safety at the time of an accident. If you don't have one now, you soon will. They are becoming mandatory. By law you cannot remove or disable them. One of my vehicles is an older model. I never even realized that it had one of those hidden boxes until just recently. Made me pause. A long time ago, I was trained to use the technology available at the time to track moving vehicles. Often a game of chance then. But this little sucker...I can see all sorts of possibilities for improvement from a much more sinister aspect than just the NTSB goals of vehicle speed and safety. Ha! Remember the guy in "1984" who had to find a little nook in his apartment to get out of sight of his "official" two-way televison screen? And then there is that little black box (Event Data Recorder) installed in many of our vehicles under the aegis of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), ostensibly to collect better data on vehicle speed and safety at the time of an accident. If you don’t have one now, you soon will. They are becoming mandatory. By law you cannot remove or disable them.

One of my vehicles is an older model. I never even realized that it had one of those hidden boxes until just recently. Made me pause. A long time ago, I was trained to use the technology available at the time to track moving vehicles. Often a game of chance then. But this little sucker…I can see all sorts of possibilities for improvement from a much more sinister aspect than just the NTSB goals of vehicle speed and safety. Ha! Remember the guy in “1984″ who had to find a little nook in his apartment to get out of sight of his “official” two-way televison screen?

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