I just got this great mental image of a stockyard.
Apparently the late Senator Stevens was wrong - the Internet isn't a series of tubes, it's a series of cattle pens, herding things off to their ultimate destination, the virtual slaughterhouse.
Yeah, but unless they were the first to do this, they're not innovating, they're duplicating. The REAL innovators in this arena need to wake up and sue these folks.
Of course not. The hard part is getting them to make use of the information you're showing them. (That, and getting them to actually understand the information, I suppose.)
Even if the appeal ultimately fails, does anyone really think the NSA will stop collecting metadata just because some measly little court said to stop? To paraphrase Ernestine, "We don't care; we don't have to. We're the NSA."
I'm using Ghostery in Firefox; it is reporting 16 blockable things (a mix of advertising, analytics, beacons, and widgets). I experimented a bit with blocking everything; the only one I'm not currently blocking is Gravatar (so I can see all the cute icons people have chosen :-). Even with all things Google blocked, I'm able to read reported comments.
The "7,000 people giving birth" quote appears in an article at Bloomberg BNA dated October 29, at www.bna.com/rader-regrets-cls-n17179879684/. That article, in turn, seems to point to something called "Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily(tm)", which appears to be a for-pay e-service of Bloomberg BNA.
It's harder for people to tell the truth the first time around because it may be immediately embarrassing. With a lie, they won't be embarrassed until later (assuming someone figures out that it was a lie). Short-term vs. long-term thinking.
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Apparently the late Senator Stevens was wrong - the Internet isn't a series of tubes, it's a series of cattle pens, herding things off to their ultimate destination, the virtual slaughterhouse.
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It could be worse
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"unintended" consequences
What makes you think the consequences are unintended? Think of the power that such a law would give to all "right-thinking" folks.
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As if it matters
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And I've got a bridge in NYC that I can sell you real cheap....
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