Re:Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream'
by raganwald on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @10:22AM
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Lightening up the tone, I wish we could figure out a way to use Stallman as a bad cop: "Mr. FCC chairman, I appreciate the arguments the Telcos have made to you on the Golf Course. But if you don't display a little flexibility on the subject of Net Neutrality, we're going to have Richard back in here eating his toenails during the hearings. And once he starts talking, it's impossible to get him to stop. Nobody wants that. So how about we do this..."
Re:Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream'
by erikpukinskis on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @12:35PM
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we're going to have Richard back in here eating his toenails
I find this incredibly disrespectful. I considered flagging it because I think it's on the order of insulting someone's spouse, but I don't think that's exactly what "flag" is for.
Re:Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream'
by raganwald on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @01:04PM
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If you consider it incredibly disrespectful, go ahead and flag it with my blessing. This is a community. Everyone has the right to express their feelings, and your feeling seems to be that this is an inappropriate comment.
I wonder if there is really a need to choose either convenience or privacy in the long run. Privacy-conscious technologies could be made easy to use. We're just not there yet, but it seems that lately security is being taken more seriously. When people realize how much of their lives they are giving away there might be a push for it...