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Comments on ParanoidLinux Escaping From Doctorow Book 'Little Brother'
Interesting idea from Doctorow's novel may be seen in the wild sometime this year. (Read
the complete story)
"As it happens, he actually talks about this in the introduction to the book: "This book is meant to be something you do, not just something you read. The technology in this book is either real or nearly real. You can build a lot of it...""
(Bill Christensen 6/6/2008 2:46:35 PM) |
"One of the paranoid people who write for the Register (UK) had a version of IE that used ram disk.
98 or less.
Never updated, I wonder why."
(Icecycle 6/11/2008 8:58:32 AM) |
"hey. i read the book. it was great. but i think this is cool. i would like to be part of this."
(folkenroth 9/15/2010 10:23:38 AM) |
"Obviously People say they want to do this but i haven't seen any results come from this.. Quit jabbering and show some results people!!"
(Obliv 9/17/2010 8:00:15 PM) |
"The other version of this scenario that disturbs me is the one in which corporations subsidize school laptops or tablet computers in exchange for gathering data on their on- (and off-) line behavior."
(Bill Christensen 9/18/2010 7:47:33 AM) |
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