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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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