off: here's a small news flash for MS Products Users

[Richard]

On Monday 21 January 2008 3:38:48 pm andy baxter wrote:
> thomas fisher wrote:
> > On Monday 21 January 2008 10:51:24 andy baxter wrote:
> >> Richard wrote:
> >>> Well, for those of you whom use Microsoft Products... at work.<sick>
> >>>
> >>> this might change you mind....(to push linux even more)
> >>> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article319348
> >>>0. ece
> >>
> >> The paper was talking about this just as a human rights issue, but this
> >> isn't the whole point to me. Yes it's intrusive on a personal level, but
> >> it also points, I would have thought, to broader problems in our
> >> society, and with the technological imagination of companies like
> >> microsoft. The only kind of company who would want to use this, I would
> >> have thought, is one where trust between management and workers is
> >> non-existent, and the management want to squeeze every last bit of
> >> productivity out of people who probably shouldn't be so stressed in the
> >> first place. Which is more of a social/political issue than a
> >> technological one. What does it say about MS and the companies who might
> >> be attracted to this kind of 'solution' that they see the research
> >> leading to this as a useful contribution to the world's knowledge?
> >> (Answers in words of more than 4 letters...)
> >
> >    With the degree that fascism has been adapted into the mainstream
> > of "modern" behavior this becomes a new key to really control everyone by
> > a select few. I suspect such technology already is deployed under the
> > auspices of " national security" with non but a few being privy to it.
> > "They" become "god!"
> >   Work place control. Voting machines. Airport security. Job interviews.
> > School administration. National borders. Police interrogations. Prison
> > administration. Probably in due time traffic intersection scans, and of
> > course by that time license plates will contain chips. Orwell was right
> > on target. Erich Fromm's book titled "Escape from Freedom" is a very
> > enlightening read.
> > Onward into hell
> > Tom
>
> I'm not that pessimistic. I reckon there's a limit to how much a few
> people can control the behaviour of everyone else before the systems of
> control and manipulation collapse under their own weight.

I guess, the point is that big brother, whom ever, could say..HEY Joe, 
your output today was only 98.9%, and not 110%, YOUR Fired.

Thats just the tip of the icing....on the cake
Rich