RE: Exactly 500 word essay on "Why hacking is cool, so that Marcus changes his web site"

["Dave Korn" <dave.korn () artimi com>]

----Original Message----
> From: Theo Winter
> Sent: 19 September 2005 17:21

> Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > > Theo Winter wrote:

> >   Perhaps you misread his article, or misunderstood it.  He was _not_ in
> > favour of them.
>
> I am afraid I did _not_ misread oder misunderstand it. I also grasped that
> Dave was not in favor of governmental monitoring obsession.
>
> > Alright, maybe a George Orwell fan could insist that 1984 would be a
> > better comparison.
>
> My ranty-naggy point was that "Brave New World-like monitoring" does not
> make any sense, as there is no monitoring in the Brave New World. The
> dystopia described there is that people are bred and conditioned even
> before they are born to only ever want the things the government wants
> them to - which renders monitoring useless in the World State.


  Gotcha.  Ah, then "1984-style Big Brother-like monitoring" would have been
just the right choice of words for you!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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