OT: Need a Campaign to Secure WIFI Sites

[Eric Oyen]

I will recommend some authors actually,

Isaac Asimov
Robert Heinlein
Jack Williamson (rare if you can find him)
Arthur Clarke
Edgar Rice Burrows
William Shakespear (always a must to understand political intrigue)
and many others.

-eric
from the central office of the Technomage Guild, Library Services Dept.

On Mar 23, 2017, at 6:23 PM, Vara La Fey wrote:

> I'm with ya, and I don't know what is required reading now. I'm afraid to find out. Assuming reading more than tweets even is required anymore.
> 
> I grew up on hard sci-fi, prolly like a lot of us here, so dystopian fiction is definitely an influence on how I see things. As are the things themselves. Just seeing them potentially merge is scary. I'm not ashamed of being hair-triggered about that. Someone has to be. The more the better, I say.
> What books do you recommend? But since I'm currently on 8 distinct (yet interrelated) learning curves, I don't promise to get through very many of them. I feel a bit guilty even asking,       but what the hey?
> 
> - Vara
> 
> On 3/23/2017 6:07 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>> ah yes, George Orwell should be required reading for everyone in high school or first year college.
>> 
>> There are also some other books that might bear reading (and some of them even have a take on the current technological and political situation).
>> 
>> -eric
>> from the central office of the Technomage Guild, You can't take it with you dept.
>> 
>> On Mar 23, 2017, at 5:57 PM, Vara La Fey wrote:
>> 
>>> The "3 Minute Hate" was a reference to "1984", which the intended system of "three minutes" of semi-mandatory content reminded me of because it is an intended system of "three minutes" of semi-mandatory content.
>>> 
>>> I don't hate anybody here, and I have no reason to think that proponents of this spyware/monitoring/chastising system do either. I merely assumed that intelligent techies near my own age would understand the reference, even if they don't agree with my comparison.
>>> 
>>> I fully mean my criticisms of the system, of proposing to self-righteously take up time belonging to people who are not associated with you, and of it's abuse potential beyond the abuse already inherent in it.
>>> 
>>> You don't have to be an internet techie to see that. Or to hit an overly-defensive nerve.
>>> 
>>> On 3/23/2017 4:53 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:50:50 -0700
>>>> Vara La Fey <varalafey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Please, waste time and effort and money patenting your /spyware 
>>>>> /chaperone system that monitors web activity with the intent of 
>>>>> /creating consequences /for activity which you - or your intended 
>>>>> customer - opines is "invalid". I doubt very many people will buy
>>>>> into it because there is no upside for them. Even when they alter it
>>>>> to fit their own agenda, they just anger their customers who can
>>>>> click OK for EULAs and enter logins, but cannot bypass your 3 Minute
>>>>> Hate.
>>>> Hate?
>>>> 
>>>> Pot/Kettle
>>>> 
>>>> A look back on Vara La Fey's previous posts shows Vara La Fey short on
>>>> tech and long on very nasty criticism. 
>>>> 
>>>> Five minutes ago I procmailed Vara La Fey out of my life. 
>>>> 
>>>> :0:
>>>> * ^From:.*VLF_email_address
>>>> * ^(To|Cc).*plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>>> $GARBAGE
>>>> 
>>>> Anybody who agrees with me would be doing themselves a favor (and
>>>> lowering their blood pressure) by doing the same.
>>>> 
>>>> SteveT
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