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Posted by: Strephonade Jun 24 2004, 05:14 AM
http://netscape.com.com/Microsoft+patents+body+power/2100-1104_2-5244766.html?part=netscape&subj=technews&tag=mynetscape

Awesome. biggrin.gif

Posted by: nobarcode Jun 24 2004, 06:05 AM
From the article:
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Furthermore, Microsoft said, the physical resistance offered by the human body could be used to create a virtual keyboard on a patch of skin. And just to make sure it has covered all its bases, the filing concludes with a reference for Fido.

"It will be apparent," it says, "that the body may be that of a wide variety of living animals and need not be limited to being a body of a human being."

I TRULY have mixed feelings about this.

I have always wanted to be able to "harness" my thoughts to the computer as they happen.

On the other hand, with all the huh bub surrounding bio-metric identification, it's implementation seems likely to fall into the hands of none other than John Ashcroft.
I believe one of Microsofts' exec's gave a speach about such a topic at Bohemian Grove:
http://www.geocities.com/bohemiangrovecult/
http://100777.com/doc/86

Posted by: utopmk19 Jun 24 2004, 07:20 AM
WOW! That is really neat. Thanks for posting that.


Also, on the other hand, it makes one kind of paranoid. unsure.gif
I think Orwell had it right, with his vision of the thought police.
Microsoft is beginning to look more and more like big brother.

I am a big fan of technology, and I know how conveinient it can make life.
I also see how yesterdays technological discoveries, turn into our current day privacy snuffers. Cameras on lights, and stop signs, http://www.darpa.mil/ Information Awareness Office, who supply "instant analysis" on whats written in emails, or said over your cell phone.
Even the Official National Taxpayers Union Foundation's Website, has examples of how politicians are using http://www.ntu.org/main/press_release.php?PressID=605&org_name=NTUF
And it is not hard to see what other practices have been adapted from the book.

I feel like the only good technology is the kind that helps us control computers,not vice-versa.


BTW, I didn't mean to take the focus of your link, and I didn't mean to change the subject, but when there is talk of computerizing human beings I get worried.