Game over man, game over: Frankenmalware has been unleashed

[Mark Kohut]

Mark Kohut
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From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Game over man, game over: Frankenmalware has been unleashed

I wrote this up for another list and realized I should probably not send it there.  But it's a good rant so I'm sending it here because Pynch-heads are ... um ... yup. 

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Well you know,  there's an old Irish saying that nobody with a straight flush ever asked for a new deal.  Power corrupts-  they'll do what they need to get it their way.  "They" used to be the land-holders and the South hung on to that for a long time.  Then it was Business - this was during the Industrial Revolution and now Business has the rights of a citizen (except a business can't pass go [vote]  and can't go to jail).  

So if Business can get your vote (by appealing to more jobs or lower taxes or some morals issue),  get into power and have it their way,  then anything that stands in the way of their making the biggest profit possible will shown not be good for America.  And we'll all say good-bye EPA, HUD, Dept. of Ed, OSHA,  Consumer Affairs,  Equal Opportunity Commission,  and a lot more probably including Social Security  (banks want those dolla's), and Medicare (insurance wants those dolla's),  the Post Office (business can do it better),  etc.  All of those things stand in the way of Big Business increasing profits.  To vote for Business is to vote for jobs,  against taxes,  and for prayer in schools.    Like Big Business is going to open jobs in Detroit for $40 an hour when they're getting workers at $15 a day in India.  - There is no tax break which will overcome that difference.  I doubt we're going to be living in 3-generation hovels next
 decade but you never can tell -  if it takes 3 generations to pay the mortgage,  and Grandpa's got Rx's  (no health insurance) and Sonny would like to go to law school ... and Dad got laid off and Mom has two service jobs and Sissy dropped out of school to take care of the little ones ...  Grandma was talking about spamming for dollars -  

And hello Dept. of Defense,  Homeland Security,  and other industries which make money for their investors - so Fed help is actively solicited by lobbyists who can afford the best golf/resort vacation money can buy  (and where they can provide "educational" material).  These are also the very departments which " protect" the wealth of America.  :-)    

I hate rampant capitalism but I don't know of a viable alternative.    I can only hope there's some pendulum in play but I don't foresee that, either. 

sigh, 
Bekah

On Feb 2, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.extremetech.com/computing/115527-game-over-man-game-over-frankenmalware
> 
> "If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will
> come - you heard it here first - when the curves of research and
> development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics
> all converge. Oboy. It will be amazing and unpredictable, and even the
> biggest of brass, let us devoutly hope, are going to be caught
> flat-footed. It is certainly something for all good Luddites to look
> forward to if, God willing, we should live so long."
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/​books/97/05/18/reviews/​pynchon-luddite.html
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