Is resistance futile?

Sci-fi writers join war on terror

Let them waste all the stolen money they want. The big giant frigging laugh is on them. But remember in the future...the lead-lined wallet is a good idea to keep all your rf chips in! and if they put the chips in you ...well lead-line your body part where the chip is.

Yeah and report you supermarket shopping card lost, and when you are getting your new one, don't give your real name. It is illegal for them to force you to give up your positive Identification information in order to save frigging store discounts. (only if asking for check cashing capability)

Anyone who lives in a city notice the loud whistling noise that airliners make when flying over? Ever since after 9-11, they make this scary loud whistling noise which sounds like incoming big missiles , or crashing airplanes.

I am sure that this sound has never occured pre-9-11.
I would have definitely noticed it.
Because I grew up with a house full of older brothers, and we played army a lot. Our sound effects for missiles and planes crashing was that exact whistling noise. I don't know how what it is called. But it is something that the pilots do, because I used to live near an airport and never heard that noise coming from the airliners.
I hear the pilots do this around 5x per day.
Why do they want us to hear taht loud whistle?
Are they deliberatly trying to scare the people?

Daily Kos

Say that you're planning to have a neighborhood get together. You head to the local supermarket and pick up a few of those big pork and beans cans and plenty of bottled water and soft drinks. Of course, you give the clerk your shopper card to save a few bucks. The record of your purchase heads to the supermarket's central database which they have patriotically agreed to share with the local fusion center. The out-of-the-ordinary purchase is flagged because the government is on the lookout for survivalist types who are stocking up for Doomsday and thus violating anti-hoading laws. Your bottled water purchase is cross-checked against other records, and the following turns up:

* recent ammunition purchase made with a credit card (for a quail hunting outing, but they don't know that)
* unusually large cash withdrawal of $3,000 (for buyng your neighbor's used car for your kid)
* visits to "questionable" political web sites like the one where you're reading this (information courtesy of your ISP)

The fusion center computer is now in a frenzy because of the obvious threat you pose to national security. Thanks to the kind of speed that $380 million can purchase, it spits out your name and address just in time for the heavily armed SWAT team to show up at your barbecue.

Mu mind isn't blown, though.

I am totally and wholly unsurprised.

Anti-money-laundering software scrutinizes bank customers' every move, no matter how small.

"There's been a conventional wisdom or myth that the internet was immune from state regulation," says Ronald Deibert, one of the book's editors.

"What we're finding is that states that were taking a hands-off approach to the internet for many years are now finding ways to intervene at key internet choke points, and block access to information."

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