Friday, May 24, 2013

New XBox will spy on you

I was just thinking the other day how we've got cameras around us all day every day. ATM cameras, store security cameras, traffic cameras etc etc. None of those are in your home though. "Xbox One", which wasnt sounding that great to begin with, now apparently will contain software that scans the room its in and sends that info to Microsoft. Wow..I've always been creeped out by the Progressive Insurance ad that tries to sell putting an always on camera in your car. This is another level of creep.

The really interesting thing about this patent is that it suggests that copyright holders are allowed to govern performances in otherwise private dwellings.

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At a certain stage the realization strikes through that one must either live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.

-James Bolivar DiGriz