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So much for the rhetoric of the malicious company that's putting 1984 devices into living rooms for the government.
by jasonvorhe 10y ago
So much for the rhetoric of the malicious company that's putting 1984 devices into living rooms for the government.
- dovdovdov 10y agoHow do you know the exact number of devices, suspicious.
- gm-conspiracy 10y agoI think he meant the devices were first patented in 1984.
- q4814 10y agoAhem Orwell's 1984. It's a book.
- j_r_f 10y agoI can't tell if they are joking or really didn't pick up on this.
- ibgib 10y agoThat's part of why it's a good joke...or is it?
- zepto 10y agoI bought that as an ebook on Amazon but it got remotely deleted for 'copyright' reasons from my kindle so I never got to read it. Is there something about listening devices in it?
- unprepare 10y agoyou can read it online for free here http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/ http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
- stordoff 10y agoTelescreens more or less fit the bill. From Wikipedia: > Telescreens are fictional devices which operate as both televisions and security cameras. [...] All members of the Inner Party (upper-class) and Outer Party (middle-class) have telescreens in their homes [...] Telescreen cameras do not have night vision technology [but] their microphones are incredibly sensitive, and they are said to pick up a heartbeat.
- tajen 10y agoSurely you're joking. Kindle himself deleting books that warn against Alexa technology, "for copyright reasons", is worth both a good laugh and a war. If you're not joking, please write a blogpost about it and post it on HN.
- zepto 10y agoI don't need to blog about it - it was headline news: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-kindle-1984 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-ki...
- baldfat 10y agoI believe it was a joke about the book. Like the government being suspicious about knowing facts about the device. :)
- linuxguy2 10y agoThey're talking about the novel, 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
- pc86 10y agoWhoosh! It was a joke.
- nothrabannosir 10y agoDon't worry, they're just pretending not to get it. It was a great joke.