Comments on: UPDATED: Home-Free on Facebook? Think Again

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:42:16 +0000

No, the bitch is onto something. W/o the net, I could never spin my evil web. Just one esoteric bait-and-switch site of mine gets more hits in 24 hours than I could have had readers in a lifetime of book-writing.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:05:34 +0000

Your article was very well written. I loved your troll, her originality is right in there with the other liberals who show the world that the human race is not worth redeeming.

By: Abelard Lindsey

Abelard Lindsey — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:58:01 +0000

Microsoft Research? I just think that this stuff is representative of the intellectual bankruptcy of the universities.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:42:42 +0000

Hacks like Ms Boyd never have an original thought. They are buried by concepts acccepted by all the right poeple and work long and hard to come up with new angles for the same old stuff. Race, class and gender are the buzz words that get one recognized in those circles so over educated boobs like Boyd can sail on and be the darlings of the elite set. Harvard? Big deal. I would just as soon listen to a honey badger grunt over a field phone as to be enlightened by one of those phoneys.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:01:11 +0000

Hey, the market does not always do what Marketing Departments project. Remember FoMoCo’s EDSEL…the in-automobile HOT DOG COOKER…and all other one time wonders. Cool technology, ubiquitous communication connections, and utopian dreams do not make a color blind, culturally equal market place. It’s just another social engineering fantasy gone awry and more proof that if private businesses are not infallible with their ideas, then central government planning ideas will not work either. Le Monde va lui-meme.

By: Theodor Lauppert

Theodor Lauppert — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:25:43 +0000

There is a lot of irony here.

It was an important part of the original hacker spirit that people should be judged by their hacking and not superficial criteria (which include sex, race, nationality, age, and so on). The Internet was, consciously or unconsciously, designed to facilitate this, since it transmits only the hacking, it shows only what you do, not what you are.

But of course, the majority of people don’t like this. They want to be persons beyond what they are doing, and want to be recognized as such. So, along came “social networking sites” and OpenID and whatnot. We know, again, who the other person is, and all the old resentments are back again.