Path: ...!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:34:47 +0000 Subject: Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.misc References: From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: vector apex Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:34:46 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <-tCdna9pgbEqb177nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com> Lines: 41 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-yNxzmknTK8ZZOTtgk9ciYNU5CiXwyx9lofK7Q3Ot6AjolOWkyQCLoJ44idh27ICqJWuQFYrwu3es+uh!zHAdY6KUKMU/u6PnI0oA8ImhgVxPEz6QI2I7ftKiN/fjcO9y3pSfQsVAodW5FWSxThVvDJrSaK8a!r/Go5tHunDGOQkp3sAO0 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3120 On 8/19/24 4:59 PM, rbowman wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:01:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> On 18 Aug 2024 03:45:42 GMT, rbowman wrote: >> >>> A contemporary article with a chilling vision of the future: >>> >>> "Eventually, large corporations could also be plugged into the system. >>> Computers thousands of miles apart could talk taxes without any >>> numbskull human interference. Banks could be hooked in, too, reporting >>> who is getting interest payments. Real-estate and stock-market >>> computers might tattle on who is making money. Machines in charity >>> organizations could reveal amounts of donations. And hospital computers >>> could report on individual medical costs." >> >> All routine nowadays. As is compliance with anti-money-laundering laws. >> Which are governed by international agreements. > > Yeah, the surveillance state is doing fine but the flying cars predicted > in 1963 never happened and there are some guys in orbit that hope they can > thumb a ride home someday. I sent a mail to SpaceX urging them to paint "Elon's Friendly Space Towing" with some hokey little graphic on the side of the eventual rescue capsule :-) As for the flying cars - probably best that they never worked ... there'd be flaming junk falling from the skies almost constantly. People suck even at 2-D driving. (Looks like there's no such thing as anti-gravity alas ... it'd require unbending spacetime) As for the money-laundering stuff ... fear not ... all the players will find work-arounds almost overnight. Some loopholes will be PROVIDED by those who drafted the laws and those who write the spy software. They'll get their cut of the action in return :-)