Comments on: The monkey trap

By: Mongoose

Mongoose — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:24:39 +0000

buddy: sound like you are sliding down some sort of slippery slope there.

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:54:13 +0000

lc, long ago i took an anthropology course –those two words are all that stuck –

By: lc

lc — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:39:26 +0000

Buddy:
That would work. I had to look that one up.

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:32:41 +0000

Re Jimmy Carter, i’m thinking more ceboid or cercopithecoid than simian.

By: lc

lc — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:16:35 +0000

I guess what made me think of the LOTR analogy is something I thought but forgot to add to my previous post.

Someone very dear to me once compared Jimmy Carter and his quest for the Nobel Peace Prize to Gollum’s lust for the one ring. Maybe not exactly a monkey trap, but there certainly seem to be some simiopathic similarities.

By: blert

blert — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:39:34 +0000

Everything will fall into the DRAMM hole.

Brock’s nailed it.

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:14:36 +0000

The huge clanking machine will eat itself

Hope it don’t obliterate us li’l mammals when it finally topples over and ‘splodes

By: Lifeofthemind

Lifeofthemind — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:51:10 +0000

The movie reference should be not LOTR but Brazil. The huge clanking machine will eat itself.
Brock’s right.

By: Herb

Herb — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:59:13 +0000

David Boggs: Do you mean that the Peoples Republic of China stole software from and American company? Say it aint so.

I think Brock’s right.

By: Brock

Brock — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:18:22 +0000

The “Green Dam Youth Escort” (GDYE) -is- the monkey trap for the Chinese government. They want the control it promises, but they’ll reap the whirlwind. I’m pretty sure that within a few months of the GDYE, several things will happen:

1. An open source “patch”, spread widely on the Internet, will make a home computer look like the GDYE is working and functional from the government thought police’s p.o.v., but won’t actually report any activity. This patch will also shield the computer from being hacked through any open ports created by the GDYE, possibly by creating a virtual system.

2. A whole slew of cyber criminals will exploit the poor saps which haven’t installed the above patch, leading to widespread identity theft and other mischief in China.

3. Some enterprising hackers will use the GDYE against the Chinese government, and functionaries within the Party will not be able to access government websites.