Fri, 07 Dec 2001
15:17
And you thought Bill Gates was bad? If you read Neal Stephenson's
In the Beginning Was the Command Line, you know Steve Jobs is just as much a control freak, if not more. But they're small fry compared to
Larry Ellison, who graciously offered Oracle software to create Big Brother's national ID database -- and even he sounds moderate when compared to
Scott McNealy, quoted today in ZDNet with this gem:
You first, Mr. McNealy. Or perhaps you'd prefer to be tattooed...on your arm.
See Duncan Frissell's Sierra Times op-ed for more on why a national ID card is a bad idea for everyone but statist thugs.
If trapped with these two men, I would poison myself so they couldn't eat my corpse
Everybody gives me the one-liner quote, "You have no privacy." Get
over it. Everybody ought to have a chip behind their ear.
