Comments on: Everybody Bruce Wayne Now And Dick Greyson Now http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/21/mandyonbatman/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:23:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: megapickles http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/21/mandyonbatman/#comment-753 megapickles Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:18:17 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/21/mandyonbatman/#comment-753 <p>Just wait till the next Batman film, where the Riddler takes pictures of clocks while Lucius Fox reluctantly consults a Rand-McNally atlas.</p> <p>In this sci-fi instance, Batman needed to use the SONAR of all 30 million residents in the aggregate to get a complete picture of the city. Compare this to telecom’s acquiescence to allow NSA to sift through the aggregate and find what they want about individual data transmissions. It’s the philosophical difference between Google Trend Watch, and an AOL data leak.</p> <p>Most of us find both creepy and Orwellian, but the former is more tolerable to the general public than the latter.</p> Just wait till the next Batman film, where the Riddler takes pictures of clocks while Lucius Fox reluctantly consults a Rand-McNally atlas.

In this sci-fi instance, Batman needed to use the SONAR of all 30 million residents in the aggregate to get a complete picture of the city. Compare this to telecom’s acquiescence to allow NSA to sift through the aggregate and find what they want about individual data transmissions. It’s the philosophical difference between Google Trend Watch, and an AOL data leak.

Most of us find both creepy and Orwellian, but the former is more tolerable to the general public than the latter.

]]> By: jstrick http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/21/mandyonbatman/#comment-737 jstrick Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:21:42 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/21/mandyonbatman/#comment-737 <p>yeah, it was an extremely big brotherly part of the movie but it went along with the idea that batman works outside of the law, not within it. He is willing to to what others aren’t or can’t.</p> yeah, it was an extremely big brotherly part of the movie but it went along with the idea that batman works outside of the law, not within it. He is willing to to what others aren’t or can’t.

]]> By: LS http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/21/mandyonbatman/#comment-736 LS Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:11:02 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/21/mandyonbatman/#comment-736 <p>Can’t wait to see the movie!</p> Can’t wait to see the movie!

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