I can imagine a future where your insurance premiums are tied to your digital finger print. Your risk profile for credit is tied to your activities.

Your social credit (china) because you like to drink alcohol drops so low you cannot buy a flight, stay in a hotel or shop at certain places. Your position in the world is monitored to be able to collect you at any time.

Your price for goods depends on what friends you have (correlation of purchases across locations and times), your targeted advertising profile gets that much more sophisticated that you end up with a lot more crap. And then as market share increases the prices start to rise on transactions.

you can no longer buy anything as a tourist as governments clamp down, your children no longer can freely shop without a digit means.

I think the problem is that today they demonstrated they can switch the TOS then tomorrow add in the, yes we have a list of all your media files now.

One way to shut them down is to bring a lawsuit from a country with some type of data retention law that prohibits the export of user data.

I have two of these. My biggest gripe is the 5ghz WiFi bridge I have drops out every few minutes for a few seconds. I am running them hot as the location for my bridge is not cooled and can reach 70c running temperature with abient heat of 35-36c in the day

Its a good thing. Police in China have them on their vests. But they must be tamper proof like in shanghai other wise they just record what they choose

I strongly agree with you. Xinchejian in shanghai is going to run one next month. No business agenda. Just a challenge. You own what you make. Its basically a weekend party. Lots of booze and food. The plan is to put the others to shame and have a long party! Along with hacking with fun people. Its like the hacker space but more people doing stuff!

In China you run your own local DNS that forwards to opendns over alternative ports. All ddwrt and openwrt support this.

Its how you get to Facebook in China.

Lol. Just got out the office. 330am. Going home to continue before my 8am flight.

Just saw a demo from dfrobot last night at xinchejian hackerspace that has super potential. It was designed to make entry to arduino much more attainable. At a 20rmb retail price and 3pwm 3analog spi and a tiny connector for programming makes it a much better solution for wearable electronics. They said its coming out in Feb.

I've got the next one up. Mygica a11 I like it a lot. Very fast. I put plex for android on it. 3 USB ports. HDMI port. No sperate audio jack but that's OK. Was half the cost of the apple TV and also has airplay on it.

Mk802iii much more powerful and cheaper than the raspberry pi

Photos or it didn't happen!

Most of the blocks are by DNS .. Using opendns alternative ports solves this or DNS over TCP

was pretty awesome on saturday, sunday looks even better

It took me 15 minutes to shut the computer down! You just push the power button now.