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Post by Tired in CV on Dec 20, 2011 2:20:57 GMT -5
Video games must be monitored for content and limited in playing time. Parents need to put video game usage to the grades test, good grades you get game time, poor grades gets highly limited game time. Children need to earn the right to play video games while also getting some physical exercise (preferably outdoors). Video games are an important introduction to the world of electronics and children learn very quickly. Well, I guess we're all in luck then since video games have taken over the minds of two generations and counting. I think that the current introduction of cell phones are doing much more damage than video games. The texting and thousands of applications (including games) have taken the cell phones to be a very dangerous item. Games are probably less than 10% of the usage for most users but where and how they use the phones is what is dangerous. Even walking around while using them have put people walking in front of vehicles and other dangerous situations not to mention driving or flying! Some people spend almost their entire time awake on their cell phone unless forced to do something else once in a while (like work). I had a couple of problem employees when cell phones were just basic talking and texting units. I can only imagine the problems some businesses have today with employees constant urge to have to be on their phone using some type of application!
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Post by jdredd on Dec 20, 2011 2:35:15 GMT -5
Well, I guess we're all in luck then since video games have taken over the minds of two generations and counting. I think that the current introduction of cell phones are doing much more damage than video games. The texting and thousands of applications (including games) have taken the cell phones to be a very dangerous item. Games are probably less than 10% of the usage for most users but where and how they use the phones is what is dangerous. Even walking around while using them have put people walking in front of vehicles and other dangerous situations not to mention driving or flying! Some people spend almost their entire time awake on their cell phone unless forced to do something else once in a while (like work). I had a couple of problem employees when cell phones were just basic talking and texting units. I can only imagine the problems some businesses have today with employees constant urge to have to be on their phone using some type of application! You are on to something with this. Communications technology is changing the workplace, whether for good or ill is per your point of view. The days when an office had one phone for a couple of dozen people (I worked in some places like that) are long gone. Are supervisors losing control of their workplace? That might be good. Maybe social media is the thing that will be replacing Unions as the biggest thorn in management's side, or maybe there will be a new kind of digital Union. What is the potential for social media to organize workers? We know management likes to keep workers disorganized...
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Post by Tired in CV on Dec 21, 2011 2:23:27 GMT -5
I think that the current introduction of cell phones are doing much more damage than video games. The texting and thousands of applications (including games) have taken the cell phones to be a very dangerous item. Games are probably less than 10% of the usage for most users but where and how they use the phones is what is dangerous. Even walking around while using them have put people walking in front of vehicles and other dangerous situations not to mention driving or flying! Some people spend almost their entire time awake on their cell phone unless forced to do something else once in a while (like work). I had a couple of problem employees when cell phones were just basic talking and texting units. I can only imagine the problems some businesses have today with employees constant urge to have to be on their phone using some type of application! You are on to something with this. Communications technology is changing the workplace, whether for good or ill is per your point of view. The days when an office had one phone for a couple of dozen people (I worked in some places like that) are long gone. Are supervisors losing control of their workplace? That might be good. Maybe social media is the thing that will be replacing Unions as the biggest thorn in management's side, or maybe there will be a new kind of digital Union. What is the potential for social media to organize workers? We know management likes to keep workers disorganized... Your outlook is a social attitude and completely misses the safety aspect. If they are using their cell, they can't effectively be answering phones or performing other office work. But office work is by far the mildest place of cell phone usage. Using cell phones while utilizing machinery or equipment is as dangerous or more so than driving an automobile. Just think about the train engineer who crashed his train while texting. A TRAIN, that has a fixed track and path! Think of a factory line worker that must keep pace with the line, or forklift or other machinery driver. Then there is the lost time while people run to the bathroom just to use their cell phones or otherwise leave their work place while engaged with their cell phone. This costs businesses!
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Post by jdredd on Dec 21, 2011 4:38:51 GMT -5
You are on to something with this. Communications technology is changing the workplace, whether for good or ill is per your point of view. The days when an office had one phone for a couple of dozen people (I worked in some places like that) are long gone. Are supervisors losing control of their workplace? That might be good. Maybe social media is the thing that will be replacing Unions as the biggest thorn in management's side, or maybe there will be a new kind of digital Union. What is the potential for social media to organize workers? We know management likes to keep workers disorganized... Your outlook is a social attitude and completely misses the safety aspect. If they are using their cell, they can't effectively be answering phones or performing other office work. But office work is by far the mildest place of cell phone usage. Using cell phones while utilizing machinery or equipment is as dangerous or more so than driving an automobile. Just think about the train engineer who crashed his train while texting. A TRAIN, that has a fixed track and path! Think of a factory line worker that must keep pace with the line, or forklift or other machinery driver. Then there is the lost time while people run to the bathroom just to use their cell phones or otherwise leave their work place while engaged with their cell phone. This costs businesses! As I said, whether this is good or ill depends on your point of view. I don't think anyone is advocating unsafe work practices. I'm just saying social media could be changing the nature of the employer-employee relationship, possibly in favor of the employees. On the other hand, new technology might make monitoring employees much easier.
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Post by Tired in CV on Dec 28, 2011 2:03:01 GMT -5
This is a process that takes the copper out of the ground without digging up to earth to get to it. It is the same process used in remediation of contaminated sites so it must be good. It also is a method to bring down the costs and be competitive. It also allows them to mine in places where environmentalists have blocked them from disturbing the earth. The only down side here is that a lot fewer people are going to be employed at the site. Company proposes to mine Arizona copper deposit using in-situ methodwww.mining.com/2011/12/22/company-proposes-to-mine-arizona-copper-deposit-using-insitu-method/
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Post by jdredd on May 9, 2016 2:25:42 GMT -5
So what is the deal with self-driving cars? What is the point? Safety? Technology for the sake of technology? Who gains? What will be the unintended consequences? I've got this feeling SDCs may slow down traffic. Won't they be more hesitant than humans? Haven't you ever sat behind a driver so timid that it took them forever to make a left turn? And how about the way humans can think into the future to avoid dangerous situations? Are you telling me a computer can see that if they don't change lanes now there could be a problem farther up ahead? How about when you get off the freeway because you see a traffic problem far ahead? I'm skeptical of it all, but of course I'm old and cranky. Could SDCs be any worse than some of these old fossils still driving into their 90's?
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Post by jdredd on Sept 2, 2016 14:11:12 GMT -5
Yeah, I know it's probably cool technology to have driverless cars, and maybe Millennials don't care because they are too lazy to drive themselves, but for this old guy driverless cars give me the creeps. As soon as I see one, I'll want to ram it or put some bullet holes in it (might be the first reason ever I would want to own a gun). Alas, I suppose they are inevitable. Good thing I won't be around that much longer.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 31, 2018 19:00:38 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/waymo-self-driving-cars-arizona-attacks.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"CHANDLER, Ariz. — The assailant slipped out of a park around noon one day in October, zeroing in on his target, which was idling at a nearby intersection — a self-driving van operated by Waymo, the driverless-car company spun out of Google. He carried out his attack with an unidentified sharp object, swiftly slashing one of the tires. The suspect, identified as a white man in his 20s, then melted into the neighborhood on foot. The slashing was one of nearly two dozen attacks on driverless vehicles over the past two years in Chandler, a city near Phoenix where Waymo started testing its vans in 2017. In ways large and small, the city has had an early look at public misgivings over the rise of artificial intelligence, with city officials hearing complaints about everything from safety to possible job losses." Looks like I'm not the only one who thinks driverless cars are creepy. But I suppose they are inevitable. UNLESS...
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Post by jdredd on Apr 15, 2019 3:06:45 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"The Chinese government has drawn wide international condemnation for its harsh crackdown on ethnic Muslims in its western region, including holding as many as a million of them in detention camps. Now, documents and interviews show that the authorities are also using a vast, secret system of advanced facial recognition technology to track and control the Uighurs, a largely Muslim minority. It is the first known example of a government intentionally using artificial intelligence for racial profiling, experts said. The facial recognition technology, which is integrated into China’s rapidly expanding networks of surveillance cameras, looks exclusively for Uighurs based on their appearance and keeps records of their comings and goings for search and review. The practice makes China a pioneer in applying next-generation technology to watch its people, potentially ushering in a new era of automated racism." Ha-ha! Are all you techno-geeks feeling a little discomfort about this? Probably not. You are probably too enamored with your own brilliance.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 25, 2020 20:58:58 GMT -5
At the same time humans are making technology, technology is remaking humans.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 16, 2020 20:38:40 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/16/british-woman-repeatedly-trafficked-for-sex-after-home-office-failures"A young and highly vulnerable British sex trafficking victim was re-trafficked by county lines drug gangs on multiple occasions after the Home Office repeatedly refused to fulfil its legal obligation to provide her with safe accommodation. A high court judge was forced to intervene to compel the Home Office to house the woman, who was about to become street homeless. The 22-year-old has a history of sexual and drug abuse and exploitation and grew up in the care system; she was allegedly sexually abused while in foster care. She has complex physical and mental health issues and has attempted suicide on multiple occasions. As a teenager she fell under the control of county lines gangs who advertised her for sex on escort websites and used her as a drugs mule. She was also forced to commit petty crimes and her social media account was used to advertise sexual services.
Help is on the way to prevent crimes like this happening. China has forged ahead on face recognition technology which will enable law enforcement to know where everyone is at any time. Not to mention total control of money transactions in a soon to come cashless economy.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 21, 2023 1:26:06 GMT -5
As I’ve ranted elsewhere, I expect AI will be the enemy of a lot of beloved human fallacies. I just mentioned that AI could be the death of Nationalism. And I think religion will be in peril. And I can think of many more. I wish I could be around to see.
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