Wired - The Internet of Everything: Let’s Get This Right. A simple article calling for everything to be accessible. It calls for the end of privacy and constant monitoring of all human endeavor while having computers explain it all to us. It calls for a justification for doing what we are told and giving up free will and self definition in exchange for "winning".
Wired - Why We Fight to Keep Registered Sex Offenders Online. Here is the simplest answer, we cannot prevent anyone from using the internet if they need to use it to pay their bills. The article does not mention that; but, it is the truth. If we cannot keep pedophiles off the internet then we must be able to identify them and restrict what they can do on it. That will be the argument. The first people required to have individual internet identification will be pedophiles and then criminals and eventually all of us.
Wired - Internet Safe From Globalized Censorship as UN Treaty Fails. The American representative said that restrictions to the internet must be determined by all people. Sounds pretty good; but, why should the international society be allowed to determine how I may use the internet in my country or in my house. There is no legitimacy to international governance. We as a world would need to agree on that first.
Friday, December 14, 2012
The Connecticut Shooting and How it Will Be Used
I believe most of my readers are probably aware of what happened in Connecticut today. A 20 year old man entered a elementary school and killed 20 kids and 6 adults. While many people are calling for more laws against guns, that is unlikely to happen in a significant manner. People will correctly point out that on this same day, 20 children were injured at a school in China by a man wielding a knife. You do not need a gun to kill people.
So, how will we protect schools and our children? Lets go back to an earlier post that I made. XBox with kinnect can now identify everyone in a room. As many of you may or may not know, many schools are now requiring students to have a Facebook account so that they can receive their homework assignments. I find it amusing that "Face"book has some of the best biometric facial recognition in the world and over 1 billion users. The schools will be equipped with facial scanners at the entrances and classrooms will be equipped with cameras that identify all the students, there will not be a requirement to have an RFID chip in your school ID, it simply is not necessary.
My heart and prayers go out to the families and friends of all those who have been impacted by these horrendous events in China and Connecticut. I cannot possibly understand what they must be going through and searching for a way to prevent this from ever happening again is natural. The purpose of this post is merely to outline what I believe will occur in response to what has already happened.
So, how will we protect schools and our children? Lets go back to an earlier post that I made. XBox with kinnect can now identify everyone in a room. As many of you may or may not know, many schools are now requiring students to have a Facebook account so that they can receive their homework assignments. I find it amusing that "Face"book has some of the best biometric facial recognition in the world and over 1 billion users. The schools will be equipped with facial scanners at the entrances and classrooms will be equipped with cameras that identify all the students, there will not be a requirement to have an RFID chip in your school ID, it simply is not necessary.
My heart and prayers go out to the families and friends of all those who have been impacted by these horrendous events in China and Connecticut. I cannot possibly understand what they must be going through and searching for a way to prevent this from ever happening again is natural. The purpose of this post is merely to outline what I believe will occur in response to what has already happened.
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