Sunday, September 15, 2013

Biometrics and Consequences

Wired - Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’. Long before the new IPhone was announced I wrote about how in the future you would use your biometrics to unlock or use phones. It will also be used to access just about everything including your money. The thing that needs to really be considered is how this will be managed from a security and legal standpoint. Something to watch.

Yahoo - Bloomberg - Trader Joe's Sends Part-Timers to Obama Health Exchanges. Trader Joe's just seems to be a really great company. I shop there often and they have some of the best customer service around. It is my understanding that they pay and treat their employees better than other markets. Rather than make people part timers so that they don't have to provide healthcare, they are giving their part timers money so that they can get healthcare. That is pretty impressive. What I found in the article was an attempt to spin this as a bad thing, pitiful spin.

CNN - California school district hires firm to monitor students' social media. The writer Dostoyevsky said that people have the choice between happiness and freedom, he said most preferred happiness.

Yahoo - GOP bill would ban using food stamp funds on junk food. A while back I posted a link to an article about how in some foreign country people receiving food subsidies were going to get food suggestions on their phones when they went to purchase in stores. I will make a bet that your insurance company will require you participate in such programs or pay more. What you allow the government to do to control others you will surely face yourself.

Yahoo - Fla. pastor arrested before he could burn Qurans. Firstly, the pastor is a moron, offensive and a jerk. Once we get past that, it is legal to be a moron, offensive and a jerk and it should be. The jerk was arrested on his way to burn the books for unlawful conveyance of fuel. Sounds like garbage to me. He was also charged with illegal open carry of a gun. That makes no sense. You don't need a license to carry an unconcealed weapon only to conceal one. Finally, he was charged with not having a proper registration for his trailer. It is quite obvious that the authorities wanted to stop him and they did; but, they had to pervert the law to do it.

Fox News - Apple on the sideline while Google and Samsung duke it out over watches and goggles. Just keeping my readers current on the tech that is going to monitor your health in the future.

Slate - This Couple Is Angry About Expecting Twins. Hear Them Out. The parents wanted one more kid and are having two, they are not overjoyed by this fact. The article however spins this into a discussion of whether it is right or wrong to kill one of the babies while it is still in the womb for convenience.

CBS Detroit - Mid-Michigan Teens Caught On The Run Will Be Monitored. Two teenagers ran away with each other, got caught and were returned home. Not the first time that such a thing has happened. The parents solution is to GPS them both so they can be tracked and they can make sure the two of them don't get together. This is another example of the acceptance of jailing everyone. What kind of adults are we creating when we raise our children without any privacy or choice?

YouTube - The Future of Money: Bitcoin & Beyond If you have 4 minutes, watch the video. You will be seeing more and more sales jobs on why we need to go with an all electronic currency in the future.

YouTube - What is The Internet of Things? Another very short video that explains what is coming and boy are they excited. Everything will be monitored.

Yahoo - Is employee health care a thing of the past? Too funny, the real moral of the story is that everyone is going to be in the health exchanges.

Near Death.com - People Born Blind Can See During a Near-Death Experience. Now what can we make of this? I wonder what it was like for them to come back and not be able to see again? Have a great week.

I will post soon

Sorry all, I haven't had much to say; but, I will post soon.