Well. That was hilarious and very random. I was really confused until I found the video it was making fun of. I think that what the UK woman did was disgusting but I'm not sure how I feel about this video in concerns with surveillance. I think that surveillance can be taken too far, but the camera the owners had installed was to keep their car from being stolen or broken into. Which seems to me like a fair reason to install a camera. So I'm not sure.
I don't really recognize myself in this at all. None of what he specified as a Gen Y'er relates to me. I'm perfectly content with working hard and doing my job the way I'm supposed to whether or not I enjoy it and whether or not it fits into my social schedual. I've worked plenty of 60 hour weeks to get things done!!
Maybe one or two of my friends fit into this but mainly, the people I know are traditional hard workers.
Generalizations are mostly a negative thing. I believe they get in the way of understanding a person or a group of people. Everything differs from person to person and by generalizing you can make things more difficult especially when it comes to work.
Wow. Just wow. Creepiest thing ever. I have always thought that baby dolls are creepy, but that just puts it at a whole new level. What is the point of this!?
This is an example of a common and pernicious version of technophobia - the idea that overreliance on new tech disempowers and renders stupid a new generation. Does it have any credibility?
a sevenfold spike in people arrested with mutilated fingertips, a disturbing trend they said reflects dire efforts to evade the harsher punishments that come with multiple arrests, to avoid deportation, or to fool the increasingly sophisticated computers that do most fingerprint checks
While authorities have had some recent successes in identifying those with mutilated fingerprints, most have not been identified. Indeed, of the recorded arrests this decade in Massachusetts, only 17 percent were positively identified by matching their scuffed fingerprints with previously recorded prints.
detectives suspect they are missing many others who may have been recorded as new fingerprints by the state’s computer system, which receives on average about 700 fingerprint cards a day from some 360 law enforcement agencies around the state
Officials at the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they do not keep national records of the number of suspects found to have deliberately disfigured their fingerprints.
Jose Elias Zaiter-Pou, a doctor who flew from the Dominican Republic and allegedly planned to surgically remove the fingerprints of illegal immigrants for a $4,500 fee
Surface cuts do not do the job, he said; the marring must go deep under the skin, which grows back with the original patterns if not sufficiently disfigured.
“I can’t imagine the pain it must take. You have to get deep down, in the nerve endings. I see these people, to go to this extreme, as a real danger to society.’’
I don't personally have a problem with this, but I do think this may just be the beginning of the death of privacy. It starts with coupons and ends with.... brainwashing. Naturally I'm a fan.
Chinese web users frequently refer to the "50 cent army", rumoured to be a group of freelance propagandists who post pro-Communist Party entries on blogs and websites, posing as ordinary members of the public.
I can't imagine our school using us as students to sign up for their gateway programs and internet connections to be spying on us through our computer thats crazy, I'm sorry but I wont stand for that and neaither would my parents if that was the case.
Surveillance is about power– rarely safety or security
The possession of great powers by the state should prompt a principled determination to ensure that the permissible exercise of such powers is strictly defined, regulated and monitored so as to guarantee that any intrusion into liberty and privacy of the individual is fully justified by an obviously superior community interest.
I agree that Surveillance can be used for safety and security reasons. I mean we can't deny that video's of robberies and such haven't come in handy for catching the bad guys. However, I also agree that it has a lot to do with power. It's so easy to take surveillance too far and impede on others' privacys. It's scary...
Emily
even here in the country’s financial capital, where residents bear daily witness to the stark extremes of Indian wealth and poverty, Mr. Ambani’s building is so spectacularly over the top that the city’s already elastic boundaries of excess and disparity are being stretched to new dimensions