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Jeff Ratliff

Lying - 48 views

  • Rafae Wathra
     
    But even if you are lying to save someones life they might want to be aware of the truth and make their own decision on the respective subject so you don't have the right to take away their right to make their own decisions.
  • Rafae Wathra
     
    I dont think its right for the doctor to tell him until the doctor feels that the man is able to handle the news. Holding the truth isn't necessarily lying. Mourning for a dead person, albeit important, can wait, and it isnt worth risking the life of another.
Rafae Wathra

BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile data show friend networks - 0 views

  • "It's invisible to the user but logs everything: communication, users' locations, people's proximity by doing continuous Bluetooth scans."
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      This is a privacy issue (social) because these users don't know that so much information about them is being logged
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      This is also an integrity issue because the companies supplying these products don't tell the users that there is a chip in their phones.
  • Friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy from call records and the proximity of users, says a new report.
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      This relates to communication systems because the phone companies are using communication systems in order to track the social activity of their users
  • but to carry on this "reality mining" in contexts ranging from the modelling of the spread of disease t
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      If gathering mobile data can help track the spread of disease, then its implications in improving the health of the target area (area of impact) have a lot of potential
Rafae Wathra

Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble' - 0 views

  • A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      Social: Privacy This shows how little privacy that Twitter users have sinced they are being judged by complete strangers based on how they tweet (who came to the conclusion that its a lot of pointless babble)
  • In total it grabbed 2,000 messages and then put each message it grabbed into one of six categories; news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and those with pass-along value
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      IT systems: Communication System This shows how Twitter is used as a communication system and what people communicate with it
  • This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      Impact: Business This is an example of a way by which large businesses use technology to increase sales
Rafae Wathra

DLC for Games - 0 views

    • Rafae Wathra
       
      basics (gaming consoles are hardware)
  • We look at patches as little more than an excuse for developers to ship a half-finished game and have us beta test it.
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      Social and Ethical issues: this questions the integrity of the gaming companies because they aren't delivering gamers the whole product
  • features of this console generation
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      This is a part of Basics: hardware and software because the console is the hardware and the games are software
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  • The idea of downloading additional things into your game after release was supposed to be something that extended the lives of games and made them better over time
    • Rafae Wathra
       
      Areas of Impact: DLC adds to the entertainment factor in games
  • Xbox owners of the same game however have only received maybe half of that content and have had to pay for it in $5 packs.
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