Several current Trinity students have also posted in public forums about filters interfering with things like their DVR recorders. Like Hoho, I'm not surprised to see things take this route there, as they've always seemed to have problems with bandwidth and the content students chose to browse. And I wonder if, in this case, CIO could be translated to a more specific job title (e.g. "Head of IT Department" or "Network Administrator Overlord"), and has been camouflaged to prevent disclosure of both the school and the professor expressing these concerns.
While research has proven that subliminal messages are, from a marketing standpoint, mostly ineffective, one has to wonder about the advertising possibilities of this type of technology. Sure, there are the obvious "private advertising" applications mentioned in the article, but this kind of thing can be very interesting - and very frightening. Picture - you're driving along a road during rush hour. Suddenly, your skull registers the squeal of tires and a massive crash. Or, walking down a sidewalk, a quiet voice inside your head whispers that you're all going to die. Like any new technology, this one sounds fun, but is going to require some degree of regulations and control to avoid abuse.
* The FBI has recently begun an initiative to hire 600 new agents, as they are grossly understaffed. * This initiative calls for massive amount of technical/computer agents, as the Bureau cannot keep them in employment due to corporations offering them triple their salary for less work, better hours, and a less stressful environment. * Regional HQ offices group internet crime investigations in squads with embezzlement, insurance fraud, identity fraud, and other white-collar crimes. * FBI field offices have, at best, two or three computer specialists who can deal with problems within the jurisdiction of the field office. * White-collar squads have a four-month backlog of cases they need to investigate before moving on to cases that would come in today. * For every computer-related investigation that comes in, a case comes in for insurance fraud, one comes in for public embezzlement, and one comes in for public bribery. * Rating the above four case types by public profile and positive media exposure, computer investigations come as lowest priority. (While everyone loves seeing their city council members get arrested for accepting bribes, very few care if Joe Hacker is arrested for harassing a webiste the majority of America has never even heard of.)
Something tells me that, while this Act might indeed infringe on privacy rights, the FBI has better things to do than put taps on every computer in library in America. Further, they lack the manpower to monitor those taps or snoop public computers, given all the cases computer specialists are called on to handle. More likely, they will take advantage of this new "privelage" when they know the lead to be a solid one, and have reason to believe it will lead to an arrest.
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Several current Trinity students have also posted in public forums about filters interfering with things like their DVR recorders. Like Hoho, I'm not surprised to see things take this route there, as they've always seemed to have problems with bandwidth and the content students chose to browse.
And I wonder if, in this case, CIO could be translated to a more specific job title (e.g. "Head of IT Department" or "Network Administrator Overlord"), and has been camouflaged to prevent disclosure of both the school and the professor expressing these concerns.
While research has proven that subliminal messages are, from a marketing standpoint, mostly ineffective, one has to wonder about the advertising possibilities of this type of technology.
Sure, there are the obvious "private advertising" applications mentioned in the article, but this kind of thing can be very interesting - and very frightening.
Picture - you're driving along a road during rush hour. Suddenly, your skull registers the squeal of tires and a massive crash. Or, walking down a sidewalk, a quiet voice inside your head whispers that you're all going to die.
Like any new technology, this one sounds fun, but is going to require some degree of regulations and control to avoid abuse.
And two years from now, the RIAA charges everyone that's been using Napster/Kazaa/Morpheus/Gnutella/Etc for all the music they've "bought".
Given that:
* The FBI has recently begun an initiative to hire 600 new agents, as they are grossly understaffed.
* This initiative calls for massive amount of technical/computer agents, as the Bureau cannot keep them in employment due to corporations offering them triple their salary for less work, better hours, and a less stressful environment.
* Regional HQ offices group internet crime investigations in squads with embezzlement, insurance fraud, identity fraud, and other white-collar crimes.
* FBI field offices have, at best, two or three computer specialists who can deal with problems within the jurisdiction of the field office.
* White-collar squads have a four-month backlog of cases they need to investigate before moving on to cases that would come in today.
* For every computer-related investigation that comes in, a case comes in for insurance fraud, one comes in for public embezzlement, and one comes in for public bribery.
* Rating the above four case types by public profile and positive media exposure, computer investigations come as lowest priority. (While everyone loves seeing their city council members get arrested for accepting bribes, very few care if Joe Hacker is arrested for harassing a webiste the majority of America has never even heard of.)
Something tells me that, while this Act might indeed infringe on privacy rights, the FBI has better things to do than put taps on every computer in library in America. Further, they lack the manpower to monitor those taps or snoop public computers, given all the cases computer specialists are called on to handle. More likely, they will take advantage of this new "privelage" when they know the lead to be a solid one, and have reason to believe it will lead to an arrest.
Anyway, just my $0.02 USD.
Perhaps now Lance Bass can finally make it into space!
Anyone else remember the Win 98 demo where the Great Gates was dealt a GPF? Anyone else have a sense of deja vu coming on?