Oh, you are so right. The male way of genocide, nuclear war and all manner of "my dick is bigger than yours" strutting and stand-offs has obviously been such a better way to assert dominance and beat down all those stupid countries!
Not disagreeing with you, but a definite issue is the large size of the astronaut core overall. Why have so many people, at very high cost, been accepted and trained only to then wait for years for their number to come up and the chance to participate in a mission? It's not unreasonable to think that a smaller group would be easier to monitor for social problems, and correspondingly decrease the probability of something like this happening. If NASA has invested thousands (millions?) per person in training, then they should be paying better attention to these people - they are in effect quite a precious asset. I'd say NASA has a lot of egg on their face here, even if they won't step up to the plate and admit it.
Yes, and it extends further than this. I've scored a number of higher quality items at estate sales, all manufactured at least 30 years ago: metal rather than plastic snow shovel, office equipment, bakeware. An old Maytag dryer, refurbished by an older guy who knew what he was doing, runs circles around any appliance purchased in the last ten years. The lesser quality, higher volume sales curve won out over the higher quality, lower sales volume one somewhere in the last n decades. Consumers born post this transition (1980?) will not have had as much exposure to higher quality manufacturing and base expectations on what they know - hence replacing the hole punch every five years is normal. Yet the argument breaks down for many consumer items - for instance, I've got no desire to trade in my sweet fast ride for a older heavier less fuel efficient version.
WRT software: patches are becoming so ubiquitous they are part of the culture. Whether this reflects higher inherent complexity and still evolving process or simply acceptance of crappy quality is harder to discern.
Their arrogant attitude that gives them the "right" to break laws (national and international) for a "greater good"
Yes. Not unlike the arrogant attitude that some corporations use to bend rules, break laws, and continue to rape the planet, all in the name of a greater profit.
They have duplicated to some degree the tactics they abhor in their enemies. This is no different than the anti-abortion whack jobs committing
murder at clinics.
I've been lamenting with friends on message boards about how lame slashdot stories are and the ill-conceived attempts to be uber-geek-cool. Consider a hypothetical story poster comes in after somehow making it through screening by cowboyneal. In the ensuing discussion the poster proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate and clever as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any adult capable of reading more than two sentences on a tiny laptop display. Do you tell them? Quietly step away, snigger in disgust, resist flaming and say nothing? Play with them with sarcastic evil comments the way your cat plays with injured mice (because you're a closet sicko and keep buying the damn mice and putting them in the house)? Should you post a warning and tell them how worthless and stupid they are? Should you email all your techie friends and tell them to avoid slashdot for the day? Is there any obligation to guide them in gaining
real experience posting good stories and questions that will bring home buckets of mod points? Can you give them any advice or will cowboyneal get really really mad?
OK, sorry, couldn't resist; someone probably already mentioned it - why not rewrite the screening process yourself to avoid this? Maybe someone in HR is paying too much attention to the hot certification buzzword crap of the microsecond on the resume.
Yes. I think another aspect is also cultural expectations. Americans have had not had to work that hard recently - we've had amazing economic power and I think this plays in. We've lost the moral value of hard work and delaying gratification or, shudder, doing something for the betterment of people other than ourselves. It is still the case that immigrants and foreign students coming to US universities have a work ethic that allows them to leap ahead, much to the chagrin of Americans who often express this in resentment. Yet one, two or n generations behind their ancestors were doing the exact same thing. Paucity of resources and opportunities correlate directly with motivation.
I agree that unconscious or conscious use of props or tricks can work in the short term, but they probably won't lead to long term behavior changes - it's more of a short term fix and once that drug wears out the student or person is in trouble. An open discussion of discipline, motivation and learning style
differences would certainly benefit the education system - far more than endless NCLB exams - these things and the attendant paperwork are killing the spirit of our teachers. Students deserve better such that they can appreciate what a gift open knowledge sharing, in this case incarnated as free online courses, actually is.
Many syndicated columnists are also snarky, self-righteous and pretentious. What we have learned over the last five years is that having editors, deadlines and a real job generally doesn't make the slightest difference.
Well, good and depressing point. I disagree in part though. The structure of the organization and an editor tend to add value. Otherwise there is precious little in the way of thoughts and the send button. The culture of posting comments in response to blogs is also different than that of letters to the editor in traditional print. People often immediately resort to brutal and nasty responses that are automatically rejected by the writer. The forced response lag time in print achieves two things that online can't: first the issue and thoughts simply settle, this brings more reflection and less reaction; second there is still a higher level of overall civility because again the editor can either not print a vicious response or selectively edit particularly egregious words. Additionally, if only because standards should count, print at the bare minimum goes through a spell checker. A local TV news site I read cannot post stories for more than two days without obvious grammar and spelling errors.
What matters is whether you are any good. You also have to be prepared to work for years before you have any real success - whether you are on paper or online.
Agreed. This is a true statement in all professions.
Newspapers as they are now are in a death spiral; the online model just works better for news, but newspapers have no particular advantage there over anyone else. They pull most of their stories from the wire feeds, and anyone can do that. Anyone can do analysis and commentary too. Again, what matters is whether you are any good.
Is this ultimately good for news consumers? I think not.
Syndicated columnists have editors, deadlines, real jobs. Socio-political bloggers, on average, are snarky, self-righteous and pretentious. I sincerely hope you will stick it with it. I subscribe to two print papers and read a number of online ones. The professional offerings of syndicated columnists, again on average, are of superior quality to any blog offerings. Perhaps I haven't read the right political blogs. Perhaps I don't care anymore - they all seem to suffer this insidious, ridiculous in your face quality of the Nauseating Cheerleader Class President. Careful analysis and research count a lot more than reactive jabs - a blog by its very nature is resistive to the former and predisposed to the latter.
Another option altogether is simply to pursue both, and wait 'til a fork in your road forces you to choose one over the other.
This story is generating all sorts of commentary, possibly by inebriated posters, while the tech stories before and after are languishing in only double digit response counts!
But really, it doesn't take a surgeon (cue rimshot - a "plastic" surgeon! Thanks, I play here all night, love you guys) to successfully open even the toughest of packages safely and quickly. It just takes, as my subject says, "patience". Calmly apply the scissors, and you will get to the prize in well under a minute. Freak out and try to tear into it with hulk-fury-muscles, and you'll break the toy and probably injure yourself, while taking well over a minute to get in.
Sounds like either a personality test for a job seeker, a modern day challenge at a zen retreat or the premise of a really funny SNL piece. Damn, I miss John Belushi.
Given that manufacturers won't respond to complaints and probably won't change their ways until faced with a class action lawsuit, this sounds like
a few opportunities could be had:
- An actually useful mall or other shopping area kiosk service: I would gladly pay a fee to someone equipped with a range of specialty
cutters to safely free merchandise; and yes I'd agree to not hold the helper responsible if they did inadvertently damage the item. I suspect over time
with repeated practice people would get quite adept.
- Web stores could easily use this in marketing items - insist that all purchases would be shipped sans the plastic and consider charging for this -
sure some customers would be turned off but quite a few will not.
- Can't material science / engineering not offer up a better low cost alternative? As someone already pointed out, what a huge waste of a petroleum
product with no chance of recycling. How stupid. I cannot believe that this is a market with no potential - surely someone out there knows of another
moldable medium that can simultaneously protect and display object foo, and then allow itself to be easily removed. At the least this could be thrown at
an introductory engineering class.
Would this not lead to an even more violent tit for tat society? Would the deterrent of a helmet-cam really modify behavior of the average car bound ass?
Context: I understand the motivation from personal experience on foot: wonderful to have complete strangers scream obscenities and lob full 32 oz cups of coke out the window at me.
How does a society lessen the root problem of untethered aggression? Why are people so full of rage? How do we keep our children from inhaling this hate? I can't see helmet-cams, lawsuits and filing police reports addressing the instigating intractable insouciance, rather it would only serve the short-lived "I got you back you jerk" impulse.
But the same stipulates that the all powerful all knowing CFG already knew that this event would come about and created all the events leading up to this event to ensure its eventuality. Hierarchical religious doctrine falls hard on these swords of contradiction while trying to maintain absolutism.
0) go back in the archives and find a contentious 'my favorite language is' debate
1) make a shortlist of n of the most passionately argued responses
2) go back in the archives and find a contentious 'this was my worst programming problem nightmare' debate
3) make a shortlist of m of the most passionately argued responses
4) create n x m language/problem set and program n solutions to your m problems
5) post your findings; adjust n, m to suit your available time accordingly but preferably expand them a bit; change "worst" and "nightmare" to "most interesting" and "challenge" depending on whether you're a pessimist or optimist
You are completely correct. Many of the people submitting comments also missed this point as well.
The article underlines an educational fallacy that is all too common in the US - the leftovers of the failed good self esteem psychology experiment. Math proficiency comes with practice, not unlike anything else worth mastering. The primary error was trying to sell students on the further fallacy that every moment should be enjoyable in a squishy way. The secondary error was letting standards for instructors slip. Rather than the NCLB histronics how about hard core testing of the teachers charged with instructing students? If we held teachers uniformly to a higher standard then we would see less of the softie math books peddling application over core knowledge.
A lot of subjects can be made hard, that is, taught with higher expectations in mind. The US has been on this huge downward spiral for so long it's pathetic: we water down textbooks, don't expect much in the way of homework, push teachers to inflate grades, and as the story points out, expend energy making subjects like math cute and palatable. It's happy meal math, just good enough, but not really good at all and increasingly a national embarrassment.
you obviously have issues with conducting a debate without berating the person posting from the other side of the coin
Probably because you have completely missed the main point and seem woefully misinformed on the potential abuses that such a system can have and evolve into.
There has been many stories of people ending up ON the runway without being stopped by law enforcement or your badge holders. If someone removes the tag - if you had read the article you would have known that the system would be alerted to such removal. Never give the system more credit than it should. We know how it should work, but does it work as effortlessly. I doubt it.
Exactly how many stories? This assertion requires more substantiation. And you would add more technology rather than addressing the root cause of people not doing their jobs correctly? The larger point for you to think about is never give people more credit than you should. Invasive systems can and will be abused by small minded people on power trips.
What the hell is this? Take care of your brat and stop restricting my freedom? The argument is the benefit of RFID in this scenario. You haven't refuted this one as well. Seems to be a common theme with you now.
Yes, that's right. I have children. It is my responsibility to keep them safe in a public place at all times. It is not the legal responsibility of any other airport patron. Other patrons without children have the right to pass through an airport without undue burden. Further I question any parent who relies on tracking to do their job for them. That is not parenting, it's lameness and laziness. But even if some parents would want this, others will not. You're also missing the point that it's an emotional ruse commonly used now to push obnoxious legislation - this "think of the children" is quite convenient as it immediately labels anyone questioning a decision or idea as anti-child. That's not fair debate. And, further, speaking of fair debate if you're going to entreat someone to not use an ad-hominen attack then you better be prepared to not do so yourself. Your last sentence is clearly that.
RFID is cost effective. The more bureacracy you add to the mix only complicates the issue. You haven't given an alternative idea as to how this could work more efficiently
Who says we need any alternative? You haven't made a cogent argument why this is necessary at all. Do you honestly think this system is going to catch a terrorist? Baloney. Ever read what the majority of the camera watchers do in London with all their CCTVs? Watch chicks. That's right, it's a great system for horny lonely guys sitting in cold control rooms to check out women and track them.
If the information is out there someone is going to buy it.
And this doesn't bother you? It does in fact bother a lot of people. It is quite bothersome to now be filmed just to buy a quart of milk. It's quite bothersome to have Amazon suggesting things to me. It's quite bothersome to feel watched, exploited and manipulated. A lot of people really don't want personalized behavioral profiles exploited with advertising and product placement.
Listen genius, its not so stupid when you start to break it down. Its called process of elimination. Detectives use it in their line of business all the time. Any variable that could potentially come in play must be examined. How can you tell if staff and passenger interactions were innocuous? Well now that you have that information based on knowing the whereabouts of the passenger - maybe you can eliminate that possibility.
Again, you're way overblown here on personal attack. The suggestion of examining any variable is untenable for several reasons. This is not going to be possible real time for millions of people passing through airports. Human behavoir is noisy and unpredictable, not some convenient set of data points that easily lend themselves
I'm recalling a sick B movie where prisoners were fitted with collars linked to the perimeter - try to escape and the head is blown up.
Hmm..and now some municipalities are requiring permanent RFID tags or tattoos for dogs...guess it won't be a big step in ten years to start RFID tagging
people and then so very convenient to dispose of them when they step out of line.;-)
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The female influence on modern politics.
Oh, you are so right. The male way of genocide, nuclear war and all manner of "my dick is bigger than yours" strutting and stand-offs has obviously been such a better way to assert dominance and beat down all those stupid countries!
To know the dessert is to love it.
Especially when there is lots of whipped cream on top!
Not disagreeing with you, but a definite issue is the large size of the astronaut core overall. Why have so many people, at very high cost, been accepted and trained only to then wait for years for their number to come up and the chance to participate in a mission? It's not unreasonable to think that a smaller group would be easier to monitor for social problems, and correspondingly decrease the probability of something like this happening. If NASA has invested thousands (millions?) per person in training, then they should be paying better attention to these people - they are in effect quite a precious asset. I'd say NASA has a lot of egg on their face here, even if they won't step up to the plate and admit it.
Yes, and it extends further than this. I've scored a number of higher quality items at estate sales, all manufactured at least 30 years ago: metal rather than plastic snow shovel, office equipment, bakeware. An old Maytag dryer, refurbished by an older guy who knew what he was doing, runs circles around any appliance purchased in the last ten years. The lesser quality, higher volume sales curve won out over the higher quality, lower sales volume one somewhere in the last n decades. Consumers born post this transition (1980?) will not have had as much exposure to higher quality manufacturing and base expectations on what they know - hence replacing the hole punch every five years is normal. Yet the argument breaks down for many consumer items - for instance, I've got no desire to trade in my sweet fast ride for a older heavier less fuel efficient version.
WRT software: patches are becoming so ubiquitous they are part of the culture. Whether this reflects higher inherent complexity and still evolving process or simply acceptance of crappy quality is harder to discern.
And I'm sorry to say, but your response, cowardly posted no less, is nothing more than abusive ad hominen. Can you do better?
Their arrogant attitude that gives them the "right" to break laws (national and international) for a "greater good"
Yes. Not unlike the arrogant attitude that some corporations use to bend rules, break laws, and continue to rape the planet, all in the name of a greater profit. They have duplicated to some degree the tactics they abhor in their enemies. This is no different than the anti-abortion whack jobs committing murder at clinics.
Precisely. Which is why the aliens seeded planets all over the galaxy with the same primordial proto DNA long ago.
Ugh. Previous link is now forcing a login. Better:
a inst_national_i_d__card
http://www.populistamerica.com/34_states_align_ag
The state movement to reject is large:
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http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID
The fundamentalist Christians are out breeding the rest of us. We must catch up.
Why mod this funny?
I've been lamenting with friends on message boards about how lame slashdot stories are and the ill-conceived attempts to be uber-geek-cool. Consider a hypothetical story poster comes in after somehow making it through screening by cowboyneal. In the ensuing discussion the poster proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate and clever as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any adult capable of reading more than two sentences on a tiny laptop display. Do you tell them? Quietly step away, snigger in disgust, resist flaming and say nothing? Play with them with sarcastic evil comments the way your cat plays with injured mice (because you're a closet sicko and keep buying the damn mice and putting them in the house)? Should you post a warning and tell them how worthless and stupid they are? Should you email all your techie friends and tell them to avoid slashdot for the day? Is there any obligation to guide them in gaining real experience posting good stories and questions that will bring home buckets of mod points? Can you give them any advice or will cowboyneal get really really mad?
OK, sorry, couldn't resist; someone probably already mentioned it - why not rewrite the screening process yourself to avoid this? Maybe someone in HR is paying too much attention to the hot certification buzzword crap of the microsecond on the resume.
Yes. I think another aspect is also cultural expectations. Americans have had not had to work that hard recently - we've had amazing economic power and I think this plays in. We've lost the moral value of hard work and delaying gratification or, shudder, doing something for the betterment of people other than ourselves. It is still the case that immigrants and foreign students coming to US universities have a work ethic that allows them to leap ahead, much to the chagrin of Americans who often express this in resentment. Yet one, two or n generations behind their ancestors were doing the exact same thing. Paucity of resources and opportunities correlate directly with motivation.
I agree that unconscious or conscious use of props or tricks can work in the short term, but they probably won't lead to long term behavior changes - it's more of a short term fix and once that drug wears out the student or person is in trouble. An open discussion of discipline, motivation and learning style differences would certainly benefit the education system - far more than endless NCLB exams - these things and the attendant paperwork are killing the spirit of our teachers. Students deserve better such that they can appreciate what a gift open knowledge sharing, in this case incarnated as free online courses, actually is.
This is an excellent observation. It seems humans at a certain level are inherently lazy. Why is this?
Many syndicated columnists are also snarky, self-righteous and pretentious. What we have learned over the last five years is that having editors, deadlines and a real job generally doesn't make the slightest difference.
Well, good and depressing point. I disagree in part though. The structure of the organization and an editor tend to add value. Otherwise there is precious little in the way of thoughts and the send button. The culture of posting comments in response to blogs is also different than that of letters to the editor in traditional print. People often immediately resort to brutal and nasty responses that are automatically rejected by the writer. The forced response lag time in print achieves two things that online can't: first the issue and thoughts simply settle, this brings more reflection and less reaction; second there is still a higher level of overall civility because again the editor can either not print a vicious response or selectively edit particularly egregious words. Additionally, if only because standards should count, print at the bare minimum goes through a spell checker. A local TV news site I read cannot post stories for more than two days without obvious grammar and spelling errors.
What matters is whether you are any good. You also have to be prepared to work for years before you have any real success - whether you are on paper or online.
Agreed. This is a true statement in all professions.
Newspapers as they are now are in a death spiral; the online model just works better for news, but newspapers have no particular advantage there over anyone else. They pull most of their stories from the wire feeds, and anyone can do that. Anyone can do analysis and commentary too. Again, what matters is whether you are any good.
Is this ultimately good for news consumers? I think not.
Syndicated columnists have editors, deadlines, real jobs. Socio-political bloggers, on average, are snarky, self-righteous and pretentious. I sincerely hope you will stick it with it. I subscribe to two print papers and read a number of online ones. The professional offerings of syndicated columnists, again on average, are of superior quality to any blog offerings. Perhaps I haven't read the right political blogs. Perhaps I don't care anymore - they all seem to suffer this insidious, ridiculous in your face quality of the Nauseating Cheerleader Class President. Careful analysis and research count a lot more than reactive jabs - a blog by its very nature is resistive to the former and predisposed to the latter.
Another option altogether is simply to pursue both, and wait 'til a fork in your road forces you to choose one over the other.
This story is generating all sorts of commentary, possibly by inebriated posters, while the tech stories before and after are languishing in only double digit response counts!
But really, it doesn't take a surgeon (cue rimshot - a "plastic" surgeon! Thanks, I play here all night, love you guys) to successfully open even the toughest of packages safely and quickly. It just takes, as my subject says, "patience". Calmly apply the scissors, and you will get to the prize in well under a minute. Freak out and try to tear into it with hulk-fury-muscles, and you'll break the toy and probably injure yourself, while taking well over a minute to get in.
Sounds like either a personality test for a job seeker, a modern day challenge at a zen retreat or the premise of a really funny SNL piece. Damn, I miss John Belushi.
Given that manufacturers won't respond to complaints and probably won't change their ways until faced with a class action lawsuit, this sounds like a few opportunities could be had:
- An actually useful mall or other shopping area kiosk service: I would gladly pay a fee to someone equipped with a range of specialty cutters to safely free merchandise; and yes I'd agree to not hold the helper responsible if they did inadvertently damage the item. I suspect over time with repeated practice people would get quite adept.
- Web stores could easily use this in marketing items - insist that all purchases would be shipped sans the plastic and consider charging for this - sure some customers would be turned off but quite a few will not.
- Can't material science / engineering not offer up a better low cost alternative? As someone already pointed out, what a huge waste of a petroleum product with no chance of recycling. How stupid. I cannot believe that this is a market with no potential - surely someone out there knows of another moldable medium that can simultaneously protect and display object foo, and then allow itself to be easily removed. At the least this could be thrown at an introductory engineering class.
Would this not lead to an even more violent tit for tat society? Would the deterrent of a helmet-cam really modify behavior of the average car bound ass?
Context: I understand the motivation from personal experience on foot: wonderful to have complete strangers scream obscenities and lob full 32 oz cups of coke out the window at me.
How does a society lessen the root problem of untethered aggression? Why are people so full of rage? How do we keep our children from inhaling this hate? I can't see helmet-cams, lawsuits and filing police reports addressing the instigating intractable insouciance, rather it would only serve the short-lived "I got you back you jerk" impulse.
My Dear Son,
After you returned home I went back to reading slashdot, read your comments on my ineptitude, and in a snit of indignation wrote you out of the will!
Dad
But the same stipulates that the all powerful all knowing CFG already knew that this event would come about and created all the events leading up to this event to ensure its eventuality. Hierarchical religious doctrine falls hard on these swords of contradiction while trying to maintain absolutism.
0) go back in the archives and find a contentious 'my favorite language is' debate
1) make a shortlist of n of the most passionately argued responses
2) go back in the archives and find a contentious 'this was my worst programming problem nightmare' debate
3) make a shortlist of m of the most passionately argued responses
4) create n x m language/problem set and program n solutions to your m problems
5) post your findings; adjust n, m to suit your available time accordingly but preferably expand them a bit; change "worst" and "nightmare" to "most interesting" and "challenge" depending on whether you're a pessimist or optimist
You are completely correct. Many of the people submitting comments also missed this point as well.
The article underlines an educational fallacy that is all too common in the US - the leftovers of the failed good self esteem psychology experiment. Math proficiency comes with practice, not unlike anything else worth mastering. The primary error was trying to sell students on the further fallacy that every moment should be enjoyable in a squishy way. The secondary error was letting standards for instructors slip. Rather than the NCLB histronics how about hard core testing of the teachers charged with instructing students? If we held teachers uniformly to a higher standard then we would see less of the softie math books peddling application over core knowledge.
A lot of subjects can be made hard, that is, taught with higher expectations in mind. The US has been on this huge downward spiral for so long it's pathetic: we water down textbooks, don't expect much in the way of homework, push teachers to inflate grades, and as the story points out, expend energy making subjects like math cute and palatable. It's happy meal math, just good enough, but not really good at all and increasingly a national embarrassment.
you obviously have issues with conducting a debate without berating the person posting from the other side of the coin
Probably because you have completely missed the main point and seem woefully misinformed on the potential abuses that such a system can have and evolve into.
There has been many stories of people ending up ON the runway without being stopped by law enforcement or your badge holders. If someone removes the tag - if you had read the article you would have known that the system would be alerted to such removal. Never give the system more credit than it should. We know how it should work, but does it work as effortlessly. I doubt it.
Exactly how many stories? This assertion requires more substantiation. And you would add more technology rather than addressing the root cause of people not doing their jobs correctly? The larger point for you to think about is never give people more credit than you should. Invasive systems can and will be abused by small minded people on power trips.
What the hell is this? Take care of your brat and stop restricting my freedom? The argument is the benefit of RFID in this scenario. You haven't refuted this one as well. Seems to be a common theme with you now.
Yes, that's right. I have children. It is my responsibility to keep them safe in a public place at all times. It is not the legal responsibility of any other airport patron. Other patrons without children have the right to pass through an airport without undue burden. Further I question any parent who relies on tracking to do their job for them. That is not parenting, it's lameness and laziness. But even if some parents would want this, others will not. You're also missing the point that it's an emotional ruse commonly used now to push obnoxious legislation - this "think of the children" is quite convenient as it immediately labels anyone questioning a decision or idea as anti-child. That's not fair debate. And, further, speaking of fair debate if you're going to entreat someone to not use an ad-hominen attack then you better be prepared to not do so yourself. Your last sentence is clearly that.
RFID is cost effective. The more bureacracy you add to the mix only complicates the issue. You haven't given an alternative idea as to how this could work more efficiently
Who says we need any alternative? You haven't made a cogent argument why this is necessary at all. Do you honestly think this system is going to catch a terrorist? Baloney. Ever read what the majority of the camera watchers do in London with all their CCTVs? Watch chicks. That's right, it's a great system for horny lonely guys sitting in cold control rooms to check out women and track them.
If the information is out there someone is going to buy it.
And this doesn't bother you? It does in fact bother a lot of people. It is quite bothersome to now be filmed just to buy a quart of milk. It's quite bothersome to have Amazon suggesting things to me. It's quite bothersome to feel watched, exploited and manipulated. A lot of people really don't want personalized behavioral profiles exploited with advertising and product placement.
Listen genius, its not so stupid when you start to break it down. Its called process of elimination. Detectives use it in their line of business all the time. Any variable that could potentially come in play must be examined. How can you tell if staff and passenger interactions were innocuous? Well now that you have that information based on knowing the whereabouts of the passenger - maybe you can eliminate that possibility.
Again, you're way overblown here on personal attack. The suggestion of examining any variable is untenable for several reasons. This is not going to be possible real time for millions of people passing through airports. Human behavoir is noisy and unpredictable, not some convenient set of data points that easily lend themselves
I'm recalling a sick B movie where prisoners were fitted with collars linked to the perimeter - try to escape and the head is blown up.
;-)
Hmm..and now some municipalities are requiring permanent RFID tags or tattoos for dogs...guess it won't be a big step in ten years to start RFID tagging people and then so very convenient to dispose of them when they step out of line.