Tag: Technology and Computers
Dead Wild Roses: Do Robots Deserve Rights?
A deliciously wriggling can of worms this topic is. I lean toward the answer being yes, but having rights in our society isn’t a guarantee of justice or fairness. I would hope that by the time sentient AI becomes a thing, we have our own house in order so we
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: In a Nutshell – Terrorism & Mass Surveillance – Kurzgesagt
Safety? Security? – A window into our fearful past and what we’ve lost of our privacy.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why I Won’t Use A Cellphone – Philip Reed
On the level folks, I do use a cellphone – a smart phone even. But I’m not sure I like it. I most certainly enjoy the GPS that comes with it, as finding those schools tucked away in suburban hell can be very tricky, even at the best of times.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Autonomous Vehicles
The dour feminist in me would like to point out that women are still struggling toward full autonomy in society after some 2000 years of ‘civilization’ ( :/ ), but the hot topic of self driving vehicles has crossed my desk and merits a comment or two with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Just A Friendly Reminder – Fight for Net Neutrality
The fight to maintain Net Neutrality has been raging. You have not heard about it because it is not in the big companies interests for you to know about it. Think it isn’t a big deal? Please partake in the observed behaviour of said companies and remind yourself that these
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Meta Musical Interlude – Eye Tracking A Pianist
Being a piano student and slowly learning the craft I found it fascinating to see the differences between how two pianists tackled and tracked their music. Filed under: Music, Technology and Computers Tagged: Eye Tracking, The DWR Friday Meta Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Scripting, Colours, and Online Services, Oh My!
Hard hitting social commentary to resume soon on DWR. Today, I have a bit of personal fluff that I hope will bring a smile to your day. TL;DR version provided at the end if you’re pressed for time. Just scroll all the way down. I do not do well with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Efficiently Grinding the Precariate – Scheduling Efficiencies – Weapons of Math Destruction
I’m currently reading a book called Weapons of Math Destruction, inside Cathy O’Neil details how ‘Big Data’ (via the use of opaque algorithms) is increasing inequality and threatening democracy in the industrialized world. About half-way done and the sad word of the day that I’ve learned from the book
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Our Families, Technology and Having the ‘Right’ Experience
We can lump this video in with the others that attempt to shed light on issues in society that matter while discreetly hawking their wares in the background. The best form of advertising? I’m not sure, but the commercial makes space for some thinking about how generational experiences are becoming
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: In Which Intransigentia tries playing Video Games
How I (mostly) feel about video games I grew up playing with Barbies and reading books, and didn’t really use a computer for anything other than basic word processing until around the turn of the century. On top of that, I have really bad hand-eye coordination, and not great depth
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Probably the Only Way Our Family Will Get Bigger – Robostyle!
The idea of having to be responsible 24/7 for the life of another is, frankly, quite repulsive. I’m not sure as to the reasons why our society has a fetish for raising children, but it needs to stop. There are too many of us human types on the planet anyways.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Jonathan Zittrain – Wikipedia Works Well in Practice, Just Not In Theory
It is kind of amazing how Wikipedia manages to survive given all the anti-reality tendencies of the human race. Religion, extreme right and left politics – wikipedia manages to muddle through most of the time and present a version of truth that is mostly acceptable. More amazing is that the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: People are the Weakest Link – Security Camera Madness.
Ask any IT professional about security and you can almost always prepare yourself for a story or three about people using strongly encrypted passwords such as ‘password’ or ‘admin’. Or if it is a particularly good day, helping people understand that encrypted functions exist… Here is story from CBC.ca about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Humans Need Not Apply
I’ll treasure my special snowflake status as a special needs teacher until the teaching profession succumbs to the efficient robo-teachers of the future. :> I’m guessing that behavioural robot teachers will air-deploy Valium and whatever else is required to maintain the learning environment. Filed under: Technology and Computers Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Weapons, Death and Top 5 Lists
We, as a species have had the capacity to end ourselves quite completely since the late 1940′s. We often have our greatest minds working highly creative ways of ending human life. What bothers me the most about this quick video is the amount of ingenuity necessary to bring these designs
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Big Brother and You – Lawrence Lessig on Privacy Rights.
Some relevant background given the recent publicity of how much our governments pry into our personal lives. Whatever your take on recent revelations about government spying on our phone calls and Internet activity, there’s no denying that Big Brother is bigger and less brotherly than we thought. What’s the resulting
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There Is No Laser Removal For That – Your Digital Tattoo
Yet another reminder about the permanence of your digital comings and goings. Some of the reasons mentioned here are why I choose to blog under a pseudonym 🙂 Filed under: Internet, Technology and Computers Tagged: idenity protection, Online Presence, the interwebs
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not enough faces, not enough palms
An explosion and/or fire at Shaw Court in Calgary has knocked out a significant quantity of telecommunications equipment, affecting not only bank machines and radio stations, but stuff like 911 service and the program that tells ambulances which hospital they should take a patient to. Calgary Fire Department spokesperson Jayson
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I love the new Copyright Math – TED Talks Rob Reid
I’m thinking we may need to investigate the MPAA’s claims about piracy and copyright… Oh and we get redefine terms as well: Filed under: Internet, Media, Technology and Computers Tagged: Copyright, Humour, MPAA, MPAA Histronics, Piracy
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