Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Keeping Children Safe


We all know that the internet has been a hunting grounds for sexual predators. It is getting worse and worse. I will not lie I love watching, "To Catch a Predator." That show is pretty funny, people walk in with a bag filled with condoms and alcohol and say they were just coming to visit the 13 year old that they asked to see a sexy picture of them a week earlier. The worst part about that show is that most of the predators have a job that is associated with children. But, I found on the internet a source that is taking a stand against predators using facebook. This source finds predators on facebook and deletes their profiles. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/thousands-of-sex-offenders-booted-from-facebook-myspace/%E2%80%8F My only problem with this is that if I had been convicted of a sex crime and looking to do it again, I wouldn't use my real name. So hopefully they have come up with a better, more efficient way of keeping these people off the internet. I just hope that will all the other updates with technology this is something they look into controlling.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

When will it stop?


After lecture this morning I began to think about how hightech is too hightech? When will all the updating stop? Before too long don't you think that we may become to hightech with gadgets, computers, and robots that we may eventually create something that could take us out? Who knows how this will all end up, hopefully not like the movie I-Robot. But with all these gadgets making life so much more easy for us wont it make our society lazy? I have already heard from several people that my generation is lazy and noone wants to work. So if we continue to get more and more inventions that make life easier for us I feel that this may becoming more and more true. I found a pretty good video that contains some good inventions and then some inventions that just kind of make you shake your head! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxcVpWcoBU (The ice cream cone just makes me laugh)

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