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Google Street View Helps Find Kidnapped Child
from the well-who-woulda-thunk? dept
You may remember that a couple months ago an advocacy group was trying to whip up a storm about Google's Street View service. The claim alleged that child predators would use Street View to find where children live and then kidnap them. Well, it turns out that Street View did assist with a kidnapping.
Only, not as the worriers predicted.
Instead, a smart cop was able to use Street View to help relocate a kidnapped child. In fact, in conjunction with the GPS data for the child's phone, provided by the cellular provider, the officer was able to use Street View to remotely find what he thought may be a motel in Virginia. Furthering Googling confirmed Street View and local police were able to find the child. Obviously, stories like this will be far and few between -- but so will ones where bad guys use technology in an evil way. That's the reality: technology can be good or bad, it depends on the user. Luckily, in this case, we had a clever cop using technology for the best.
Only, not as the worriers predicted.
Instead, a smart cop was able to use Street View to help relocate a kidnapped child. In fact, in conjunction with the GPS data for the child's phone, provided by the cellular provider, the officer was able to use Street View to remotely find what he thought may be a motel in Virginia. Furthering Googling confirmed Street View and local police were able to find the child. Obviously, stories like this will be far and few between -- but so will ones where bad guys use technology in an evil way. That's the reality: technology can be good or bad, it depends on the user. Luckily, in this case, we had a clever cop using technology for the best.
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Darn, you beat me to it. Precisely what I was going to say.
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What about the Terminator? The Terminator was designed by people to be a killing machine. The technology was not "bad," but the intent designed into the technology initially by people could be characterized as bad.
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Yay
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Google should sue the cop
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The two say the same thing.
The OP states that "Technology can be good or bad"
not that it is inherently either one or the other.
Cant you simply state that's its nice to see a kidnapped child rescued through the use of modern technology without trying to impress us all with your obviously superior grammar skills?
Please...
BTW It sure is nice to see a kidnapped child rescued through the use of what I personally consider to be "Good" technology.
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"Technology, like anything else, is not good or bad. It is the use of it that is good or bad."
Perhaps the article could have read, "technology can used for good or bad," but to quote an oft-used phrase, I think a moron in a hurry would see no difference in the two statements.
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So please follow your own advice next time and simply state that it is nice to see a kidnapped child rescued. That would be much better than making snide comments that turn out to be wrong and then getting huffy about it.
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The guy arguing with you was just pointing out your nitpicking and that most intelligent individuals would infer the same meaning as what you think the 'correct meaning' is. Only idiots and anal retentive folks would say there's a difference.
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Since when did he repeat "Luckily, in this case, we had a clever cop using technology for the best."?
You get an 'F'
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Please read my OP, I was not derogatory in any way. But hey, if you feel I dissed your hero, I am sorry.
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No, technology is just a tool, there's no such thing as bad (that is, evil) tech. It's the user that is good or bad.
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WHO CARES?!?!?!
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Ooooooold internet joke.
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Second. If the cop had the GPS info from the cell phone, why didn't he just put the info into a GPS unit and drive there?
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And people with nuclear arsenals kill way more people than people without.
That's why we should ban everything dangerous including those treacherous pointy pencils.
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Second. If the cop had the GPS info from the cell phone, why didn't he just put the info into a GPS unit and drive there?
Because googling the location and casing it online takes a lot less time (and gas) than driving from Massachusetts to Virginia on a hunch.
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Few and far between
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Okay, that is more precise. However, humans designed Skynet, and Skynet became sentient and programmed the Terminators to do harm to humans...
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/capers.html
interesting reading!
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> be a killing machine.
Actually, in the film, the Terminator was not designed by people. It was designed by a self-aware AI system who saw people as a threat to its existence.
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Terminators
Terminators are a fictional idea created by the writers of the series and therefore are designed by people since SkyNet is fictional as well.
wrap your mind around that one.
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