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You can't expect end users with little-to-no technical know-how to have the same common knowledge that you do.
by jjulius 6y ago
You can't expect end users with little-to-no technical know-how to have the same common knowledge that you do.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI watched a doco last night where researchers put a sounding beacon inside a shark. Inside it! They said something like "these sharks are used to cuts and scrapes and heal quickly." It's no wonder people don't immediately associate their phone with a locating beacon.
- pvaldes 6y agoMaybe I'm not translating correctly "sounding beacon", but I would assume that what you see was just an (I don't know the exact term) "electronic tag". This is standard procedure in ecology, veterinary and animal husbandry. We did it sometimes. Is a rice grain size object, and does not left any noticeable scar in fishes.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoAll good, I don’t have any issue with attaching or implanting tracking devices for research purposes in what looks like a wholly harmless way. From what they were saying, it emitted a ping every ten minutes, wasn’t entirely clear if it was acoustic or radio. Shark didn’t seem to mind.
- jeffbee 6y agoWell, why not? How can we improve general technological literacy? I don't want people to memorize the protocols, but I do want them to have the foundation of knowledge that would allow them to conclude that if the phone company can connect calls to your mobile handset, then they can also figure out roughly where it is. I'd also like for people to have the basic knowledge required to understand that GPS does not track you. It's the other way around. I'd like everyone to understand that mass and energy are conserved, the Earth orbits the Sun, etc.
- aylee 6y agoAbstracting away all of the details underlying the tech is a double edged sword. On one side, you get massively higher adoption due to a lower barrier to entry. On the other, you now have a massive population of folks who don’t understand the the “fundamentals”. I’m not sure we “need” to improve the general understanding. I mean how many ppl know how to change their own car tires or oil? If anything you just keep creating niches for ppl to make livings in.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago"Why does anyone need to know" is a restrictive premise. In my experience, what follows it are less rights, less ability, greater compliance & increased malleability (eg: susceptibility to "election meddling").
- TheAdamAndChe 6y agoThe median IQ is 100, meaning half of all people have IQs below 100. Many of them did not grow up in an environment that pushes lifelong learning. Lots of people do what they've been trained to do and nothing more, which is good! Our society needs people like that. But expecting people like that to think for themselves is a sure way to become needlessly frustrated. edit: switched average to median.
- steffan 6y agoThe measure that describes what you state would be the median, which is defined as the point at which there are as many values above as below. Averages will skew with large outliers on either side. E.g. if Bezos and I are alone in a room together, the average person in that room has $95B dollars. (Granted, in an n=2 situation, the median isn't meaningful either)
- TheAdamAndChe 6y agoYou're right, this has been fixed. Thanks!
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- amanaplanacanal 6y agoThis seems like a common tv and movie plot point though. If you don’t want to be found you have to destroy or lose your phone.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoMost folks generally understand how radio works.