After reading the article by Kathleen Lubeck in the Ensign, I was a little unimpressed by the information presented until I realized that it was published in June 1984. It is comforting to me that technology savvy members of the church have always been ready and willing to share the newest technological advances with other members of the church (or work for the church) to further the work of the Lord. An example of this is the FamilySearch project, which is using cutting edge research and technology to allow for easier genealogical research.
I feel that in general, people should be willing to help others; in the field of Computer Science, this could mean contributing to open source projects or developing applications to otherwise make lives simpler. I am a strong proponent of open source projects because it completely removes one of the prime motivators from the project (i.e. greed). Without greed, there is less reason to try to produce something mediocre just for the paycheck.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Facebook's guinea pigs
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/02/technology/social/facebook-experiment/index.html
Facebook has apparently acknowledged the error of their ways, as far as experimenting on us goes, after facing such an uproar about the breach of privacy and user trust their experiments caused. I'm not sure how I feel about these experiments; I feel that an A/B test would probably be okay, as long as the user agrees to it. I personally am a web administrator (and architect) for a website, and one of the site's main goals is to give users what they want. Therefore, I think any experiments should be opt-in instead of opt-out. At the same time, I feel that a website's owners can definitely monitor the endpoints that are being used on the server, but not the information that is sent across, nor to where it goes, without express permission from the user.
Facebook has apparently acknowledged the error of their ways, as far as experimenting on us goes, after facing such an uproar about the breach of privacy and user trust their experiments caused. I'm not sure how I feel about these experiments; I feel that an A/B test would probably be okay, as long as the user agrees to it. I personally am a web administrator (and architect) for a website, and one of the site's main goals is to give users what they want. Therefore, I think any experiments should be opt-in instead of opt-out. At the same time, I feel that a website's owners can definitely monitor the endpoints that are being used on the server, but not the information that is sent across, nor to where it goes, without express permission from the user.
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