The Red Group

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The Red Group

• I.T. Is But A Pretty Toy And An Improved Means To
  An Unimproved End

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The Red Team

• Leader
• Ekaterina Aksenova
• Speaker 1 (Impact Of Toys On Society)
• Conor OMalley
• Helpers
• Michael Doyle
• Owen McNally
• Speaker 2 (Gimmicks)
• Neil McGough
• Helper
• Colin Lyons

• Speaker 3(Privacy)
• Niall Casey
• Helpers
• Rehal Massoud
• Declan McGuire
• Rebuttal
• Kate
• PowerPoint
• Declan McGuire

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Speaker 1
Conor OMalley
Helpers
Michael Doyle
Owen McNally
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Toy

• Definition
• 1.Something of little importance.
• 2.An amusement.

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Computer Games And Robots
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September 11th
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Sales Of Computer Games Consoles
Console North America Japan/Asia Europe Total P
laystation 2 29.26 million 16.18 million 24.56
million 70 million Xbox 8.6 million 1.4
million 3.7 million 13.7 million GameCube 7.46
million 3.37 million 3.11 million 13.94
million -(www.pcvsconsole.com)
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Mobile Phones
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Concentration Of I.T. In Developed World
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Amish Community, US
New York, US
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Thoreaus Quote
so with a hundred other modern improvements
our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which
distract our attention from serious things. They
are but an improved means to an unimproved end.
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Speaker 2

• Neil McGough

Helper
Colin Lyons
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Growth And Trends In I.T.

• How this relates to the topic the uses we put
  IT and how these are nothing but toys.
• Headings
• Games industry figures and growth
• Products good or gimmicks?

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Gaming growth sector

• ATI fourth quarter income 61.2Million USD
• Up 174 from fourth quarter 2003
• ATI produce NOTHING but graphics cards.

ATI X800 Pro (Colin has one!)
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Gaming growth sector

• GTA San Andreas on release broke opening sales
  records in a weekend for both video games AND
  cinema opening releases in the UK.
• Furthermore, since its release it broke all
  cinema release records.

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Products, good or gimmicks?
PROCESSOR Intel p4 3.06ghz HT HDD 80GB RAM 512MB
DDR2 OPTICAL DRIVE DVD-RW DISPLAY 15.4 WXGA
TFT OPERATING SYSTEM Microsoft Windows XP
Home FEATURES modem, , NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Go
256Mb
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon 64 3000 CPU HDD 80GBRAM
512DDR 333 (2256MB)OPTICAL DRIVE DVD-Super
MultiDISPLAY 15.0" TFT OPERATING SYSTEM
Microsoft Windows XP HomeFEATURES ATi Mobility
Radeon 9700 128MB, Modem, Gbit LAN, Bluetooth,
802.11g Wireless LAN, 4-in-1 Card Reader
PROCESSOR Athlon 64 3400HDD 60GBRAM 512MB
(2256MB) DDROPTICAL DRIVE DVD-RW (Dual)DISPLAY
15.4" WXGA TFTOPERATING SYSTEM Microsoft Windows
XP HomeFEATURES Modem, Gigabit LAN/802.11g
Wireless LAN, Li-Ion, 4-in-1 Card reader, ATi
Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM
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1450 inc. VAT (1198 ex. VAT)
Alienware Area-51M 7700
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1429 inc. VAT (1217 ex. VAT)
Acer Ferrari 3000
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933 inc. VAT (794 ex. VAT)
Acer Aspire 1524WLMi
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Extreme Gimmicks
USB Mince Pie (GT Edition)
AK-MP3
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Speaker 3

• Niall Casey

Helpers
Declan McGuire
Rehal Massoud
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1984

• I.T. is an improved means to an unimproved end
• You had to live-did live,from habit that became
  instinct-in the assumption that every sound you
  made was overheard, and, expect in darkness,
  every movement scrutinised. -1984, George
  Orwell

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Our World Is Slowly Becoming Like Orwells

• Propaganda in the news is rife after september
  11th.
• Biased information is being delivered to us daily
  and our views are being affected.

Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf (Comical
Ali) -Presented the Iraqi people with false
information to a ridiculous exent.
I see a town full of happy smiling families
surrounded by trees and lakes with flower beds
full of roses. Im not dead and Iraq are winning
the war. Saddam is a nice man.
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Improved Means To Unimproved End
Before
After
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Privacy In The Workplace

• Email
• Employers are legally allowed to monitor email
• Even if there is no written agreement an
  employer can still peek into email.(www.nolo.com)
  
• Email statements of employees can live on
  indefinitely on in backup files.
• Software is freely available to monitor emails.

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Spam

• Spyware and Cookies
• Find your personal information, send emails
  accordingly.
• ISPs and search engines monitor users as they
  travel across Internet.
• The government and police are installing
  recording boxes in ISPs to record Internet
  surfing and downloads for evidence.(www2.palsol.co
  m/ee1/?hopsellitnow)
• In one test by the US Federal Trade Commission,
  an e-mail address posted in a chat room began
  receiving within eight minutes of submitting a
  post.(www.privacyinternational.org)

(Cheers for the pic greens!)
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U.S.-VISIT Programme

• George Bush Is Watching You!
• From Thursday September 30 2004, all visitors to
  the United States will be electronically
  face-scanned and fingerprinted on the US border
• US-VISIT will collect, assess, process and retain
  biographic, travel and biometric information on
  visitors to the US.
• Data on travellers from ally countries will be
  kept alongside data collected from nationals of
  countries that threaten to wage war, or are or
  were at war with the US -(www.privacyinterna
  tional.org)

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DARPA

• Monitors everything electronically

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