Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Thank you Lanny Howe

LANNY HOWE PUTS HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH

Thank you Lanny Howe, You just helped solve the problem of why David Israel is NOT a competent  administrator.

LANNY WROTE AN ARTICLE IN THE UCO Reporter extolling the NSA and their success in fighting Terrorism with the aid of Computers.   In the article David Israel tells Lanny the key to intelligence gathering is piecing together bits and pieces of information by having computer access to ALL communications.  This is what the spy agency does and this is how David Israel thinks –like a computer. Unfortunately, a computer unlike the mind does not have the ability to process information that has NOT been fed into it. Therefore, without the necessary information to decide, the computer is helpless and is unable to compute information the way the human mind can.

 The mind makes quick decisions without having the information stored in its brain. Very often these decisions are based on what we call instinct rather than knowledge. This instinct is the ability of the mind to instantly process what to do in a given situation without having the knowledge been fed to it beforehand.

An example of this is when a driver was recently heading west on Sample Road in Ft Lauderdale with a computerized GPS telling it how to reach its destination. As the driver approached the Florida Turnpike, five emergency fire engine trucks passed and stopped traffic cold.  The driver could not move. After 20 minutes, the driver realized he was not going to reach his destination on time.

 These are the problems computers, and humans face every day when a sudden obstacle interferes with achieving a goal. The computer becomes stymied but the human mind instantly surveys the situation and goes into action.

 The GPS computer which was already programmed had to wait for the traffic to subside. However, the driver could see a road crossing on the left a hundred yards ahead and noticed some cars making a U-turn.  The driver slid into the left lane, made the U-turn and managed to get to his destination on time.  The computer, which operates like David Israel   was forced to wait in traffic until the emergency vehicles moved and did not reach its destination on time.  This is the difference between an administrator who depends on computers like David Israel, and an administrator who depends on mind,  ability and instinct  like Esther Sutofsky.

WHO WOULD YOU VOTE FOR?


3 comments:

  1. There is a set of initials, an acronym - GIGO - garbage in, garbage out. The computer, as Olga stated, depends on its being fed but humans are not machines so even with the machines being being fed, there is still that unknown human input that can change the world. The best way to run this world is to reach people, talk to people, think, be creative and not sit and look at a machine all day. Computers have their uses but they are subject to the humans who use them.
    Anyone following the news will know that San Francisco is now having a serious issue with the population being split between the techies and the rest of the population. You see, when one becomes a techie, and only a techie, as has David Israel, then he forgets the real people around and forgets to behave towards them as people, not as machines. This is not what we want anymore, not at all. People rule, not machines.

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  2. Esther I agree with you 100 %.

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