And generally it starts steam rolling when people start using it as conversation.

These individuals, though, generally don’t pay much attention to detail and have limited long term planning abilities. They have low situational awareness. I’ve seen the same people put into simulations of a project, and they generally need a manager or leader to tell them what to do.

Wow.

It wouldn’t have been much of a problem if the thousands of people who this one-sentence email didn’t apply do simply deleted it.

However, that didn’t happen. In the first five hours after the email was sent, hundreds of people felt the need to reply to the email and say, “I don’t think I belong on this message chain”. Unfortunately, each and every one of them used “reply to all”. So you had a rapid non-stop propagation of emails in everyone’s inbox, which led to an almost non-stop chime of bells and whistles (signalling new messages) on anyone’s cellphone linked to this work email account that entire night.

But the technological madness was only getting started. For the next 8 hours (between 10:30 PM and 3 or 4 in the morning), you had a non-stop stream of people angrily sending the same ironic message–“please stop replying to these messages!!!” If that wasn’t bad enough, there was still a steady stream of messages rolling in until 8 AM advising people to stop “replying to all” with their emails–while at the same time replying to the entire mailing list.

Only the IT people arriving in the morning could put a stop to it, but not before every person in the entire hospital network had accumulated 3000 new messages.

This is a problem not with the computers, but what is usually refered to as a “PEBKAC” issue.

Problem
Exists
Between
Keyboard
And
Chair

Other related issues include “ID10T” errors and “501 Clue Not Found” issues.

}}} By merging the lists in a program called MailChimp, admissions officers…

…essentially demonstrated that the identified primate in the designated software moniker was somewhat smarter than they are.

As someone who finally got hired after some five years of looking for the technical work he’d spent the previous 25 years doing, the problem has a lot to do with the fact that most HR people would rather hire an obvious chimp with the correct piece of paper than someone with actual job experience.

“You are receiving this e-mail because you applied to MIT and we sometimes have to tell you things about stuff.”

Just what the hell does that mean anyway? We have to tell you things about stuff?! Does that sentence strike only me as oddly worded?

And if one applied to MIT should one have to be told to read email from them? If so, then I’m glad I never applied to go there as I might have ended up being dumber than I am.

This sets up patients for an errant mouse click.

See what happened in “Brazil” the movie.

We’ll end up having Homeland Security repelling through our ceilings in pretty short order.

GIGO.

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Here’s another one:

Digital pre-processing of MRI. If it’s switched on — the default position — this software will eliminate as noise ANY malady that has a soft enough resolution.

This feature is really terrific for the salesman — of the machine.

To see what this can mean:

My digital pocket camera has exactly the same style of signal processing. (They cloned the code down from its original use.)

The result is that my camera ‘cleans up’ my image when it’s pointed at the Rancho Seco cooling towers. These are gray, and stand about 400 meters tall — and 250 meters wide at the top. You can see them with the naked eye from 40 miles away.

My camera view screen and ultimate output show that these twin beasts no longer exist. (!!!)

https://www.google.com/search?q=rancho+seco&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Ndb-UpncCML5oASl_4LYCw&ved=0CDcQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=857

Get a load of what disappeared. ^^^^

What this means is that soft injuries all over the nation go unrecorded by digital intermediation. The end result images look trick to the doctors. They just happen to omit any unexpected injuries, unexpected objects.

The diagnosis is then set off to the wrong foot — which can last DECADES.

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If there is one constant in the medical universe: doctors simply don’t believe they can be that much in error. They also over trust their instruments. They are not aware of the limitations of these devices — which goes double now that analytical software is intervening in signal processing.

The result are false negatives.

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To illustrate the principle:

A false positive from power circuit analysis.

Digital multi-meters (DMM) use solid state chips and embedded logic to calculate AC voltage. These are high impedance circuits — that is, VERY sensitive. They don’t draw hardly any current at all.

Insulated copper wire that travels along energized conductors will pick up a companion voltage swing — by induction. None-the-less this is termed “capacitive coupling.”

Should this wire be tested by an influence tester or a DMM, it will show surprisingly high voltage… say 67 VAC.

That’s phantom, induced voltage.

An old style voltage meter ($10 at Harbor Freight) will show that the wire is at 0 VAC.

I have seen men waste ENTIRE DAYS trying to find out why their DMM is getting such a high reading. They run around looking for a circuit fault.

At all times, the problem was, and is, their meagre understanding of the limitations of digital signal analysis — the heart of a DMM or influence tester.

This limitation in thinking — and the self-assurance that one has really figured it all out — is the death of people.