Summary of "The end of privacy?" by Pete Warren

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Summary of “The end of privacy?”  by Pete Warren.

In “The end of privacy” Pete Warren clearly shows that peoples’ privacy is being invaded by the likes of Google™ Street View, This is a technology whereby peoples’ houses will be photographed by the Google™ people. He also shows that companies such as Google™ are quietly introducing new technologies for social networking  and other programs that let companies know what their clients are doing all the time such as location services. Warren believes that these companies are using the information that they receive to predict their clients’ actions. Warren also highlights that these companies are using this information to produce new ways for clients to be dragged into their mobile advertising campaigns without them even realising.  He also mentions that again, Google™ is allowed to use all of your personal information, whenever you sign up to one of their services. Finally, Warren shows that people are oblivious to the fact that this use of technology could evolve into companies influencing your decisions by the amount of information that they can obtain.

In general, Warren is quite concerned that the evolution of mobile technologies is on the way to taking control of our lives, even if it is unnoticeably. Warren believes that technology is an ominous assault on peoples’ privacy and that many people are oblivious to the amount of technology that is being used to do so.  He thinks that companies which exploit such technology are betraying people  and that privacy campaigners are shocked by this. Despite this, He thinks that such technologies that invade peoples’ privacy have great  potential in the mobile market. However He believes that the greatest betrayal is that companies are making people sign up to their privacy deifying policies which allow them to use all your personal data. Overall, Warren thinks that the mobile industry is a cruel and sinister way for you to be denied of your privacy without even knowing it.

Geography notes: Energy Resources

Geography - Energy Resources

Non-renewable resources = finite, non-sustainable e.g. fossil fuels

Renewable resources = flow of energy: can be used over and over again e.g. solar and geothermal energy

Sustainable: renewable and self-generating however their existence can be threatened when over used, and their value may be reduced

Increasing demand for energy resources:

Population growth leads to an increasing demand of energy resources

Economic development , countries try to raise the quality of life

Increasing wealth

How can we protect the energy resources?

Conservation

Recycling

Glass and waste paper

Greater efficiency

Home insulation, efficient cars

Developing renewable energy resources

Wind, tide, sun

Controlling pollution

Reducing emission

Using appropriate technology

Low cost energy

Non-renewable energy resources

Coal

Advantages

Likely to last for over 300 years

Increase in technology has allowed a larger output per worker

And conversion to energy more efficient

Disadvantages

Most easily accessible deposits used up

With increased competition, its used a lot less

Burning of coal produces air pollution – contributes to global warming

Deep mining is dangerous

Its heavy and bulky to transport

Oil and Natural gas

Advantages

More efficient than coal

Easier to transport than coal

Less harmful to the environment than coal

Gas is cheaper and cleaner than oil

Safer than nuclear

It’s the basis of a huge petrochemical industry

Disadvantages

Reserves will only last another 50-70 years

New fields are difficult to discover and produce

Danger of oil leaks and fires

Releases nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide

Vulnerable to political, economic and military pressures

Nuclear energy

Advantages

Only a very small amount of fuel needed

Wont be exhausted for a long time

Risk of accident is minimal

Waste is limited and can be stored underground

Contributes less to greenhouse effect than others

Disadvantages

Not clear how safe it actually is

When a disaster happens, it’s on a huge scale

It is non-renewable

Cannot be used for heating and transport

Potential health risks

Waste can remain radioactive for many years

Cost of decommissioning is very high

Fuelwood

Advantages

Provides basic needs – shelter, food, fuel, shade

No cost

Disadvantages

Wood is running out very quickly

Collecting is a very time consuming job

Desertification

Renewable energy resources

Hydro-electric power

Advantages

Relatively cheap

Reduce the risk of flooding

Only limited pollution

Disadvantages

Dams are very expensive to build

Large areas of wildlife and farmland have been flooded

Visual pollution

Geothermal energy

Advantages

Provides a constant supply of energy

Pollution free

                  Disadvantages

High construction cost

High maintenance cost

Limited to volcanic areas

Threat of eruption and sulphuric gases

Wind

Advantages

It is safe

It is clean

Does not contribute to global warming or acid rain

Minimal effect on ecosystems

Winds are stronger in winter – when demands are highest

Relatively cheap after building the initial turbine

Source of income for farmers

Likely to be built offshore

Disadvantages

Wind does not blow all the time

Electricity cannot be stored

Visually un-appealing

Not very efficient

100000 turbines needed for 20% of Britain’s energy

Noisy

Solar energy

Advantages

Safe

Pollution free

Efficient

Limitless

Disadvantages

Expensive to build solar stations

Hindered by the weather

Potential is great in MEDC’s

Hydrogen

Advantages

Only biproduct is vapour

Has great potential for the future

Disadvantages

Needs electricity to produce

Research costs a lot

Tidal

Advantages

Renewable

Produce sustained, constant electricity

                 Disadvantages

Visually unattractive

Destroys wildlife habitats

Expensive to build

Waves

Advantages

Very high energy levels

Disadvantages

Difficult to design materials to withstand the force of waves

Difficult to convert the energy into electricity

Biomass

Advantages

Very cheap to produce

Can be used to power many things

Disadvantages

Methane is a greenhouse gas

Dung cannot be used as a fertilizer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - A breif overview

Mozart is a name which everyone associates with classical music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most famous and influential composers in history. Mozart wrote beautiful pieces straight out of his head, he was a true musical genius. He worked for much of his life in Vienna, employed by the Austrian Emperor. In the 18^th century, Austria was a major European power. It’s Empire encompassed much of Eastern Europe. Because of this, Mozart’s position was hugely prestigious. Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg and died in 1791. Such was the fame of Mozart that Beethoven’s early career was in the shadow of Mozart.

Mozart was a composer of the classical period, as a child he had been a great fan of, and met Bach. Mozart mainly wrote operas in German and Italian. When he first proposed to write an opera in German, he was laughed down, Italian having been the typical language of classical operas. Mozart’s German operas were highly successful, however, and ushered in a new genre of music, sung in German rather than more traditional musical languages. These included: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, or Così fan tutte

Mozart taught students, his main way of making money, but for a long period he was unemployed, leading to extensive financial problems. Mozart’s most famous student was Hummel.

The personality of Mozart has led to huge amounts of debate. He is often portrayed and described as highly arrogant and aloof. Others have suggested that he was only described in this way by contemporaries because of their jealousy of his incredible talents. Mozart had a very suspicious death. Some claim that rival composer Sallierri, who was supposedly jealous, poisoned him. This is the view taken by the film ‘Amadeus’. It is more likely that Mozart died of natural causes, however, as there is very little hard evidence to suggest that he was murdered.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - A hugely useful collection of quotations/quotes

For any student who is studying Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice', this list of quotations (quotes), sorted by character, is extremely useful.

Please note: The quotations are sorted by which character they describe rather than which character said them.

Mrs Bennet:

She is: middle class, crass, shallow, a gossip.

“You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”

“When a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”

“Mean understanding…little information…(her) solace was visiting and news,”

Mr Lucas (Sir William):

“Formerly in trade…Risen to the honour of knighthood.”

“I am fond of superior society,”

“Dancing…I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.”

Mr Bingley:

“Pleasant countenance…gentlemanlike…unaffected manner.”

Mary Bennet:

“Vanity and pride are different things…pride relates to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“Vanity had given her application…likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner,”

Charlotte Lucas:

“A woman had better show more affection that she feels.”

“A most humiliating picture,”

“disgracing herself…sunk in her esteem.”

Mr Collins:

“He must be an oddity.”

Mr Bennet: “A mixture of servility, pride, obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.”

“In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.”

Wickham:

“Best part of beauty…a good figure…happy readiness of conversation.”

“(He was) a happy man, towards whom the eyes of every female were turned.”

“But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather’s death made her mistress of this fortune.”

Elizabeth:

“Elizabeth was restored to the enjoyment of her original dislike.”

Mr Darcy: “Your defect is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

“Whose very countenance may vouch for you being amiable.”

“Elizabeth went away with her head full of him.”

“There was truth in his looks.”

“To find a man agreeable who one is determined to hate.”

“Oh that abominable Mr Darcy,”

To Mr Darcy: “I have every reason to think ill of you.” “Your arrogance…your selfish disdain...your conceit.”

“A strong prejudice against everything he might say.”

“Ashamed…she had been blind, partial, prejudiced and absurd.”

“But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“Unjustly, she had condemned and upbraided him.”

“Compassion…gratitude…respect”

“Unjustly, she had condemned and upbraided him.”

“Mr Darcy improves on acquaintance.”

“Ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him…goodwill.”

“Gradually, all her forms of prejudice had been removed.”

Mr Darcy:

“Tall, handsome features…noble mien… (earns) ten thousand a year.”

“He was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased.”

“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.”

“There is not another woman in the room who it would not be a punishment for me to stand up with.”

Mrs Bennet: “Most disagreeable, horrid man.”

“So high and so conceited”

“I quite detest the man.”

“It must materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world.”

“Haughty, reserved and fastidious…his manners, though well bred, were not inviting.”

Jane: “He never speaks much.”

“One cannot wonder that so fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think so highly of himself.”

“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.”

“I have faults enough…I cannot forget the follies and vices of others..There is, I believe, in  every disposition…a natural defect.”

“Mr Darcy looked a little ashamed of his aunt’s ill-breeding and made no answer.”

“I certainly have not the talent…of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”

Servant: “Sweetest tempered…affable to the poor…best master that ever lived.”

“By you, I was properly humbled.”