It was covid that beat the rams ...

(03-20-2021 06:11 PM)steves Wrote:  It was covid that beat the rams ...

That sucks

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IKE's source says they weren't following proper protocol

I though they were equipping all players with microchips to track the players movements. creepy kinda:

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...ampionship

All Tier 1 participants will wear KINEXON contact tracing devices throughout the tournament, including practices and games. These devices, coupled with video analysis, provide data that allows total time measurement of those who are within 6 feet of a newly infected individual with COVID-19. The data will be utilized to assist with contact tracing and the need to quarantine participants. If close contact time with another individual who has tested positive for COVID-19 is less than 15 minutes over 24 hours, then quarantine may not be required.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basket...itle-game/

No. 10 seed VCU's sudden departure from the 2021 NCAA Tournament stemmed from three players testing positive for COVID-19 in a 48-hour period, sources told CBS Sports. It is the first time since last summer that VCU had any players test positive for COVID-19, a source said, and it resulted in a no-contest being called in its scheduled game against No. 7 seed Oregon ahead of Saturday night's tipoff.

College basketball official Roger Ayers worked the Atlantic 10 Tournament title game between St. Bonaventure and VCU. He subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Indianapolis for the NCAA Tournament. Ayers is currently battling the coronavirus and told CBS Sports he has struggled all week.

(03-21-2021 12:35 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  I though they were equipping all players with microchips to track the players movements. creepy kinda:

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...ampionship

All Tier 1 participants will wear KINEXON contact tracing devices throughout the tournament, including practices and games. These devices, coupled with video analysis, provide data that allows total time measurement of those who are within 6 feet of a newly infected individual with COVID-19. The data will be utilized to assist with contact tracing and the need to quarantine participants. If close contact time with another individual who has tested positive for COVID-19 is less than 15 minutes over 24 hours, then quarantine may not be required.

Those devices are similar to fitness watches, not microchips.

Prayers for the players. I hope they survive.

(03-21-2021 12:35 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  I though they were equipping all players with microchips to track the players movements. creepy kinda:

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...ampionship

All Tier 1 participants will wear KINEXON contact tracing devices throughout the tournament, including practices and games. These devices, coupled with video analysis, provide data that allows total time measurement of those who are within 6 feet of a newly infected individual with COVID-19. The data will be utilized to assist with contact tracing and the need to quarantine participants. If close contact time with another individual who has tested positive for COVID-19 is less than 15 minutes over 24 hours, then quarantine may not be required.

Silly girl, everyone knows you get the microchip when you get vaccinated.

(03-21-2021 08:43 AM)3rdgenerationtiger Wrote:  

(03-21-2021 12:35 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  I though they were equipping all players with microchips to track the players movements. creepy kinda:

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...ampionship

All Tier 1 participants will wear KINEXON contact tracing devices throughout the tournament, including practices and games. These devices, coupled with video analysis, provide data that allows total time measurement of those who are within 6 feet of a newly infected individual with COVID-19. The data will be utilized to assist with contact tracing and the need to quarantine participants. If close contact time with another individual who has tested positive for COVID-19 is less than 15 minutes over 24 hours, then quarantine may not be required.

Silly girl, everyone knows you get the microchip when you get vaccinated.

i love those things

now i can track my wife wherever she goes

(i do use the phone app to track her location, old women (and men) get lost a lot )

(03-21-2021 06:54 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-21-2021 12:35 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  I though they were equipping all players with microchips to track the players movements. creepy kinda:

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...ampionship

All Tier 1 participants will wear KINEXON contact tracing devices throughout the tournament, including practices and games. These devices, coupled with video analysis, provide data that allows total time measurement of those who are within 6 feet of a newly infected individual with COVID-19. The data will be utilized to assist with contact tracing and the need to quarantine participants. If close contact time with another individual who has tested positive for COVID-19 is less than 15 minutes over 24 hours, then quarantine may not be required.

Those devices are similar to fitness watches, not microchips.

Same as smart-phone apps that many states recommend and countries mandate.

First thing I saw when I arrived at another state's airport last week was a recommendation to download and use the state's contact tracing app. No way I was going to do it and not be allowed to fly home a few days later, lol.

Let me pass on some info about today's reality.

I work in store development for a major retailer. We decide where to locate new stores.
It's all based on massive amounts of data and some analysis. I know, based on geographic areas, population, median age, median income, ethnic breakdown, Make, model, and age of cars registered. I have data on competitors locations, other retailers, historical information our stores and how they perform, and the same for the competition.

Do you have a smartphone? Does it have Google Maps App on it? How bout Facebook? Instagram? TikTok? How many apps do you have that know your location whether you authorized or not?

Well, there are companies out there that partner with the App developers and buy their data. And they are more that happy to sell it to me. So, how do I use that data?

I can use mapping software and this data we buy to determine population movement. I can geofence a parking lot of a retailer and pull data to tell me who entered that parking lot for a specified length of time. Where the originated their trip from, where they went after they left, and where they ended up. Not talking individually identifiable info. Just, you live in this block of this geography and your device visited this area x numbers of times in any given time period. So I can tell where a specific area draws customers from.

Filter out employees since they tend to stay in the same place for may hours at a time. Where is their home? Most spend overnight hours at home, so that is where their device is overnight.

If you have not watched the Netfix documentary titled "The Social Dilemma" the you do not understand the power of social media, digital devices, and the reality in modern society. It really kinda freaks me out a bit, but it helps me do my job.

This all goes back to the subject of tracking people and where they are, have been, and who was in the area of where they were and when.

Yeah, the potential of the big brother syndrom if the power gets into the wrong hands, OR, acceptable norms of society change...man all this crap makes my head hurt...