Posts by Sven Coenye5 posts • joined Saturday 29th March 2008 17:50 GMT
Jeff Minter, visionary... Just beware of their Revenge...
The "This PDF" sample at the end was printed with the banners on and it resides on a server named wids.matcmadison.edu. Not much sense complaining about the filename hidden in the metadata and the leaked application if both are visible...
This decision appears to have been reached solely because both parties were in the US. That leaves open the possibility that the outcome could have been the reverse if either party was not based in the US. It sets a precedent to include national politics in domain name decisions.
Will all targets now enjoy this same standard, or will rights be ranked on a scale of 0-10 and domains made to be handed over accordingly?
This project proves that it is possible to continuously track the movements of individual members of a population over a long period of time.
Jaowon, you're almost there.
The anonymized data establishes the base line of average dwell times. What if a non-coffee shop area of interest is defined on the map, with attached reporting criteria when a number deviates from the base line? There would still be a lot of data to wade through, but it is all already conveniently packaged for automated analysis. Now you know who to put in the database for terrorist proclivities. So much easier than spotting Transformer's T-shirts.
You could even establish criteria that automatically defined new points of interest: cross off all areas of congregation that map to already known venues, and you're left with all the new terrorist recruiting stations (or meeting places of the political opponents of the powers that be, but surely it would never be used for something like that...)
This happened in the US of A. They don't know what Chip'n'Pin is over there.
Some stores do have c&p capable readers, but the scene that follows when someone uses a European card in one that still has the c&p functions enabled is Pythonesque. If you're lucky, you walk out half an hour later with your purchases if the manager is willing/able to enter the card number by hand.
