There's many software packages out there that can "pose as being" "artificially intelligent." All photos on the Web can be mined for content by such filtering agents. All text can be examined to create lists of "best bets on who's a terrorist." Vocabulary, syntax, spelling errors, time of posting, etc. all can get the list fairly short -- short enough to send out agents on fishing trips.
I suspect they are able to parse telephone calls almost as well, but that would be a much harder coding accomplishment. Satellites can read license plate numbers. Whenever one is required to "type in the letters you see in the graphic" to prevent automatic software agents from signing up to get posting privileges for their spam, we see that these letters have to be ever more cleverly garbled so that machines can't read the graphics and submit a valid data-set....so that shows how sophisticated graphic-reading-software already is....and probably the government has much better software than the spammers are using. There's even software that can look at the blinking LED lights on your computer as the computer is "sending" and determine the text of the message. In less than 20 years there will be nanomachines that wirelessly communicate with each other and "central brains." The cameras everywhere will be "gone from sight" and yet a thousand times more plentiful. Don't forget the new "xray" machines that shows a person as "naked" on the monitor -- hidden guns etc. pop right out. Scan ten thousand to catch one terrorist is a formula that GlobalBiz can live with. These days, I'm not even bothering to imagine a future past 2012....things seem to be building up steam too fast, and something's got to blow. Edg PS -- Here's a previous post of mine that gives two examples of Big Brother bothering me -- and the "saving grace" of the scenario in that human intuition is an unexpected dynamic. Re: hate America? Two stories: At an airport, they pulled me aside. Don't know why. They search everything, feeling linings for lumps, checking my body for metal, patting me down, and then targeting my brief case and wiping it with a special cloth that would show if I had even a hint of "banned chemicals to make on-board explosives with." The cloths showed positively that my brief case had something "wrongobongo." So they called in their superior, cuz, well, I'm a very nice guy with gray hair with a woman whose luggage showed no signs of residues and I'm laughing aloud cuz I know I'm clean as clean can be. So, you know, I'm not fitting the terrorist profile. They're wiping repeatedly. Maybe 10 wiping-events, and the machine-reader called each one of them positive for banned something-or-other. Finally the supervisor makes a call, and whomever he talks to doesn't know what to do either. Finally, they just "call it," and tell me I'm okay to fly. "Sometimes a deodorant or shaving cream will have an ingredient that triggers these machines," he said. But everyone knew, it was their intuition overriding their testing devices. If I had had a beard or accent or turban, I'd probably still be being strip searched. See? You don't? Okay, next story: I get audited by the IRS, and they pull me into their office and go over my receipts -- one by one by one. I'm living in the upper bedroom of the center and using the rest of the house "for business," but the tax guy says that if the center isn't open 24/7 then the house is for my personal use only during non-business hours and my deductions should be discounted downwards. I tell them, well, if that's the case, then this and that and this and that will have to be re-figured to make all the math come out correctly. The tax guy says, "Well, how about you just pay $300 more in taxes....deal?" See? Laws, schmaws, authorities are human and make up their own minds right there on the spot. Some days, ya just gotta love the lowest rung on bureacracy's ladder; some other days, not so much, eh? The laws are about spiritual intent -- not the letter of the law, but almost any intent can be projected into almost any law, and beware the minions who are dealing out the taro cards when they decide your fate. "Hey, Boss, pick a card so I can process this passenger." "Oops, sorry, Buddy, but the only kind of boarding you're going to get is waterboarding." Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008, at 7:56 AM, hugheshugo wrote: > > > They have plans for roadside cameras to log every car that drives > > past, face recognition software so they can automatically track > > whoever they want wherever they want. The Stasi would have loved > > technology like that. I think that could be the problem, a lot of > > this only happens because the technology has been invented and > > someone in the government thinks it will save time and money to use > > cameras rather than actual policemen and then it gets used to monitor > > just for the sheer control-freakness of it. > > What *is* the purpose of all this, hugo? It seems that if there is > so much info out there, it becomes almost useless because how can > anyone sift through so much? I don't understand what it's supposed > to accomplish. > > Sal >
