This one should also be good. http://tinyurl.com/2zmt7p I'm trying for a galley copy as he is an old friend.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 <salsunshine@> > 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 > > >
