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Privacy in the Woods?
Rorschach1 asks: "I work with a local Search and Rescue team, and for some time I've been thinking about the possibility of installing sensors at a few critical trail junctions in the local back country. The sensors would detect passing hikers and report timestamps to an Internet gateway in near real-time. When a hiker goes missing, this information could be very valuable in determining where search efforts should be directed.
However, I've spent enough time on Slashdot to know that whenever you start monitoring or tracking people and their activities, someone's going to get upset. So I'd like to hear from the tinfoil hat brigade - what are your objections to such a system, and how might your concerns be addressed?"
2 days ago this redneck I know flipped his quad over in a creek and tore his ear off. He called a friend's mom and cussed her out when she didn't believe he was hurt. It took a little while to find out where he was. If only he had had sensors in the trees to track his flowing mullet...
-Rylfaeth
If you happen to be less than a few cm away from a RFID reader.
Just give everybody an active radio beacon. Divide the landscape in large "cells" and put a few receivers in each of them. Perhaps we could build a phone in those devices.
Make sure the area has good cell phone coverage. Require all missing hikers to carry a cell phone.
Coding Blog
attn echelon and other busybodies: that was a joke.
With adequate surveillence, we will finally have a definitive answer to the question of what a bear does in the woods.
And so in a puff of smoke Your Rights Outdoors appeared.
12H>look yro.
You see a small box on the floor.
12H>take yro
The YRO zaps you and you immediately let go of it.
eh... better cut down on my MUD dosage.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
So I'd like to hear from the tinfoil hat brigade
Why do you attempt to make fun of people who have serious concerns about their privacy?
Uhm, if you expect to be taken seriously while wearing a tinfoil hat I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you...
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
Forest is the place where all the logs are kept, in case you didn't know :-)
People get dehydrated out there as well. I think we need bottled water available for sale every 300 feet. Someone might also ruin his or her shoes -- there ought to be niketowns out in the woods. And sometimes people camp and they forget their silverware. There should be an establishment that sells silverware. And what if those mountains and waterfalls start to seem a little dull? There needs to be a Blockbuster video accessible with all the latest releases.
Gee, the forests seem so inconvenient and intimidating. I think you've stumbled onto something.
Unfortunately, this only works until grizzly bears learn to hit the "I'm OK" button.
Game... blouses.