Common sense says that if someone does not want to be seen, heard and read don't do any of it in a place viewable by the public. There is no expectation of privacy in public space in the US. I don't know Japanese laws.
I made the mistake of photographing and video taping signs--from public space--erected by a woman who had a story to tell. I had five different criminal harassment charges place against me. It took lots of money and 15 months to have the charges dismissed.
If you want to see: http://berniesayers.com/OracleOfFortescue.htm
As so many posters have mentioned the false positives which will be created by such a nutty idea will be huge. A huge percentage of people are terrified of flying. Even I hate it...unless I'm flying the plane or wearing a parachute.
One of the dumbest applications of physiological response knowledge I've ever read.
Where is my parachute? I want off this the planet.
Are you nuts? There are strict requirements for "stalker" to apply. The ones you mention don't meet the criteria. At least not in New Jersey, where I live.
When people, such as yourself, are allowed to label people as a stalker simply because YOU think they are our society is falling apart.
I was recently charged with 'criminal harassment' by a women who gave me permission FIVE times to take pictures of her 'public spectacle" which she created for the world to see. Now, I have to spend money to defend my right to photographer her signs.
Take a look here: http://BernieSayers.com Look at the videos I took. See what you think.
Maybe I submit my story to SlashDot....Anyone want to do that??
I've been a radio amateur for 55 years...since age 11. Holy shit, that makes me olde! Learning Morse was a rite of passage thing and one of the peak experiences of my life...along with first parachute jump, first solo take-off and landing, first flight in an airplane that I built and first sex. Well, maybe not up there with the first sex, but you get the idea.
I spent 2.5 years in the 82nd Airborne Division during Viet Nam. Fortunately from me, not in-country. During my tour with the 82nd, I was one of only two people out of two dozen in my unit who could copy Morse well enough to actually use it as a communications medium during combat. The other person was a career sergeant who happened to get a big kick out of operating with Morse. The point: two dozen or more radio operators whose Army job classification required Morse ability couldn't use it for communications. This was 1960-61 when the most reliable means of communication in the jungle s of 'nam and Cambodia was Morse code.
Let's see what happens when a nuke war EMP knocks out all our IC-based systems and we have no tube radios for commo.
Had the Internet existed when I got into ham radio I wouldn't have bothered learning code.
Many years ago, maybe 25-30, when radar was first being used by law enforcement, I got stopped for speeding. When the cop came to my car he commented on my 'strange' tags which had my ham license on the tag. This was before New Jersey started issuing 'vanity plates'
When the cop was looking over my license and registration I said, very politely, "Would you please produce for my inspection the Federal Communications Commission license for your radar transmitter?" I told him federal law requires that all transmitting equipment be licensed and I wanted to see his.
Needless to say, he didn't know what to do. He called in another cop who was quite belligerant saying I had no right to ask. They gave me the ticket anyway.
In court, I produced the FCC regs which clearly stated that a license was required. I beat the ticket!
Unfortunately, this will no longer work. The FCC regs have been changed to allow for a 'blanket' license for specific multiple uses such as radar guns.
But that doesn't mean you folks can't give it a try. You may be able to intimidate the cop enough for him to not write the ticket.
I'm a dinosaur geek...64 years old and been hacking electronics/computers/radios since I was 11...but I'm very lucky to have a 12 year old daughter, Rebecca.
Rebecca's mom is the technology coordinator for our local elementary school and I'm a consultant and designer of electronic 'stuff'. So, Rebecca has technology all around her. Her first eye-hand coordination was inserting/removing a floppy disk. I wrote little routines which challenged her with words, phrases and other coputer stuff.
Now...the balance. I live on a 95 acre nature paradise. We have ponds, nature trails and animals galore. Rebecca gets as much...maybe more!...fun from tracking animals in the snow or fishing in the ponds or wading in the ditchs for minnows as she does driving my robotic vehicle or messing with my radio equipment. She's equally adept at calling CQ DX on 20 meters and paddling a canoe.
Balance is a must. Games...I don't care what platform...are NOT the same as getting dirty or falling down or throwing a ball or putting bate on a hook.
Take your kids to the park, to a playground or any outdoor area. Fly a kite, build a kite, walk in the rain. Smell the flowers; dig in the dirt.
Equal time for technology and 'realworld' stuff.
Anything less than balance between nature and technology is detremental and damned unfair to the child.
To quote Robert Heinlein: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
As much time outside as in front of the technology...computers or radios.
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I severely modded a gasoline powered golf cart into a robot back in the early 1980s. The first incarnation used four Apple II computers. I stripped all the mechanicals--brakes, steering, throttle, trans--and replaced them with DC motors. Everything was computerized.
Being a golf cart, it was big enough for two people. I added ultra-sonic detection, IR and various control systems for remote operation. I'm a radio ham so my first camera system for teleoperation used amateur TV on 440Mhz. Fun to drive remotely!
Teleoperation and autonomous roving is cool but the most fun is being *in* the vehicle and driving it via a camera system and laptop. It's a tremendous challenge be in a vehicle and to drive it around a course while looking at a computer screen. Much more difficult than any computer or vid game.
I've been 'playing' with the machine for years and finally figured out a way to make money with it: I turned it into a game. See robot pics here: http://aicommand.com/pictures.htm
My next venture is a total mod of my ultra-light and fly it from on the ground. See the pics and note the computer company name on the wings: http://www.aicommand.com/ultrlite.htm
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Common sense says that if someone does not want to be seen, heard and read don't do any of it in a place viewable by the public. There is no expectation of privacy in public space in the US. I don't know Japanese laws. I made the mistake of photographing and video taping signs--from public space--erected by a woman who had a story to tell. I had five different criminal harassment charges place against me. It took lots of money and 15 months to have the charges dismissed. If you want to see: http://berniesayers.com/OracleOfFortescue.htm
I searched DropZone.com and found this link: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=2005174;page=2;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25; which actually may not work for folks without an account on DZ.com.
As so many posters have mentioned the false positives which will be created by such a nutty idea will be huge. A huge percentage of people are terrified of flying. Even I hate it...unless I'm flying the plane or wearing a parachute.
One of the dumbest applications of physiological response knowledge I've ever read.
Where is my parachute? I want off this the planet.
"It's usually just called "stalking""
Are you nuts? There are strict requirements for "stalker" to apply. The ones you mention don't meet the criteria. At least not in New Jersey, where I live.
When people, such as yourself, are allowed to label people as a stalker simply because YOU think they are our society is falling apart.
I was recently charged with 'criminal harassment' by a women who gave me permission FIVE times to take pictures of her 'public spectacle" which she created for the world to see. Now, I have to spend money to defend my right to photographer her signs.
Take a look here: http://BernieSayers.com Look at the videos I took. See what you think.
Maybe I submit my story to SlashDot....Anyone want to do that??
Goodbye Morse Code...
I've been a radio amateur for 55 years...since age 11. Holy shit, that makes me olde! Learning Morse was a rite of passage thing and one of the peak experiences of my life...along with first parachute jump, first solo take-off and landing, first flight in an airplane that I built and first sex. Well, maybe not up there with the first sex, but you get the idea.
I spent 2.5 years in the 82nd Airborne Division during Viet Nam. Fortunately from me, not in-country. During my tour with the 82nd, I was one of only two people out of two dozen in my unit who could copy Morse well enough to actually use it as a communications medium during combat. The other person was a career sergeant who happened to get a big kick out of operating with Morse. The point: two dozen or more radio operators whose Army job classification required Morse ability couldn't use it for communications. This was 1960-61 when the most reliable means of communication in the jungle s of 'nam and Cambodia was Morse code.
Let's see what happens when a nuke war EMP knocks out all our IC-based systems and we have no tube radios for commo.
Had the Internet existed when I got into ham radio I wouldn't have bothered learning code.
WB2ZTE
Many years ago, maybe 25-30, when radar was first being used by law enforcement, I got stopped for speeding. When the cop came to my car he commented on my 'strange' tags which had my ham license on the tag. This was before New Jersey started issuing 'vanity plates'
When the cop was looking over my license and registration I said, very politely, "Would you please produce for my inspection the Federal Communications Commission license for your radar transmitter?" I told him federal law requires that all transmitting equipment be licensed and I wanted to see his.
Needless to say, he didn't know what to do. He called in another cop who was quite belligerant saying I had no right to ask. They gave me the ticket anyway.
In court, I produced the FCC regs which clearly stated that a license was required. I beat the ticket!
Unfortunately, this will no longer work. The FCC regs have been changed to allow for a 'blanket' license for specific multiple uses such as radar guns.
But that doesn't mean you folks can't give it a try. You may be able to intimidate the cop enough for him to not write the ticket.
I'm a dinosaur geek...64 years old and been hacking electronics/computers/radios since I was 11...but I'm very lucky to have a 12 year old daughter, Rebecca.
Rebecca's mom is the technology coordinator for our local elementary school and I'm a consultant and designer of electronic 'stuff'. So, Rebecca has technology all around her. Her first eye-hand coordination was inserting/removing a floppy disk. I wrote little routines which challenged her with words, phrases and other coputer stuff.
Now...the balance. I live on a 95 acre nature paradise. We have ponds, nature trails and animals galore. Rebecca gets as much...maybe more!...fun from tracking animals in the snow or fishing in the ponds or wading in the ditchs for minnows as she does driving my robotic vehicle or messing with my radio equipment. She's equally adept at calling CQ DX on 20 meters and paddling a canoe.
Balance is a must. Games...I don't care what platform...are NOT the same as getting dirty or falling down or throwing a ball or putting bate on a hook.
Take your kids to the park, to a playground or any outdoor area. Fly a kite, build a kite, walk in the rain. Smell the flowers; dig in the dirt.
Equal time for technology and 'realworld' stuff.
Anything less than balance between nature and technology is detremental and damned unfair to the child.
To quote Robert Heinlein: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
As much time outside as in front of the technology...computers or radios.
I severely modded a gasoline powered golf cart into a robot back in the early 1980s. The first incarnation used four Apple II computers. I stripped all the mechanicals--brakes, steering, throttle, trans--and replaced them with DC motors. Everything was computerized.
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Being a golf cart, it was big enough for two people. I added ultra-sonic detection, IR and various control systems for remote operation. I'm a radio ham so my first camera system for teleoperation used amateur TV on 440Mhz. Fun to drive remotely!
Teleoperation and autonomous roving is cool but the most fun is being *in* the vehicle and driving it via a camera system and laptop. It's a tremendous challenge be in a vehicle and to drive it around a course while looking at a computer screen. Much more difficult than any computer or vid game.
I've been 'playing' with the machine for years and finally figured out a way to make money with it: I turned it into a game. See robot pics here: http://aicommand.com/pictures.htm
My next venture is a total mod of my ultra-light and fly it from on the ground. See the pics and note the computer company name on the wings: http://www.aicommand.com/ultrlite.htm
Hello! Mr. Seed M. Investor, do you read
Well...He may get to hold the record for highest skydive but *I* hold the record for parachuting night pukes.
No one has gotten sick jumping out of an airplane at night as many times as I have.
I keep waiting for someone to try to break my record. They are all afraid to try!
See it here: http://AICommand.com/PukeDuke.htm
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