During some research on surveillance in the London Underground, I learned about efforts there to get people to look at the cameras. A camera was installed at the top of an escalator and a variety of techniques (visual, audio) were tested. It turned out that the most obvious was also the most successful: A simple "psst." The sound was beamed in a directional way by a small speaker located near the camera. Everyone looked. Don't know if it is active use - probably of limited value once people get used to it, but break-ins are "one off" events (or close to it), so you might have success if you coupled it with a motion detector.
Isn't it ironic? And the media don't even realize.
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A similar (but much less notable) situation happened in Canada - a journalist's credentials, posted in wikipedia, were questioned - and I was interviewed by our "National Newspaper" (the Globe & Mail) on the same theme: "isn't this an example of how wikipedia is broken?"
The journalist doing the interview had absolutely no sense of the irony of that question - how it is the very openness of wikipedia that encouraged her to ask that question, and enter into the discussion to "correct" the misinformation if she saw fit. The Washington Post is part of the solution - many eyes make bugs (errors of fact) shallow - and it doesn't even know it.
I posted my thoughts about the issue here: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/Members/admin/wik ipedia . My main argument is that wikipedia is about the social production of knowledge, and it should be regarded (and celebrated) as such.
Mainstream media cannot seem to get their heads around that someone else, other then them, could be involved in the production side of media and that it might have some value. It is the obvious challenge in wikipedia, but they continue to get sidetracked with nattering about the final product and forget about the process....r
It seems to me that the profane person's reply was a bit of a sidetrack.
Anyway, you might want to look at this supplier of private GSM nodes: http://www.psitek.com/Product/GSM_private_network/ body_gsm_private_network.html.
I did a search on "private GSM" on google, and that is what I found. I recalled that in Hong Kong a few years ago it was possible for businesses to set up a GSM node within their office, allowing people to use a gsm phone as a part of the local telephone switch.
I suspect a major challenge here would be a) the need to use "unlocked" phones and b) the requirement to switch SIM cards when you got onto the "BFE" (whatever that is, the link to the acronym searcher didn't give an unambiguous solution)....r
Who would have thought of building a lego DJ? Maybe at a party like this one (where we're having a "lego playroom" AND hot DJs? Perhaps some lego building raver got inspired?
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During some research on surveillance in the London Underground, I learned about efforts there to get people to look at the cameras. A camera was installed at the top of an escalator and a variety of techniques (visual, audio) were tested. It turned out that the most obvious was also the most successful: A simple "psst." The sound was beamed in a directional way by a small speaker located near the camera. Everyone looked. Don't know if it is active use - probably of limited value once people get used to it, but break-ins are "one off" events (or close to it), so you might have success if you coupled it with a motion detector.
A similar (but much less notable) situation happened in Canada - a journalist's credentials, posted in wikipedia, were questioned - and I was interviewed by our "National Newspaper" (the Globe & Mail) on the same theme: "isn't this an example of how wikipedia is broken?"
k ipedia . My main argument is that wikipedia is about the social production of knowledge, and it should be regarded (and celebrated) as such.
...r
The journalist doing the interview had absolutely no sense of the irony of that question - how it is the very openness of wikipedia that encouraged her to ask that question, and enter into the discussion to "correct" the misinformation if she saw fit. The Washington Post is part of the solution - many eyes make bugs (errors of fact) shallow - and it doesn't even know it.
I posted my thoughts about the issue here: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/Members/admin/wi
Mainstream media cannot seem to get their heads around that someone else, other then them, could be involved in the production side of media and that it might have some value. It is the obvious challenge in wikipedia, but they continue to get sidetracked with nattering about the final product and forget about the process.
It seems to me that the profane person's reply was a bit of a sidetrack. Anyway, you might want to look at this supplier of private GSM nodes: http://www.psitek.com/Product/GSM_private_network/ body_gsm_private_network.html.
I did a search on "private GSM" on google, and that is what I found. I recalled that in Hong Kong a few years ago it was possible for businesses to set up a GSM node within their office, allowing people to use a gsm phone as a part of the local telephone switch.
I suspect a major challenge here would be a) the need to use "unlocked" phones and b) the requirement to switch SIM cards when you got onto the "BFE" (whatever that is, the link to the acronym searcher didn't give an unambiguous solution). ...r
Who would have thought of building a lego DJ? Maybe at a party like this one (where we're having a "lego playroom" AND hot DJs? Perhaps some lego building raver got inspired?