I thought it was interesting that the LA Times website whips up a few new windows of ads when you visit that link...as if my personally customized individual consumer profile had any indication that I'm interested in The Sharper Image's products. I gotta get that fixed...
"Yet all they've done here is use a device to percieve the radiation emitted from a surface, very little different from taking a picture of it, or looking at it."
No, the important thing here is that they can observe you in your home, doing whatever private things you wish to do, without a warrant to do so. Looking at your walls is unimportant since they are out in the public view. Feeling heat on the walls is irrelevant because unless you can deduce the shape and signature of the object emitting the heat, all you know is that something is there. But by observing the radiation emitted from your house they can come to any number of conclusions based on the number of objects "seen," their movement, their shape, their actual heat intensity, etc. This is no different, IMHO, than being required to ask a judge for a wiretap.
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I thought it was interesting that the LA Times website whips up a few new windows of ads when you visit that link...as if my personally customized individual consumer profile had any indication that I'm interested in The Sharper Image's products. I gotta get that fixed...
"Yet all they've done here is use a device to percieve the radiation emitted from a surface, very little different from taking a picture of it, or looking at it."
No, the important thing here is that they can observe you in your home, doing whatever private things you wish to do, without a warrant to do so. Looking at your walls is unimportant since they are out in the public view. Feeling heat on the walls is irrelevant because unless you can deduce the shape and signature of the object emitting the heat, all you know is that something is there. But by observing the radiation emitted from your house they can come to any number of conclusions based on the number of objects "seen," their movement, their shape, their actual heat intensity, etc. This is no different, IMHO, than being required to ask a judge for a wiretap.