Gartner does not do puff pieces for money. Its one of the few that don't. If a vendor likes a report, they can link to it or buy reprints. Gartner is a conservative organization. It was late getting on the Internet boom, but had a refresh of its analysts in the late 90's. Many of the reports are very forward thinking. But, its an opinion, and you still have to be responsible for yours. Some analysts read/. as a research source, so hopefully its not all 10 year old information. -ag
With the high-end commercial packages, WebTrends, Omniture, CoreMetrics, and WebSideStory, you add a tagged link to each Web page, and the "outsourced" service does the rest. No logs to collect, no servers or databases to mess with. These services are targeted for the sponsors of the site, not so much the operators. Cost is $20K and up per year - based on page views. Some high end sites are paying over $500K per year - a few over $1M. The retail sites you frequent get to know you can add demographics to the tags, and do some very sophisticated click stream analysis. With these tools, you can find out what percentage of the visitors buy something - after they have visited to your privacy page. You just build the scenario you want to analyze, and a report is produced. They also produce funnel reports , and can compare conversion rates on two different sets of content (ie, search bar on the top or bottom; red or green background, etc). These tools are not for everyone - typically you want to be making 20% of your revenue via a Web channel first. The user needs some skills in merchandising too, and a content staff that can make changes when the tools suggests one way is better than the other.
The Edo Museum in Tokyo has a great exhibit that shows the Japanese view of WWII. There is a balloon bomb hanging from the ceiling, and a map of where they think they hit. Most of the impacts on their map are in Canada (sorry about that, eh). There is also plenty to see about the firebombing, and a mockup of a home, with "wishful thinking" fire fighting equipment. The museum is a must see if you are Tokyo, and is beside a Sumo museum. -aggles
You said that the problem with this is that "Probable Cause requires a real or imminent threat....". My worry is that it doesn't. The resolution on a camera and the judgement of some old fogeys may misjudge what is going on down on the streets, and sic the cops on innocent people that are just horsing around or even acting for the cameras. If that joint is found in their pocket, then the courts are going to have to really examine probable cause. I think this is the main threat of using cameras. The standard for probable cause will be eroded and more police checks will be the result. Even on my good days, I'd rather not be scrutinized. -aggles
When RFID tags are put on expensive stock, then each authorization can be linked to the tag. When the stock is seen leaving the building (warehouse or retail store), the event can be correlated with the authorization (purchase or transfer authorization). No match, ring the alarm bells. This reduces the need of people to be a pain in the ass to each other. The reduction of trust of each other really sucks. -aggles
What a mess. The article mentions that 802.11a and 802.11g are excluded from the problem, but those modes suck for public access spots. 11a has the range of spit and 11g degrades as soon as an 11b host joins the party. With hard-wired ethernet, before switches emerged, jabbering NICs were a big problem. Similar problem here, but ID'ing the NIC address (even if possible) will be useless because NIC addresses can be spoofed. Detection of the attacker will have to be done by looking for someone with a smirk on their face. Might there be some law already on the books that prohibits disabling a commercial service? Its time for someone to invent a signal locator, configured to locate this vector of jabber. -aggles
The threat of lawsuits for accidental porn has been around for years. Where is the flood of them? Can you even find a dozen? This sounds like a plot cooked up by a content filtering vendor. What a crock!
Slashdot Mirror
Gartner does not do puff pieces for money. Its one of the few that don't. If a vendor likes a report, they can link to it or buy reprints. Gartner is a conservative organization. It was late getting on the Internet boom, but had a refresh of its analysts in the late 90's. Many of the reports are very forward thinking. But, its an opinion, and you still have to be responsible for yours. Some analysts read /. as a research source, so hopefully its not all 10 year old information. -ag
Dateline; 2006 - Ever since the bio-terror attack, it is illegal to use GMO without a license.
With the high-end commercial packages, WebTrends, Omniture, CoreMetrics, and WebSideStory, you add a tagged link to each Web page, and the "outsourced" service does the rest. No logs to collect, no servers or databases to mess with. These services are targeted for the sponsors of the site, not so much the operators. Cost is $20K and up per year - based on page views. Some high end sites are paying over $500K per year - a few over $1M. The retail sites you frequent get to know you can add demographics to the tags, and do some very sophisticated click stream analysis. With these tools, you can find out what percentage of the visitors buy something - after they have visited to your privacy page. You just build the scenario you want to analyze, and a report is produced. They also produce funnel reports , and can compare conversion rates on two different sets of content (ie, search bar on the top or bottom; red or green background, etc). These tools are not for everyone - typically you want to be making 20% of your revenue via a Web channel first. The user needs some skills in merchandising too, and a content staff that can make changes when the tools suggests one way is better than the other.
The Edo Museum in Tokyo has a great exhibit that shows the Japanese view of WWII. There is a balloon bomb hanging from the ceiling, and a map of where they think they hit. Most of the impacts on their map are in Canada (sorry about that, eh). There is also plenty to see about the firebombing, and a mockup of a home, with "wishful thinking" fire fighting equipment. The museum is a must see if you are Tokyo, and is beside a Sumo museum. -aggles
You said that the problem with this is that "Probable Cause requires a real or imminent threat....". My worry is that it doesn't. The resolution on a camera and the judgement of some old fogeys may misjudge what is going on down on the streets, and sic the cops on innocent people that are just horsing around or even acting for the cameras. If that joint is found in their pocket, then the courts are going to have to really examine probable cause. I think this is the main threat of using cameras. The standard for probable cause will be eroded and more police checks will be the result. Even on my good days, I'd rather not be scrutinized. -aggles
When RFID tags are put on expensive stock, then each authorization can be linked to the tag. When the stock is seen leaving the building (warehouse or retail store), the event can be correlated with the authorization (purchase or transfer authorization). No match, ring the alarm bells. This reduces the need of people to be a pain in the ass to each other. The reduction of trust of each other really sucks. -aggles
What a mess. The article mentions that 802.11a and 802.11g are excluded from the problem, but those modes suck for public access spots. 11a has the range of spit and 11g degrades as soon as an 11b host joins the party. With hard-wired ethernet, before switches emerged, jabbering NICs were a big problem. Similar problem here, but ID'ing the NIC address (even if possible) will be useless because NIC addresses can be spoofed. Detection of the attacker will have to be done by looking for someone with a smirk on their face. Might there be some law already on the books that prohibits disabling a commercial service? Its time for someone to invent a signal locator, configured to locate this vector of jabber. -aggles
The threat of lawsuits for accidental porn has been around for years. Where is the flood of them? Can you even find a dozen? This sounds like a plot cooked up by a content filtering vendor. What a crock!