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According to a recent government study, in fact, 61% of unmarried adult men surveyed said they do not have girlfriends.

The FSB has set new goals: the emphasis is now on identifying individuals and building up a database of high quality video images of Russian citizens. The new CCTV systems will incorporate digital cameras with facilities for ‘intelligent video’, in other words, where the video surveillance system automatically performs an analysis of the captured video and compares it with images held in a database.

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When evasion becomes a priority, how is the fugitive’s perception of the environment transformed? What are the spatial or psychological implications of constant movement in the landscape? How do governments reshape borders and boundaries through extraordinary rendition and “black sites”?

karl says:

10/12/2010 at 9:11 pm

For the geolocation part, the people are rightfully worried but target their attacks on the wrong part: the browser. The scenario is following this: 1. An app requests to share your location at this time t inside your browser. 2. “Yeah, ok, I’m fine, I really want to have the driving directions” 3. The browser sends along the MAC Address of your computer along other information helping to geolocalize you. 4. The Web service *keeps* this information in their database. 5. There is no way to opt-out the MAC address of your laptop. Yes laptop, not the router.

This one is a difficult issue. Most people might find it cool to be able to geolocate themselves, but not cool to be geolocated. What is the status of MAC address on our laptops. private, public? etc? plenty of interesting issues around that.

I understand the frustration of html5 used for everything, though every marketing departements use it for good or bad purpose and then the crowd is confused. Maybe the best way would be to create tools using “html5″ or more exactly APIs helping users to have a better control. For now all add-ons and browsers are suboptimal to help us in this task.

There can be no single owner; there can be and should be a shared set of contributors, from the crowd, from the corporate world and all points in between. But let's not get bogged down in a long winded debate over data formats, endpoint URIs or the relative merits of JSON vs. REST.

karl

Posted May 6, 2010 at 22:25 | #

These are good guidelines for a *very specific* crowd of people. Some of the things on the list are harder to achieve without the proper social network and/or revenues.

Another issue is when you are a (not legally married) couple, it becomes very hard to move from one place to another. There is a challenge for getting a job for one person, it becomes even harder when you are two… individuals.

The “money in bank” is a luxury that not many have. I’m not saying it is not doable, but it can become a very hard challenge. Even more if the type of job you will get after the move is not generating a lot of revenues, making it even easier more difficult to move.

I would rephrase the item 2. Indeed being light is cool. Some people are already super light, because they do not have money. The way I would phrase it is that it is all about a choice of life style. What you invest in physical property (aka object) is both a burden for your next move and less money for moving.

But at a high level, these are good guidelines.

Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.

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Here you are assuming that the crowd is right and the other one is wrong. It might be even true at a moment in time and not such much at another time. Losing memory, lying is a necessary part of human social relationship.

Think, for example, about someone lying about a sexual orientation to get a job.

Then there is living with your own mistakes and having to carry them all along (internet criminal record). The crowd sometimes makes things a lot bigger than it was in real, and specifically for the perception of others (the ones out of the story) a few years after. That’s not good. It makes individual carrying the burden of a poster saying all the bad things they did in the past, just because someone or a group of people decided to make it public.

It touches what most people call private life, and that I prefer to call opacity

Private life is not happening only behind walls but also in public spaces. In a physical world, it is tolerable because the opacity is bigger and that is good.

Posted by: karl at February 27, 2010 12:16 PM

It isn’t about ’site structure’, it’s about ‘thing structure’