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Imprisonment not working: Ndebele
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atomcrusher
Expert Member
Agreed .. I just need to take away your "wink" emoticonI agree.
kill them all.[-][/-]
MrGray
Honorary Master
He's quite correct. Imprisonment is not working. The death penalty will work wonders, though.
daveza
Honorary Master
Except it's never going to happen.
Boris Becker
Expert Member
If it weren't politically incorrect to lash black people (slavery connotations), a lot of people would support lashes for minor crimes. Would serve as a great deterrent to crime. Try it SA, you'll see.
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Picard
Guest
Maybe you should ... because most of those prisoners eventually GET OUT.
And like I said ... they invariably get out in a worse condition than they went in.
MrGray
Honorary Master
Which is precisely the problem elegantly solved by a death penalty...
Do you honestly want to give the ANC the power to execute people?
MrGray
Honorary Master
Nope, the judiciary.
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Picard
Guest
Pfft ... same thing.
DreamKing
Honorary Master
they execute people everyday, you have a say?
Albereth
Honorary Master
Imprisonment isn't the problem - it's the letting out on medical parole that's the issue.
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Fudzy
Guest
Presidential pardons (possibly along the same lines) are also problematic given the amount of repeat offenders.
Jab
Expert Member
It seems it's not imprisonment per se that the problem, only the way that it's implemented that may be wrong.
Maybe the very Powers that build up the sensor web are realizing that it's going to trap them too...
"Any sufficiently advanced search, communications, and sensing infrastructure is indistinguishable from Big Brother". -- attribution lost
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are
men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean
without the roar of its many waters." -- Frederick Douglass
From the sig of a poster here: "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood"
Williams and Holland's Law:
"If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods"
"Trying to be happy" is like attempting to building a machine where the only
specification is that it not be noisy. -- attribution lost
"Any sufficiently advanced search, communications, and sensing infrastructure is indistinguishable from Big Brother". -- attribution lost
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are
men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean
without the roar of its many waters." -- Frederick Douglass
From the sig of a poster here: "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood"
Williams and Holland's Law:
"If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods"
"Trying to be happy" is like attempting to building a machine where the only
specification is that it not be noisy. -- attribution lost
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
What sensor web are you talking about?
Oh, come on now...
ToxicBunny the Trickster is either asleep, or doing his job well.
Who can tell?
"On December 5th, 2011, the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Sensor Web community con-
vened at the 5th GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop in Houston, Texas, USA. This was the fifth
workshop of the Sensor Web workshop series following the events of 2007 in South Africa,
2008 in Switzerland, 2009 in Japan, and 2010 in Australia. The workshop took place in con-
junction with the GLOBECOM 2011: IEEE Global Communications Conference, hosted by
IEEE. The workshop was jointly organized by the GEO task AR-09-02c, led by the Meraka
Institute in South Africa, IEEE USA, and greatly supported by the European Commission and
the GEO Secretariat. The focus of this joint GEOSS and IEEE workshop was on "Senor Web
& Rural Communications".
"The primary objective of this workshop was to share and discuss the latest research and devel-
opments in the context of the Sensor Web, Earth Observation, (wireless) sensor networks (ap-
plications), citizen observations, and communication technologies. It provided a unique oppor-
tunity to learn about GEOSS and the Sensor Web and served as a platform to discuss an inter-
national solution to make all sorts of sensor data available in an interoperable manner.
Numerous databases and real time sensing systems are operational globally on a daily basis, but
little information is directly accessible through Internet technologies. The workshop offered
solutions to improve data flow from sensor and system operators towards a broad range of us-
ers in industry, research and public administration. In addition, it addressed communication
issues in rural areas, where the available bandwidth for data transport is still low.
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/system/files/Sensor Web Final Report_0.pdf
"Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) is a suite of standard encodings and web services that enable:"
* Discovery of sensors, processes, and observations
* Tasking of sensors or models
* Access to observations and observation streams
* Publish-subscribe capabilities for alerts (see RICA back-end access)
* Robust sensor system and process descriptions
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/SWE
Global Standards for Sensor Networks:
"Prof. Harlan J. Onsrud form Mein University, USA shared his views on 'Ethics and privacy perspectives of sensor Networks'. Prof. Harlan is also President of the University Consortium for GIscience. He elaborated his views on How can privacy be protected in ubiquitous spatial computing environments? Confidentiality, anonymity. He also talked about use of passive RFID in retail marketing and ethical issues with some other possibilities. Competing privacy protection vision is generally enforced by, big brother (government surveillance), Surveillance by corporate elite, Pervasive methods, are sensor environment are morally defensible? Moreover, raminification of technology to society."
http://milapjnu.blogspot.com/2009/02/seminar-on-ogc-standards-for-sensor.html
AI embedded in surveillance cameras:
http://www.sensysmag.com/spatialsustain/minds-eye-brings-ai-to-camera-sensors.html
Sensor Web Testbed Initiatives:
"The tools being developed improve our ability to autonomously monitor multiple independent sensors and coordinate reactions to better observe the dynamic phenomena (ie Dissidents, amongst other things. Ed)). These systems enable users to specify events of interest and how to react when an event is detected. The systems monitor streams of data to identify occurrences of the key events previously specified by the scientist/user. When an event occurs, the system autonomously coordinates the execution of the user-desired reactions between different sensors. The information can be used to rapidly respond to a variety of fast temporal events without human intervention."
http://eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov/new/extended/sensorWeb/sensorWeb.html
"The Sensor Web is a distributed sensing system in which information is globally shared and used by all networked platforms. It's already been deployed long term in different environments and is opening up new avenues for distributed sensing and control."
http://www.sensorsmag.com/networkin...-a-distributed-wireless-monitoring-system-942
"Sensorweb Research Laboratory is developing Sensor Web systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and social applications. Our research mission is to transform information acquisition and ambient intelligence paradigms."
http://sensorweb.cs.gsu.edu/
"OGC members are specifying interoperability interfaces and metadata encodings that enable real time integration of heterogeneous sensor webs into the information infrastructure"
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/sensorwebdwg
Protecting the Future:
http://www.newfangled.com/protectin_the_future
Nanosensors: Big Benefit or Big Brother?
http://doras.dcu.ie/2231/
We are Big Brother (is this any better?):
http://www.newfangled.com/consumer_technology_enables_the_erosion_of_privacy
Sentinal!
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/608846-ESA-successfully-launches-new-monitoring-satellite
The Blueprint for Total Control:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalelite07.htm
Also, see any of my previous posts, particularly those made before the "Snowden Revelations"
vened at the 5th GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop in Houston, Texas, USA. This was the fifth
workshop of the Sensor Web workshop series following the events of 2007 in South Africa,
2008 in Switzerland, 2009 in Japan, and 2010 in Australia. The workshop took place in con-
junction with the GLOBECOM 2011: IEEE Global Communications Conference, hosted by
IEEE. The workshop was jointly organized by the GEO task AR-09-02c, led by the Meraka
Institute in South Africa, IEEE USA, and greatly supported by the European Commission and
the GEO Secretariat. The focus of this joint GEOSS and IEEE workshop was on "Senor Web
& Rural Communications".
"The primary objective of this workshop was to share and discuss the latest research and devel-
opments in the context of the Sensor Web, Earth Observation, (wireless) sensor networks (ap-
plications), citizen observations, and communication technologies. It provided a unique oppor-
tunity to learn about GEOSS and the Sensor Web and served as a platform to discuss an inter-
national solution to make all sorts of sensor data available in an interoperable manner.
Numerous databases and real time sensing systems are operational globally on a daily basis, but
little information is directly accessible through Internet technologies. The workshop offered
solutions to improve data flow from sensor and system operators towards a broad range of us-
ers in industry, research and public administration. In addition, it addressed communication
issues in rural areas, where the available bandwidth for data transport is still low.
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/system/files/Sensor Web Final Report_0.pdf
"Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) is a suite of standard encodings and web services that enable:"
* Discovery of sensors, processes, and observations
* Tasking of sensors or models
* Access to observations and observation streams
* Publish-subscribe capabilities for alerts (see RICA back-end access)
* Robust sensor system and process descriptions
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/SWE
Global Standards for Sensor Networks:
"Prof. Harlan J. Onsrud form Mein University, USA shared his views on 'Ethics and privacy perspectives of sensor Networks'. Prof. Harlan is also President of the University Consortium for GIscience. He elaborated his views on How can privacy be protected in ubiquitous spatial computing environments? Confidentiality, anonymity. He also talked about use of passive RFID in retail marketing and ethical issues with some other possibilities. Competing privacy protection vision is generally enforced by, big brother (government surveillance), Surveillance by corporate elite, Pervasive methods, are sensor environment are morally defensible? Moreover, raminification of technology to society."
http://milapjnu.blogspot.com/2009/02/seminar-on-ogc-standards-for-sensor.html
AI embedded in surveillance cameras:
http://www.sensysmag.com/spatialsustain/minds-eye-brings-ai-to-camera-sensors.html
Sensor Web Testbed Initiatives:
"The tools being developed improve our ability to autonomously monitor multiple independent sensors and coordinate reactions to better observe the dynamic phenomena (ie Dissidents, amongst other things. Ed)). These systems enable users to specify events of interest and how to react when an event is detected. The systems monitor streams of data to identify occurrences of the key events previously specified by the scientist/user. When an event occurs, the system autonomously coordinates the execution of the user-desired reactions between different sensors. The information can be used to rapidly respond to a variety of fast temporal events without human intervention."
http://eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov/new/extended/sensorWeb/sensorWeb.html
"The Sensor Web is a distributed sensing system in which information is globally shared and used by all networked platforms. It's already been deployed long term in different environments and is opening up new avenues for distributed sensing and control."
http://www.sensorsmag.com/networkin...-a-distributed-wireless-monitoring-system-942
"Sensorweb Research Laboratory is developing Sensor Web systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and social applications. Our research mission is to transform information acquisition and ambient intelligence paradigms."
http://sensorweb.cs.gsu.edu/
"OGC members are specifying interoperability interfaces and metadata encodings that enable real time integration of heterogeneous sensor webs into the information infrastructure"
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/sensorwebdwg
Protecting the Future:
http://www.newfangled.com/protectin_the_future
Nanosensors: Big Benefit or Big Brother?
http://doras.dcu.ie/2231/
We are Big Brother (is this any better?):
http://www.newfangled.com/consumer_technology_enables_the_erosion_of_privacy
Sentinal!
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/608846-ESA-successfully-launches-new-monitoring-satellite
The Blueprint for Total Control:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalelite07.htm
Also, see any of my previous posts, particularly those made before the "Snowden Revelations"
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BLIXEMPIE
Honorary Master
In the famous words of Spartacus, "kill them all!".