Re: Transparency, was My blind spot

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 15:11:39 MST

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    Michael M. Butler wrote:
    ...
    > No. I reiterate, Spike: The missing piece is rapid robust distant
    > backup. Such a thing does not exist off the shelf at a good (mass
    > consumer) price yet. I'd love to help bring it to market...

    OK I had another related idea on this. A remote transmitting
    camera will have enherent bandwidth limitations as well as
    high appetite for power. Recognizing the state of the art
    for cheap wireless videocameras(~80 bucks, max range about
    30 meters, picture quality so-so) we could use them as follows:

    Assume a bunch of extropians wanted to attend an anti-cryonics
    rally as counterprotesters, for instance. Each puts her first
    name on the transmitter and last name on the receiver. We
    meet at a prearranged location, everybody trades receivers,
    then attaches that receiver to your backpack portable VCR, and
    your transmitter to a hat or clothing. You pay special
    attention to the name on the receiver that you end up with,
    because it is your responsibility to stay within range of
    that transmitter, but not too close. Then Jones watches
    Yudkowsky who watches Atkins who watches Crocker who watches
    Corbin who watches Jones. If your transmitter gets arrested,
    then you must withdraw to protect the evidence. With a few
    dozen of us, we could be spread out all over a big crowd,
    acting as a big smeared out extro-amoeba, with inherent
    redundancy, low cost.

    We could even make a poor-mans time stamp tool. We carry
    along handheld AM radios which are recorded in the background
    with a small AM transmitter calling out the time every 10
    seconds. I was part of an astronomy group that used this
    time stamper, not for a protest march, but for timing star
    transits of the moon during a grazing occultation.

    If even one group were to make full use of this scheme, it
    would put the civil back into civil protest.

    spike



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