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