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Perhaps use history.replaceState() instead of history.pushState() so it doesn’t create a new distinct entry each time, but you still get a URL you can bookmark or share with others?

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I would never trust the reaults of such an election and honestly I can't see how anybody else could either.
An interesting situation would be where the one being recorded by C. Cameraman, pulls out their cellphone and starts recording him back. Surveillance stalemate.
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For an innovative software company like Google to step out of their is an order of magnitude more feasible than a low-margin commodity hardware provider like Dell deciding to make software.
In Europe (and we see this all over the world now) we also have what I would call network surveillance, for example the "Data Retention Directive" in EU[0].

The philosophy is: «We are observing you and saving the data, but if you do not do anything illegal no one would ever see what we have recorded. So, you can't really call it surveillance."

These are actual arguments made in this debate, and it reminds me that we are not only under surveillance by cameras, but also online.

What this guy is doing in the videos is (probably) not illegal, just really offensive and obtrusive.
Equally disrespectful are the surveillance cameras, only they are hidden away. Out of sight, out of mind.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
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Couple of trends I've noticed:

1) Recording and Web streaming technology has reached the point where it's cheaper and easier to buy and install a bunch of 802.11n cameras and configure them to stream to Web than to buy a configure a home security system and fiddle with installation, DVR, hard drives, etc.

2) People manage their privacy expectations. I live in a complex that's next to a public park, and our HOA forum erupted when it turned out one of the neighbors was surreptitiously recording the view of the park, and posted a video of an unleashed dog, which is a violation of park rules. After much huffing and puffing from the dog owners who thought their privacy was being invaded, they learned the practice is in the clear, and is perfectly legal.

3) I wish companies would stop posting the "This are is under surveillance" signs. I understand the intent is to reduce crime, but this creates the false impression that a private business owner or government entity is required to post such sign on their property.

To rephrase famous Eric Schmidt quote, if you don't want something to show up on YouTube, don't perform it in public space.
>This is what Android fanatics actually believe

No, this is what Apple fans think Android fans believe.

There is a difference between legal copying and illegal copying. Samsung did the former and the copy is legal for good reason. Apple is and continues to be handsomely rewarded for innovating with $110B+ cash in the bank and counting. There is no reason that laws should be changed to allow it to have a monopoly for 17 years. If Apple wants to make even more money at a even faster rate, they should continue to innovate new things rather than rest on their laurels and sue competitors over silly things like slide to unlock which had precedents.
It used to be like that in Greece, they now changed it because of some (EU-wide?) piece of legislation.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress

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I'm not a fan of surveillance cameras but I think they are different because they are passive.

People don't feel threatened by surveillance cameras because they think no one is watching that video 24/7 and it is used if something goes wrong or needs investigation.

Where as some random guy suddenly walking in with a camera makes them think that person must have some immediate and possibly malicious intention.
Yeah. pushState() and replaceState()
A small factor as well is that once the patents expire, you have no advantage. As Coca Cola will attest, a secret can last for a lot longer.

My feeling is that you should use both. Patent the things you can't hide and keep secret the things you can.

If you think the competition is close to duplicating what you've kept secret, patent it then if possible.

Of course, if they, too, can keep it a secret, there's no point in patenting it. But if you know how to detect it, it might be worth patenting it.
This is nothing like public surveillance, just as Google's use of tracking cookies is nothing like having a random stranger look over your shoulder and stare as you search the web.

This cameraman walks up to and harasses specific people. When you are in public, and there's a surveillance camera, you aren't being targeted specifically. You're no more interesting than anyone else in the frame. Moreover, it's highly unlikely that anyone's full-time job consists solely of watching the one camera that happens to point towards you. Maybe there is a guard watching an array of a dozen cameras. The unit of human attention directed towards you is much, much less.

Furthermore, a creepy guy holding a camera is a very different type of potential threat than a camera mounted on a wall. The people filmed don't know that he's just going to film them. He could begin mumbling erratically, ask them for money, or even physically attack them. All of these possibilities are especially likely considering he already violated social norms by wordlessly coming up to them with a camera.

I don't think this demonstrates anything about surveillance. The guy is a jerk and I found myself empathizing with his victims. I don't buy the point he's supposedly trying to prove.
I think your assessment is right. Furthermore, I believe the intent of the video is to get people to question why these perceptions exist.
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If searchers can't find what they're looking for on Google, they'll go elsewhere though. Before Google downranked sites like Nextag I seriously considered moving to a different search engine altogether because they were rendering it pretty much useless for any topic they'd got their claws into. I'd search for reviews or technical information on a netbook or some other consumer electronics and get page after page of nothing but useless "comparison shopping" and "vertical search" sites, none of which actually had any meaningful information on and all of which appeared to be automatically generated.

It's no wonder that Google cracked down; they were destroying its main service - search - in order to make a cheap buck for themselves by driving out useful results and driving searchers to turn to them in desperation.
Anandtech has long been a staple of my tech browsing, especially when it comes to hardware and devices. I think their whole series on SSDs a few years back, before SSDs being A Good Thing becoming accepted wisdom, is nothing short of legendary. The day-to-day stuff is not very interesting, but when they dig into something they dig deep. They're my go-to resource for all explanations on new CPU, chipsets and GPUs.
I don't think he "clearly" states that. To me, it sounds like he is saying: our algorithms are robust to temporary service failures; websites aren't penalised heavily.

As a genuine question, do you have any evidence for the de-indexing time of normal websites? (And evidence that they aren't restored as soon as the website is restored?)
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Fixed surveillance cameras might seem passive, but they really are typically more intrusive than this guy's project. That's what makes it so interesting to me. I totally understand how it'd be creepy to have someone physically walking around recording me, but in reality, a campus-wide set of "passive" surveillance cameras (say, at my workplace) will gather far more information about me than this guy could ever hope to record on his own.
There's no "competition" when some of the market sells at or below cost in order to drive out competition or prevent entry of new competitors.
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Thanks for the info, I didn't know. That really strengthens my hypothesis.
...but unfortunately actually didn't. Still a great quote though!

http://conversation.cipr.co.uk/posts/andy.green/the-myth-of-...
> When you are in public, and there's a surveillance camera, you aren't being targeted specifically.

Well, you certainly might be targeted specifically -- you have no way of knowing, since the observers are physically and probably temporally distant. You just don't have any direct feedback indicating whether or not you are, and so it seems more acceptable.
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But in the UK a lot of their cameras are mounted on cars which are driven by gov employees who roam around, park on specific streets then the person actually controls the camera and aims it, not as unsmilar to this. They are called CCTV cars you can check on YouTube. It's a completely normal thing there and will be here soon as well. So the way he does it is pretty close to reality, just more visible for people to see.
Neither. Surveillance cameras don't interrupt classrooms. Surveillance cameras don't distract musical performers. Surveillance cameras don't walk on to private property after being told to leave.

Hes an asshole who happens to be carrying a camera. And then when people get irritated, he makes it out as if the camera is the primary cause.
There aren't. I reckon that's probably why Google offered Google Shopping in the first place - all the other price comparison sites I've tried sucked, and it's hard to come up with a suitable incentive not to suck given the SEO techniques they use.
They say it's necessary to "fight terrorism" and "money laundering"

I'm not familiar with this. Do you have links to where this is said, or articles about this abuse? I searched a bit and came up with some similar things that were debunked (http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/safedeposit.asp) but nothing about this specifically. Thanks!
hey but if there werent doing anything wrong ,they'd have nothing to hide right?
Thanks for the tip! I personally use http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/, an automated feed of the ten new articles with most points. Since it comes once a day, it helps me spend much less time here, just look it through in the morning and be done.

The downside though, is that it gets close to impossible to join in on, or even read, the discussions. When I see articles usually ~24h after they were posted, the discussion page is so full of nested questions that it's really hard to find anything more than the highest voted comment. How can curation be combined with possibility to discuss, in a better working way?
Moreover, it's highly unlikely that anyone's full-time job consists solely of watching the one camera that happens to point towards you.

How about the full-time job of one algorithm? Taken across N cameras, no actual person needs to watch any single camera. You can be targeted directly if the watcher controls a subset of N that captures you.

There is little difference between the output of one man and one camera following you around all day, and the result of N cameras stitched together algorithmically and watched by one person. In fact the machine managed version would be far superior given the increased range of capture N cameras (not required to be held by a human) provide.

Yes, the guy is annoying and I am surprised nobody beat him up. But the guy is not the point of this experiment - the camera is. An alternative experiment design could be placing the camera on a tripod at ground level and standing aloof a few feet away. I think just bringing the cameras down to ground level from the ceiling could be a big enough jump into the zone of discomfort for most people.
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There seems to be quite a bit of controversy in this thread. I think it would be interesting to ask why people have an issue with being recorded in the first place. A lot of HNers are strong on privacy but I have never really understood why.
The crux of the matter here is why people react so negatively to being recorded on video. You seem to believe it is because the person doing the recording might attack or ask for money. I don't really buy this argument, since being asked for money is not really threatening, and there are so few people who turn violent randomly that it is not something one would assume immediately of strangers.

Most likely, the reason people become angry when recorded is due to a privacy concern since they do not know what the recorder will do with the video. In this case, I think this guy does make a valid point. There is no way to tell what will happen to surveillance camera footage. Yes, theoretically it should only be used in special circumstances, but until it is codified into law, and even if it is, there's really no guarantee.
Ignoring the photography - people could feel threatened or harassed. I think (but I do not know) that there are laws to help people who are being harassed.

Running is a good idea because many photographers - not creepy photographers - have been arrested for taking photographs of the public, in public.

The Metropolitan Police (London, UK) had to give advice to officers and the public about the law because so many people were being harassed unfairly.

(http://www.met.police.uk/about/photography.htm)
Impressive, where did you find the information for your TCP server and why choose that as a project?
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Are there hard limits to global growth? What are they exactly? What's the evidence that the Earth cannot support a population of 10 billion with wealth equivalent to, say, the current US?

Today there are potential long-term problems in the way we use fresh water and hydrocarbons, but those are not fundamentally insoluble, far from it they are immanently tractable engineering problems. Consider that by the year 2100 the global economy will likely be over a quadrillion dollars in size (in 2012 dollars). And it will be filled with millions upon millions more engineers, entrepreneurs, technicians, and so forth than the world of today. I find it hard to believe that such a world will have trouble growing food or operating desalinization plants or adapting to using nuclear fission power, etc.

None of this requires massive social change or technological breakthroughs, it merely requires that people invest money and effort into engineering solutions to problems as those problems develop, which is something mankind has excelled at for millenia and will be extremely well prepared for in the 21st century.
As Android hits 75% market share, can anyone tell me why this is not Mac vs PC?
> it's highly unlikely that anyone's full-time job consists solely of watching the one camera that happens to point towards you.

Until you start behaving "suspiciously", that is. Not long ago there was a Dutch documentary about advances in surveillance camera technology and the privacy implications thereof. They then demonstrated how they could follow somebody walking through town by switching from camera to camera. All from a control room with a hundred video monitors. Downright Orwellian. So yes, there are people controlling these cameras full time from these control rooms and they're actively monitoring everybody.

They also follow people with cameras like in the OP but the reaction is wildly different. People shockingly seem to be mostly OK with it.

Full documentary (in Dutch): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYTN1IMBuYU - See e.g. 31 minutes in.
From your link:

Under the directive the police and security agencies will be able to request access to details such as IP address and time of use of every email, phone call and text message sent or received. A permission to access the information will be granted only by a court.

If they require a court order, that is a significant safeguard, and much better than police/security having access to the saved data at will. Or perhaps I should say it would be much worse without the safeguard; retaining that data still looks creepy to me.
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The second security guard is where the insight comes from: "I feel threatened". What made all of the people in the video uncomfortable was not their privacy being violated, but that an unknown person was taking lengthy close-up interest in them. He would have had the same effect, though probably to a lesser degree, if he'd just stood there staring at people.

It's an interesting experiment in social norms, but it's not particularly ethical.
Thanks for the info — I wasn't aware of this practice. I found a video of a protester filming the people in the CCTV cars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztfKB8SGCI

This protest, I can get behind. The equivalence is much greater and they've targeted the people doing the surveillance.
Is it necessary to sell to landlords? Although B2B is often said to be easier, in this case you're solving a problem that only the residents have, so I would have said B2C is the way to go.
Kinda. So did Nokia. I don't really know that much about Palm's historical skill at software, but I do know Nokia was not very good at it, especially the usability part, and RIM had reached a place where they were content to remain (keyboard phones for enterprise markets, even though their phones were more popular with texting teens in europe) static until "somebody" got a bullet in each of their knees.
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There is also the idea of accountability. Get recorded by a camera inside McDonalds, and you know it's unlikely to be used for stalking or similar - it's not worth the PR damage to the company to do so. Same with cameras in a supermarket. Plus if you get scared, just wander away.

But when the camera is held by a stranger who you don't know, who's not engaging with you, and who follows you around, there's no sense of accountability. You don't know who he is should you want to follow up with the authorities.
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Despite the last para of yours, there is lot of truth in what you've said about convergence and coming together of various trends, that are shaping the overall trend in computing..... and I upvoted you because of that, and NOT the last para and definitely NOT for all the (faux) sarcasm in the rest of the article either. (Just so I'm clear)

Note: I am neither android nor apple fanboy.
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I'm struggling with this problem - I have a house that needs extensive renovation. I want to invest the time now in creating a model of the property - this is a long-term project which is going to span a number of years.

I want two things:

1. The ability to create dimensioned drawings which I can use to calculate material requirements and submit in planning applications.

2. A 3D model of the house to play around with to see how various changes look. I'd like to get fairly detailed on this, and model the interior - floors, doors, windows, stairs.

I've measured up pretty much everything and now I'm ready to start modelling. But I can't figure out what software package to use:

- Sketchup - I'm worried that it's effectively abandonware now that Google have dropped it. I can't figure out even basic things and the interface seems very counterintuitive when one gets beyond pushing and pulling blocks.

- 3D Studio - I used to be pretty reasonable on this, and I'd have no problem making a 3D model. But it would then be very hard to extract plans and dimensions from this if I need to submit planning applications etc.

- Autocad - Seems like the tool of choice here, but I can't see whether it's going to be able to produce a nice 3D render of the house so that I can see what various transformations look like.
That algorithm is likely to stay hypothetical for some time. Facial recognition has a long way to go before it's practical. Your scenario also would require a lot more cameras being added at great expense, and/or cooperation among the many public and private entities that operate cameras.

I'm not without my own concerns about surveillance, but let's not celebrate someone's antisocial behavior simply because he claims to be making a point. I think filming with a tripod, if it's not aimed at anyone in particular, would be far less offensive, but useless as a demonstration for that same reason.
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> There is a difference between legal copying and illegal copying

+1 Good rebuttal. This is being forgotten in all the melee.

> sue competitors over silly things like slide to unlock which had precedents

Not to go far. The syntax of all major computer languages borrow elements from one another freely....
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+1 "lest we forget" the laws of margin/commodity in all this innovation back slapping :)
I would take it area by area, walk around to find the buildings that have gates, then mail everyone in those buildings with a voucher code. A/B test your letters, refine as you go. Consider partnering with local pizza delivery stores, maybe 50c off if you have this service?

Work out how many people you need signed up in order to live off the income, after a few weeks of marketing extrapolate out how many weeks it'll take to get enough people signed up to live off this business. Consider whether it's worth continuing or re-evaluate at that point.
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It's a relatively new addition, and as warned above it still might not work in all setups in my experience. But it's worth a go.
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I think you might be right. Even minus the camera, if he was just staring the reaction probably would've been similar.
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