UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/07/187218 Posted by: timothy, on 2005-05-08 09:47:00 from the no-sir-that's-not-at-all-disturbing-no-sir dept. johnthorensen writes Looks like parts of London [1]may be seeing wireless microphones on the street sometime soon. At this point, they're looking to use them to monitor noise ordinance violations - if you call about a repeated disturbance, they'll mount one by your place to monitor noise levels for the next several days. The article also notes that they intend to locate them more permanently outside bars and nightclubs. The microphones apparently communicate via wireless Internet connection, although no real details are given as to the nature of said connection. Are London residents getting the boiled frog treatment? References 1. http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/18329652?source=Evening%20Standard - End forwarded message - Microphones to catch noisy neighbours By Mark Prigg, Science Correspondent, Evening Standard 3 May 2005 Noisy neighbours have become a scourge of modern life, resulting in stress, sleepless nights and even violence. Now Westminster Council hopes a new wireless microphone could help tackle the problem. It plans to attach the device to lamp posts outside houses, allowing inspectors to monitor sound levels. If neighbours make too much noise, council officials will “This could make a really big difference to cutting down on noise,” said Steve Harrison of Westminster Council. “At the moment the problem is that by the time a noise protection officer arrives on the scene, the noise may have stopped. “Using the new system, we can leave a monitor in an area for several days. The idea is that we can pre-empt people having to call us — if the monitor hears a disturbance it lets us know.” Mr Harrison added that the microphones were also going to be placed outside bars and clubs to monitor noise levels and any disturbances. The microphones, which communicate via an internet connection, will be attached to lamp posts across Soho to test the system for the next few months. “Eventually this wireless network will cover the whole of Westminster and be used by workers wherever they are,” said Mr Harrison. “Noise monitoring and CCTV are just two of the initial applications, and the great advantage is that we can move these sensors to wherever they are needed.” Westminster operates a 24-hour noise helpline with a team of inspectors who can issue onthespot fines to offenders. But inspectors had to be in the right placeat the right time for this method to work, said Mr Harrison. Anti-noise groups today welcomed the initiative. “This is potentially a big step forward and really could help,” said Mary Stevens of the National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (NSCA). “In a city like London noise is a real problem, and is making people’s lives miserable. “Wooden floors, dogs and music all contribute, and over time it can really affect people. It starts out with a lack of sleep, but can lead to retaliation attacks and serious health problems.” Nearly a third of people in Britain are annoyed by noisy neighbours, and for 14 per cent it has an impact on quality of life, recent research found. Ms Stevens advised people to approach the offenders first. “It’s obviously a delicate situation, but the majority of problems can be solved by simplytalking to the offender,” she says. “If that fails, call the local authorities.” According to the NSCA, the top five noise complaints are loud music, alarms, dogs barking, fireworks and hard flooring. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Stash Burn?
--- A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Steve Thompson scribbled: --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [incinerating the evidence] What's wrong with this idea? The Alabama hillbilly remains free to harass you the next time you pass through the area. Don't you think it's a little insensitive to stereotype pigs in that particular way? What if they were to read this online and somehow link it to your real name? Who gives a shit? Much better to pay off the cops ahead of time so they won't inconvenience your criminal activities. Do you pay off every cop in the US or merely every cop within twenty miles of your drug route? Whatever it takes, of course. But in practice, there are minimising techniques that will tend to reduce the requirement of paying off every pig in the continental US of A. For instance, if you have the means you might choose to establish a culture of privilage and exclusivity (perhaps via allocating scarce 'access') among the pig population in which the payoffs are only given to pigs who demonstrate loyalty to your drug empire over time. Various selection criterion would apply: don't ask, don't tell; not too greedy; length of service; consistent and courteous attitude. Rookie pigs would have a file opened, and their service record updated each time they interact with your drug cartel's employees. After some arbitrary period, or after the accumulation of enough 'points', pigs would start receiving cash payoffs and perhaps other perqs. As you might imagine, there would need be a detailed and sophisticated system described in order to make for a complete system, and I do not propose to make an exhaustive list of requirements here. I simply think that it could be done if your organisation was sufficiently competent. SOP is to drive unregistered or stolen cars with license removed. Keep a fake new car paper license in the rear windshield. With no way to connect you to the vehicle, response to a traffic stop should be obvious. No need to stop the car if you have a passenger and a few scoped and unscoped battle rifles. Sunroof optional but recommended. Be prepared to repaint the car. Sure. It is unnecessary to have a belt-fed AR or m249 with several thousand rounds mounted in the trunk facing backwards. Using a turn signal or windshield wiper lever to aim is awkward, and so is explaining away bullet holes in tail lights when you're pulled over for that later. I confess that I don't really understand the obsessive preoccupation you people have with firearms. They have their place, of course, as everyone understands the occasional necessity of a well-placed load of number-four buckshot (to the knees, usually), but guns are above all else, a tool. And they aren't the only tool in the arsenel. Far too many people are sidetracked in this way, however, and it's a shame. Just once, can't we have a nice polite discussion about the logicstics and planning side of large criminal enterprise? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
Re: zombied ypherpunks (Re: Email Certification?)
--- Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then, of course, in the off chance they can't actually break the message under that flag, they can merely send a guy out with binoculars or whatever. Don't forget about rubber-hose cryptanlysis. Rumour has it that method is preferred in many cases since it makes the code-breakers feel good by way of testosterone release. Guns. You may not be able to kill them, but you may be able to force them to kill you. If they're using rubber hoses, they're probably going to kill you anyways. Hoses leave marks, of course, and if there's one thing a spook hates, it is leaving evidence of his or her passage. Unless his or her mission is about leaving visible traces, of course. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
Re: [FoRK] Does the web have a public timestamper? (fwd from mattj@newsblip.com)
- Forwarded message from Matt Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Matt Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 08:21:42 -0600 To: Gordon Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: fork@xent.com Subject: Re: [FoRK] Does the web have a public timestamper? User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.7 A Surety patent in the area appears to have been successfully challenged in 1999: http://www.entrust.com/news/files/11_09_99_258.htm - Gordon That challenge only defeated Surety's general claim to all forms of digital timestamping. There are other claims in the patent which still stand. The most useful of these is the chaining of hashes from one document to the next. Every week, Surety publishes a cumulative hash in the New York Times. Each new document is signed by hashing the document, and sigining that hash combined with the current, global, cumulative hash. This ensures that nobody can backdate a faked document. I had long thought about implementing this technique in a user-friendly app, where initial document hashing is done in client-side JavaScript. That would protect customer data, yet not require a software download (as Surety does). Applications include everything from dating the condition of something you take possession of (car, apartment, etc.), to dating blog entries to prove your journalistic integrity (i.e., to prove you don't backdate). With user-friendly software, you could offer timestamping for free and make your money with AdSense on your validation pages. It's funny, because this was a back-burner project I was planning on working on this morning. But this thread led me to check the patent situation more closely, and it seems to this layman that Surety's remaining patent claims are too powerful. -Matt Jensen http://mattjensen.com Seattle Russell Turpin wrote: Long ago, I thought some site -- maybe a certificate source like Thawte? -- should provide a provable timestamping service over the web. The basic idea is that when an application wants to timestamp some item, such as an entry in QuickBooks or an executed PDF or whatever, it would (1) generate a signature of the item, using SHA1 or the favorite hash function du jour, (2) then post a request to the timestamp site with the signature, (3) in the hope of receiving (a) a global timestamp and (b) a validation signature of the timestamp and item signature. The website also would maintain a globally accessible log, by time, of what validation signatures it had generated. These provide independent proof if ever needed that the item was indeed timestamped -- and hence, existed -- when claimed. It seems to me that this would be useful for a broad range of applications, from bookkeepping to facility monitoring. I can imagine all sorts of reasons for wanting a verified timestamp, from the legal to the mundane. Is anyone doing this? ___ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork ___ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork ___ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought
At 03:55 PM 5/6/05 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Yes, but only provided the universe lasts long enough for those digits to be computed! -TD Actually, a few years ago someone discovered an algorithm for the Nth (hex) digit of Pi which doesn't require computing all the previous digits. Mind blowing.
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Re: zombied ypherpunks (Re: Email Certification?)
--- Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then, of course, in the off chance they can't actually break the message under that flag, they can merely send a guy out with binoculars or whatever. Don't forget about rubber-hose cryptanlysis. Rumour has it that method is preferred in many cases since it makes the code-breakers feel good by way of testosterone release. Guns. You may not be able to kill them, but you may be able to force them to kill you. If they're using rubber hoses, they're probably going to kill you anyways. Hoses leave marks, of course, and if there's one thing a spook hates, it is leaving evidence of his or her passage. Unless his or her mission is about leaving visible traces, of course. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
Re: Stash Burn?
--- A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Steve Thompson scribbled: --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [incinerating the evidence] What's wrong with this idea? The Alabama hillbilly remains free to harass you the next time you pass through the area. Don't you think it's a little insensitive to stereotype pigs in that particular way? What if they were to read this online and somehow link it to your real name? Who gives a shit? Much better to pay off the cops ahead of time so they won't inconvenience your criminal activities. Do you pay off every cop in the US or merely every cop within twenty miles of your drug route? Whatever it takes, of course. But in practice, there are minimising techniques that will tend to reduce the requirement of paying off every pig in the continental US of A. For instance, if you have the means you might choose to establish a culture of privilage and exclusivity (perhaps via allocating scarce 'access') among the pig population in which the payoffs are only given to pigs who demonstrate loyalty to your drug empire over time. Various selection criterion would apply: don't ask, don't tell; not too greedy; length of service; consistent and courteous attitude. Rookie pigs would have a file opened, and their service record updated each time they interact with your drug cartel's employees. After some arbitrary period, or after the accumulation of enough 'points', pigs would start receiving cash payoffs and perhaps other perqs. As you might imagine, there would need be a detailed and sophisticated system described in order to make for a complete system, and I do not propose to make an exhaustive list of requirements here. I simply think that it could be done if your organisation was sufficiently competent. SOP is to drive unregistered or stolen cars with license removed. Keep a fake new car paper license in the rear windshield. With no way to connect you to the vehicle, response to a traffic stop should be obvious. No need to stop the car if you have a passenger and a few scoped and unscoped battle rifles. Sunroof optional but recommended. Be prepared to repaint the car. Sure. It is unnecessary to have a belt-fed AR or m249 with several thousand rounds mounted in the trunk facing backwards. Using a turn signal or windshield wiper lever to aim is awkward, and so is explaining away bullet holes in tail lights when you're pulled over for that later. I confess that I don't really understand the obsessive preoccupation you people have with firearms. They have their place, of course, as everyone understands the occasional necessity of a well-placed load of number-four buckshot (to the knees, usually), but guns are above all else, a tool. And they aren't the only tool in the arsenel. Far too many people are sidetracked in this way, however, and it's a shame. Just once, can't we have a nice polite discussion about the logicstics and planning side of large criminal enterprise? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
