Brin: Probably not what you meant by Transparency

2008-04-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
A site that plots people convicted by crimes in a map: http://www.felonspy.com/search.html Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Brin: Probably not what you meant by Transparency

2008-04-30 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A site that plots people convicted by crimes in a map: http://www.felonspy.com/search.html You think it's not DB's idea of transparency because of the nature of it... or because it is totally fake? Because it is, you

RE: Brin: Probably not what you meant by Transparency

2008-04-30 Thread Curtis Burisch
Subject: Re: Brin: Probably not what you meant by Transparency On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A site that plots people convicted by crimes in a map: http://www.felonspy.com/search.html You think it's not DB's idea of transparency because of the nature

Re: Brin: Probably not what you meant by Transparency

2008-04-30 Thread David Brin
Gadzooks. I predicted this would be painful... A site that plots people convicted by crimes in a map of any neighborhood. http://www.felonspy.com/search.html We both need this new ere of better vision... and need desperately to grow up, in order to use it wisely. Again, see my Google Tech

Re: Brin: Probably not what you meant by Transparency

2008-04-30 Thread Nick Arnett
feloneyspy.com is fake!! At this point in our nation's history, I don't believe there is any way to even compile such a database, other than the Megan's Law one, which only covers certain sexual offenses. Not that it makes sense to have a registry of them, but not murderers... but that's how it

Re: Brin: Probably not what you meant by Transparency

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Land
On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM, David Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gadzooks. I predicted this would be painful... A site that plots people convicted by crimes in a map of any neighborhood. http://www.felonspy.com/search.html We both