Re: [FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread Jan Hauser
Resend--- - Jan -Original Message- From: Jan Hauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:54 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'; 'Jan Hauser' Subject: RE: [FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are." All True, And, It is as much

[FRIAM] FW: Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread Jan Hauser
Hello all, Please to excuse. As you might see below, I am quite passionate about the issues Tom raises. So much so, that I responded to his query at 9:30AM PST this morning ( email this early is a big deal for me ;-) ) . Unfortunately, my email bounced from the FRIAM list and it's taken me until

Re: [FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread Don Begley
On Dec 3, 2007, at 10:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If some news stories are correct, the NSA using similar technology to locate and listen to hopefully appropriately targeted persons. If used for political purposes, we are regressing to 1984. In my opinion, all data mining, like psych

Re: [FRIAM] cross platform 3d

2007-12-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: > I was surprised to see that they're using Java3D as well as JOGL. > Or just wire it right into the browser.. http://blog.vlad1.com/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

Re: [FRIAM] Repast Simphony 1.0 is Now Available

2007-12-03 Thread Owen Densmore
I was surprised to see that they're using Java3D as well as JOGL. I've heard that Java3D was a really nice system but was being terminated/unsupported. But apparently its still popular with a large community, I think because Sun open-sourced the software. It's now a java.net project. Java

Re: [FRIAM] Repast Simphony 1.0 is Now Available

2007-12-03 Thread Douglas Roberts
And speaking of Symphonies, though this admittedly has nothing to do with complexity except in the sense that music can be complex... Here is a pointer to a new album from one of my music buddies. I play with him now and then in Santa Fe, and he's really a great guy. The name of the album is Luc

Re: [FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread Owen Densmore
On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:10 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: > > (For what it's > worth, I have Google Mobile Maps on my Treo 650, but I have yet to > get this > version to work.) > Tom: http://tinyurl.com/29gywp Google hasn't yet released MyLocation for Treos. The reason is likely that the Java midl

Re: [FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread PPARYSKI
If some news stories are correct, the NSA using similar technology to locate and listen to hopefully appropriately targeted persons. If used for political purposes, we are regressing to 1984. In my opinion, all data mining, like psychological interrogation methods, should follow establishe

Re: [FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread Gus Koehler
Cell tower data has been used for quite a while to trace the movement of individuals and groups of individuals around a city or other geographic location. See: http://www.csiss.org/ Gus Koehler, Ph.D. President and Principal Time Structures, Inc. 1545 University Ave. Sacramento, CA 95825

Re: [FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread Stephen Guerin
A couple years ago, we did a vis with Nathan Eagle at MIT Media Lab that tracked 100 media lab and sloan school faculty and students' locations based on interpolated tower info. Click on the first visualization: http://reality.media.mit.edu/viz.php The location of the users was augmented by each

Re: [FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread Roger Critchlow
Well, according to this slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/23/196229 which points to this Washington Post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201444_pf.html the feds have been routinely asking for and getting real time cell to

[FRIAM] Google, GPS and "We know where you are."

2007-12-03 Thread Tom Johnson
Colleagues: In recent days, Google announced the beta of some software for a GPS-equipped mobile phones. See http://tinyurl.com/yrvfo3 The way it works is by picking up a signal from cell towers, it indicates the phone's location with a blue dot on Google's Mobil Maps. (For what it's worth, I ha