And nobody is going to try to get an injunction filed? Preferably someone with a static IP, who can then prove that their IP can be personally identifiable.
THe guy whose work they are basing it oni s Paul Ekman, a shameless self-promoter. His main work has been with something he calls microexpressions, expressions on the face that may involve little movement and take a fraction of a second. In his studies, he has people who have been trained to use his Facial Action Coding System (FACS) for years watch videos at 1/10 of normal or slower speed, and even then his reliability isn't that great.
But then he goes out and jas his students give lecturers and instructional seminars to people where they are supposed to see these tiny facial movements, in real time, and make predictions based on it.
All the while, his system doesn't have a facial expression for deception that works very well, much less one terrorist intent.
Sure they say they are getting good results, but how often do they have false positives?
For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony
It's the second to last book in his Incarnations of Immortality, about how a priest becomes Satan.
I recommend reading the other books first though.
My game, at least the game I put the most effort in, is definitely Live Action Role-Playing Vampire.
I'm the Storyteller (Game Master) of my own Vampire LARP in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz By Night. I also play in a game myself, up in San Francisco.
I'll tell you about a character I used to play. My game in San Francisco is part of a network called One World By Night. The character was a Nosferatu, a clan of disfigured spies and secret gathers. I gained access to the archives of the mailing list for the Nosferatu, and found a great deal of information about the Tremere, which are the magic using clan, and about their magic.
There are about 6 years of postings in the mailing group, and I went through them, gathering all the information on the Tremere I could find, cross referencing etc. I ended up with a 15 page document, with references, that had uncovered a great deal of secrets of the Tremere. I knew about things most Tremere players didn't know.
I ended up getting some experience points for it, and it helped shape my character into becoming one of the more prolific Nosferatu Loremasters (basically hoarders of arcane secrets) of the organization.
People who I had never met knew about me when I visited games on the east coast. I had people in Brazil ask for my advice, as well as advising local princes on how to fix their domain's problems.
And before the character got caught by the Tremere, I managed to pass off the info to my clan, as well as the rest of my information.
Leonard Nimoy is probably less focused on logic then the fictional character he plays.
Anyway, I perfer my random web weirdness aged a few years, like the people protesting Clown Porn.
This one was easy. Knowing how good you did with each item helped significantly, and made it a lot less frustrating.
posted by Gryftir 15 years ago
In "Thought Police no longer fiction"
And nobody is going to try to get an injunction filed? Preferably someone with a static IP, who can then prove that their IP can be personally identifiable.
posted by Gryftir 16 years ago
In "Read faces, spot the terrist."
THe guy whose work they are basing it oni s Paul Ekman, a shameless self-promoter. His main work has been with something he calls microexpressions, expressions on the face that may involve little movement and take a fraction of a second. In his studies, he has people who have been trained to use his Facial Action Coding System (FACS) for years watch videos at 1/10 of normal or slower speed, and even then his reliability isn't that great. But then he goes out and jas his students give lecturers and instructional seminars to people where they are supposed to see these tiny facial movements, in real time, and make predictions based on it. All the while, his system doesn't have a facial expression for deception that works very well, much less one terrorist intent. Sure they say they are getting good results, but how often do they have false positives?
posted by Gryftir 18 years ago
In "Citizen journalism vs. traditional journalism."
When ever people question blogs as serious journalism, I tell them to check out the investigation of Jeff Gannon at AmericaBlog and DailyKos.
posted by Gryftir 18 years ago
In "Fun with the Fred Meyer's phones"
It harkens back to a simpler time, when a tape recorder got you free phone calls at pay phones, and everybody knew the local loop-back.
posted by Gryftir 18 years ago
In "Curious George: I am thinking of a book"
For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony It's the second to last book in his Incarnations of Immortality, about how a priest becomes Satan. I recommend reading the other books first though.
posted by Gryftir 18 years ago
In "Curious George: share your RPG memories"
My game, at least the game I put the most effort in, is definitely Live Action Role-Playing Vampire. I'm the Storyteller (Game Master) of my own Vampire LARP in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz By Night. I also play in a game myself, up in San Francisco. I'll tell you about a character I used to play. My game in San Francisco is part of a network called One World By Night. The character was a Nosferatu, a clan of disfigured spies and secret gathers. I gained access to the archives of the mailing list for the Nosferatu, and found a great deal of information about the Tremere, which are the magic using clan, and about their magic. There are about 6 years of postings in the mailing group, and I went through them, gathering all the information on the Tremere I could find, cross referencing etc. I ended up with a 15 page document, with references, that had uncovered a great deal of secrets of the Tremere. I knew about things most Tremere players didn't know. I ended up getting some experience points for it, and it helped shape my character into becoming one of the more prolific Nosferatu Loremasters (basically hoarders of arcane secrets) of the organization. People who I had never met knew about me when I visited games on the east coast. I had people in Brazil ask for my advice, as well as advising local princes on how to fix their domain's problems. And before the character got caught by the Tremere, I managed to pass off the info to my clan, as well as the rest of my information.
posted by Gryftir 18 years ago
In "Timecube... the RPG"
So who wants to GM?
posted by Gryftir 19 years ago
In "Curious, George: Desktop Publishing Software"
Rules, and Vampires ;) I'll checkout the Openoffice Draw program (I've just been using it for Text), and Scribus in Cygwin. Thanks, all of you.
posted by Gryftir 19 years ago
In "The Leonard Nimory Should Eat More Salsa Foundation"
Leonard Nimoy is probably less focused on logic then the fictional character he plays. Anyway, I perfer my random web weirdness aged a few years, like the people protesting Clown Porn.
posted by Gryftir 19 years ago
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