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Subject: RE: [TSCM-L] Re: Patriot Act gets even more patriotic
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:40:34 -0700
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:the police were on site in under 2 minutes and they drove
:right up to the exact corner he had been firing from. He was
:still standing there and was arrested. Phoenix toughened the
:penalties for celebratory gunfire after a young girl was
:killed several years ago by an anonymous bullet that fell upon her.
I don't know of any other people in Phoenix that died as the result of
random gunfire falling straight from the sky, yet Phoenix will spare no
expense in making sure it never happens again. This wonderful idea by our
mayor beat out other ideas contending for "biggest waste of resources"
including the popular Front Porch Initiative, a program where park benches
are distributed to residents to help them fight neighborhood crime.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Front+Porch+Bench+Initiative%22+
phoenix
Eric
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:Subject: [TSCM-L] Re: Patriot Act gets even more patriotic
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:I live and work in Phoenix Arizona, and the ShotSpotter system
:has been installed in use here in certain neighborhoods for
:years. This last New Years Eve, a neighbor of mine had a party
:and some fool was outside firing a handgun into the
:air--celebratory gunfire--and I must say I was impressed that
:
:According to the company spoo the system differentiates from
:gunfire-like sounds and actual gunfire...
:
http://www.shotspotter.com/prod_le.htm
:
:
:
:On 2/24/06, d..._at_geer.org <d..._at_geer.org> wrote:
:
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:
: [ analysis of what is heard ]
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:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0222_060222_wir
etapping.html
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0222_060222_wi
retapping.html>
:
: "Rise From the Machines: Surveillance Software Gets Smart"
: National Geographic News (02/22/06); Harder, Ben
:
: While lawmakers and advocacy groups debate the
:legitimacy of the
: Bush administration's domestic surveillance program, a
:host of new
: technologies are emerging that could revolutionize the scope and
: method of eavesdropping. New data mining programs are appearing
: to help intelligence analysts cull through the massive
:volume of
: written, audio, and video communications in search of
:information
: that could be relevant to the war on terror. Advanced
:applications
: can even mine several intercepts at once, offering far
:more efficiency
: and vigilance than human agents, as well as being
:uninfluenced by
: biases and prejudices. Automated sound analysis tools
:can almost
: perfectly distinguish between a child's voice and an
:adult's, and
: can usually determine the speaker's gender, age, and other
: characteristics. Determining that the speaker calling
:in a bomb
: threat is a child would call into greater question the
:seriousness
: of the threat than if it were an adult, and programs
:might one day
: be able to determine with certainty the speaker's
:country of origin,
: though SRI International's Venkata Gadde believes that
:there will
: always be limitations to the program's precision.
:Automated analysis
: is also proving more accurate in detecting when a
:speaker is lying
: through the excessive use of 'junk words'--articles,
:prepositions,
: and pronouns, while the use of 'exception words,' such
:as "not,"
: "but," and "except" is usually indicative of honesty,
:though this
: analysis does not come with a guarantee of success,
:either. Similar
: computer programs have been used to gauge truthfulness in news
: stories and other writing, and to determine the author
:of a ransom
: note. The University of Arizona's Tom Meservy and his
:information-system
: colleagues are developing a program to analyze
:non-verbal cues in
: video transmissions by analyzing the motions of the
:speaker's head
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