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Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
GPS as Stalking Weapon. Connie Adams found it impossible to escape her ex-boyfriend.
He would follow her as she drove to work or ran errands. He would inexplicably pull up next to her at stoplights and once tried to run her off the highway, authorities said.
When he showed up at a bar she was visiting for the first time, on a date, Adams began to suspect Paul Seidler wasn't operating on instinct alone.
He wasn't _ Seidler had installed a satellite tracking device in Adams' car, according to police in Kenosha, Wis., 30 miles south of Milwaukee.
"He told me no matter where I went or what I did, he would know where I was," Adams testified at a recent court hearing.
Police say Adams' case and several others across the country herald an incipient danger _ high-tech stalking.
Just as the global satellite positioning system can help save lives, so can its abuse endanger them, advocates of stalking victims say.
"As technology advances, it's going to be almost impossible for victims to flee and get to safety," said Cindy Southworth, director of technology at the National Network to End Domestic Violence in Washington. [Smart Mobs]
5:19:09 PM 
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Ming comes through ;-).
Flemming Funch: My Email wish list. Brilliant. [Ming the Mechanic] via [Seb's Open Research] Here's the original post:
- I need to keep track of my correspondence with different people. It should be easy to immediately see all prior incoming and outgoing messages in chronological order between me and a certain other person.
- I shouldn't have to create special mailboxes and filters to do that.
- Some people have several e-mail addresses, and I might have several e-mail addresses. I still want to be able to see my conversations with one person in one place, no matter what address we used, and no matter how we spelled our name that day.
- When I get a message, my e-mail program should know whether this is somebody I know or not. Certainly it should know right away whether it is somebody I've ever exchanged e-mails with, and it should tell me somehow.
- It should preferably also know if it is a known member of some group I'm in. There are 7000 people in the NCN directory. I'd like my e-mail program to recognize one of those people if they write to me, even if we didn't exchange e-mail before.
- I'd like my e-mail program to have a reasonable assurance that an e-mail really is from the person it says it is. The SMTP protocol allows anybody to enter whatever they like as sender, so I need some kind of ID mechanism built in here.
- I need SPAM recognition that I can train, like Apple's Mail program. I don't want centralized anti-SPAM blacklists, because they work badly and block things that shouldn't be blocked.
- Any message that isn't from somebody I probably know, and that doesn't have proper digital ID, should go into a totally different place than messages that are from real people.
- I need to be able to put a given message into any number of folders at the same time, without creating several copies. I need more dimensions. I want to always remember that a certain message was sent or received, so in principle it shouldn't actually leave my outbox or inbox, but at the same time I might want to file it under several different subjects, and give it various flags, and find it according to any of those keys.
- I want statistics. How many messages do I get per day, how many did I answer, how many did I send, etc.
None of those things are overly hard. Hardest part is probably the digital ID. The rest I could probably program myself, if I had a few weeks with nothing else to do, which isn't very likely. I need similar things for my Instant Messager programs. Actually I want continuity in my conversations across several different applications and platforms. Has anybody solved these things well in a program I don't know about?
[ Technology | 2003-02-12 18:01 |  ]
I am, at this moment working on exactly these blocks of functionality. I turned to my aggregator to find this article as my prototype was ripping my mail.app, eudora mailboxes, and my Address Book vcards into my sparkly new database.
Keep the faith Ming. It's coming ;-) It's coming soon.
And thank you for posting this. [The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]
5:08:55 PM
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Crazy manga-inspired Flash site. Tokyo Plastic is an impressively well-designed and graphically/acousticaly interesting Japanese Flash site. The transitions are amazing, but they ultimately can't disguise the fact that the site is mostly transition -- all frame, no picture. Link Discuss (Thanks, Dave!) [Boing Boing Blog]
5:07:14 AM
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Another Way to Get RSS Feeds on Your PDA!.
FOAF
"The newsreader NewsMonster has the ability to use Friend of a Friend data. It also provides for export to PDA's and reads all versions of RSS. Interesting, I'll have to download it and play with it a bit when I have some time.
As for FOAF, I think the idea has some potential uses. However, as I understand it, FOAF metadata should be stored as a separate file. I'd like the ability to place it in the HEAD section of a document, as well as pointing to another file." [Catalogablog]
This is what I'm talking about! I really believe that RSS news aggregators are a much better way to keep up with your favorite sites on the go, especially on small devices. The overhead is much less, even in a 3G or WiFi environment. I'm snowed under at work for the next week, but I really want to try NewsMonster on my Clie! [The Shifted Librarian]
4:58:58 AM
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