A simple
variation on “Crowd Sourcing.” If “many” people are
interested in an “event” then it is possible the police will be
interested too. It might be an interesting “thought experiment”
to see what other scenarios might trigger similar actions.
From the
is-this-the-old-good-Google-or-the-newer-evil-one dept.:
Quentyn Kennemer
reports:
We
come across tons of interesting patents each and every day, but
recently none have caused as much concern and curiosity as this one.
Google recently filed a patent for a system that identifies when and
where a “mob” event takes place and sends multimedia alerts to
relevant parties. The patents are actually titled “Mob
Source Phone Video Collaboration” and “Inferring
Events Based On Mob Sourced Video“.
No…
not that mob. In this case a “mob” is essentially an activity or
event attracting an abnormal amount of attention in the form of video
recording and picture taking. Here’s a quick blurb from the patent
description:
“When
there are at least a given number of video clips with similar time
stamps and geolocation stamps uploaded to a repository, it is
inferred that an event of interest has likely occurred, and a
notification signal is transmitted (e.g., to a law enforcement
agency, to a news organization, to a publisher of a periodical, to a
public blog, etc.).”
Read more on Phandroid.
For my
students.
Buying
Textbooks? Chegg And Textbooks.com Should Be Your First Stops
… Two of the most
used sites for getting textbooks (besides Amazon,
of course) are Chegg
and Textbooks.com,
but which should you use for your next college
textbook buying excursion? Well, let’s take a look at what the
two bookstore behemoths have to offer, then you can decide which site
is right for you.
For my
amusement.
… A report from the
House Education and the Workforce Committee examines the working
conditions of adjunct labor in higher education.
More
via Inside Higher Ed.
… For those keeping
score at home, here’s
a map of how much snow it typically takes to
cancel school in the US.
… Getting
rid of the playground rules altogether at Swanson Primary
School has meant “a drop in bullying, serious injuries and
vandalism, while concentration levels in class are increasing.”
[Libertarians take note! Bob]
… For-profit
Bridgepoint Education’s
Ashford University will let students take certain MOOC
classes for credit.
But Stanford
economist Caroline Hoxby says that “Elite
Colleges Should Not Give Credit for MOOCs.” [Is this the
start of a useful debate? Bob]
Oh, the horror!
Surely, this can not be allowed to stand!
Beer-delivery
drone grounded by FAA
Ice fishers in
Minnesota are reeling from a recent FAA decision prohibiting beer
delivery by drone.
Local brewery Lakemaid
was testing a new drone delivery system to airlift frosty cases of
beer to fishermen holed up in ice shacks on Mille Lacs Lake. After
spotting a
Lakemaid YouTube video that went up last week
of one of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a test run, the
Federal Aviation Administration contacted Lakemaid and told the
company to stop.
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