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• A reply on Conversation: what would planet earth be like if we had no privacy, whatsoever?

  Mar 14 2013: heh, it's cool.
  
  the most paranoid person i know once told me, "if you think you're paranoid enough, you're not."
  
  a simple pair of microphones can determine pictures by measures of sonar like what you're talking about, by measuring distances of walls and people via delays.
  
  it's usually only the people who have something to hide that tend to get paranoid - or the mentally ill. but i digress, the topic is about privacy.
  
  cybernetic implants are being trialled by the u.s. military in snipers' brains for faster reaction time. soon this technology will reach the computer games market, although not so popular in the u.s. or australia, would be worth literally millions to south korea.
  
  i've heard of people paying for cab rides by swiping their mobile phone over the electronic card swiper machine. i think the technology originally came from finland in the early 90s in public phone systems.
  
  it will only take someone bright enough to have a popular app for one reason or another to install a camera monitoring service on a mobile phone, and it be buried in the EULA that it does so. people simply won't care.
  
  i would suggest however, that, that someone install zones to only record in public places or 'zones' and leave private household zones alone. maybe the patent for it already exists.
  
  trolls and illegal videos will always be more popular than what can be kept up with via control mechanisms. it's just how it goes. however, it's getting easier and easier to stop automatically.
  
  black mirror was a fine example, but not extremely realistic. if such a case that a video went viral and it were constantly being uploaded, it could easily have been removed via the same technology that facebook uses to block nudity.

• A reply on Conversation: what would planet earth be like if we had no privacy, whatsoever?

  Mar 14 2013: drones are going to become popular over the next couple of years and will be commonplace. if you thought advertising was bad now, wait 'til you see advertising drones asking you if you want to buy something, which could be handy, or could be annoying, depending on your point of view.
  
  i'd like to not have to walk to a soda machine to get a coke, but that's just me.
  
  as far as i know the only security company in australia that has looked at using mobile phone cameras for security purposes was Chubb, and they pretty much dropped the idea due to privacy concerns.
  
  in the pentagon, to enter, you have to get a sticker cover to cover the mobile phone's cameras before you can enter the building!
  
  these sorts of measures will become commonplace too.

• A reply on Conversation: what would planet earth be like if we had no privacy, whatsoever?

  Mar 14 2013: 24x7 monitoring for every possible place on the planet will be possible in a few years, if not now already, via the use of mobile phone cameras, etc. haven't seen anyone take advantage of it yet. but i digress, yes, this is what i mean. thanks for your input.

• A reply on Conversation: what would planet earth be like if we had no privacy, whatsoever?

  Feb 24 2013: that seems to be the case that big brother is watching, but i would be willing to suggest that big brother doesn't have time to watch everyone, all the time.
  
  if i can quote the simpsons movie:
  (NSA Worker) Hey everybody, I found one! The government actually found someone we're looking for! YEAH, BABY, YEAH!
  
  it only took the better part of 10 years to find osama bin laden.
  
  my point is, what would life be like if _everyone_ had access to such surveillance?

• A reply on Conversation: How is it possible to turn an argument into a mutually beneficial outcome?

  Jan 24 2013: "Competition is a sort of argument." - very important point! i haven't looked at competition like that before, but it makes a lot of sense.
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  A reply on Conversation: How is it possible to turn an argument into a mutually beneficial outcome?

  Jan 24 2013: thanks for the simple rules to follow!
  
  all points are very valuable in solving an argument.

• A reply on Conversation: How is it possible to turn an argument into a mutually beneficial outcome?

  Jan 24 2013: you have made it much, much easier for me to produce a formula with your statements.
  
  -. find out if both parties are willing to work to a solution - otherwise it may be best to just walk away from the problem and deal with someone else to come to a solution. a third party - of whom can provide a balanced point of view, or as close to neutral as possible, may be required.
  
  -. emotionally-driven arguments are best to walk away from and come back to once 'cooled off' - usually a knowledgeable 3rd party would need to be present to split up the people involved until such a time of 'cooling off'
  
  -. to begin with, to avoid heating the situation, begin analyzing the problem at hand with either common points of view, or as close as one can be to neutral points of view.
  
  -. providing neutral unbiased points of information - 'putting the facts on the table' - is necessary - even if thought to be known by both parties.
  
  thank-you kindly for your advice, Maaher Sayeed.
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  A reply on Conversation: How is it possible to turn an argument into a mutually beneficial outcome?

  Jan 20 2013: if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, does this automatically mean the friend of my enemy is my enemy? in some cases this may be true.
  
  in my mind, it isn't at all true.
  
  perhaps by working backwards from the goal that both parties involved want, the sacrifices that each party makes in order to reach an outcome will seem less likely to be a burden.
  
  this being said, if i take an example of a meeting of politicians from different countries, once a meeting is over, the realisations that have occurred about all the sacrifices that have been made could appear to be more of a burden.
  
  this is especially true when a meeting occurs behind closed doors, and then the public doesn't find out about the decisions that have been made until after the meeting, and the public also doesn't know how they came to those decisions, so the logic behind the reasoning for the decisions is hidden, therefore having the possibility of enraging some of the public, sometimes to the point of violence.
  
  
  how can this be solved? transparency of reasoning for decision making is the key, as blind faith in leaders is becoming rarer and rarer.
  
  as we all know, the truth eventually comes out, if not directly, then it is released in another form, such as protest, or loss of funds.
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  A reply on Conversation: How is it possible to turn an argument into a mutually beneficial outcome?

  Jan 20 2013: hi colleen :)
  
  this makes me wonder if video-phone conversations are more likely to solve an argument than regular audio-phone conversations, since emotion can be more clearly displayed via body language and can be reacted to accordingly.
  
  that being said, i've had video-phone on my mobile phone for a very long time, and never use it, even though i could in many, many situations. sometimes i even prefer to use text messaging instead of a phone call, too, which i think a lot of the younger generations are similar to in this regard.
  
  video-phone opens up the possibility of seeing each other's eyes and facial expressions, and could even reduce the likelihood of a disagreement from even beginning to occur, just because of our subconscious want to get what we want out of a conversation the best way possible - without arguing.

• A comment on Conversation: How is it possible to turn an argument into a mutually beneficial outcome?

  Jan 15 2013: does anyone have any real-life examples that they can show here of an argument changing into a settlement or even a beneficial outcome for one or both parties involved?
  
  i'd like to see if there is some kind of formula or event (controlled or uncontrolled) that changes a potentially aggressive argument into an agreement.