I live in Santa Barbara (neighboring Isla Vista). At least judging by portrayal in local media, there has been a lot of locals sympathetic to the police; the general feeling I get is that those living in IV blame all the out-of-towners for the various parties getting out of control (Including Floatopia/Deltopia and Haloween).
With similar party-turned-riots at the college I went to, the majority involved were students, so I think something like this would get less assistance.
Anyone who remembers the complete fiasco of Reddit trying to catch the Boston Marathon bombers can tell you one scenario in which this technology can go horribly, horribly wrong.
My startup automatically collects photos & videos that are shared (Instagram, Twitter, Vine, Flickr, Youtube) that were taken at events (geotag, hashtag, contextual analysis). It can consequently be used for this purpose as well.
Example event: http://wesawit.com/events/bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street...
>And since it uses remote database servers that police access online, floods of data won't cause system crashes or be expensive to store. Most agencies, Edson said, "don't have lots of bandwidth lying around."
I dont really get what they mean here. Are they saying since the DB is in the cloud/remote it isnt subject to crashing?
This link doesn't work for me. I'm taken to AP's "pick where you live" page :/
"Designers say users can post anonymously and should strip metadata from files they send."
Talk about poor design. Instead of automatically stripping metadata, they rely on users to do so. On a mobile phone.