jonl asks: It's hard enough to get local response, I'm still not getting how somebody 3 time zones away is going to intervene if there's a problem...?

I've been thinking about different possible approaches to that problem. Haven't really decided on anything yet. The simplest approach is that the watcher just calls you on the telephone and wakes you up. It is possible to get more complicated from there. Since this is not an organized program (just an idea, really) I'm guessing that different people will try different approaches.

Haven't heard from anyone outside of North America yet. I did get heavy skepticism from one Brit who considers the whole idea impossible given the current high cost of Internet hookups outside the US. It's damn near too expensive here. kadrey says: That's an interesting problem. Perhaps there will be some sort of passive Net channel in the future with low-cost access, sort of like Universal

Life Line phone service?

bslesins asks: Any progress on getting ISDN hooked up?

The one USWest employee who apparently does ISDN for the entire Eastern Seaboard still has not answered my phone calls.

Excuse me, that should be Western Seaboard.

Right now I'm upgrading my Linux box and so that has kept me busy and I have not been pestering this guy as much as I'll probably have to. stac asks: I live in Brighton, UK. (well, hove actually) We have unregulated

Police security cameras watching our every move in the town centre. While GNW is a more community-based concept than Brighton's "Big Brother" - how do you propose letting the people being watched know that it's 'friendly' surviellance, and not just more of the same?

Depends on whom you mean. If by "people being watched" you mean criminals, then

I don't see any need to be friendly. If you mean the neighbors, then they should know it's friendly because if this is done right it will be done as a neighborhood project. geebee asks: You said you want to know the people that are going to be monitoring the cameras. What sort of screening process are you proposing? How are you planning on introducing communities to one another? What if member in the community sabotage the system? Punishment?