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August 6, 2016 at 2:14 PM #22075August 6, 2016 at 2:24 PM #800334
scaredyclassic
Participanti never experience road rage. i think of other cars as meteors, unthinking blobs in lifes video game.
August 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM #800335
svelteParticipant[quote=flu]
I think it’s time we put high def videos on every street corner, every cop car, body cam every police officer.I’m willing to give up a little privacy on public streets for it.[/quote]
I don’t think any of us have a right to privacy in public – that’s the difference between “private” and “public”. !!
So I’m with you on this one…
August 6, 2016 at 3:47 PM #800336svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]i never experience road rage. i think of other cars as meteors, unthinking blobs in lifes video game.[/quote]
I’m gonna borrow this…
Great idea scaredy.
August 7, 2016 at 9:32 AM #800344FlyerInHi
Guest[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]i never experience road rage. i think of other cars as meteors, unthinking blobs in lifes video game.[/quote]
I’m gonna borrow this…
Great idea scaredy.[/quote]
Me too.
That’s very zen. I don’t have road rage either. I’m very courteous and yield a lot these days. If first at the stop light, i would move to the middle lane to let people turn right on red.August 7, 2016 at 3:09 PM #800347spdrun
ParticipantTo be clear, the guy’s sister wasn’t an actual cop, she was a school safety agent. Basically a cross between a meter maid and a mall cop.
August 7, 2016 at 3:16 PM #800348ParticipantI don’t think any of us have a right to privacy in public – that’s the difference between “private” and “public”. !!
I think GOVERNMENT surveillance in public should be restricted. Strict time limits on retention of footage and especially audio, punishable by serious prison time or even public hangin’ if violated.
There IS an expectation of privacy in public — e.g. no one expects a conversation on a park bench to be recorded and retained forever. Sadly, most Americans don’t live in cities, so they don’t see the need for privacy in the public domain.
On the other hand, government officials themselves should have no expectation of privacy whilst on the job. Get a job with that much power, sign away your rights.
August 7, 2016 at 3:43 PM #800350Hatfield
Participant[quote=spdrun]Sadly, most Americans don’t live in cities, so they don’t see the need for privacy in the public domain.[/quote]
I didn’t quite follow this one part or see how it fits in. But in fact, more than 80% of Americans live in cities (census-defined urban areas): http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-cities-population-idUSL2E8EQ5AJ20120326
August 7, 2016 at 3:52 PM #800351ParticipantCensus-defined urban areas don’t mean dense cities, they can mean suburbs or even small towns. People in larger cities spend more time in public — on the subway, in parks, etc, and have conversations there. Many of them don’t want the local piggery recording all private conversations in open air.
That’s what the Soviets tried to do in the bad old days…
August 7, 2016 at 3:59 PM #800352no_such_reality
Participant[quote=spdrun]To be clear, the guy’s sister wasn’t an actual cop, she was a school safety agent. Basically a cross between a meter maid and a mall cop.[/quote]
A meter maid is still a cop.
The position is still recruited and run through the NYPD department of school safety.
Try to f— with one, from a legal stand point I’m sure you’ll find out the State considers them police.
August 7, 2016 at 4:24 PM #800353ParticipantWell, they’re not armed and don’t have general policing powers, so one can get away with being pretty crude to them so long as no physical violence is used.
I’ve used unprintable invective against the driver of a van full of “NYPD Traffic” people (aka meter maids), which cut me off while cycling. Legally or physically, they couldn’t do a damn thing about it.
I actually regret it a bit, but I didn’t at the time since the driver came close to causing me to hit the van.
August 7, 2016 at 4:57 PM #800354Guest[quote=spdrun]Census-defined urban areas don’t mean dense cities, they can mean suburbs or even small towns. People in larger cities spend more time in public — on the subway, in parks, etc, and have conversations there. Many of them don’t want the local piggery recording all private conversations in open air.
That’s what the Soviets tried to do in the bad old days…[/quote]
I agree that there should be laws as to how long recording can be retained and used.
But electronic surveillance is here to stay and that will deter crime. Not far in the future, light bulbs will double as surveillance devices.
When iOS 10 comes out, people will be shopping for new devices to monitor and automate their homes. Car should have 360 surveillance cameras that record on a loop to allow investigation of crashes.
Eventually, big data will allow real time sharing of data to anticipate events.
I find all this fascinating. Most people leave the mobile phone wifi turned on and it tries to connect as it moves along. That can allow allow security people to monitor suspicious activities based on traffic patterns.
August 7, 2016 at 5:08 PM #800355ParticipantPersonally, I hope that North Korea will explode a few EMP nukes above CONUS well before we get to the point of light bulbs spying on people, frying 90% of unshielded electronics. Setting technology back fifty years would be a laudable goal in that case.
August 8, 2016 at 12:21 AM #800378Guest[quote=spdrun]Personally, I hope that North Korea will explode a few EMP nukes above CONUS well before we get to the point of light bulbs spying on people, frying 90% of unshielded electronics. Setting technology back fifty years would be a laudable goal in that case.[/quote]
Newt Gingrich warned about that
August 8, 2016 at 1:31 AM #800384Myriad
Participant[quote=spdrun]Personally, I hope that North Korea will explode a few EMP nukes above CONUS well before we get to the point of light bulbs spying on people, frying 90% of unshielded electronics. Setting technology back fifty years would be a laudable goal in that case.[/quote]
There’s definitely some other people in this forum that would be excited for this to happen…
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