Turning a Blind Eye to Big Brother

SiliconRedox writes: "An article in the NYTimes (user reg.) details what many of us who have worked with video or electronics have known for quite awhile: Shine a laser beam (or infrared, but the article doesn't get into that) at a video camera, and you can effectively blind certain viewpoints of the camera. The article follows one man trying to cope with the surveillence society by removing his own image from everyday video footage using this technique. The most interesting part? What kind of culpability does the individual or institution have in utilizing this kind of technology?"

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Re:I've known about this for a long time.

[AndroidCat]

Spelled/spelt, dived/dove, lighted/lit, etc. I never figured all those out in English class. Is this some kind of historic linguistic fault-line, or is there a subtle difference? (Flied/flew? I don't think so.)

I guess it's too late to get any marks back on those essays? :^)

Re:Privacy

[Catbeller]

Actually, due to a fucked-up 1930's Supreme Court decision, the Christian Scientists obtained immunity from child abuse, at least the medical kind. Yes, they, and similar religions, can let their kids die of hideous and sometimes preventable sickness, and they are scott-free.

Remember this as you pass by CS reading rooms. Screams of children dying, thinking they aren't praying hard enough for God to save them.

Ah, America. Mark Twain wanted to kick Mary Baker Eddy's ass, and he was right. But now he is called a "religious bigot" because he pointed out that she was a con. And children will pay for her con, forever.