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Camera Watch: Links to Public Webcams
Mikkeles writes "From an Associated Press story: 'It sounds like a chapter out of "Spy vs. Spy": Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have launched a project called Camera Watch that lists Internet cameras that monitor public spaces, letting Web surfers try the role of bored security guard.' The site permits searching for an available webcam in the geographical region (US) of your choice. About 600 webcams of 6000 in the pipe are now available."
pfft. that was quick.
No.
I don't want to see the US, give me a cam in the red light district in over in Amsterdam that pans.
I think Fox is gonna license the camera footage as a new reality tv series "World's most exciting random camera footage."
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Can I yell "You Kids! No running in the goddam mall" remotely?
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.... watch public places sitting in a cybercafe or from the hills of Afghanistan!!!
It's like millions of cams were used at once, and then suddenly silenced... by slashdot.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
Too bad there isn't a webcam on their server, so we could all watch it go up in smoke live.
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Whats funny is when there is an accident...
What's funnier is that you live so far away from where you spend the majority of your waking week that you use an automobile, the internet, and "alternate routes" just to get there.
If I can suggest a non-technical solution... Move closer to work or bring your work closer to you. You'll have more free time to surf porn before walking or cycling to work.
Gotta love technology in the hands of the clueless.
About 600 webcams of 6000 in the pipe are now available. /. effect.
And, of course now that this has been announced on Slashdot, within the next half-hour, there might be only 10% of those 600 that survived the
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Security guard? Maybe a collectively blind one. Ten thousand people looking at the same blurry, 10fps image isn't very helpful, at least not for identifying people. Most public cams are so lo-res and slow that unless we can get the crooks to move in slow motion and put their faces to the lens for a seconds, it's going to be limited to "hey, there's someone there, wearing something red, I think. Or maybe it's an Irish Setter, or a tomato."
As usual then, it's all about the bandwidth. High-res cameras with 30fps minimum, swivel and zoom controls, and why not toss in sound? Then maybe you've got something. That something would still be a privacy catastrophe, but at least it would be a crisp, interactive privacy catastrophe.
% grep "women\'s dorm" camwatch.htm
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Darn.
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I don't have the time to watch all these webcams
individually. Can't these guys watch
all the cameras for me, concurrently, and just show
me the most statistically significant pixels?
if you catch people kissing
20 if they're both gals