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Sousveillance in Seattle - Watching the Watchers

Eh-Wire writes "At the recent ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, Steve Mann - cyborg numero uno - led a troop of conference attendees on a surveillance camera hunt and digital capture. Their antics confounded rent-a-cops in a downtown Seattle shopping mall who had difficulty with the concept of having their surveillance cameras surveilled."

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  1. With the great issues we have in computing... by Stormcrow309 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...is this the major issue to worry about?

    Come on guys, can we not do better then that? How about getting all the penis enlargement spam out of my wife's email box and all of the breast enlargement out of mine. At least get the spammer's software hit the right sex of the poor saps they pick on.

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  2. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent up!!!

  3. Re:Nice... by DarkHelmet · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Go figure... The explanation of what a troll is gets marked down as troll.

    Go ahead and mod this one down too. Be consistent!

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  4. Maybe it's intentional - and clever marketing. by PornMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Rather than playing into the recipients insecurities, why not cause their partners to realize how dissatisfied they are?

    You get a breast enlargement spam. You start thinking, "Man, it *would* be nice if she had bigger boobs. Maybe I'll get her this cream."

    Meanwhile, she's checking her e-mails and thinking, "Hmm, needledick could use some help. Maybe if I get pills from this one place, and a vacuum pump from this other one..."

    Not that they really intended that, but it's another valid way to market. ED pill commercials often show how much happier the women are.

  5. Re:Nice... by amliebsch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How could you mark this "Troll" when it's obviously "Offtopic"!

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  6. Re:Editors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Karma be damned
    yeah, it will be.
  7. OT regarding sig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Will slashdot ever drag itself into the year 2005 and provide the ability to edit posts? "

    I really doubt it as it would be abused by trolls. They'd post a comment with a link that would get modded +5, then they'd go back and edit the link to direct to goatse or somesuch.

  8. Ben Folds: Rent-A-Cop by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since we're on the theme of rent-a-cops, and since this article is about one of the most useless activities that has taken place in a while, I thought I might entertain you with the lyrics from Ben Folds's "Rent-a-Cop":

    I'm 'trolling food court for girls
    Yeah, it's the best job in the world
    They know they're safe with me
    They love my little mustache
    They love a man in uniform
    Oh

    With my sunglass they can't
    See what I'm really looking at
    And as they're walking by
    I whisper through my doughnut
    Hey baby, baby light that ass on fire

    How long must this day go on?
    I got to stand here two more hours till I
    Punch the clock
    How long must this day go on?

    No kid, they don't give me a gun
    I don't get paid enough to run
    So you can call me what you want
    I'll be hanging at the check out
    Checking out your girlfriend
    Figure out how she's going to fit all of that
    Butt into that underwear - yeah
    Yeah

    Hey girl if you can't recall
    Where you parked your daddy's car
    Then I could help you out
    All alone in this
    great big mall
    Oh

    How long must this day go on?
    I got to stand here two more hours
    Till it's Miller Time
    How long must this day go on?
    Whoa oh oh, oh oh

    I'm 'trolling food court for girls

    I whisper through my doughnut
    I whisper through my doughnut
    I whisper through my doughnut
    Hey baby baby, hey baby baby baby
    Light that
    Light that ass on fire

    Alright, that's good

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  9. Re:Editors? by U1timateZer0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're such a fucking tool. . .

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  10. Re:Nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See the "Nationalistic insults" section. Some crackhead American obviously thinks that holding the USA to the same standards as the rest of the world is an insult to their nation. American Exceptionalism at its most obvious.

  11. Does this remind anyone of ... ? by mapMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... the Simpsons espiode when Homer discovers his Hippie roots and drives around town with the jester hat on "freaking out" the squares?

  12. FiRst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  13. fuCker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    shoaut the loudest Jesus Up The

  14. Re:Huh? by pgpckt · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I don't care if kids get alcohol (I did as one, as did we all)


    As a matter of fact, I never did this.

    I am 24 now and have enjoyed drinking these past three years. Before then, I followed the rules.

    Please don't make such absolute statements.
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