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Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams'
Dr_Barnowl writes "The BBC reports that Texas intends to erect a network of online webcams at its border to Mexico. The intention is apparently to use viewers as a kind of distributed processing network, with a free phone number to report border-jumpers." From the article: "'A stronger border is what Americans want and it's what our security demands and that is what Texas is going to deliver,' Mr Perry said. The cameras will cost $5m (£2.7m) to install and will be trained on sections of the 1,000-mile (1,600km) border known to be favoured by illegal immigrants " Hey, it's working for Britain, right?
Quake 3 is open sourced, just use the game as a GUI.
The illegal immigration problem would go away in days!
I've composed a little poem to be enscribed on your border wall. In honour of Ms Lazarus, its called "The Newer Colossus":
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
PS: No Mexicans"
Now, if only we could add a web interface to a sentry gun...
It's a Video Game. It's National Security. It's two, TWO, two games in one!
I now have a new 'worst imaginary job':(I can't ever see that sentence being finished)
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
The government is even invading the privacy of whole other countries!
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Because they cant get American labor to do it, they'd have to hire migrant workers. The irony.
before the Eborder-jumpers just start hanging out in view of their very opwn free webcams and start crying and stripping like true webcammers?
From the BBC article:
Mr Perry, a Republican, is running for re-election in November.
I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with the grandstanding^W pandering^W honest effort to do what's best.
Besides, once someone identifies people crossing the border and "notifies the authorities", then what?
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
I can see the AIM bots now.. "Hola! Click here to see me and my girlfriends have wild parties, hide from border patrols, and dodge farmers' bullets! Tee-hee! ;-)"
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You know you're out there, you know you got suckered into buying a cheap $10 or $20 wireless webcam from X10 back in the late 90s.... now we all have a way to redeem ourselves ;-p
If we all dig out our old, useless X10s and donate them to the Fed, we can surely cover the entire border with motion activated, web enabled video surveillance... there has got to be millions of these little buggers out there... all the fed would have to do is wire them up.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
A stronger border is what Americans want
Says who?
Says me! You have no idea how scared I am of those filthy Canadians sneaking across the border to take advantage of our healthcare system and steal all our good beer.
This guy's the limit!
Wouldn't it be easier to just to hand over Texas to Mexico? I know I wouldn't miss it.
-matthew
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Definately a possibility. There is a better way to implement a scheme that encourages full coverage, I just haven't taken the time to think of it.
Stick that in your compiler and debug it!
Allow me to be the voice of reason here. If you think the poor guys trying to escape to a better life have computers and internet access you might want to think again ;)
The refugees themselves obviously aren't going to be carrying computers across the river. They're going to be in the unventilated trailer in the back. The guy driving the truck they're in would be the one with the laptop and the cellphone and the air conditioning. Unloading the trailer near unwatched cameras would be a premium service offered by the driver to the people in back. That way if they don't pay extra he can drop them off in front of busy cameras and get repeat business.
I think it would be unwise to offer surveillance statistics to website visitors. Not that this isn't a stupid idea already.