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George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade
Jamie stopped to mention that Bloomberg is reporting on a recent addition of speakers to public security cameras in Middlesbrough, England. From the article: "`People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when they see everyone else looking at them, they feel a twinge of conscience and comply,' said Mike Clark, a spokesman for Middlesbrough Council who recounted the incident. The city has placed speakers in its cameras, allowing operators to chastise miscreants who drop coffee cups, ride bicycles too fast or fight outside bars."
Good. Very good. How much longer can we tolerate the cantankerous boors turning our cities into places of bestial debauchery?
An ideal society must always strive to be a surveillance state. In the old times the good people were never alone, but always watched by an impartial Judge that saw every transgression and metted out the punishment accordingly; God was that Judge.
Now, the cameras extend the same heavenly ideal to the godless heathen scum that spit on the street, jump ahead of elderly women in a queue, and steal the pennies from the blind.
It is interesting to notice that those voicing their discontent are precisely the ones treating our streets as their personal sty.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
I live in America and not Britain!
But this is Slashdot, where people would sooner quote a fictional mass-murderer than one of the founding fathers.