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Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching
mrbluze writes "The Telegraph has an opinion article about the future of the extensive CCTV network in the United Kingdom. Automated analysis of how and where people are walking or otherwise moving, and what objects they carry or leave behind, flags the attention of security staff. This is meant to preempt a crime and make suspects identifiable even by gait. The technology is of questionable public benefit since street crime has not decreased despite the presence of CCTV. 'An airport camera can be programmed to know what a departure hall should look like, with thousands of separate movements. A single suitcase left for any length of time would trigger an alarm. This technology was developed for use in hotels to alert staff to a breakfast tray left outside a room. Soon, it will be coming to a street near you. Why not go the whole hog and have microphones attached to cameras or embedded in street lights?'"
I wonder if it can identify silly walks.
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The first Ministry of silly walks?
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A way of identifying all those people who soil themselves!
I believe it's safe to say that using someone's gait to determine their relative guilt/innocence, ranks right up there with dumping a woman in a river to see if she's a witch.
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Why not go the whole hog and have microphones attached to cameras or embedded in street lights?
Don't give them ideas.
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If you're part of the Ministry of Silly Walks, you're going to get outed.
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I wonder how hard it would be to come up with a player device to simulate gunshots?
Would be interesting to have a few friends in different parts of the city...some maybe across the st. from each other, and fire out gunshot sounds. Heck, make it interesting...mix up the reports, like a few 357 magnums, maybe a 50 cal Desert Eagle, some shotguns...for real fun, get one full auto here and there.
I can't imagine at this point, there is a law against playing gunshot 'sounds'....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Either that, or leave little boxes with flashing LEDs all over the place. The authorities handle those very efficiently.
I bet most people don't know their TVs are secretly two-way. I'm sure of it, because once Walter Cronkite commented on a network broadcast about my personal hygiene habits. But I got even, when I ripped the aluminum foil off my head, shat in it, and mailed it to CBS.
Why would you want to do such a thing, just to fuck up an attempt to detect & prevent crime which is new, effective, and AFAIK has virtually NO negative consequences for civil liberties, privacy etc? (So long as they're sited by an algorithm running on data about gun crime, rather than (say) ethnicity or income levels.)
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Would be interesting to have a few friends in different parts of the city...some maybe across the st. from each other, and fire out gunshot sounds. Heck, make it interesting...mix up the reports, like a few 357 magnums, maybe a 50 cal Desert Eagle, some shotguns...for real fun, get one full auto here and there.
I can't imagine at this point, there is a law against playing gunshot 'sounds'....
Why go through all that trouble? Just put a sign with a couple of blinking LEDs somewhere, then sit back and enjoy the panic...I learned to detect my boss by the sound of its steps in the corridor, I think I must be a prey.