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Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland

Posted by samzenpus on from the watching-the-watchers dept.

Cornwallis writes in with a story reminding cameras everywhere that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't watching you. "Many people find speed cameras frustrating, and some in the region are taking their rage out on the cameras themselves. But now there's a new solution: cameras to watch the cameras. One is already in place, and Prince George's County Police Maj. Robert V. Liberati hopes to have up to a dozen more before the end of the year. 'It's not worth going to jail over a $40 ticket or an arson or destruction of property charge,' says Liberati."

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  1. um... by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a race condition if I ever saw one...

    1. Re:um... by Blue+Stone · · Score: 3, Funny

      One possible future: two giant cameras watching each other.

      (While everybody goes goes about their lives, unhindered).

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  2. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who watches the cameras that watches cameras?

    1. Re:But... by Megahard · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's cameras all the way down.

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    2. Re:But... by dmacleod808 · · Score: 3, Funny

      hey man, we heard you like cameras, so we put a camera on your camera.

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    3. Re:But... by kilfarsnar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Who watches the cameras that watches cameras?

      Voyeurs and Xzibitionists.

      Yo dawg! We heard you like cameras. So we put a camera on your camera, so your camera can watch your camera!

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    4. Re:But... by Ambvai · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's cameras all the way down?

    5. Re:But... by ahem · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think he was actually saying that many folks are wearing incorrectly sized leiderhosen.

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  3. In Soviet Russia... by Guano_Jim · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...camera watches camera!

    In the United States, it's the other way around.

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  4. Infinite Recursion by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a race condition if I ever saw one...

    Sounds more like an infinite recursion, if you ask me:

    installMonitoringCamera(Camera cameraToMonitor) {
            Camera monitoringCamera = new Camera(cameraToMonitor);
            monitoringCamera.monitor();

            if(monitoringCamera.observesSomeAssholeSettingFireToMonitoredCamera())
                    installMonitoringCamera(monitoringCamera);
    }

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