There are good reasons not to want to be observed even if you did nothing wrong.
Such as?
Most of these guys are complaining that these cameras even exist. I agree it's pretty pointless to just sit there watching all day unless you're actually a security guard, but I definitely think having the cameras in place and recording is positive.
That was presumably with a resistive touchscreen though? You have to press down on them to get a response. Using a capacitive touch pad on a handheld would would quite nicely methinks, no pressure required, only light movements.
That is, until they lock you up thinking you are a mugger/rapist? That's not just your problem. Then we've got an innocent person in jail, and a mugger/rapist that the police has stopped looking for.
That seems to be a bit of a strawman considering mistakes are made all the time without CCTV too. With really crappy quality CCTV it isn't that much use as evidence (I should know our CCTV system completely sucks here at work, wish they'd get a decent system), but with high quality stuff it's a lot more useful. A lot of businesses around here run their own CCTV, it isn't costing the government anything. The Police occasionally request some footage of certain times if there's been dodgy goings on on our street (which there often are as we live next to one of the roughest areas in the city).
This is obviously going to cause far more crime than it stops, because currently nobody can sit on a park bench and observe people passing by, and when they know there are cameras in public places they're a lot more likely to try and kidnap children!
Got any more stupid arguments you'd like to trot out as excuses so that nobody can watch you while you're shopping?
I'm a lot more likely than most people to get into trouble from CCTV, as I'm out doing Parkour several times a week, including the occasional bout of trespassing or what might be deemed by some as anti-social behaviour. However, I still think CCTV is beneficial to society as a whole. I'd rather get arrested for climbing a wall, than have a mugger or rapist go free because there is no evidence.
Clearly they have or they wouldn't be asking the public to watch for them. This is not an invasion of privacy, the cameras are in public places. This is only "Orwellian" in your own head, because you have to take everything to ludicrous extremes rather than accepting that in reality, schemes like this are positive for society. The only problem would be if they started putting cameras in houses, but nobody has actually done that before, and nobody in their right mind would even try it in a democracy.
It's only "tired out" because you refuse to listen to it. What is wrong with cameras in a public place? As I said above, would you prefer to switch off all logging on a server until after you start having problems? I doubt it. Seriously, what's your problem with having cameras in already very public places?
The rest of your post seems a lot like a conspiracy theory that cannot be disproven because by your definition there would be no evidence. Would be nice if you could provide some evidence, although that would seem to also disprove your theory.
I suppose you also switch off logging on all your computers, in good faith that everything will work perfectly and you won't ever need to find out what happened in the case of a problem?
Bleh I obviously meant DS and not Wii. The Wii is almost there for FPSes too though, we're heading slowly in a good direction. Would be nice to try out an FPS with my Move controller, no FPS demos as of yet though.
I placed a pre-order for one two years ago, eventually just got bored and bought a PSP instead.
I like the sound of this Panasonic thing. D-pad plus touch pad would be a nice combo for FPSes. The Wii is almost there, but the resistive touchscreen isn't ideal, and it isn't very ergonomic (or at least my first gen DS wasn't, haven't tried the others).
According to this partial list he has at least 10 vehicles made after 2000.. he's not a "classic car" nut, he's just a car nut, or should I say a vehicle nut. The only vehicle I knew for sure that he had before today was a Y2K superbike, and I'm guessing that has some warning labels considering the exhaust can melt the bumpers right off of cars..
Yeah, but none so frustrating as a week of debilitating "stomach cramps" every month like my last gf had whenever she was off the pill, she could barely do anything when she was like that.
I read stories like this years ago. Some laptops do get uncomfortably warm.. guess what, if it's uncomfortable rather than just nice and toasty, you should probably not be placing it directly on your lap! Taking the pain will just lead to damage.
However if there are issues simply from extended periods of being nicely toasty, that definitely isn't good, and people do need to be warned.
Fair enough. It may have caused my touchscreen to start acting funny too, I ended up resetting my Streak and haven't tried the app again. It doesn't even have video calling, which was the only reason I installed it (had a whim to test out the video calling on my device, as I haven't tried it yet).
Are you sure this isn't actually a problem with your specific version of Android? Not that I've even tried any instant messaging apps on my phone yet, but some versions of Android are better than others depending on how much the carrier has screwed around with them.
Well, that is a pretty cool feature I have to admit.
I'm more 2nd line support, I only get asked to help with when the other IT guy is at a loss or on holiday, and I haven't had to deal with Win7 driver issues so far. The rest of the time I'm doing programming/sysadmin type stuff.
Until phones have lots of lovely buttons, triggers and proper joysticks, I'm not going to be getting rid of my DualShock controllers anytime soon. And while it sounds cool, I don't really give a crap about screens on the controller either.. I've not looked at my controller when playing a game for over 10 years (ie, since I memorised which shape was on which button).
I use an Evoluent Vertical Mouse. I got used to having an ache in my right wrist without really relating it to mouse usage (I thought it was perhap from lifting weights when I was younger), but when I saw someone with one of these things I it clicked for me, and my wrist is a lot better these days:)
My MBP gave me little electric shocks whenever I used the trackpad while touching my arm on the seam around the edge of the case. Very good for my health, I'm sure..
I think I've seen figures for inside the brain itself, but not to the body. I don't think it would be a problem considering we've already made prosthetic arms/hands that work okay with people who have stumps for arms, not to mention artificial retinas. We could start off with fairly simple low bandwidth devices like those and increase the complexity over time. I think the brain adapts pretty well to different types of input, though I don't know what the upper I/O limit would be..
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There are good reasons not to want to be observed even if you did nothing wrong.
Such as?
Most of these guys are complaining that these cameras even exist. I agree it's pretty pointless to just sit there watching all day unless you're actually a security guard, but I definitely think having the cameras in place and recording is positive.
Damn. Okay, seems I'll have to take it easy on the seemingly crazy folks today! Maybe I'll even join in.
That was presumably with a resistive touchscreen though? You have to press down on them to get a response. Using a capacitive touch pad on a handheld would would quite nicely methinks, no pressure required, only light movements.
That is, until they lock you up thinking you are a mugger/rapist?
That's not just your problem. Then we've got an innocent person in jail, and a mugger/rapist that the police has stopped looking for.
That seems to be a bit of a strawman considering mistakes are made all the time without CCTV too. With really crappy quality CCTV it isn't that much use as evidence (I should know our CCTV system completely sucks here at work, wish they'd get a decent system), but with high quality stuff it's a lot more useful. A lot of businesses around here run their own CCTV, it isn't costing the government anything. The Police occasionally request some footage of certain times if there's been dodgy goings on on our street (which there often are as we live next to one of the roughest areas in the city).
Yeah, think of the children!
This is obviously going to cause far more crime than it stops, because currently nobody can sit on a park bench and observe people passing by, and when they know there are cameras in public places they're a lot more likely to try and kidnap children!
Got any more stupid arguments you'd like to trot out as excuses so that nobody can watch you while you're shopping?
I'm a lot more likely than most people to get into trouble from CCTV, as I'm out doing Parkour several times a week, including the occasional bout of trespassing or what might be deemed by some as anti-social behaviour. However, I still think CCTV is beneficial to society as a whole. I'd rather get arrested for climbing a wall, than have a mugger or rapist go free because there is no evidence.
Clearly they have or they wouldn't be asking the public to watch for them. This is not an invasion of privacy, the cameras are in public places. This is only "Orwellian" in your own head, because you have to take everything to ludicrous extremes rather than accepting that in reality, schemes like this are positive for society. The only problem would be if they started putting cameras in houses, but nobody has actually done that before, and nobody in their right mind would even try it in a democracy.
It's only "tired out" because you refuse to listen to it. What is wrong with cameras in a public place? As I said above, would you prefer to switch off all logging on a server until after you start having problems? I doubt it. Seriously, what's your problem with having cameras in already very public places?
The rest of your post seems a lot like a conspiracy theory that cannot be disproven because by your definition there would be no evidence. Would be nice if you could provide some evidence, although that would seem to also disprove your theory.
mod +1,000,000 - sense in the face of knee-jerk reaction whiny bullshit attitude
I suppose you also switch off logging on all your computers, in good faith that everything will work perfectly and you won't ever need to find out what happened in the case of a problem?
Bleh I obviously meant DS and not Wii. The Wii is almost there for FPSes too though, we're heading slowly in a good direction. Would be nice to try out an FPS with my Move controller, no FPS demos as of yet though.
I placed a pre-order for one two years ago, eventually just got bored and bought a PSP instead.
I like the sound of this Panasonic thing. D-pad plus touch pad would be a nice combo for FPSes. The Wii is almost there, but the resistive touchscreen isn't ideal, and it isn't very ergonomic (or at least my first gen DS wasn't, haven't tried the others).
According to this partial list he has at least 10 vehicles made after 2000.. he's not a "classic car" nut, he's just a car nut, or should I say a vehicle nut. The only vehicle I knew for sure that he had before today was a Y2K superbike, and I'm guessing that has some warning labels considering the exhaust can melt the bumpers right off of cars..
Yeah, but none so frustrating as a week of debilitating "stomach cramps" every month like my last gf had whenever she was off the pill, she could barely do anything when she was like that.
I don't think it's that odd if it was Jay Leno complaining about car manuals, seeing as he's a massive car nut :)
Except the pill has positive benefits outside of just birth control, so she'd probably want to keep taking it anyway?
I read stories like this years ago. Some laptops do get uncomfortably warm.. guess what, if it's uncomfortable rather than just nice and toasty, you should probably not be placing it directly on your lap! Taking the pain will just lead to damage.
However if there are issues simply from extended periods of being nicely toasty, that definitely isn't good, and people do need to be warned.
Fair enough. It may have caused my touchscreen to start acting funny too, I ended up resetting my Streak and haven't tried the app again. It doesn't even have video calling, which was the only reason I installed it (had a whim to test out the video calling on my device, as I haven't tried it yet).
Can't remember if it was the case on battery power, but I think it happened both at work and home, so the grounding thing seems unlikely.
Are you sure this isn't actually a problem with your specific version of Android? Not that I've even tried any instant messaging apps on my phone yet, but some versions of Android are better than others depending on how much the carrier has screwed around with them.
Well, that is a pretty cool feature I have to admit.
I'm more 2nd line support, I only get asked to help with when the other IT guy is at a loss or on holiday, and I haven't had to deal with Win7 driver issues so far. The rest of the time I'm doing programming/sysadmin type stuff.
I actually didn't even notice the pun. My bad.
Until phones have lots of lovely buttons, triggers and proper joysticks, I'm not going to be getting rid of my DualShock controllers anytime soon. And while it sounds cool, I don't really give a crap about screens on the controller either.. I've not looked at my controller when playing a game for over 10 years (ie, since I memorised which shape was on which button).
I use an Evoluent Vertical Mouse. I got used to having an ache in my right wrist without really relating it to mouse usage (I thought it was perhap from lifting weights when I was younger), but when I saw someone with one of these things I it clicked for me, and my wrist is a lot better these days :)
My MBP gave me little electric shocks whenever I used the trackpad while touching my arm on the seam around the edge of the case. Very good for my health, I'm sure..
I think I've seen figures for inside the brain itself, but not to the body. I don't think it would be a problem considering we've already made prosthetic arms/hands that work okay with people who have stumps for arms, not to mention artificial retinas. We could start off with fairly simple low bandwidth devices like those and increase the complexity over time. I think the brain adapts pretty well to different types of input, though I don't know what the upper I/O limit would be..