I understand your view that CCTV is sometimes useful in solving crimes. But it's often been sold to the public as a detterent. There's a least three reasons for interpreting it this way:
1) You'll often see commissioners and politians on TV talking about how the next generation of CCTV technology will reduce crime. There's no evidence to support this has been or ever will be true.
2) What use is evidence and "joining-the-dots" after the fact in terms of public safety? If it doesn't prevent the crime, what use is it to the victims? For instance, you can't un-stab someone with the judicious use of CCTV recordings.
3) Following introduction of CCTV (admittedly not necessarily because of), there are less police on the beat. One must assume it's because CCTV can supposedly replace the feeling of "police presence" on the street.
Basically, this is an inordinate waste of money when more funds should be put into actually policing the streets instead of just watching until something bad actually happens. It's basically just lazy policing.
Do you read the daily mail?:)
Suggesting that I'm some sort of ultra-conservative for having concerns about public safety and the inadequacy of CCTV is a bit rich.
And the result of having all this CCTV? Reduced Crime? No. The average person on the street is definitely no safer.
The only change is that the feral brats who congregate in town centres now wear a sporting baseball cap and hooded top combination to escape identification on camera. Teenagers nowadays have never known life without CCTV anyway so it's not really any sort of deterrent to them commiting crimes. The camera on the street corner is pretty much a totemic reminder of their impunity and the impotency of the police.
I know friends and relatives over the years who where assaulted and have asked police to survey CCTV in order to catch the offenders. Usually there's some lame excuse about the camera not being on, pointing the wrong way, a technical fault or some equally daft reason. I suspect the police don't have the man power to go back over it or most likely they just plain can't be bothered. Just last year, this happened to my brother when he was attacked by a gang of thugs in Edinburgh.
Try not to worry too much about your rights being slowly eroded way by CCTV. It's security theatre on a massive scale and no-one's watching anyway...
If the rules change and Valve pull the rug out from under you, that's when the piracy starts. Users will download a copy that they feel reflects their rights. I know that if was locked out of my Steam account, my next stop would be usenet. No doubt about it.
I was in Tokyo during April and visited Akihabara. While I was there, I passed a shop selling second hand laptops. One of them was running OS/2 Warp in what looked like a VM window - I have a photograph somewhere. I'm almost as proud of that one as the one my girlfriend took of me posing with three costume girls.:)
I always thought 98 was when things started to get interesting. I did all of muy music production on w win98 on an amd athlon box for a long time. I was about 3 years late arriving at the XP party because it did the job as well as I needed it to.
It would be useful to find the answer to the question, "What is the first Web 2.0 application most people visit". That's not a very useful question however.
That doesn't make any sense. What the GP is saying is that he would like to be able to exclude users who deliberately set out to circumvent his business model. Kudos to him, I hope he finds it and posts it on slashdot when he's done.
Agreed the idea might not be new. However, the effectiveness of diets are quite a difficult thing to quantify and prove. Although the outcome looks similar, this study has actually shown it at a genetic level.
Guess what? That number still has a long ays to drop before it'll be back in reality.
I think you're right but it's clear that increased demand is responsible for this. It's not some magic inflation. Of course house prices might seem unrealistic, but why does gold or oil cost so much? It's just supply/demand.
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1) You'll often see commissioners and politians on TV talking about how the next generation of CCTV technology will reduce crime. There's no evidence to support this has been or ever will be true.
2) What use is evidence and "joining-the-dots" after the fact in terms of public safety? If it doesn't prevent the crime, what use is it to the victims? For instance, you can't un-stab someone with the judicious use of CCTV recordings.
3) Following introduction of CCTV (admittedly not necessarily because of), there are less police on the beat. One must assume it's because CCTV can supposedly replace the feeling of "police presence" on the street.
Basically, this is an inordinate waste of money when more funds should be put into actually policing the streets instead of just watching until something bad actually happens. It's basically just lazy policing. Suggesting that I'm some sort of ultra-conservative for having concerns about public safety and the inadequacy of CCTV is a bit rich.
Yes but now we've got freedom and communism. It's a very groovy time.
Oh dear. More evidence for the Microsoft "fact"-sheet that open source is indeed communism.
And the result of having all this CCTV? Reduced Crime? No. The average person on the street is definitely no safer.
The only change is that the feral brats who congregate in town centres now wear a sporting baseball cap and hooded top combination to escape identification on camera. Teenagers nowadays have never known life without CCTV anyway so it's not really any sort of deterrent to them commiting crimes. The camera on the street corner is pretty much a totemic reminder of their impunity and the impotency of the police.
I know friends and relatives over the years who where assaulted and have asked police to survey CCTV in order to catch the offenders. Usually there's some lame excuse about the camera not being on, pointing the wrong way, a technical fault or some equally daft reason. I suspect the police don't have the man power to go back over it or most likely they just plain can't be bothered. Just last year, this happened to my brother when he was attacked by a gang of thugs in Edinburgh.
Try not to worry too much about your rights being slowly eroded way by CCTV. It's security theatre on a massive scale and no-one's watching anyway...
Only if a disease wipes them all out too. Err, not that I would want something like that to happen to Justin Timberlake and co, you know...
If the rules change and Valve pull the rug out from under you, that's when the piracy starts. Users will download a copy that they feel reflects their rights. I know that if was locked out of my Steam account, my next stop would be usenet. No doubt about it.
I wish it did a better job...
I was in Tokyo during April and visited Akihabara. While I was there, I passed a shop selling second hand laptops. One of them was running OS/2 Warp in what looked like a VM window - I have a photograph somewhere. I'm almost as proud of that one as the one my girlfriend took of me posing with three costume girls. :)
I always thought 98 was when things started to get interesting. I did all of muy music production on w win98 on an amd athlon box for a long time. I was about 3 years late arriving at the XP party because it did the job as well as I needed it to.
No, they don't make shit for pay. They educate children for pay. :)
Yes but we wouldn't have got to hear that beautiful toilet paper analogy, would we?
It would be useful to find the answer to the question, "What is the first Web 2.0 application most people visit". That's not a very useful question however.
That doesn't make any sense. What the GP is saying is that he would like to be able to exclude users who deliberately set out to circumvent his business model. Kudos to him, I hope he finds it and posts it on slashdot when he's done.
It's not stealing if you agree to if first. It's just being a bastard. Also this not similar to mugging before you suggest that. :P
Agreed the idea might not be new. However, the effectiveness of diets are quite a difficult thing to quantify and prove. Although the outcome looks similar, this study has actually shown it at a genetic level.
Can I study Unnatural Science? That sounds fun.
Don't you mean iPood?
You know, it just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment.
I know, I had to hide behind the couch!
QuantLib?
I work at an investment bank and I do what the insensitive clod is talking about. :)
Interested in swapping codebases with me? :)