From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 19:11:46 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>Considering Spikes comment -- having a neighbor have a police
>scanner is one thing -- allowing them to have access to my CC
>numbers is another. Its a question perhaps of whether they
>can be trusted to use the information in a responsible way
>or are they simply using it for their entertainment...
>
Ja, that is kinda what I was exploring. Those who now have scanners
have them pretty much for their own entertainment, or to satisfy that
curious characteristic of humans to like to know what is going on with
the bad guys. I am suggesting that we might be able to raise a force
equal or superior in performance to the existing taxpayer-supported
system, all totally for free. Rather, at the expense of some of our
privacy.
All those web-cams I have suggested placing in strategic public places
would be informally and partially monitored by a group of nosies with
nothing better to do than this kind of thing.
I might even pay my own money to set up a webcam that watches
the neighborhood mailboxes, from which mail is routinely stolen. The
thieves know they will not get caught: the tax structure in our
wonderful state of Taxifornia and the absurd home prices ensures
that entire neighborhoods will be completely deserted during working
hours. Even the children cannot be left at home, for anyone walking
the residential streets during said working hours can safely be assumed
to be a criminal. Ah, the joys of 21st century living.
But if a number of webcams with overlapping fields of view,
timestamped image recording based on motion detection
were available, any daylight theft would allow the victim to
calmly surf from site to site and trace the lowlife perp
directly to his house.
Kewallllllll.... {8^D
That would be so much fun, Im sure a lotta folks would do it,
just for the enjoyment and excitement of the chase.
spike
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