From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 15:59:10 MDT
> (Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>):
> On Saturday 07 September 2002 11:05, spike66 wrote:
> ...
> > Surely we will eventually be ashamed of ourselves: we had the
> > technology way back in the late 20th century to put webcams
> > everywhere in public places, but didn't do it. Who knows how
> > many crimes went unsolved and how many innocents punished
> > because of our insistence on personal privacy and overreliance
> > on outdated traditional legal systems. spike
> My, you really *trust* the government.
I don't find anything in Spike's paragraph to suggest that he
intends the cameras to be controlled by the government--indeed it's
quite obvious he meant the opposite--"webcam", by its very definition,
means "available to the public at all times". Indeed, the fact that
the cameras can be turned /on/ the government is probably the primary
reason for them.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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