- "The real terror threat in the USA!" We are well into the Cold Civil War here.
- Video of a CZ-52 on the range.
- Big Brother will come with monthly financing and affordable data plans. It's an inevitable side effect of interlinked databases, cameras and processors in everything, and storage too cheap to meter.
I'm OK with the concept of personal video recording glasses, but only if the service it connects to and archives with is out of your government's jurisdiction.
ReplyDeleteHaving an alibi archive, and recordings of interactions with others can be useful, provided you have absolute control over access to the data.
As long as Google is running this and using servers in the US, I want no part of it. Now if it sent data to MY archive, yes.
Another use of this device comes to mind: hooking this up to a rail mounted video camera on a rifle or pistol would make a neat weapon sight out of it. Point gun around corner, and have targeting video with reticule in a window on your glasses.
Digital video cameras are becoming a must-have accessory in cars now, I guess. They have been pretty much ubiquitous in Russia for some time, where the roadways are pretty lawless.
ReplyDeleteWe may be approaching a time when a small lapel-mounted CCD camera feeding data to a flash card in your pocket -- or hidden in the sole of your shoe -- may become the de rigueur political accessory.
With regard to the Aurora newspaper editorial... I hardly know what to say that isn't both obscene and violent. Quite aside from the idea of calling the NRA a terrorist organization for exercising free speech, this wanker wants to lock people - American citizens - up without due process for no more crime than being members of an organization that he happens to dislike.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that it's summoning Godwin to say that this clown has an attitude that would have made him right at home in a brownshirt.
Fuzzy: I've been designing one for a while that's basically a fancy bluetooth earpiece.
ReplyDeleteAudio and video go to your phone, recorded to storage there as a buffer, and then moved to offsite storage on your home machine or some other server.
I figure to have it run in a sort of looped buffer all the time, with say, a minute or five (depending on the tech and how it all works out) so that if you miss the start of something, you can push a button and get "the last five minutes" plus moving forward from when you hit "record".
"4G" cell network speeds should be enough to transmit HD quality audio+video. Of course, that's also at the edge of the performance envelope, and I rarely actually get that on my phone.
If "it" has any kind of wireless capability...no matter where you think you are storing your data, the feds can access your data stream.
ReplyDeleteAs far as storage "too cheap to meter", I suggest that nothing is farther than the truth. While more storage is being deployed, and it has gotten cheaper, the overall cost has exploded. The reason its becoming common is that the big data that is collected is valuable in its own right. All of the clicks, snaps, and wish lists form a dataset that can be used to predict some extraordinary events, not just be used to for snooping.
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