When was the last time you looked up paranoid in a dictionary? -----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 May 2007 19:10 To: CF-Community Subject: Re: scary surveillance
It's cheaper and smaller, so you can have lots and lots of them flying all over the place, poking into every corner of a city. If you had enough processing power, you could in theory use camera feeds from a network of several hundred of these little things to create a virtual "Great Eye" that sees everything in a city, all at once, everywhere. What's wrong with that? Just about everything. On 5/22/07, James Smith wrote: > > > This is really going quite too far, IMHO. George Orwell would be > appalled. > > What's the problem? It is cheaper than a helicopter, easier to fly than a > helicopter, less intrusive than a helicopter, and except for high speed > pursuit will do the same job. > > It doesn't require an expensive pilot to fly it. > It doesn't make massive amounts of disturbing noise over the city centre. > It can land and take of almost anywhere without requiring a helipad or > large > field. > It is less polluting than the turbine of a helicopter. > > It seems like a good thing to me when compared with the alternative, or do > you believe the police shouldn't use helicopters either? > > -- > Jay > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235638 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
