Then again, I’m a red-stater, so most of the school staff in our area is very “monitoring makes the world safe!” and “Praise God!” My perspective may be skewed.

Like you actually ever show up for class.

Seriously, if it’s good enough for London, it’s good enough for a great midwestern city like Chicago. A watched population is a polite population. Don’t worry kids, identity camouflage is right around the corner. Everyone will be recording everything around themselves all the time. We will do so because it will be easy. In a world where everyone wants to be a star, everyone will be, at least in their own reality web drama. What better way to keep your kids safe than with a ‘watcher’ that you implant in their arm?

Antinous, I do too show up for class. Or did so enough in the past to have gained a perspective!

Bad: Stuff will be missed. Signatures and heuristics aren’t perfect. I don’t expect great results.

Good: Direct abuse of the system by the operators may actually decrease. If the operators don’t directly control the cameras, they can’t aim them into bedroom windows or follow someone just because they don’t like the way they look. And I seriously doubt anyone would program a system to find something like “woman in shower” or “dark skin in white neighborhood” because if it’s actually programmed into the system, it can be reviewed and there’s accountability.

how about ASS: artificial sentient stupidity

After I graduated from High School, I added up all my sick days and I was absent more than three years out of twelve.

I have watched various shows lauding arts teachers in inner city schools. I will now think of you as the hot teacher chick from one of them (can’t recall the movie name.) Miss Anthony. :)

And how did you graduate?

Outpaces in futility, perhaps.

Then in true flashmob style, walk away like nothing happened.

I’m sure there are a myriad of ways for pranksters to screw with that.

I’ll start worrying when people start getting arrested because the camera thinks they did something they didn’t. In the meantime, bring on the surveillance and down with Chicago’s omnipresent aggressive panhandlers, reckless jaywalking crackheads, and stinking drunks.

And if you still think the cameras are wrong, tell that to my friend who spent two months near death in a coma because some bum decided that the best way to cover his tracks after stealing his cash was to bludgeon him and leave him for dead.

welcome to city life, whiner.

I hate Chicago with a passion. I don’t go visit friends who live there anymore, I won’t fly out of there anymore, I simply won’t go there.

I would literally have to be paid to live there.

The best 16 dollars I ever spent was on tolls from Chicago to move back to Wisconsin.

The solution to failed public policy is not more guaranteed-to-fail policy. Yet you are willing to trade away your rights for the illusion of safety. You deserve the coming storm that will destroy everything you ever valued.
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Jaywalking? Really? Even reckless jaywalking seems not reason enough to “bring on” a surveillance system.

My point here (one that I wish was so common sense that it was hackneyed) is that when we turn over our security to this sort of surveillance we often do so with the argument that “if you’re doing nothing wrong, you should be worried.” What we fail to grasp is the likely shift of what is considered “right” by the powers that be.

I don’t live in Chicago, so beyond poking fun at your comment on reckless jaywalking, I can’t really speak to how bad things are there. But I have to believe that there are other more effective solutions that do not set our society up for a huge fall: Neighborhood watches? Neighborhood patrols with Police? Building a greater sense of community?

On a tangential note, is 1984 still taught in school?

Freudian slip FTW. That should read “shoudn’t

No.

Back in my day, before there was air or gravity, you got credit for intellectual and scholastic merit. There weren’t a whole lot of rules about how you achieved it. If you got a 100 on everything, nobody complained about attendance.

The solution to failed public policy is not more guaranteed-to-fail policy. Yet you are willing to trade away your rights for the illusion of safety. You deserve the coming storm that will destroy everything you ever valued.