An article at the SF Chronicle discusses the ineffectiveness of 178 cameras in a public housing development.
“[The cameras] have never helped police officers arrest a homicide suspect even though about a quarter of the city’s homicides occur on or near public housing property, city officials say.
But it may not necessarily be the security cameras that are ineffective as much as the security program using that tool. The article inadvertently mentions this:
NOBODY MONITORS THE CAMERAS, and the videos are seen only if police specifically request it from San Francisco Housing Authority officials. The cameras have occasionally managed to miss crimes happening in front of them because they were trained in another direction, and FOOTAGE IS PARTICULARLY GRAINY AT NIGHT when most crime occurs, according to police and city officials.
Without a proper security program that requires tasks such as an individual monitoring the cameras, a camera system is simply a deterrent for some crimes instead of a proactive extension of security to preventing most (if not all) crimes.
Happy Birthday, India! Welcome to the arms race. You’ve gone from most enlightend, wise and anchient spiritual civilization to Westernized nuclear power.
Sarcasm aside, I think its great that India is sprinting into modernization. As a nation they have already done a lot to stimulate a global economy. I guess the standoff with Pakistan is inevitable.
“Gandhi’s dream of a free India will only be fully realized when we banish poverty from our midst,” Singh told a crowd of thousands of dignitaries and schoolchildren dressed in the orange, white and green of the Indian flag, referring to independence leader Mohandas Gandhi. —newstaronline
Security was tight across India for the festivities. Police stepped up security around the Taj Mahal, India’s famed white-marble monument to love, saying there was a specific threat to the site.
p.s. thanks for producing the most beautiful woman in the world:
Miss World 1994Â
ton of movies
Google has an unorthodox style of business that continues to astound me. For one thing they started giving out 2 gigs of free space while Yahoo/MSN and others were still giving 250M and closing out accounts after 30 days of no activity. They also give 1gig of space for pictures with Picasa. Now they give 6gigs for hard drive space for a measily $20/year.
There were some rumors about them doing something called “gdrive” which would be an application that would use a bit a space on personal computer around the world. Genius! I can be quite secure too. I saw some technology built into the Sidewinder Firewall that effectively seperated every service in its own area of hard drive so that if that service was comprimised it would not do damage to the rest of the system.