the Street Lights are Watching You (and me)

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from the Paranoid to the Prepared:

LED lampposts are being installed in cities and public places across the world, only partly because of their economical, energy-saving properties. With the new installations comes a wide range of sensors designed to capture data on public activity. As Chuck Campagna, CEO of lighting company Amerlux, told The New York Times, “We are opening up an entirely new area in lighting applications and services, including video-based security and public safety, parking management, predictive maintenance and more.”

link:
https://www.libertynation.com/frightening-stuff-hidden-in-your-street-light/
and an older one:
https://archive.fo/PWgNA
 
Damned!!! That's obnoxious music....

As for the lights, nothing new, I've had LED/camera combination "lights" installed in the common areas on multi family properties for over 5 years. The camera quality just keeps getting better.....
 
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This reminds me of a project I worked on for SCDOT. Did you know that every mile of SC's major highways is monitored by camera? They can keep eyes on a vehicle from when it enters the state until it leaves. For example, a truck carrying hazardous waste. The cameras are spaced so that views overlap. And it's all connected with high speed fiber optic. Sometimes, when I'm bored, as I pass a camera, I look for the next one.
 
Damned!!! That's obnoxious music....
You’re just old.

The continued growth of the surveillance state is becoming a problem. I predict that soon, anti surveillance technology will be a profitable booming business as people actively engage in ways to thwart and avoid it.

Then there are the yellow vest protesters in France that have destroyed most of the red light and speed cameras on their roads.
 
As an access & revenue control/parking management/control technician...business is good.
Lots of $ being spent in both R&D and upgrading existing systems.

The insurance companies are driving it with rates. They run the economy, believe it or not.
 
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You’re just old.

The continued growth of the surveillance state is becoming a problem. I predict that soon, anti surveillance technology will be a profitable booming business as people actively engage in ways to thwart and avoid it.

Then there are the yellow vest protesters in France that have destroyed most of the red light and speed cameras on their roads.

Gatsos (as they call speed cameras in England) keep mysteriously catching fire back home.

https://www.wired.com/2007/12/burning-british/
 
A 10-22 is one of my favorite rifles.

Well since you already have the 10-22 you’re okay but if you want to be more stealthy (than even with a can) a good 3,000 to 4,000 mW battery powered 532 nM laser can do the trick ... or so understand will reek havoc on CCD/CMOS sensors ... without busting the light itself :D.
 
Maybe not. At this point, Judas Priest (and other 70s rockers) are old-people-music.

And even at the height of their popularity, they were a niche band, and certainly not for everyone.
I went to a Judas Priest concert with some buddies in Miami. One of them got super-drunk and dropped his soft pretzel on the ground. People started kicking it around like a hockey puck and there's my buddy on his hands and knees chasing it.
 
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@Friday i took my wife to a Dream Theater concert. There was this drunk guy, standing in the isles, waving his arms and singing at the top of his lungs. Then there was the girl in our row that kept getting more beer, then she was going to the toilet.

My wife won’t go to another concert. :(
 
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