Fiorito: Did you smile? You were voting on candid camera

Fiorito: Did you smile? You were voting on candid camera

If you live on an upper floor in a highrise overlooking the Don Valley, and if you look west at night, you can see the valley woods and they are lovely, dark and deep.

Nice, in a “miles to go before I sleep” sort of way.

If you live in the highrise at 701 Don Valley Rd., and if you had tuned your television to the lobby channel on election day, you could have watched your neighbours lining up to vote at the polling station near the entrance.

Nice, in a “we’re all in this together” sort of way.

But if you had magnified the lobby camera view on your TV screen — given the angle of the spy camera and the placement of the voting tables — then you could have seen, with some degree of certainty, how your neighbours cast their ballots.

And that is not so nice, in a “secret ballot as a cherished principle of democracy” sort of way.

Yes, this is one last small story in the aftermath of the election. Sorry, that’s not quite true; there will be four whole years of stories in the aftermath.

Back to the lobby cam.

I dropped in on my friends Peter and Francoise the other night. They live at the aforementioned building.

Peter’s field is industrial robots. Francoise is an environmental scientist who specializes in brown water. They are a smart couple.

Francoise said, “We voted in the advance poll.” Because of that, they knew whose name was where on the ballot.

We were chatting in their living room. They have a big TV. Francoise had it tuned to the lobby channel. I saw a couple of views of the entrance, and then the spy pen camera cycled over the laundry room, and then it cycled back to the lobby again.

That’s where the polling station was.

Francoise happened to be pet sitting the night of the election. She had turned on the lobby channel to see what sort of crowd she’d have to wade through when she went out.

Peter said, “You could see the backs of the people as they voted, and the mini spy camera was at an angle so that you could see the ballot; if you zoomed in, you couldn’t read the names, but you could tell.”

I glanced at the TV. I saw an old fellow with a walker leave an elevator and enter the lobby. Francoise hit zoom. Up close. Personal.

Yikes.

Peter said, “In this riding, the councillor’s name was at the bottom of the ballot; you could tell. We were sort of stunned.”

What did he do?

“I thought of saying something. I wasn’t sure what the reaction would be. Instead, I sent a letter to the organization that handles municipal elections in the province.”

In the letter, Peter indicated that he wasn’t interested in seeing anyone hauled up on any carpet; he just wanted to be sure that, when polling stations are set up in apartment building lobbies, the position of the lobby wireless spy camera be taken into account.

I’m not sure what anyone would do with the information, by the way. But that’s not the point. The point is that you might think you know how I voted, but you don’t have the right to see me doing it.

I glanced at the TV again.

The old fellow was still sitting on his chair when a young man came by and engaged him in conversation. Francoise said that was the sort of building they lived in; nice, neighbourly.

Peter showed me a note he got in return from the elections guy. I think they’re going to take a look.

An “over the shoulder” sort of look.

Smile: that candid camera is filmming you

           Smile: that candid camera is filmming you

Catching two elderly men tussling in an argument at an off-leash dog park may not be what the Port of Coupeville had in mind when surveillance spy cameras were installed at Greenbank Farm.

But the mini spy cameras, which also went up at Coupeville Wharf, are helping police catch vandals and hopefully helping to deter thieves – even if the need to protect taxpayers’ investment in the community results in a loss of a sense of privacy.

It may be disturbing, and for some even disheartening, but if you think someone is watching you, in this day and age – and right here on Whidbey Island – it might just be true.

Islanders are used to the ubiquitous ferry cams. In fact, most of us welcome them and turn to the Washington State Ferries website to peek at loading backups and count the cars in line.

With the placement of traffic spy pen cameras by Whidbey Telecom along Hwy. 525 in Clinton and by the state Department of Transportation at all of the ferry terminals, mountain passes and scattered along roadways throughout the state, it’s possible that a driver could be viewed at various spots along a 300-mile, cross-state route from downtown Clinton to Spokane.

It might be easy to take monitoring of the roadways for granted, but what about when you’re trying to get away from it all, like at parks and beaches? You can bet that if you find cameras there, it’s because someone else’s bad behavior got there first.

Washington State Parks spokesperson Linda Burnett said vandalism at South Whidbey State Park had become such a vexing and expensive problem that cameras were permanently installed.

The cameras, which went up about four years ago, monitor traffic to and from the restrooms, which had been besieged by graffiti and thousands of dollars in damage to toilets and quarter machines. A camera was even mounted to point at a tree whose bark had repeatedly been burned by vandals.

The cameras cost $1,000 each, but Burnett said they’ve already more than paid for themselves in preventing more damage to the restrooms.

So far, South Whidbey is the only state park on Whidbey Island where damage had become so pervasive that surveillance was required. Accessibility may be the reason it’s become an easy target. It’s located on well-traveled Smugglers Cove Road and the restrooms are near the park entrance.

Coupeville Mayor Nancy Conard said there were once cameras at some of the town’s parks, but that program has been discontinued.

Coupeville Marshal David Penrod explained it was because the amount of crime didn’t warrant the staff time and effort involved in implementing the cameras.

But the standard is different for law enforcement, Wallace said. All Coupeville and Oak Harbor patrol cars have cameras that capture a view of an officer as he or she approaches a vehicle that has been stopped.

Law-enforcement personnel also wear remote microphones. They’re only required to advise anyone they stop that they are being recorded.

Davis said he is pretty happy with the results of his surveillance equipment.

“It’s served me well,” he said, adding that he figures that people can assume they’re on “candid camera” just about anywhere there is something of value that needs to be protected from theft.

“I would imagine most retail businesses must have surveillance,” he said.

While that may be an overestimation on Davis’s part, at least here on Whidbey, it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility in the near future as wireless spy cameras become cheaper and easier to use.

Just try to remember you might not be as alone as you thought – and remember to smile.

Who will pay for my youth?

               Who will pay for my youth?

I watched the leaves on campus suddenly burst into tears, Could not help but hand to touch them, perhaps their own, and they have the same destiny, so there are feelings connected with the disease. I know that maybe only I can feel their helplessness and loneliness, because I often use the camera mode car to cuptured them, baby leaves, do not cry! No one feel sad that we do not go anywhere, a alone become a habit that will not hurt.

There will always be an illusion：I do not belong to the raucous Red! But how are they escape, Everytime and hit the oncoming stranger face to face, I will not help slow down the peace of their own, because I like to hear their heart, because I want to know their heart is not struggling like me? From the pen camera can see now I looked haggard, nothing like normal people.

I was not already hopeless? Every day with their own brilliant smile to greet all, but there will always be unprepared in case of their own have no reason to fall into the mud flow being sad.

Human” character, although only a simple two-strokes, but it also extends to the two extremes of unlimited, I stood for my life to the turnoff and the hesitation and uncertainty which ones to wander, Not no target is not do not know what I want, but always for my next step to put the hesitation.

Those who use the pen with camera in this dress of the youth why the vicissitudes of life in the groaning and struggling alone? Cycle next life I can choose what kind of imprinting in the world to exist? Con I do not make a person? Flowers why litter the wings to the sky and understand the desire to fly? How to release those who have the “War”? learn to forget, is not it can no longer to sad? their youthful elegy why only their singing with tears not vanish into absolute sound?

Who will pay for my youth?

Freedom of marriage, “love economy” so prosperous?

        Freedom of marriage, “love economy” so prosperous?

Now turn on the TV or computer to see, you could see a variety of hit shows staged in the turns, men and women on the program all kinds of conditions are good, I do not understand why they would go on the program to find objects. Face pen camera lens, each person speaking are so funny, with good working condition for all aspects of life, I think they will not lack opposite sex in life, their purpose is why?

Young people to find the object of this era, there is such a trend: for example, in urban areas, the woman asked the man a house and a car and education, a variety of conditions than the woman, whereas the man can only find low relative to its own conditions of woman. In rural areas, due to the pressure of bride price and to built the new house, but also resulted in raising the cost of marriage men.

To the camera usb, we can see blind is the performance that the young people turn to from the acquaintance to the strange society. It is currently under the pressure of high society, young people to find the optimum way to the partner. Intimate activities are prosperous, in a sense also shows the degree of development of society, so the “Love economy” will certainly be more popular.

We have a lot of things reminding our brain, like the camera mini had to save it. As a child that marriage is a happy event for adults or children, and now we get married for the parents is a test of their abilities.

Explore the “human flesh search” Advantages and Disadvantages

   Explore the “human flesh search” Advantages and Disadvantages

The rapid development of modern social network, has spread to every corner of the world, greatly facilitate the people’s lives. But because of a number of issues raised. The recent rise of online “human flesh search” is a typical example. Human flesh search engine will not only expose a certain door in the shortest time the truth behind. You can also reach the place in the network, explore and discover the most beautiful jungle girl, the most impressive mountain herders, the most mysterious desert cave, the most romantic ultimate encounter. These are not pen camera able to do that.

Human flesh search has sparked another thought online privacy. Is human flesh search more good than harm or more harm than good by it? The phenomenon of human flesh search for express provision is it? Therefore, we carried out this research group.

If a person did something bad, user search for the promoter of the meat can be used camera mini to gather evidence, if you search the information is true, then the results of what would happen to that person’s phone, address, all information published on the Internet, so that everyone could condemn him, criticize him, then this person’s life is changed, or even life may be changed. Ask if you search the information is false, and that injury of a people would be too much for him to unfair, if users want revenge which a person and put the deliberate release personal information online, the results incur a lot of friend on the Internet criticized him, this does not lead to war What a deliberate, false news that users who have condemned him! I’m not helping anyone and I just think there should be some human flesh search boundaries.

Many users believe that, because the law to far behind, human flesh search is the phenomenon of people’s self-help. Human flesh search through the search can get the information from the machine further ordering information point more precise. Camera usb photographed the picture more real.

Human flesh search engine pros and cons, but users should comply with the Convention on human flesh search engine.

Price “up a” people how “calm”

                Price “up a” people how “calm”

AP all over the country recently emerged a new round of oil price increases in some areas caused the consumers to buy. Front is the “bean you play”, “the garlic you relentless”, “Jiang you army”， which ushered in the days of “ sugar Gao”, “Oil can not”. Anything is impossible in this era of. The original family of three people for meals, and now it is equivalent to two people. “no idea what kind of food is not price”, a month saving of money can buy mini-camera, but the numbers on the books and the most intuitive experience shows, no money buy a camera, wheeled agricultural prices, a “rise in the price” has become the hijacking of public well-being of a large “principal”.

“Gone”, some economic experts and leaders believe that the price rise is inevitable, the Chinese economy is growing, national standard of living is increasing, wages are growing, so is the trend of rising prices,  in the “Development and Reform commission experts” under the control of inflation well founded, rose too reasonable, keep the national economic development, to the “power” goals.

But the leader has not thought about that when foreigners can buy pen cameras, we are still in people for a living to worry about, wage growth and GDP growth in people out of proportion, wages did not think up so high. Heard some rumors, saying that ordinary workers will raise the national government will narrow the gap between rich and poor, all good reasons, leading to rising prices. To test the tolerance of prices increases when people con not contribute to the increase in wages and incomes, raising the minimum income standard, so that the increase in real wages.

Price soared, ordinary people will be how to deal with, is really a problem, everywhere people with USB camera captured the pain of the face, so if the tolerance of the people to understand the price increases, then this is the irresponsible. Very much hope that wages growth and economic growth simultaneously, rather than low wages under the tolerance of price increases, taking people’s sense of happiness.

“I did not killed will be easier,” tells a grim truth

         “I did not killed will be easier,” tells a grim truth

Recently, Changchun City traffic police enforcement of a sport utility vehicle was hit by a retrograde. A passer-by with a mini-camera filmed this scene. Department of a senior female driver car, witnesses reflected that the traffic police was knocked down by the girl, the girl’s father and mother rushing over to see lying on the ground of the traffic police to weak to speak, the girl’s father said:” I never killed easy to handle”. In the process, the woman also claimed that large：“the people’s police correct people”.

It was hit, dead or alive. Gave the driver his father was not concerned about the safety of the injured, but eager to comfort the daughter unharmed. A “No killed to easy handle” revealed his cold-blooded life to the others, but also subconsciously tells a grim reality: money talks, money to be able to manipulate the power above the law, settle everything.

Since the “no crushed easily handle” , the principle of money can break, control laws, even if it killed people can also not difficult. Shortly before the accident occurred in the case of Hebei University, the perpetrators Li Qiming killed people. Witnesses with a USB video camera was down, still shouting: My father is Li Gang. His beliefs is the powerful force.

Car hit a person breaks the law, not only without the slightest the guilt, remorse and compassion, but is aggressive, falsely accuse. This makes one hand, we lament that some of the “FU II”, “the office second-generation”, legal consciousness of indifference, but also lament their conscience. So if you want justice, we should carry pen cameras to record evidences of these crimes, so that the bad guys will be punished.