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Fast forward a few months, criminals are just wearing ski masks when they steal cars, and you’ve given up a significant amount of your privacy for absolutely ze
by code_beers 8y ago
Fast forward a few months, criminals are just wearing ski masks when they steal cars, and you’ve given up a significant amount of your privacy for absolutely zero benefit. Not a good plan, in my opinion.
- baroffoos 8y agoIts a much better idea to fix the fact that so many people are in such a shitty situation that they are willing to steal a worthless radio.
- PopeDotNinja 8y ago> a worthless radio In 1999, I sold the stock radio from my 2000 Dodge Neon on eBay for $40!
- OldManAndTheCpp 8y agoA time traveling radio does seem pretty novel, to be fair.
- shrikant 8y agoWeirdly enough, the 2000 Dodge Neon was available for sale from early-to-mid 1999, so parent commenter may not be mistaken!
- PopeDotNinja 8y ago> Weirdly enough, the 2000 Dodge Neon was available for sale from early-to-mid 1999, so parent commenter may not be mistaken! This is correct :) I bought the 2000 model in October or November of '99.
- AckSyn 8y agoIt's a much better idea for people to have instilled into them decent morals and standards, than to hand them what they want as a justification for their thievery.
- doctorpangloss 8y agoI really don’t think the people breaking into cars can ever be spun into protagonists, of any story. Advocating for them harms the message of helping the downtrodden and treating them humanely, because it seems totally out of touch with the emotional impact of totally gratuitous property crime on its victims.
- djrobstep 8y agoWrong, if you're struggling to survive, "stealing" from the comfortable is absolutely morally right. The fact that people are forced into such awful situations strengthens the message of helping the downtrodden: Everybody is entitled to the necessities of life, so as to never be placed in such a predicament.
- throwawaysea 8y agoA lot of those folks who are committing petty crimes aren’t downtrodden struggling to survive though. Many are junkies and a class of permanently homeless that refuse help/services and refuse to rejoin society. Why should law abiding citizens have to bear their costs?
- djrobstep 8y agoDealing with drug addiction isn't a struggle?
- throwawaysea 8y agoIt might be a struggle at some stage of addiction, where personal choice is less accessible. But at some earlier stage, it is a personal choice to experiment with hard drugs in the first place, and there is individual agency and responsibility associated with that choice. Coddling addicts (by possibly excusing/overlooking any associated criminal actions) because it is a struggle in a later stage of addiction seems like a removal of the disincentives that keep people from going down that path in the first place. Also, I really am not for social support or a different (relaxed) enforcement of the law for addicts _above_ the protection of law-abiding citizens and their property.
- YaxelPerez 8y agoez, just use gait recognition /s https://www.apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a https://www.apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a
- shittyadmin 8y agoI can already smell the studies about how that'll be mostly bunk science in a few years, just like hand writing recognition or fiber analysis now.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoIt has legitimate biometrics included like bone lengths. It could determine, e.g., which gang member should cops focus on.
- ovi256 8y agoSo they have to wear the ski mask all the way to cover (a private place without cameras), increasing their vulnerable time (time they're easily recognizable as performing a criminal act). That sounds like a big security win.