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Brit here, once again failing to understand this complete obsession with filling your houses (and lives!) with cameras at all let alone with useless flying ones

by dmje 6y ago

Brit here, once again failing to understand this complete obsession with filling your houses (and lives!) with cameras at all let alone with useless flying ones?? From this side of the pond it just looks absolutely insane, full of paranoia and fear. I know there's a country there full of gun totin' lunatics in many places, but I just don't get it. This is less criticism, btw, and more social commentary. Explain for me how it got so insane?!

bogbrother 6y ago
> Brit here, once again failing to understand this complete obsession with filling your houses (and lives!) with cameras at all let alone with useless flying ones?? Is that because you guys prefer your cameras outside? Brits love CCTV and the watchful eye of big brother
- dmje 6y ago
  Point taken but in defence I believe they're almost all state and not private, plus distribution is fairly much exclusive to cities. And yeh, outdoors.
ziml77 6y ago
I'm not sure it's typical to have cameras all over one's house. Maybe at the entrances or just one to watch for porch pirates, but I have no reason to believe they're common indoors. In fact, that seems to be a reason to have a drone like this. You get to add an indoor camera that's difficult to be used for spying since it has to visibly and audibly move off the dock (it could be moved while the person isn't home, but if they spot it, they'll know something is up)
- dmje 6y ago
  Impression here is that all US homes have interior alarms and cameras - interesting if that isn't the case! I'm also slightly unclear why. I mean, you look at your phone and see some guy wandering around your house - how does that actually help? If you're in the house you st your pants and hide under the bed or worse case grab your gun and go get shot. If you're out, you phone the police which is what a good intruder alarm would do anyway. Seems really odd to me. Oh, plus the thoughts in the article, namely "buy a couple of cheap cameras instead" if you really want this stuff in your life.

by dmje 6y ago

bogbrother 6y ago

> Brit here, once again failing to understand this complete obsession with filling your houses (and lives!) with cameras at all let alone with useless flying ones?? Is that because you guys prefer your cameras outside? Brits love CCTV and the watchful eye of big brother

dmje 6y ago
Point taken but in defence I believe they're almost all state and not private, plus distribution is fairly much exclusive to cities. And yeh, outdoors.

ziml77 6y ago

I'm not sure it's typical to have cameras all over one's house. Maybe at the entrances or just one to watch for porch pirates, but I have no reason to believe they're common indoors. In fact, that seems to be a reason to have a drone like this. You get to add an indoor camera that's difficult to be used for spying since it has to visibly and audibly move off the dock (it could be moved while the person isn't home, but if they spot it, they'll know something is up)

dmje 6y ago
Impression here is that all US homes have interior alarms and cameras - interesting if that isn't the case! I'm also slightly unclear why. I mean, you look at your phone and see some guy wandering around your house - how does that actually help? If you're in the house you st your pants and hide under the bed or worse case grab your gun and go get shot. If you're out, you phone the police which is what a good intruder alarm would do anyway. Seems really odd to me. Oh, plus the thoughts in the article, namely "buy a couple of cheap cameras instead" if you really want this stuff in your life.