Man arrested for vandalizing political signs in Burlington https://www.byteseu.com/897553/ #arrested #BradSchimel #BrittanyKinser #BrittanyKinserPoliticalSign #Burlington #BurlingtonPolice #charge #charged #DonaldTrump #doorbell #illegal #man #officer #person #police #PoliceReport #PoliticalSign #Politics #SameDay #SeveralReport #SurveillanceVideo #vandal #Vandalism #video #witness

Isaac Asimov's first law of Robotics:

"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."

When I read this in the mid 1980s, as a teen Sci-Fi fan and a young computer programmer, I was stumped.

The clause that I found the most difficult was, "through inaction". What this means is - if there's a toddler in a room that is dangerously close to a stairwell or a balcony, your robot vacuum cleaner should spring into action and keep that child safe.

This meant that the robot had to be:
1. Constantly Powered on.
2. Have video camera capabilities.
3. Constantly watching the room.
4. Constantly processing the input video stream to determine whether a human was in danger, in the camera's field of view.

In 1984, this was a tall order. My ZX Spectrum+ had only 48 Kilobytes of RAM. It had no video camera. Processing a live video feed intelligently was way beyond the capabilities of that machine, and of most computers of that time.

Today it's possible to achieve this capability with contemporary hardware and software. However, this means that we briefly turned into a surveillance state, with machines hypervigilantly watching us, to keep us safe, and to keep the watchmen safe.

13-year-old #suspected of trying to #kidnap 2 #women in #Florida #golf #community, #cops say

Both times, the suspect “presented a knife.” #Police said #surveillancevideo shows the #boy #stalking his #victims. “He’s hiding behind cars. He’s trying to follow her and then he approaches her from behind up on her porch,” the sheriff said.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Misogyny

https://www.heraldsun.com/news/nation-world/national/article289957114.html#storylink=cpy

The total video is nearly 25 minutes long and includes segments of security footage and three separate bodycam recordings. Some of it is quiet graphic in nature, showing the body of the gunman and the child who was shot in the crossfire.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/02/26/478867/lakewood-church-shooting-video-bodycam-houston-police-genesse-moreno/

Afroman being sued by officers after they raided his house | ABCNL #Afroman #PoliceSearch #SurveillanceVideo #ABCNLPrime #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-AzC8oYMU

Feds sought #SurveillanceVideo from #StateFarmArena in #Trump probe

Federal prosecutors examining Trump’s attempt to hold onto power following the 2020 election requested surveillance & other security footage recorded at #Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, acc/to a #subpoena obtained by The AJC.

#GrandJury #Georgia #Raffensperger #BigLie #Fraud #ElectionInterference #law #legal #DOJ #Justice #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith #GOP
https://www.ajc.com/politics/exclusive-feds-sought-surveillance-video-from-state-farm-arena/TWLKTY4KGFB25DUPSPZXUEDFL4/

Of Course a Mar-a-Lago Worker Drained the Pool Into Room Where Surveillance Video Was Kept

https://newrepublic.com/post/173256/mar-a-lago-worker-drained-pool-room-surveillance-video-kept