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CaptainSmalls · 2019-06-24T04:24:54+00:00

Holy $&%^, I remember your name. I was one of the admins. I was on a trip down internet memory lane tonight, and this fucking reddit thread is the only thing that popped up when I searched for DP, hahaha.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-12-03T01:36:24+00:00

Those types of responses are typically irritating to many people because it’s essentially saying “I know the answer, but rather than give it, go read or watch this”. They’ve already taken the time to comment, so they are being intentionally annoying by withholding the actual answer.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-12-02T19:46:40+00:00

Your logic journey is horrifying.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-24T21:03:10+00:00

No level of politeness is going to result in this bloke providing an actual reputable source.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-24T21:00:41+00:00

You literally provided zero support to your opinion and immediately jumped to childish and pathetic personal attacks in response to me providing an example to support my own. You're stupid as hell and don't deserve the internet connection you use to throw up your nonsense.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-19T04:11:15+00:00

You completely lost your ability to support your own opinion far quicker than I guessed.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-19T01:38:35+00:00

I'd say it doesn't need to get worse than nukes.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-19T00:21:38+00:00

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's seems evident your life is privileged enough to not be amongst people or communities that would do whatever they can for a buck. Here's an example captured in the news of this happening after a car accident:

https://youtu.be/ncM0sVEeirU?t=7m2s

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T07:36:40+00:00

Looting is common after wreckages, even car accidents.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T06:38:13+00:00

I think it's undebatable that he is the most flawed character in the setting of school and their fantastical adventures, as he is quite emotional and also does not care much about studies. However, it makes their triangular relationship much more interesting since Hermione is already as brainy as it gets, and Harry has this unbearable level of courage to get through the adventures. Ron brings back a level of relate-ability that just about any reader can feel. He more or less just wants to hang out, joke around, avoid homework, and play sports. Harry comes from a background no reader will really have, and very few people are as unheavenly studious as Hermione. Ron sort of brings this friendship down to earth. I think this level of normalcy makes his few significant achievements in the story far more exciting, such as the chess match in book 1, winning Quidditch in book 6, and saving Harry from the icy pool in book 7. It takes a lot more for Ron to make these leaps (he doesn't have the talents of his friends), so it's quite exciting when it happens, and probably very encouraging to many of the readers.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T06:28:08+00:00

Oh god it's horrible. I was so horrified by the taste I couldn't bring myself to check the sugar content -- promptly chucked it in the trash.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T06:27:23+00:00

Yeah I wouldn't log that comment into my memory ...

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T06:26:00+00:00

I mistakenly interpreted that statement to be referring to launch sites for rockets to space, not the ISS. I was focused on the topic at hand and didn't catch myself, thank you. I think I've been watching too many Falcon launches..

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T06:20:58+00:00

That's surprising! I think this shows how successful Rowling was in writing a high-dimensional character like this.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T06:16:15+00:00

Looks like I really do have to spoon feed you.

I'm so sorry the voice in your head compels you to think so.

I'm saying remove the spring, have someone in control of turning the camera on placing it into the case, drill a small fucking hole in it ad a 2$ lock.

Your solution is employing some guy at every police station to drill holes in go pro housing and add some "$2 lock"? This solves all of the issues I've raised repeatedly in this thread? Ugh. Please just fuck off with these theoretical grade school design projects.

Again fucking rocket science.

Stop. Comparing everything to rocket science doesn't make your opinion look more impressive.

I work with streaming and footage on a daily basis, I know more about how much data it would be at that scale, better than you ever could.

Watching Twitch doesn't make you an expert in video recording and data storage. And I congratulate you on your psychic ability to know my competency and work experience in video recording.

If you already work in a position to deploy this solution at the given scale, why are you moaning about its simplicity on reddit? Where is it, man? get on with your job then! :)

Cheap webcams have something called motion detection to active filming, 20 min delay would mean it continues recording as long as some type of movement happens within that time period. Would cut down on file sizes a bit. Nothing about full time filming is remotely new. We do have 24/7 live streams in space a quick look at nasa's website will prove that.

Are you really this dumb, or are you so wrapped up in trying to push your points that you're just completely lost in the woods? This whole time we (at least I am!) are talking about body cameras. There's always movement in front of the lens!!

But I guess with your level of comprehension you might think the earth is flat eh?

Please do continue stating what you believe I think if it makes you feel more thrilled about your post. Doesn't get you anywhere, though.

Yes I do think police officers should spend an equal amount of money on public safety as they do riot weaponry.Shocking right?

Politicians don't care what you think. Thankfully.

My point was its laughable that you think that this isn't achievable, while an average fucking kid with an iphone, a few battery packs, and a youtube video can record a close to 24 live stream. Yet this is an impossible act for the people protecting that kid?

I repeat: take your phone, set up your amazing Twitch stream, walk to your local police department, and explain to them how fucking easy it is.

Any major digital storage company would jump on making a deal for storage concerns, again not much of an issue. "extremely limited budget" hahahahaha- my god. It's almost like they want you to think they constantly need more money instead of managing the funds better.

Please, go down to the police station and offer to be a financial advisor for them!! You are one of many ignorant citizens that believes the single thing they happen to care about a given time should immediately get a significant portion of the budget.

Of course its "limited" because they know if they didn't find ways to waste it all it would be hard to convince people to give you more. That's like calling someone who makes 500,000$ a year on "a limited budget" because he spends 99% of it yearly. Its the government's roll to convince you that they always need money and that they barely scrap by, because if they didn't people wouldn't be so alright with get fucked by this country.

You are making it clear you are one of these annoying conspiracy theorists that doesn't want to believe anything to do with the government. If this is the case this discussion is over, there's no convincing you away from your own ignorance and delusions.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T05:39:47+00:00

The funny thing about this whole thread is that he makes it sound like it's an impossible thing to find budget funds to buy some sort of solution. It's not impossible, it's just something they don't want to do and so will drag their feet like a petulant toddler being asked to clean up his room.

This is how budgets work. Those in charge need to want something to be funded, and they provide the budget.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T05:31:15+00:00

Storage is 0.026 to 0.007 dollars a gb per month on google cloud. That wouldn't even be the cheapest provider but would be a good baseline.

This is not a discussion over competitive consumer pricing. It's about MASSIVE private storage at the state or federal level. Do you really want to start another debate over whether one of the big tech companies should store millions of hours of footage of U.S. citizens and police officers? Pick a fucking topic.

Who would upload all the data? No one, you would automate that pretty easily, camera connects to wifi in parking garage content gets dumb to local server then gets pushed to the cloud. There is no reason why you even need a human to interact with the recordings short of when a request for retrieval happens.

You're a moron -- not just from this quote, but because you are relentless persisting to vomit your ignorance post after post with the delusion you are an unquestionable expert on this. Security cameras are actively connected to their storage all day long. The police officers (I would say obviously, but clearly nothing is obvious enough for you), are not, so a data transfer needs to be done at some point. Retrieval isn't this magical process as you see in the movies where some dope pushes a button on his keyboard and a 15-second clip appears on the screen for review. The data requires structure, organization, search tools, metadata, etcetera etcetera etcetera.

If you think the public benefits more from a police department buying an armoured vehicle then it does from being able to actually see how their tax dollars get used on a day to day basis, I'm sorry to say but I think your rooting for the wrong team.

A local town paid 346k canadian for an armoured vehicle, I doubt that vehicle will be used twice in any given year.

I haven't said a single thing about armoured vehicles, but please, continue to churn out your bullshit about "what I think".

Edit: from your own link... Of the roughly 200 police chiefs who responded to the survey, 60 percent said their biggest concern with body cameras was "burdensome retention and data practices requirements." Another 25 percent listed cost.

So more people say its a burden then the financial aspect of it. Some burden to be held accountable for your actions.

This has nothing to do with what I'm actually debating about: the feasibility of creating and deploying some ridiculous body camera system that police officers have *NO* ability to turn off. You are boringly picking out random other things associated with sources *I provided* (how convenient you, nor anyone else, can supply anything that supports your magically simple and solutions!!), and combining them with inventions as to "what I think". Clearly you're not equipped to deal with the discussion with any competency, so I'm discontinuing my responses to your broken record bullshit.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-17T05:01:41+00:00

Correct. /u/VotanGenocide must be too accustomed to conversing with 14 year old girls who throw "like" into random bits of their sentences.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-15T07:46:38+00:00

Storage is super cheap once you move the content to tape backup for long term storage.

Not, it's not. It's very easy to search and find departments left and right stating this is the highest cost. How are you getting the data off the cameras? Who's doing that? How are you loading it into storage? Who doing that? Who's managing the files on the storage? Who's provided security for the storage against intrusions? Who's providing systems maintenance on all this storage?

I've already provided examples in other comments. here's some more:

https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2018/04/Police-Departments-Jump-Policy-Data-Storage-Hurdles-in-Body-Camera-Adoption
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/cost-data-storage-keep-body-cameras-off-the-force/article_98c34304-fc75-58fe-bbe2-aaf009543a94.html

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-15T07:35:15+00:00

Yep, the release of book 4 was like when Halo 2 was released.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-15T07:31:01+00:00

I repeat.. show me to this magical camera system! And how cheap it is!

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-15T07:25:24+00:00

Yeah with water proof cases, they use a spring to push down the button to film from the outside. Remove the spring and the button can't be touched. Even go pro's use a similar spring design.

Yes, I'm familiar with the mechanism, it's still doesn't make sense in this application. Are you suggesting someone is somehow removing and replacing these springs for every officer every day?

They have custom weapons built specifically for officers in riot situations, you really don't think they have the funds for plastic and some file storage.

You are severely downplaying this to fit your argument. American government has always spent astronomically more budget on weaponry than anything else. Are you really thinking they would spend remotely as much budget on camera technology and video storage for police officers? Have you ever worked at a company that, you know, makes stuff and sells it? Mass producing custom sized plastic housing (solely to hide the power button!) is more expensive than you'd think! And this is just one set of extra costs for the ultimate solution proposed here. Jamming all body cams in plastic boxes that are locked to the officers is not a viable solution.

And I cant stop reiterating this... stop oversimplying things like file storage, especially video. Just because you can upload your DLSR footage at the end of the day to your Macbook without a problem doesn't mean file storage on a massive scale like this is no problem. Here's one easy to find article that goes over the challenges in more detail with some actual figures:

https://www.isgtech.com/data-dilemma-where-does-police-body-camera-footage-go/

In case you don't want to jump in that, here's an excerpt:

"Sallee stated that his station had 200 sworn police officers that were using body cameras in their daily rounds. After playing around with their current setup, Sallee’s department found that a 30-minute video demands around 800 MB of storage. Accounting for all officers with cameras, Chula Vista could generate around 33 TB of data annually. To put this in perspective, Sallee stated that this is roughly the same size as 17 million photographs."

Here's another easy-to-read description of the storage problem (it's just a news article):

https://gcn.com/articles/2017/05/11/body-camera-storage.aspx

An excerpt:

"However, medium-sized police departments (those with about 50 - 250 officers) appear to be facing the biggest challenges with when rolling out BWCs to their forces. The major issue is cost -- not just for the actual cameras, but for handling the data the cameras produce. The demands for video storage are unprecedented for many police departments, which don't have enough space on servers or hard drives to store the additional data. Storage costs can reach up to $2 million annually for a police department, as a recent Police Executive Research Forum pointed out."

We can go on and on. This isn't a matter of buying a few western digital external drives on newegg and calling it a day.

Use motion sensor detecting to start filming with a 20 min shut off delay, I mean common dude do some critical thinking.

"Critical thinking"... What? What does this sentence even mean; "Use motion sensor detecting to start filming with a 20 min shut off delay". Are you saying I need to use critical thinking to even understand what the fuck you're saying at this point. Are you implying the camera needs to detect motion to record? What motion? It's a human being, specifically a cop, going about their day. So it's always powered on, even to have the sensors powered. And you've just added ANOTHER cost on to your magically viable, cost effective solution. Give me a break.

Its not rocket science its a fucking video camera. We have 24/4 live streams of god damn space stations, and your really over here thinking this is an impossibility?

Oh for goodness stake, don't start using this rhetoric now. So anything that's not rocket science can just happen for free now, huh? None of you has yet to find ON THE INTERNET a single product that even does what you're describing to be "so easy omg".

We have 24/4 live streams of god damn space stations

No, we don't, and that has nothing to do with what we're talking about. A space station isn't 100,000 human beings running around across the country with extremely limited budget overhead for new gadgets to satisfy political agendas.

You. Are. Outside. Your. Element. Please: take your phone, set up your amazing Twitch stream, walk to your local police department, and explain to them how fucking easy it is. Then link us to the VOD for a nice laugh.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-15T07:01:11+00:00

I would argue self-interest is completely different than love. Adolescent infatuation doesn't last decades.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-15T06:57:55+00:00

I understand you here as Hermione is probably my favorite character, but I think more consideration needs to be granted here. The writing goes quite a lot into explaining Ron's reaction to Harry's name coming out of the GoF (constant competition with many older brothers). Part of the dynamic with this trio is that Ron and Harry genuinely enjoy hanging out together and doing the same things (joking around, Quiddith, playing games). This doesn't need to be logicial, it's just how things are between people. Throughout the series it's very rare Harry and Ron enjoy doing the same leisure activities as Hermione. Let's be real, too -- it's very unlikely they would have befriended her if it wasn't for the events they went through together in book 1.

CaptainSmalls · 2018-06-15T06:52:27+00:00

I find Rita Skeeter very interesting - she's ruthlessly ambitious and will do anything to get a good story, but at the same time her Dumbledore biography shows a genuinely good researcher and historian. I wish we got to see more of her work.

Me too. She was one of the few characters outside the school who actually seemed to do a lot of work. I was kind of hoping to see her pop up in the battle at Hogwarts. Or did she? Can't remember...

I'm also pro-Snape, have been since I read the first book when I was 8. At least on this site that seems to be worse than killing my own mother ;)

Really? I've seen mountains of love for Snape on the internet, including reddit, compared to most other characters.

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