<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 7, 2005, at 7:47 AM, Dan Clemmensen wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Exactly. Since it's inevitable, I'm proposing that the government finance a quick kick-start to this phenomenon as a cheap and effective response to terrorism. The bottom-up approach will not lead to effective coverage in the short term, and there is not enough mobile bandwidth already deployed, so fixed cameras are currently more cost-effective.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>If it is so cheap then why have government involved? How is it effective? The terrorist builds the suicide vest in private, puts on a coat and then walks as seen on countless cameras to their target before going BOOM. Also just a bunch of LOLs or ubiquitous camera would produce a veritable mountain of footage with little ability to sort out terrorism from a the mass. Allegedly fighting terrorism is not worth giving up what freedom from government micro-control of our lives that we for the moment still retain.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></BODY></HTML>