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Not ONCE in the article do they think up a way this could be abused by stalkers. Not once. They bring up that it could make out the make of a car, but then say it couldn't make out a face. Sure, I can imagine if your ex you're stalking has a neon-pink Ford Model T with a giant "76" written on the hood you could track the car with enough searching... but as it stands, it couldn't possibly be applied to purposes like tracking people's movements. Plus, it's top-down, so no liscense plates or actual details of the person's body, save the top of their head (when walking).
""Any surveillance-based technology like this gives rise to the potential for abuse," she said."
Great. She just can't think of a way to do so in this situation.
""Right now it's a tool used by the Red Cross and defense, but, down the road, in whose hands would this technology fall and for what purpose? Bottom line is, it's a case where, these days, the technology seems to be outrunning the law," Rastogi said."
Again, very indicitive of things to come... or, it WOULD be, had she cited an example. All she's doing is talking hypothetically about technology being used for some purpose. Oookay. Read this line again. These are her words:
"but, down the road, in whose hands would this technology fall and for what purpose?"
I don't really know, I thought you were going to answer that.
But in any case, I think we can all agree that MEN ARE EVIL SEX PERVERTS WHO USE CAMERAS FOR THE FORCES OF EVIL.
-DeepThought
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So how are you supposed to look up a woman's dress from 12 miles above the ground? I have been trying to obtain telesat mapping images for some time now to create some new sceneries for Flight simulator...these things are not as easily obtained as the author of this Bogeyperson paranoia might think...she just spends too many hours at the admission desk at the women's shelter watching cop shows written by the highly imaginative but not very well informed. Telesat has made as many as twenty orbits of the Earth in succession without recording anything that would lead you to believe the Earth is even populated.
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How could Mz. Cowan overlook this exciting possibility? Forget to mail your child support payment? Don't go outside otherwise you'll find yourself surrounded by Men In Black that will whisk you away to the nearest dungeon. AND, what about surveillance on those who use surveillance to stalk women? Imagine that. Using their own devices to entrap those who would prey on the weak and unsuspecting. I believe that’s called “Hoist on his own petard”. If Mz. Cowan would just think outside the box, these “women on the run” could shoot the stalker before Dick Dastardly could shoot her! “Well, you see, I saw him carrying a loaded gun from 8 miles high and he was headed in my general direction so I had to protect myself, you see. I know he lives in Texas and I live in California but he WAS headed west.” “What? It was just a broom? Well, it looked like a gun and besides, he deserved it”. How could any red blooded man set aside enough computer time away from the porn sites just to track some dame? If you can’t even make out a face, I guess there would be plenty of men, sneaking up from behind and tugging on the shoulders of thousands of women only to have to blurt out an apology, “Oops, sorry, wrong person. Glad I didn’t kill you.”
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If you can’t even make out a face, I guess there would be plenty of men, sneaking up from behind and tugging on the shoulders of thousands of women only to have to blurt out an apology, “Oops, sorry, wrong person. Glad I didn’t kill you.” In 'The Female Eunuch' Germaine Greer said "All men hate all women", so I guess the stalker would just go ahead and kill her anyway, even if she was the wrong person.
Feminism will continue as long as there is money to be made from hating men.
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by Anonymous User on 10:14 PM December 1st, 2004 EST (#3)
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"Cindy Cowan, the director of a Toronto shelter for battered women, echoed Rastogi's concerns, saying the technology could put women at greater risk of abuse.
"Already the Internet has become a place where women are stalked, so to give another tool to abusive men motivated to find and track and stalk -- it frightens me," she said."
This is one of the biggest nonsequitur jumps I've ever seen. All kinds of privacy issues are at stake here and to steer this exclusively towards domestic violence issues shows the prejudice of this news agency. Once again, the issue of domestic violence is inflated beyond its actual impact on society. With baised reporting like this, vilifying males, Big Brother will have more support to make ever more restrictive laws on all males.
Just once I'd like to see these biggoted news services talk about the vengful women out there who destroy men's lives (physically and otherwise), and all the cases were they have taken revenge on innocent men. I guess (as women's studies points out) women are too challenged by the oppresive male constructs of math, science and logic so they would have far less abiltiy to use such advanced technology. I guess this high tech stuff is just to much for their vindictive, psycho brains, when they are deviously plotting their revenge on the male target of their irrational hatred.
Ray
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"Already the Internet has become a place where women are stalked, so to give another tool to abusive men motivated to find and track and stalk -- it frightens me," she said."
Personally I think the terrified if neurotic Cindy is on to something about the Internet.
I've noticed that it's being employed by millions of women who are diabolically motivated to "find and track and stalk" men!
These women predators are everywhere ... on all the so-called "singles dating match" sites, and they use insidious interrogation techniques to surveil and capture men.
I understand there's a provision in The Patriot Act II that, when it's enacted, will reclassify these 'Net behaviors as a form of terrorism.
"It's a terrible thing ... living in fear."
- Roy: hunted replicant, Blade Runner
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I'd like to say that I agree with Ray's comments. This technology does raise genuine civil rights concerns, but who did this biased news agency ask about it? A female lawyer and a neurotic feminist in the anti-male DV industry.
The concern here is not that the technology will be misused by 'lone psychos', either male or female, the real concern is its misuse by the state (see the Will Smith film 'Enemy of the State').
This article shows the strength of the grip that feminism has on American life, and the shallowness of its news reporting.
In a democracy, the government is your servant, not the other way round. Start asking awkward questions.
Feminism will continue as long as there is money to be made from hating men.
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Let me just say that the removal of my skylight is now my top priority. ;)
-DeepThought
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Erase the EARTH
to gmail me.
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