by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:52PM (#61290812)
Protecting money and ensuring security in high-risk areas is appropriate. People essentially opt-in by using their ATM card or entering a bank. Placing cameras and using facial recognition on every streetcorner is NOT the correct use of this type of tech.
sleeping near ATMs will they call the cops on an black man doing that? Will they call some one who can help them find an safe place to sleep who is not an cop?
I'm really glad you needlessly added race to the conversation. Unfortunately this isn't Twitter so you get no virtue points. But now you can feel good about yourself having posted on social media while doing fuck all about the problem. Unless you're going to volunteer to be on the call list for the contact person who's going to offer a "safe place" to sleep. Didn't think so.
Also the police don't give a shit about homeless people in most cities. There isn't room to jail them and they largely aren't causi
If they 'call the cops' on anyone in that situation, regardless of appearance or gender then that's fine -- we need police who are more than just jackbooted thugs with guns who assault/shoot first and don't bother asking questions later. 'To Protect and Serve' used to mean something, and it meant 'protect and serve everyone, not just rich people. Being homeless is not a crime and never should be. Rightfully, they should at the bare minimum just get them to move somewhere else to sleep, not harass or arrest
Of course it should be a crime in the exact same way blasting loud music or selling loose cigarettes or narcotics should be a crime: it creates a nuisance and attracts violent criminals, all of which lower the quality of life for more people than there are squatting on the street.
We're a tolerant society, which isn't bad, but we're too tolerant of loafers, layabouts, drug addicts, moochers, and the like.
Some places that tolerate this shit are just downright unpleasant despite their other charms. The French
You're an asshole and you clearly have lived a charmed life compared to some people, and futhermore lack a basic level of humanity. You shouldn't be allowed to run around loose in the world. Privileged white men like you should be forced to be homeless for a few months until you see how fucking wrong you are.
Yeah, let's give me license to turn *my* failings, mistakes, misfortunes, and problems into *other* people's problems, and give me a ready excuse: "I can't help it, I'm oppressed!" That'll teach me.
Problems affecting individuals often affect greater society, that is the way the world works. If you want to end the types of criminal activity which harm the common person, then you have to make crime not pay in the first place. We donâ(TM)t need to go about punishing the homeless to accomplish that but this sort kind of thing is a good first step.
AI systems will automatically make it much harder to use other peopleâ(TM)s cards at ATMs, just like activation locks did with smartphone thefts. T
One might be worse than the other, but I don't think that makes the other good. In some cases (e.g., spitting people sleeping near an ATM) it's a response to some other problem that would be better solved by addressing it more directly. In other cases it's still a perverse behavior that's essentially spying on your customers in order to try to figure out how to exploit them better.
The problem is that a large number of people can't use that ATM because they don't want to take the chance they are going to get bum rushed the moment they get their money.
This is the correct use of this tech. (Score:1)
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sleeping near ATMs will they call the cops on an black man doing that? Will they call some one who can help them find an safe place to sleep who is not an cop?
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Also the police don't give a shit about homeless people in most cities. There isn't room to jail them and they largely aren't causi
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Re: This is the correct use of this tech. (Score:1, Troll)
Of course it should be a crime in the exact same way blasting loud music or selling loose cigarettes or narcotics should be a crime: it creates a nuisance and attracts violent criminals, all of which lower the quality of life for more people than there are squatting on the street.
We're a tolerant society, which isn't bad, but we're too tolerant of loafers, layabouts, drug addicts, moochers, and the like.
Some places that tolerate this shit are just downright unpleasant despite their other charms. The French
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Re: This is the correct use of this tech. (Score:2)
Yeah, let's give me license to turn *my* failings, mistakes, misfortunes, and problems into *other* people's problems, and give me a ready excuse: "I can't help it, I'm oppressed!" That'll teach me.
Once things are working out (Score:2)
AI systems will automatically make it much harder to use other peopleâ(TM)s cards at ATMs, just like activation locks did with smartphone thefts. T
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curious.
is it illegal to sleep
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the atm vestibule is not an place to
detox
sleep it off
homeless shelter
get out of the cold / rain / sun / heat / etc
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Re: This is the correct use of this tech. (Score:2)
The problem is that a large number of people can't use that ATM because they don't want to take the chance they are going to get bum rushed the moment they get their money.
Needs of the many can't wait for that bullshit.