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San Diego approves smart streetlight cameras
Also, we have this style, mounted high up on poles at the major intersections in my town, well out of reach of vandalism.
Yes, I know these are likely not used for the tracking people, or at least weren't originally installed for that. But, what's to keep them from upgrading or replacing them with ones that look the same to serve the same function as Flock cameras? No one would even notice. Sensor resolution, and optics for small cameras keeps improving.
But not out of range of a paintball gun.
Or a drone with spray paint.
I was personally thinking a pseumatic gun with a solid projectile shot, would probably take a lot of testing to get the right range, accuracy, and power though.
Crazy how .50cal airguns aren't federally classified as firearms.
Well for one there's ideally no fire involved. But also we are talking about something that has limited manufacturing and hasn't been used for anything large scale yet so yeah. Also would you really trust the current federal government to classify a sandwich? Let alone anything more complex.
Do you mean one of the many pneumatic airguns you can buy for hunting and the like? The ones that aren't classified as firearms and thus aren't nearly as legally restricted or regulated as firearms despite being able to deliver similar accuracy and kinetic force?
And yes, the fed hasn't been super great at making logical distinctions between objects in general commerce. They're silly.
I said limited manufacturing as in its probably still behind crossbows in production numbers, should've been more specific in that I didn't mean limited production run. In my defense I have not slept well in like 4 days.
Paint doesn't typically work on them.
Why not?
If paint is ineffective and those bubbles are made from plastic, there is very likely a solvent that would permanently make the plastic hazy by partially dissolving the surface. I think acetone or MEK would do the trick to polycarbonate but you'd want to test at home.
You ever seen videos of people trying to spray paint the doorbell cameras? They're coated so the paint just falls off. Same for paintball paint.
Every plastic has a solvent that will eat through it. Even glass can be etched.
If anyone's passing through and thought "huh glass etch? neat!", just be aware that glass etchants contain HF, which is one of the nastiest chemicals a normie can buy. It will happily penetrate through your skin. It might penetrate your PPE if you chose unwisely. Does it burn? Nope. It just dissolves your fucking bones. If you buy glass etchant, also buy a tube of calcium gluconate and keep it nearby while using the glass etch. If you spill some etchant on you, rinse the area for a few minutes and then apply the calcium gluconate to attract and neutralize the HF.
Source: I used to fill and train others to fill 40L tanks of 50% HF for cleaning semiconductor wafers.
I hadn't seen those. I had no idea. Thanks!
Then maybe Japan's Bohan Yo Kara Boru (anticrime color balls)
Or supposedly the police grade pepper spray ones also contain a marking agent.
Surely the pole it's mounted on connects to something..?
Well, yes. Usually mounted on extensions to a traffic light pole. You're not cutting it down with a hacksaw, at least.
Imagine this on top of a traffic light:
To be fair, there's a lot of those that are just traffic light cameras. They look for a car to pull up before they let the lights change. Cut them down and the traffic lights stop working.
Are these like street lights where they are mounted to break-away bases? because then you just need a big wrench, no saws needed.
And climbing gear.
The nearby city had a whackadoo mayor whose plan was wifi APs at every Xth streetlight: residents could use the free city wifi while they drove down the highway.
What didn't happen? Streetlight APs.
What happened? An amazing shift forward to laying fibre under every construction project and connecting the parts later, to cover a sizeable portion in city-owned fibre infra. They're gonna cover everything and start connecting people.