{"id":6219,"date":"2026-08-06T13:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:07:35","slug":"16-8-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/16-8-6\/","title":{"rendered":"16 (8\/6)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figures that when I have something substantial wanted to write about, I have some long memory loaded up.  I&#8217;ll just to roll with it, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Instagram folks will appreciate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dbo7MVGABaZ\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That one&#8217;s from TheFP, but I&#8217;ve seen things on local news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffeeandcovid.com\/p\/selfie-vigilantes-thursday-july-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coffee &amp; COVID<\/a>, Or <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2016\/03\/03\/mass-transit-meets-mass-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reason<\/a>.  Or <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/05\/08\/11-insanely-corrupt-speed-trap-towns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a really good piece on it from ABC a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Police alleged misuse of Flock cameras stirs backlash\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjipV4Sohi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do have kind of a reflexive antipathy towards &#8220;the surveillance state,&#8221; but the technology emerged in spite of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question is whether there&#8217;s things that can be done to ensure government doesn&#8217;t abuse new technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Law Enforcement is going to use the tools in irresponsible ways!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Might I have searched myself when I had access to a police database?  Yep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ooh!  There&#8217;s the police report I filed in 1999 after getting threatened by a former friend who was dating my ex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Address?  The Old Apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment (Video)\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ggJS0p-QQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hmm.  What else happened there?  Oh!  Someone died, probably in <strong>my bedroom<\/strong> in 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does the memory of that uncomfortable feeling play into why I check addresses of properties to see if something bad happened there?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey, Grok, did anything significant happen at or near 123 Maple Ave., and what crimes have happened recently?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, however, old footage is used for smart purposes.  Like the FBI figuring out the January 6th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/video-repository\/january-5-pipe-bomb-investigation-new-footage-of-suspect-placing-bomb-at-dnc\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pipe bomber<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it a problem that footage existed, and investigators finally figured it out years after it happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Answer to rhetorical question omitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do I appreciate Jeff Childers, of @FloridaMan__ LLP&#8217;s suggestions?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Um.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, you shouldn&#8217;t be doing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, I probably shouldn&#8217;t have been doing what I might have been doing in 2001.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But does that mean the technologies should go away?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Um.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please see the tagline for this site;  &#8220;Everything Gets Deleted Eventually.&#8221;  I hope the implicit part of that occurred to you &#8212; no, if it goes to physical media at some point, it&#8217;ll get found.  Whether it&#8217;s printed media, or digital media, if it can be read, it can be decoded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought I&#8217;d linked something about it before, but people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/it-infrastructure\/hard-drive-data-from-space-shuttle-columbia-recovered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recovered data from hard disks that were aboard Columbia<\/a>.  Burning up on reentry, and getting stuck at the bottom of a bayou doesn&#8217;t delete everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody who worked on getting that data back had <em>any<\/em> nefarious motives.  Nor might have I when I might have searched myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose there&#8217;s probably already rules of evidence that could challenge whatever&#8217;s ferreted out.  Officer Friendly, you stumbled across this when you were looking for a vehicle suspected in this other crime, not because you were looking for that girl who ghosted you, right?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there also might be video of someone blowing a snot rocket into the flower bed.  It&#8217;s there, and it&#8217;ll probably always be there, so how do you keep it from getting out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You could just stop recording, no?  But this stuff is <em>everywhere<\/em>.  I don&#8217;t know that there&#8217;s a good way to go back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or that going back would be worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But how do you deal with this guy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"South Park Season 16 Episode 1 - Security Officer Masturbating Scene\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nwHzVk91-_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s a good civil servant ensuring public safety!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, what I had loaded up turns out to not be all <strong>that<\/strong> long&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flashback  to 1999<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Have you ever gotten a glimpse of yourself and think, \"man, I really look like shit?\"<br><br>I kind of feel that way now. I mean, I don't look like I just woke up, but bad nonetheless. I'm tired, so my eyes are baggy, I'm way overdue for a haircut, and I forgot to shave today.<br><br>But maybe it's a good thing to look a little rough around the edges sometimes.<br><br>I will be back to my Marine look soon, though.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What do you think of your appearance today?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s somewhat similar.  I haven&#8217;t shaved;  I did yesterday afternoon when I showered.  I could use a haircut.  I&#8217;m wearing the cheap summer shirt I ordered while I was in Biloxi earlier this year.  I&#8217;m in sweat pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I think I&#8217;m finished for the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures that when I have something substantial wanted to write about, I have some long memory loaded up. I&#8217;ll just to roll with it, I guess. The Instagram folks will appreciate this link. That one&#8217;s from TheFP, but I&#8217;ve seen things on local news, Coffee &amp; COVID, Or Reason. Or Reason. There was a really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}