The public be damned
W.H. Vanderbilt, Reply to Reporter, 1883
Computer crash is my trotted out excuse for two days of absence of daily posts on my blog, which I made sure to point out to my fans on my Facebook Page. Thanks for the concern shown!!
But first, the news!!
Mark Myrie, other wise known by his stage name Buju Banton, has been sentenced to ten (10) years in the FCI prison facility in Miami as stated in the article “
UPDATE: Buju gets 10 years”, published 23 June 2011,
The Jamaica Observer.
I have no sympathy for Buju Banton.
He and his fellow Reggae and Dancehall artiste knew the consequences of Hate Speech, the common consensus in the Court of Public opinion as to why this evil has befallen him. Plus, he is wealthy enough to afford trial lawyers to defend himself, which many Jamaicans cannot even resort to when wronged by government or wealthy people.
Worse in a country, Jamaica, that is signatory to the UNCHR (Unite Nation Charter on Human Rights) but is yet to pass the required sections of the Charter that give legitimacy to Homosexual and Heterosexual relations, sexual relations which I abhor, but rights for which support on the basis of principle.
My only grouse with homosexuals is their view that homosexuality and lesbianism is “normal” and “natural” when in fact God’s creation, according to my deceased Seventh Day Adventist girlfriend, Audia Granston, comes in a rainbow of diversity, which may include means of reproduction that may appear homosexual, as it may involve animals of the same sex.
But, as Audia used to argue with me, quote “It is God’s and Nature’s way” for creatures to reproduce, be it sexually or asexually!
As such, ascribing “sexuality” or even “sexual orientation” to creatures that have no higher brain function than us humans who are vertebrates, have a highly developed brain and walk on two (2) feet is silly and cannot be used to justify homosexuality among humans on the basis of it being “normal”!
Irregardless of this argument, homosexuals do have rights, as often their Right to Privacy is constantly being broken.
But like
Miley Cyrus, Buju Banton also had, in a sense his Right to Privacy breached: being filmed during the drug Sting operation that was used as evidence against him in the trial.
I know this all too well, as I suspect now, with evidence strongly mounting in my favour, that the ideas I expressed in April of 2009 to a bunch of Shurpower Engineers was captured on a hidden camera, possibly in the vehicle.
Paparazzi, I brush off this buzzing insect, as the few ideas that they got from me, I have thousands more. Like Thomas Alva Edison, my mind is a wellspring of creative ideas: I have more ideas than have even hands or time to write them out!
Miley Cyrus know this all too well also, having vented her disgust with the paparazzi in her song
Fly On The Wall, at the very end of which she unknowingly is being filmed via an installed camera.
So I guess Buju Banton,
Miley Cyrus and myself have something in common and thus would fall into the majority of people in the world who thus will welcome what I have to argue in the following short stanzas.
Ironically, this is one of my many ideas expressed in my conversation back in April 2009AD, when I was on my way with a bunch of Shurpower Engineers to a cell site in order to set the generators on autostart!!
This is quite interesting, as this appears to be the latest weapon in the arsenal of the public in a continuing battle in the saga as it relates to people being filmed on camera without their knowledge via smartphones and their Right to Privacy.
Often teenagers or college students can relate if not realize that this is a common problem.
Stories of fellow classmates caught doing things on camera, which is then uploaded to
YouTube and causes them much trauma, resulting in many resorting to suicide, after becoming the target of hateful speech, due to being harassed by peers.
A gross violation of their Right to Privacy, with deadly consequences!!
Apple, this, is playing the responsible adult. Rather than create a sound on the camera that sounds off when the camera feature is in use or video is being filmed as is the case on most feature phones,
Apple now is giving the power to you, the victim.
This patent is blessedly simple. An infrared sensor will be installed in the same location as the camera flash.
When you are being filmed (or suspect you are being filmed), you can disable the cameras in the field of view via an infrared signal that is coded to be interpreted by the Infrared Sensor on the camera. This either shuts down its function or scrambles the recorded images, audio or film on the
Apple iPhone doing the filming.
Blessedly simple!
Ditto too for concert organizers and even movie studios who suspect that their films are being recorded by hidden
Apple iPhone Cameras (who does that anyway?) before wide releases, as such activity robs promotes of valuable revenue from streaming video rights, both live and recorded.
This as the
Apple iPhone can b used as a streaming Video Camera. But it is really people who suspect that they are being filmed in private by conventional cameras for which this
Apple patent holds much hope.
If this
Apple patented feature makes it onto the
Apple iPhone 5, about which the rumour appear to have no end as stated in the article “
Drawings show big changes for iPhone 5”, published June 21 2011,
CNET News, then it would effectively give Concert Organizers and Media Personalities and Hollywood Stars a very large fly swatter (read fly =
Apple iPhone paparazzi)
Apple’s technology, in the sincerest form of flattery, may be duplicated by Analog and Digital Camera makers as US and hopefully International standard requirement for all smartphones and Analog Cameras.
After all, Press Freedom and Freedom of Speech, ultimately are superseded by the Right to Privacy, as we are not movie stars like
Miley Cyrus and do not want to be forced to take our lives due to being overexposed (analog camera pun very much intended!)
Hopefully this device that beams out Infrared to disable all
Apple iPhones in visible range come in a small portable version, preferably in hot pink, as I suspect a lot of women will be buying.
This as it would combat the growing problem of people being filmed and having the information being used against them. We the Public may not stars like
Miley Cyrus, but we do share her sentiment as it relates to what we would love
The Adjustment Bureau (2011) to do about the
Fly On The Wall filming us at our moments of indiscretion.
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