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Big Screen for NYPD
Roland Piquepaille writes "With millions of emergency calls every year, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) decided to invest in a new command and visualization center in order to keep up with the ocean of data it has to deal with. According to this article from BusinessWeek Online, the display system consists of hundreds of Mitsubishi digital light-processing (DLP) monitors covering three walls. The NYPD thinks it will help it to also manage the hundreds of thousands of annual arrest records and to further reduce crime in the city. You'll find more details and references in this overview, which includes impressive pictures of former visualization centers built by Imtech, which will integrate the NYPD one."
And they got all this from NEC for only $567 billion.
Spend money to improve public services!?!?! The animals!!
;-)
This is why democracy doesn't work...
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
NORAD eat your heart out...
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..it doesn't run Windows... else they might see..
... ok ready to groan on a Sunday morning? ...
... I almost can't type it ...
... Get ready for a +5, Bad Pun...
... NYPD Blue Screen.
FLR
Yes! Now I can hack into the police station and have the screens all say "Napster" or "Nurv is evil" just like in the movies. All I need is the video of Gates using and praising KDE running on Linux 2.6.7-rc2 while his henchmen rough up Linus. Best part is, I can do it through telnet. God hacking is so easy and gui based!
The only thing left for them to do is beef up security around the WOPR.
Except when the entire staff uses it at once, to monitor for problems on the field of play of major sporting events.
I thought that these huge rooms with huge video screens were just in movies, but one time as part of my job I went to visit a mobile telephone network operator, and I was surprised to see that their NOC was exactly like that. Our guide said that the big screens are, in practice, mostly used to show DVDs during the night shift.
kind of reminds me of SimCity, where you can pull up a graph of the city and work out where crime "hotspots" are.
The solution for these "hotspots" in SimCity is to destroy them and build nice parks instead. Harlem is still standing, so I can safely say that nobody in charge of NYC plays SimCity, unfortunately.
"I... I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, he'll see everything, he'll... he'll see the Big Board!"
--- Ban humanity.
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This would kick ass for SimCity except they are playing with a real city. Perhaps if they practiced with Sim first...