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IBM to Help UAE Track Drivers on the Road
Mr.Bananas writes "InformationWeek reports that IBM has announced a deal with United Arab Emirates in which it would provide speed tracking devices that will automatically warn violators of traffic laws: "The telematics device will use multiple microprocessors based on IBM's Power Architecture, and will have the capability to monitor the speed of the vehicle and send out a warning if the car surpasses the posted speed limit." GeekCoffee goes on to report that tickets will be issued automatically to violators who ignore the warnings: "If the voice warning is ignored, the system would use a GSM/GPRS link to beam the car's speed, identity and location to the police so that a ticket could be issued.""
I thought they were referring to the "Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator"
[driver] But I thought I was doing the speed limit!
[RoboTrafficCop] You were going exactly 15.253 kph over the speed limit, mister
[driver] But! BUT!!!
[RoboTrafficCop] No buts mister. Ticket amount: 150 dollars
[driver] No!!!
[RoboTrafficCop] We robots have no sympathy
It was Windows 3.x "Unrecoverable Application Error" before that.
"Unrecoverable Application Error:
Truck/camel network sharing collision!"
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Warning: This user has performed an illegal operation, and will be booked now.
DRIVER_IN_RED_SEDAN has caused an invalid page fault in module speeding_fines_are_a_cash_cow.dll at 0157:21114020
Please save all your files, and pull over to the left-side of the road, and exit the vehicle. You may click the button "(*&#%)(*#$#@$#@ piece of c*ap" to view further details, or to see what will be sent to the Roads Revenue Collection Service about this incident. Click "Send Private Data" to send your private and confidential data to IBM, or alternatively, don't click anything, and we will do it anyway.
Please have a nice day.
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if a car speeds in the desert, and noone is there to see it, is the car even there at all?
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Coming soon to a Western democracy near you....
If a car speeds in the desert and no one can see it, the driver needs to get his eyes checked.
Don't you hate meta-sigs?
son... back in my day we could speed all we wanted and even run from the cops with the chance to get away.... those were the days
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