okay, the actual computer face recognition software has only been in use for a couple of years, in football (soccer for the Americans) stadiums to spot known hooligans, but the police can more or less follow you from one side of central London to the other on cameras.
that'll be RWE here in Essen. They've been beta-testing for some 6 months now, and are about to roll out. There is quite a bit of competition though, from DSL providers like Deutsche Telekom, Arcor Mannesman (Vodaphone/Airtouch), and now Yahoo! and AOL.
thing is, RWE give you about 300MB bandwidth a month before they start charging per MB. my mate wants to sign up for their 2Mbit offer at DM250 a month, or 70 pounds sterling. 125 US dollars I think.
Slashdot Mirror
okay, the actual computer face recognition software has only been in use for a couple of years, in football (soccer for the Americans) stadiums to spot known hooligans, but the police can more or less follow you from one side of central London to the other on cameras.
Because of the IRA and their bombs, like.
This applies to many other town centres, too.
Big Brother is here, and he's called Tony Blair!!
that'll be RWE here in Essen. They've been beta-testing for some 6 months now, and are about to roll out. There is quite a bit of competition though, from DSL providers like Deutsche Telekom, Arcor Mannesman (Vodaphone/Airtouch), and now Yahoo! and AOL.
thing is, RWE give you about 300MB bandwidth a month before they start charging per MB. my mate wants to sign up for their 2Mbit offer at DM250 a month, or 70 pounds sterling. 125 US dollars I think.
my computer`s safe - the BIOS just died.