someone is seriously confused. The cameras we're talking about do not broadcast images to the public.
Yes, you're confused. These are not the Congestion Charge cameras.
As for the May Day thing, it's perfectly possible that the cameras being used to monitor the demonstration. However it's not clear that's legal -- it might be considered an "improper use" of the system, since that wasn't why it was built.
The cameras they use to monitor the demo are the moveable (pan and tilt) units on very high posts, which are used for all sorts of police/traffic activity. The webcams on the bbc website are just a low-res feed, essentially a gimmick; this coverage from May Day 2001 gives some idea of how the traffic cameras fit into the police operation.
As The Reg has already pointed out, the traffic cameras used for the administration of Central London traffic access dues they are are talking about do not have an appropriate license for surveillance. The upshot of this is that the pictures gathered by the cameras can only be used for the intended purpose of billing drivers who take their cars into Central London The Reg has stated.
No. They are traffic monitoring cameras, not the cameras used to enforce Congestion Charging. They are not used for "billing drivers".
To quote The Register correctly:
Traffic cameras and charge zone cameras, however, are not the same thing. The traffic cameras cover the whole of Greater London, are fewer in number and do an entirely different job (or at least, we hope they do).
The "security forces" (Metropolitan Police) do use these cameras for crowd monitoring and control - not for taking photos. As others have already said, police forces take cameras and camcorders to demos.
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someone is seriously confused. The cameras we're talking about do not broadcast images to the public.
Yes, you're confused. These are not the Congestion Charge cameras.
As for the May Day thing, it's perfectly possible that the cameras being used to monitor the demonstration. However it's not clear that's legal -- it might be considered an "improper use" of the system, since that wasn't why it was built.
The cameras they use to monitor the demo are the moveable (pan and tilt) units on very high posts, which are used for all sorts of police/traffic activity. The webcams on the bbc website are just a low-res feed, essentially a gimmick; this coverage from May Day 2001 gives some idea of how the traffic cameras fit into the police operation.
No, they're on all the time.
These are traffic monitoring cameras, not congestion charge enforcement cameras.
For more detail on what the differences are, see my post above, or more usefully, see this article.
As The Reg has already pointed out, the traffic cameras used for the administration of Central London traffic access dues they are are talking about do not have an appropriate license for surveillance. The upshot of this is that the pictures gathered by the cameras can only be used for the intended purpose of billing drivers who take their cars into Central London The Reg has stated.
No. They are traffic monitoring cameras, not the cameras used to enforce Congestion Charging. They are not used for "billing drivers".
To quote The Register correctly:
Traffic cameras and charge zone cameras, however, are not the same thing. The traffic cameras cover the whole of Greater London, are fewer in number and do an entirely different job (or at least, we hope they do).
The "security forces" (Metropolitan Police) do use these cameras for crowd monitoring and control - not for taking photos. As others have already said, police forces take cameras and camcorders to demos.
If you get an access denied message you should check the privileges of the Music folder
And set them to what?
I don't care that much for quality, but the movie (StarWars Episode 1) was basically unwatchable....and the sound was messed up too.
You blame your DVD player for this?
I thought it was Jar Jar Binks!
Oh wait, I get it.
We survived 20,000 years without cell phones. Why is it now we cannot?
We also 'survived' most of that time without flight.