One issue I recall in the article I read was that it wasn't 100% accurate, so if a potential match was found it would display it for the officer in the car to make the final determination. If the technology still isn't 100% accurate then simply storing results wouldn't be all that useful since you couldn't rely on it. But if they've improved the accuracy then it certainly wouldn't be too difficult to start doing that...
How much do you think it will cost you in legal fees to persuade a jury of 12 of your peers that it is not 100% accurate when your plate come up in a child kidnapping case?
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I love IR I use it to sync my phone, it is so much easier than Blue Tooth. The problem is finding phones with IR and none else uses it.
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1. A lot of computers with a CD-ROM drive lacked and still lack a CD recorder. With floppies and USB drives, any machine with a reader also had a writer.
Yeah, that's why places had long replaced their floppy backups with tape drives. None is talking about business back ups and how did you attach a tape drive to an imac with out SCSI in 1998?
2. Discs get scratched easily, and frequently rewritten CD-RW discs develop errors from normal wear much more quickly than a USB hard drive or flash drive.
And yet optical disc usage probably still surpasses the use of flash by a many, many times. Guess your theory fails there too. Where? People use flash all the time for ease of use, unless you are counting pressed optical disks which you can't make with any imac.
3. Most importantly, writing to a CD is much more momentous than writing to a floppy or USB drive. After writing to any storage medium, you have to finalize it before you remove it. Floppies and USB drives get finalized within five seconds after you tell the OS to eject them. CDs, on the other hand, typically have all their writes queued up so that you have to wait five to ten minutes for the disc to record and finalize before it is ejected. And then if you run out of new space for files on a CD-RW disc, you have to copy all the files to the PC, erase the disc, and then copy all the files back.
Yep, this is definitely why you see so many companies using flash drives to archive their work. Oh wait, they still use tape drives and optical discs instead. Guess this point fails too. The imac was not a business machine in 1998 and way how did you attach a tape drive or CD writer to an imac with out SCSI in 1998?
This is possibly the best answer to the free market spew I have ever heard. I have had the same thoughts every time someone jumps into a space based discussion and spouts free market, private enterprise, etc. etc. without thinking who the private enterprises in space are today.
Not only that, Concorde went out of business. People aren't willing to pay enough for SST to make it profitable... heck the subsonic airlines have a hard enough time staying afloat. Why would this succeed where Concorde failed?
The reason Concorde was grounded was money especially the cost of new parts which were had been off the self parts of bomber aircraft and now would be very small production runs.
However, the reason the number of aircraft were so small was no one would allow them to fly supersonic over land. Partially because of noise and safety fears and it has been said that the USA did not allow it because Boeing did not have a super sonic aircraft.
I'd be much more interested to see the number of installed copies and the number of retail sales rather OEM sales.
I am sure Microsoft are crying into their collective beer!
I dislike Vista myself but I remember all these arguments about XP when 2000 was far to good to upgrade from. As long as Microsoft can keep a strangle hold on the OEMs they will sell millions of copies of their OSs
I had a minor accident last year, I shunted a car causing no damage to them but some damage to my car. As the car I hit had four young children in it I reported the accident to the police and thus my insurance company in case I needed and legal cover.
The final outcome I pay for my own damage the other person did not claim against me my premium went up £50 and I lost my no claims bonus despite not making a claim.
(note to non-UK readers: every household with a TV has to pay BBC a compulsory license fee of about GBP 120 per year)
No we don't we have to pay £120 per year if we don't watch TV I don't do either and I live in the UK. I know a lot of people object to the license fee but it is by no means compulsory.
Botnets were never a problem until fast internet connections became ubiquitous. That and the fact that fast internet connections are a huge security hole, is what has allowed the botnets and spam to proliferate.
If all the internet was disconnected , the problems would disappear.
Do people really call their banks with any regularity to need an entry in their address book? I very rarely call my bank, about once or twice a year normally to check opening times when I need to bank a cheque as I do every thing else on the internet or at an ATM.
Because I call the bank so infrequently I do keep the number in my phone book.
I'm also an atheist I am prepared to to accept FTL travel for the sake of this post but if something out there has the technology to travel light years the earth I believe we would either have met them or have no record of their visit.
I agree with all of the above but feel I should add that IBM sold office equipment before the invention of computers (yes computers not PC's) IMB has been in operation since 1888 and incorporated on June 15th 1911, 118 years of experience means they know how to diversify.
An other clause in the bill creates search warrants which are issued against you and any building you own, rent, or have access to. This is possibly even more scary than the 90 day detention when your place of work is searched because someone there is suspected and imagine if someone who works at an estate agency is possibly a terrorist.
I dont want to defend anyone saying condoms cause AIDS but the Catholic church teaches no sex outside marrage and if no one was having sex apart from within their single marrage we would not have an AIDS problem.
I know this is an idea which does not work when you look at the real world however, within the rules of the Catholic church it is a soloution to the spread of AIDS.
I wouldn't be suprised if they just licenced Opteron technology from AMD; it would be alot cheaper than developing their own. Although, they could always just outright steal it.
I know this is Slashdot and why bother with the truth if you can bash Microsoft or Intel but it is impossible for Intel to steal a chip design from AMD because they have cross licensing agreements with each other. I believe that Intel get all of AMD's designs for free and AMD have to pay for Intel's but they still have access to the x86 designs from each other.
This is how AMD got into the x86 market and I think why the company started.
Sorry but if you are working 24/7/365 in IT you don't get any respect.
Go home on time have a life and remember you are only getting paid for 40ish hours a week, you still wont get any respect but you wont get an ulcer either.
I know we have to work more some times but if long weeks are the norm you are getting shafted not respected.
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One issue I recall in the article I read was that it wasn't 100% accurate, so if a potential match was found it would display it for the officer in the car to make the final determination. If the technology still isn't 100% accurate then simply storing results wouldn't be all that useful since you couldn't rely on it. But if they've improved the accuracy then it certainly wouldn't be too difficult to start doing that...
How much do you think it will cost you in legal fees to persuade a jury of 12 of your peers that it is not 100% accurate when your plate come up in a child kidnapping case?
I love IR I use it to sync my phone, it is so much easier than Blue Tooth. The problem is finding phones with IR and none else uses it.
Arthur is not part of the computer matrix he is decended from the Golgafrinchams (sic) so of cause he will give the wrong question.
Where are my mod points?
This is possibly the best answer to the free market spew I have ever heard. I have had the same thoughts every time someone jumps into a space based discussion and spouts free market, private enterprise, etc. etc. without thinking who the private enterprises in space are today.
I am not a musician but I hate this argument who are you to tell people what are the right and wrong reasons for making music?
The reason Concorde was grounded was money especially the cost of new parts which were had been off the self parts of bomber aircraft and now would be very small production runs.
However, the reason the number of aircraft were so small was no one would allow them to fly supersonic over land. Partially because of noise and safety fears and it has been said that the USA did not allow it because Boeing did not have a super sonic aircraft.
I am sure Microsoft are crying into their collective beer!
I dislike Vista myself but I remember all these arguments about XP when 2000 was far to good to upgrade from. As long as Microsoft can keep a strangle hold on the OEMs they will sell millions of copies of their OSs
Or just shoot any one coming towards you with a laptop!
I had a minor accident last year, I shunted a car causing no damage to them but some damage to my car. As the car I hit had four young children in it I reported the accident to the police and thus my insurance company in case I needed and legal cover.
The final outcome I pay for my own damage the other person did not claim against me my premium went up £50 and I lost my no claims bonus despite not making a claim.
No we don't we have to pay £120 per year if we don't watch TV I don't do either and I live in the UK. I know a lot of people object to the license fee but it is by no means compulsory.
If all the internet was disconnected , the problems would disappear.
Because I call the bank so infrequently I do keep the number in my phone book.
I might be starting a holy war here by EDSF is much better
It is to slow users down as people who used adding machines could dial too fast for the original mechanical switches in telephone exchanges.
I'm also an atheist I am prepared to to accept FTL travel for the sake of this post but if something out there has the technology to travel light years the earth I believe we would either have met them or have no record of their visit.
Thats because in the UK 14 day refund and replace warrenty for a defective product is against the law, they had to replace it.
I agree with all of the above but feel I should add that IBM sold office equipment before the invention of computers (yes computers not PC's) IMB has been in operation since 1888 and incorporated on June 15th 1911, 118 years of experience means they know how to diversify.
It is the square root of -1. It could be worth big bucks if it exists
Sorry I cant help myself.
An other clause in the bill creates search warrants which are issued against you and any building you own, rent, or have access to. This is possibly even more scary than the 90 day detention when your place of work is searched because someone there is suspected and imagine if someone who works at an estate agency is possibly a terrorist.
I dont want to defend anyone saying condoms cause AIDS but the Catholic church teaches no sex outside marrage and if no one was having sex apart from within their single marrage we would not have an AIDS problem.
I know this is an idea which does not work when you look at the real world however, within the rules of the Catholic church it is a soloution to the spread of AIDS.
I know this is Slashdot and why bother with the truth if you can bash Microsoft or Intel but it is impossible for Intel to steal a chip design from AMD because they have cross licensing agreements with each other. I believe that Intel get all of AMD's designs for free and AMD have to pay for Intel's but they still have access to the x86 designs from each other.
This is how AMD got into the x86 market and I think why the company started.
No one is stopping free enterprise taking over, if you think you can make a profit get out there and start launching things into space.
WTF are you talking about you have a great post I agree +4 Insightful then you say that.
No they haven't I have chosen not to own a TV so I don't have to buy a TV Licence. It's a very simple system no TV no Licence.
Sorry but if you are working 24/7/365 in IT you don't get any respect.
Go home on time have a life and remember you are only getting paid for 40ish hours a week, you still wont get any respect but you wont get an ulcer either.
I know we have to work more some times but if long weeks are the norm you are getting shafted not respected.