Big Brother is here.

[Karma]

It'll be like Minority Report soon enough... loads of little iris scanners all over the place for targeted advertising and population tracking...

Nothing you can do about it, other than moving to a remote island in the middle of nowhere... hold on... where am I?

[Brett]

Does ring a bit like Revelation to me actually.

[Zed]

Does ring a bit like Revelation to me actually.

Yep sure does. Amazing how such an old archaic book written just short of several thousand years ago can be more precise and up-to-date that these modern 'conditioning' movies such as: Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Armageddon, Matrix, Independence Day, MiB, et al.

[Toast]

Man this sucks...so now if you're using a plate from a deregistered vehicle...they can pick ya out of the crowd as the dodgy one in disguise...gutted.

[Mr Skid]

loads of little iris scanners all over the place for targeted advertising and population tracking...

Nothing you can do about it

Try poking your eyes out.

[Finn]

Yep sure does. Amazing how such an old archaic book written just short of several thousand years ago can be more precise and up-to-date that these modern 'conditioning' movies such as: Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Armageddon, Matrix, Independence Day, MiB, et al.

I didn't realise Gone with the Wind was that old.

[Karma]

Try poking your eyes out.

Might help if I'm giving it to your mum....

[Badcat]

If you are paranoid about this stuff... You would probably shit yourself if you knew just how much info was gathered every time you used a credit / eftpos card, bought fuel, went to a supermarket etc etc.. Big brother has been here a fair old while and in fact.. he has bought his whole family..

the one that really cracks me up is Flybuys.
man - they'll sell ANY and ALL data collected about you (and there is a goldmine in your purchasing data) to anyone with the money.
and NZers piss away their privacy for the promise of a free airflight.

winners.

[Skyryder]

the one that really cracks me up is Flybuys.
man - they'll sell ANY and ALL data collected about you (and there is a goldmine in your purchasing data) to anyone with the money.
and NZers piss away their privacy for the promise of a free airflight.

winners.

Much the same thing with those freebies at the supermarket etc. Fill out the form, name address phone number and go in the draw for a free Harley, car boat etc.

On a different tack, I heard through the grapevine that the reason that the lifetime licences were done away with is so that a new photo data base could be created. New Zealanders were told that these photo's would be destroyed, (kept the clipping somewhere). What we were not told is the the photo's were sliced and sold as an identi kit data base for law enforcement use. Have no idea what sort of money that would bring in, but sure as hell would not have happened in the USA.

Skyryder

[Da Bird]

Apparently it picked 3 stolen cars during a shift on one patrol car.

We can do that in 20 mins in South Auckland.

[Lazy7]

will be a money making MACHINE.

how easy will it be to spot cars with no rego or warrant now! or un-licenced/disqualified drivers.

the computer probably scan the number plate, bring up all the details on the car and driver and have the ticket already printed out in about 5 seconds.

bloody good job i say.

now... where did i put my folding number plate mechanism...

[HenryDorsetCase]

'Big brother' is watching you, for lack of a better understood explanation. There is an agenda being followed that will end up in a New One World Order, where there will be only one form of identification, one currency, one religion, one government, and one leader! We have the technology, the scene is being set now, and Israel is the golden key!

what the FUCK???

[Mental Trousers]

No problem to check rego and wof on the fly. If they're already sending the plate # back to the server, and a yes no result for the rego and wof is only adding another 2 bits to the response back. It's bugger all data to send and recieve, could be done over the cellular network, or packet radio, or some other cool stuff that the police use.

Yep. The comms part isn't a problem as not much needs to be sent. And even if they do have a list of a few hundred/thousand plates to watch for loaded into the machine in the car, that search using half decent gear/algorythms etc will take much less than 1 second. Also, scanning the number plates in NZ is very easy as there's only 1 issuing authority so you can gaurantee that an o looks different to a 0 etc. All the plates are made to the same standard. So there are virtually no problem areas with developing this stuff and making it work reliably.

[DemonWolf]

If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

I don't have a problem with crims being caught.
I do have a major problem with the growing surveilance of our everyday lives.
The ID tatoos can't be far off.

Hmmm... cheers

[imdying]

And even if they do have a list of a few hundred/thousand plates to watch for loaded into the machine in the car, that search using half decent gear/algorythms etc will take much less than 1 second.

Hell even a PDA running SQL CE could manage ten times that amount of plates at the sort of speed. Nice thing about plate numbers is they're unique, make a nice little index to search on