Big Brother wants to see you more often.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece

FFS.

 

"Yesterday, a gang of pedal cycle mounted criminals got away with
£100,000 in used notes from Lloyds TSB in Uckfield, because the cameras
could not track them. The government are now piloting a new rfid 'good
citizen' implant, benefits include being able to being able to buy food,
and getting hospital treatment."

 

Ginge

 

I'm wondering about this. It really seems like bollocks to me:
1) How can tehy convert existing cameras to read plates? And then network
them into the system?
2) Database capabale of 35m reads per day. By *March* Dunt *really* seem
likely.

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I reckon a lot of them already can read plates, the one in supermarkets,
carparks, petrol stations etc and of course there's the traffic master
network....

I'm sure something could be knocked up using Access and IIS by then.

 

Well obviously the cameras themselves don't have to - just plumb a
little black box into the output that scans the camera's pictures and
then dials in to a mobile network of choice and sends the plate
number.

 

Nah - Linux is where it's at apparently.

 

True , but the camera has to be of sufficient quality to provide a readable
image , which many aren't
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BUT T13

TUT T13

Near enough isn't it?

 

It is if I squint
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Please god let it use Access.

 

Don't you mean writes?

 

How far back has this been coming? Was the not-too-recent crackdown on
script fonts and oddly spaced plates the first step?

 

All we'd need to do is knock up a large poster that displays a Windows
"Object not found" error message box and attach it to back of leathers
or put it in the rear window of the car.

At the least it might confuse them when they look at the photo in
their new Access application )

 

With a bit of luck EDS will be implementing it.

 

No.

DBASE III

 

Don't be silly, they won't store the picture, just the number itself.
Private plates are the only answer - something like 'DROP DATABASE',
'FORMAT C:', or 'N0T MUSL1M'.

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I'm going to have to see how much a "Select *" numberplate costs.

 

Not necessarily. Especially if the number plate is grimy.

Phil

 

My first thought was "how big is that Database gonna be", but having
worked it out it's less that I originally thought it would be.
8 bytes for the licence (assumes no change to the licence plate format)
2 Bytes for the location (Assumes no more that 65k cameras)
4 bytes for the time (Time in seconds from epoch seems sensible)
1 byte checksum (dunno much about these, but seemed like a good idea to
validate data)

gives 15 bytes per record.
35M reads a day held for 2 years gives a little under 26 Billion reads
to be stored.

Assuming no slack space on disk, that would equate to a bit over 400Gb
not huge by todays standards. But you would have to have indexing
which would have overheads in the 20% region, so a half terrabyte to be
safe.

However, most modern O/S of any note (Unix) organise disks in 512 byte
blocks, so each record would occupy a block on its own. This increases
the projected size to
a little over 13 Terrabytes. Now that IS big. add in the indexing and
you don't get a lot of change from 15 Terrabytes.

Would you like mirroring with that sir?