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From: Bod on 26 Mar 2010 11:01 On 26/03/2010 14:59, Ret. wrote: > Conor wrote: >> On 26/03/2010 12:13, Ret. wrote: >>> Conor wrote: >>>> On 24/03/2010 23:18, Ret. wrote: >>>> >>>>> What if? What if? What if? This is really becoming very tiresome. >>>>> What if your next door neighbour has a brain storm, kills his wife >>>>> -but tells the police that you did it? We could go on all week >>>>> coming up with What ifs... >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ask Jean Charles de Menezes about "what ifs". Oh wait, you can't and >>>> why is that? >>> >>> I reckon you'll still be dragging this up in another 20 years time >>> wont you? Things happen - what you ought to be grateful about is >>> that they happen a lot less in the UK than they happen in most other >>> countries. >> >> So do road deaths, burglaries, murder, drug use etc Kev so why are you >> saying there is a need for a national ANPR database? > > You do come up with some peculiar responses to posts don't you? > > Kev > > I wonder whether the paranoid posters on here bite their toenails as well as there fingernails? Bod
From: Adrian on 26 Mar 2010 11:02 boltar2003(a)boltar.world gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >>The '70s were hardly a golden era in the history of this country - and >>the utter devastation the union-dominated mess left many of those >>industries in is what killed 'em. >> >>You want to trace <say> the decline of the British motor industry, start >>with Red Robbo and the British Playland of the Allegro & Marina, not >>with Thatcher. > We can watch the whole thing in action-reply today with the British > Airways strikes. They might not take the whole airline down yet but > they'll probably severly weaken it which will be its death in the long > run. The blinkered tunnel vision mentality of the severely unionised > beggers belief. Indeed. At least the rail system is partially protected from competition.
From: JNugent on 26 Mar 2010 11:06 Conor wrote: > On 26/03/2010 14:10, Adrian wrote: >> Conor<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were >> saying: >> >>> At least nine of these are in London. (There's one in Stamford but no >>> indication as to which Stamford.) >> >> There's only one, isn't there? Are you thinking of Stratford? > > There's the area around London referred to as Stamford. Would that be Stamford Hill (North London)? I've never heard it referred to as "Stamford".
From: Ret. on 26 Mar 2010 11:10 Conor wrote: > On 26/03/2010 12:27, Ret. wrote: > >> Just do a Google on "ANPR successes" and then come back and say the >> system is of no use. >> > > I just have. The first page of results is pretty much exclusively from > police forces. Page 2 has more police forces, a home office website, a > couple of local papers printing a story based on figures provided by > the police. > > Interestingly, the rest of the websites in the first two pages raise > concerns and show up failures. > >> They do however >>> inconvenience lots of people due to errors in entries and in some >>> cases, this has led to perfectly innocent people dying. In the >>> meantime, there's always the worry that some civil servant will lose >>> huge swathes of quite sensitive information. >> >> So what's your answer? Go back to card indexes? >> > > Stop bullshitting people about what it can achieve. There is a mass of evidence to show how effective it is proving to be - and it is still in its infancy. Kev
From: AlanG on 26 Mar 2010 11:36
On 26 Mar 2010 11:49:47 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >You still just don't get it, do you? Clue: It's not only about "somebody >else seeing". If somebody malicious can get read access to a system, they >can get write access. Not necessarily. It's trivial to set up a read only system. Copy a master system and only let it be viewed. Set up preset queries that limit what information the user can get out of it. Here's a typical example. http://www.whatcar.com/ The danger comes from the person who *does* have write privileges for the master system. |