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From: Rob on 23 Mar 2010 13:14 Ret. wrote: || || The point I am trying to make is that the lives of the vast majority || of the motoring public are totally innocuous and, as such, the || police have not the slightest interest into checking where they are || going. And do you believe that this data will only EVER be available to the Police? -- Rob
From: Iain on 23 Mar 2010 13:18 "Rob" <rsvptorob-newsREMOVE(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:vMCdnRFwWOiZajXWnZ2dnUVZ8nKdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > Ret. wrote: > || > || The point I am trying to make is that the lives of the vast majority > || of the motoring public are totally innocuous and, as such, the > || police have not the slightest interest into checking where they are > || going. > > And do you believe that this data will only EVER be available to the > Police? From another post I made in this thread: There have been many articles on sharing information between both government departments and non-government organisations. See: The Register's recent article: 'Citizens rail against government data sharing' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/23/public_data_sharing_poll/ Iain
From: Cynic on 23 Mar 2010 13:30 On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:07:51 +0000, Bod <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Don't you think that the information collated, could be used in a >positive way? Such as? I can see how anonymous traffic data might be used to advantage, but not data that contains personal information (such as the number plate of the vehicles). -- Cynic
From: Adrian on 23 Mar 2010 13:34 Cynic <cynic_999(a)yahoo.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > You will of course be quick to excuse the resulting dawn raid, be quite > happy to fork out £300 for a new front door, and tell your wife that her > nighly panic attacks thereafter are a price well worth paying. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/19/police_raid_glitch/
From: Adrian on 23 Mar 2010 14:16
Cynic <cynic_999(a)yahoo.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > I am sure that you realise that a 500GB HDD is not a particularly large > disk these days even by home computing standards. Indeed. Last 1.5TB SATA drives I bought were about £75 each. > When it comes to even a very modest data center, 500GB is hardly > anything. Data centres will use considerably smaller drives than that, typically. They'll just use a metric shitload of them. 146GB 15,000rpm 2.5" SAS drives would not be out of place for high-performance storage. Spindles are cheap - the more, the faster. |