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Comment It'st too late... (Score 1) 141

by Ludedude (#30217806) Attached to: Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime
"The report recommends that an independent advisory body oversee the database, and that laws be passed to limit the uses of the database, while tracking those with access to it, and making misuse of the information a criminal offence." It's too late. You can never put the shit back in the donkey.
Networking

Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep 188

Posted by timothy from the would-make-me-feel-better-about-keeping-a-server-on dept.
Al writes "Researchers at Microsoft and the University of California, San Diego have developed a network adapter that lets a computer enter sleep mode without disrupting the network connection. The adapter, dubbed Somniloquy (meaning to talk in one's sleep), consists of a gumstix running embedded Linux, 64MB of RAM and a 2G SD memory card, connected via USB. The adapter keeps the network connection going and the researchers have also developed a simplified IM client and bittorrent client that carry out more complicated tasks autonomously, only waking the computer if, for example, an actualy IM is received or a download is completed."
Idle

N00b Boyfriend 39

Posted by samzenpus from the raiding-with-the-parents dept.
He'll probably ask where to find Mankrik's wife at dinner.
Privacy

Submission + - Dayton, OH Police use license plate tracking tech

Submitted by
mechtrader
mechtrader writes: "DAYTON — The Dayton Police Department introduced its newest crime-fighting gadget Tuesday, Aug. 18, and odds are it will soon be introduced to you.

It's a camera and scanner mounted on an officer's cruiser that takes pictures of license plates as officers patrol and inputs the data into a computer program. As the cameras scan plates, a laptop computer inside the officer's cruisers sounds steady beats after each picture is taken. An alarm goes off if the plate or the driver's information is found in a database constantly updated with wanted criminals.

The camera is capable of capturing as many as 10,000 license plates a shift, leaving crime fighters around the area giddy over its capabilities.

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The concern is not whether the system can identify stolen cars, but whether or not it stores the license plates it reads. What happens when there are 20, or 200, or 2000 cameras instead of two? Can the results of scans from more than one camera be networked to form a comprehensive pictures of who is going where?

Does anyone know the capabilities of these systems and how they are marketed to police?

http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncrime/entries/2009/08/18/new_police_cameras_will_be_wat.html"
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Major growth of Wi-Fi devices in US

Submitted by Krokz
Krokz writes: Network company Meraki has conducted an interesting census about recent changes in Wi-Fi area. Here is 9to5mac article about it:

"The census compared activity seen by a single set of 10,000 randomly selected Meraki wireless access points in North America in 2008 and 2009 in order to understand macro-level traffic and end-user device trends. The number of Apple devices observed, including laptops, iPhones and iPods, grew by an impressive 221%. Apple devices now represent 32% of all the devices seen by this set of Meraki networks in North America, compared to just 14% in 2008. The number of Research In Motion (RIM) devices observed in North America grew by 419% from 2008 to 2009, and Nokia devices grew by 114%. In 2008, RIM devices represented just 2% of all devices observed, but grew dramatically to 8% for 2009. In 2008 and 2009, Nokia represented 1% and 2% of all devices, respectively.

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