Urban Cachers beware
Posted: 30 April 04 5:12 pm
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Posted: 30 April 04 6:02 pm
Exactly what every cacher needs. No more frownies.
Posted: 04 May 04 6:25 pm
Same ole same ole.
Come down to "Padlocks only keep honest people out"
If something want to be got it will be got. Perhaps I'm an alarmist but I know I'm a realist. I've worked security too many years that people even with technology can do little when despirate measures are being taken.
As far as caching goes - well, who would be silly enough to hids a cache in an airport or hotel hallway.
The Bronze.
Congrats to the Gunnedah Aliens for being the first to achieve A-DAG.
There Advanced Diploma in Applied Geocaching is in the press.
Come down to "Padlocks only keep honest people out"
If something want to be got it will be got. Perhaps I'm an alarmist but I know I'm a realist. I've worked security too many years that people even with technology can do little when despirate measures are being taken.
As far as caching goes - well, who would be silly enough to hids a cache in an airport or hotel hallway.
The Bronze.
Congrats to the Gunnedah Aliens for being the first to achieve A-DAG.
There Advanced Diploma in Applied Geocaching is in the press.
Posted: 05 May 04 6:03 pm
I know a couple of folk who've worked in a software house developing video recognition software. Their product had a relatively easy task of identifying and discriminating trucks on a roadway and then picking the number plate and recognising it.
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Let me tell you this stuff is very difficult to get right. This is one area of academic computer science that is still alive and well. The software described in the article may appear to be all bells and whistles but I expect that it is probably far less functional than ideal.
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Let me tell you this stuff is very difficult to get right. This is one area of academic computer science that is still alive and well. The software described in the article may appear to be all bells and whistles but I expect that it is probably far less functional than ideal.
Posted: 05 May 04 6:26 pm
We utilise this software and hardware already. Havent seen too many problems with it overall, it performs pretty faultlessly.
Just remember when you are filling your car with petrol next time, dont pick your nose.
Guaranteed somewhere, a Piggy Surveillance system With just 2 cameras mind you
is doing the following:
So any drive offs, Presto, everything ever needed to sit your arse in court !
(ok, stolen plates and home boy caps can may thwart this !)
We have in one servo alone dropped their unclaimed drive offs from over $80 k a year
to just $2.5 k.
Take off the Piggy expenses of about $32 k and its paid itself off very well in a year !
Just remember when you are filling your car with petrol next time, dont pick your nose.
Guaranteed somewhere, a Piggy Surveillance system With just 2 cameras mind you
is doing the following:- Taking a Picture of the main forecourt of the service station.
Taking "your" picture (full & head shot) when you pick up the nozzle.
Taking a closeup of the car you drive.
Taking an even closer "close-up" of your number plate.
Figuring out what your number plate "is" and overlaying it into a text file. (Yes, somehow it reads it !!!)
Text file is then stored on the DVR (Digital Video Recorder) with your footage.
Pump transfer data is taken from the till and overlayed on DVR as well.
And does up to another 15 pumps per minute from the one camera !
All drive-offs are as simple as entering the amount of the sale and it will find the footage and Number plate info etc for you
So any drive offs, Presto, everything ever needed to sit your arse in court !
(ok, stolen plates and home boy caps can may thwart this !)
We have in one servo alone dropped their unclaimed drive offs from over $80 k a year
to just $2.5 k.Take off the Piggy expenses of about $32 k and its paid itself off very well in a year !
Posted: 05 May 04 6:53 pm
A blue dressing acquaintance of mine was telling me that all those heavy vehicle monitoring things actually track all cars, but the legislation behind them only covers HVs but that if the little man in the camera (thatÂ’s where he sits right) types your number plate into his computer he knows more about were you have been than you do. BB is watching.
Posted: 05 May 04 7:09 pm
Thats why we allways smile friendly to those camera's, requires you to lean forward and look up though...Mix76 wrote:A blue dressing acquaintance of mine was telling me that all those heavy vehicle monitoring things actually track all cars, but the legislation behind them only covers HVs but that if the little man in the camera (thatÂ’s where he sits right) types your number plate into his computer he knows more about were you have been than you do. BB is watching.
I'm sure if you look up my rego on that database you get some funny pics
Posted: 06 May 04 12:13 am
We always wave!ToolkiT wrote: Thats why we allways smile friendly to those camera's
This technology is to be trialed in Sydney as a means of reducing speeding (read: revenue raising). Your number plate is photographed at two fixed points on the road and the time between the photos is used to determine your average speed. If you average above the legal speed limit, you're goooooone!!!!! I have read and heard that the trial will be on the M4 motorway between Merrylands and Parramatta.
Posted: 06 May 04 10:41 am
This is an example of an excellent application for a system like this. Events are predictible enough to get right.Team Piggy wrote: Just remember when you are filling your car with petrol next time, dont pick your nose.
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Automagically observing a crowd and deciding that the dodgey character in the grey track suit pants just placed a back pack next to an elevator (or a film canister under a seat
) and walked away is another story.<p>
Posted: 08 May 04 8:24 pm
This little doggy don't smile. I use my paws. Nothing says you can't wave only I do it with one finger.