08-13-2003, 07:00 PM
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Pocket PC Used To Get Live Video From Surveillance Cameras
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend13_20030813.htm
"Six remote-controlled surveillance cameras have been set up to transmit live video images of crowd and traffic conditions to handheld and laptop computers carried by cops...a police officer walking the route and wondering what the commotion is up ahead can radio headquarters and have a live video image streamed to his Pocket PC handheld. Officials monitoring the feeds at a command center can see suspicious people or vehicles and instantly transmit pictures as officers are dispatched to check it out. A split screen can show all six cameras at the same time to provide pinpoint directions on where traffic or crowd problems are occurring."
So, if that policeman in the Krispy Kreme next to you has his Pocket PC out, ask if he is just reading AvantGo or if he is looking for people running red lights at a nearby intersection. :wink:
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08-13-2003, 08:59 PM
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08-13-2003, 09:58 PM
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Pupil
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Yeah, i wrote almost exactly the same thing for a security company in 2001.
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08-14-2003, 12:44 AM
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Ponderer
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I had to read the article twice before I realised it was Ed posting instead of Jason. The "Krispy Kreme" bit made no sense, I was expecting "Tim Horton's".
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08-14-2003, 02:00 AM
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Originally Posted by NeilE
The "Krispy Kreme" bit made no sense, I was expecting "Tim Horton's".
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Yes, it's true, you've discovered the biggest secret at Pocket PC Thoughts: I really don't post everything. :lol:
Krispy Creme is coming to Calgary very soon - watch out waist lines!
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08-14-2003, 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by NeilE
The "Krispy Kreme" bit made no sense, I was expecting "Tim Horton's".
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Yes, it's true, you've discovered the biggest secret at Pocket PC Thoughts: I really don't post everything. :lol:
Krispy Creme is coming to Calgary very soon - watch out waist lines! |
Oh man, I don't need this. I just moved to a neighborhood that has a Burger King. Now Krispy Creme?
I'm in big trouble... 
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08-14-2003, 04:53 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Krispy Creme is coming to Calgary very soon - watch out waist lines!
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Only a two-and-a-half hour drive away! :rock on dude!: :way to go:
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08-14-2003, 02:37 PM
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From the article...
" "This is very problematic," said ACLU spokesperson Wendy Wagenheim. "When the police can read a paper over your shoulder and you don't even know it, I think some alarms should go off." "
I have trouble reading e-books on my Pocket PC outdoors! Somehow I can't believe that a wireless video stream on a 3.5" screen in the sunlight is going to be "surveillance" quality.
Unless they use 802.11g or really optimize their network, I think they'll be looking at "webcam" type images.
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08-14-2003, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by SUPERNERD_DAVE
Unless they use 802.11g or really optimize their network, I think they'll be looking at "webcam" type images.
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What the cameras record and what is actually transmitted wirelessly are two different things. The police themselves say they can read your watch. "We can zoom in tight enough to read someone's watch." The camera has a 60 X zoom on it.
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08-14-2003, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Krispy Creme is coming to Calgary very soon - watch out waist lines!
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Mmmm... Krispy Creame...
:grouphug:
Some of my nicer memories from attending Ga. Tech in Atlanta, GA was going with a big group of fellow students to the main Krispie Kreme factory and buying 6 - 10 of the boxes right out of the oven where you had to wait for the coating to solidify before you ate them.
YUM, YUM...
No wonder I have a weight problem!
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