I'm all for it. But see Neil's tale of the Aussie software that will ID six people in a moving car. Now *that's* what you want to get your hands on <s>

>We are equipping the MPD squad cars with license plate detection cameras, which will feed the tag numers into a computer and check the cars for stolen, out of date registrations, and warrants against the registered owner and occupants.
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>We will also be installing "gunshot detection" cameras in the "hot spots" of Memphis. Hey abig brothah, as soon as you arrive....
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>John
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>>>Hi,
>>>You are wrong, the current recognition technology can identify all occupants in each car on a six lane highway in realtime, as well as do a registration check, vehicle color check, and make and model of the vechicle, and it runs on a laptop.
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>>>I saw it tested a few years ago over here, they had to shut it down after a couple of minutes as it had identified a couple of hundred violations and there wasn't sufficient resources present to process the infringments.
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>>Identified all six occupants in a moving vehicle. Wow. Amazing they could even see all six. Must have and incredible photometric database with some awesome processing power. I know some of the MI-5 folks who process CCTV feeds in London. They'd love to get their hands on something this good.
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>>But aren't you worried? I mean, that sounds a lot more intrusive than fingerprints. You must be terrified. I don't think I want to go to
>>Australia and be subjected to that kind of Big Brother surveillance <s>
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>>>>>Hi,
>>>>> It is a basic concept that many people have difficulty addressing, but then again, we are all treated equally these days, equally guilty.
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>>>>> The fact is this, if I haven't done anything wrong I don't have to give the authorities anything, if you do something wrong you give up that right or is going to your country to visit a bad thing and warrants such action.
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>>>>> With present day technology, the passport can still do the job as it always has, and with current facial recognition systems that have been implemented they need no more.
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>>>>Current facial recognition systems are as reliable as hiring a medium to get clues from the afterlife.
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>>>>DNA is accurate.