>>>>>>Use another means of highlighting, like different colors (foreground/background).
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>>>>You've been watching too much CSI Miami! :-)
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>>>Did anyone ever have a look at the software these guys use in real life? I very much doubt that rotating name label is essential to catching a criminal. Or that thousands of image refreshes are actually helping the fingerprint matching app.
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>>Exactly my thought. Why display each print as it goes through the comparator? The human eye can't follow, and, like you say, it would slow up the search. But then again, I think we've established that we're at one on this subject :-)
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>>Also, they scan in a dab from the scene, and the s/w auto. orientates and resizes it to those on the AFIS. I'm sure a human would be needed to ID, isolate and orientate the section of sample.
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>I've always been amused how one can take a single-frame photo of a security video monitor, then digitally zoom in and using some fancy software to reveal the face of that is 75% hidden behind something or someone in the foreground as well as remove the sunglasses to reveal eye colour...
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>I'd always wondered why on the Galactica (the late 1970s version) it takes so much typing by Omega at his console to raise sheilds and activate shipboard defense batteries... Was he using some sort of command-line interface based on COBOL? Or was he typing text messages to the other bridge officers to relay the command?

True, true :-)

or why in cop progs when they zoom or crop an image they always do it via a flurry of key strokes, rather than lassoing with a mouse and right-click, etc.