On Wed, August 1, 2007 7:19 pm, Bob La Quey wrote: > On 8/1/07, Richard Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Bob La Quey wrote: >> <snip> >> > Whatever you put in the copier. It works fine on mylar. >> > I am confidant that I can make one that is damn close >> > to the real thing with maybe an hours effort at the most. >> > >> > Even if you make it of paper all you have to do is put a >> > little lacquer over it to weather proof it. >> >> if you can stand the store, drive yourself down to frys look in the >> paper >> department you will find clear stickers 4x6 get the glosy ones that you >> can >> print on your inkjet, then cut out the square that you have spent all of >> 30 >> seconds doing up in your least favorite whatever its soo simple you can >> even use >> notepad to get it done. >> >> and for $1youve got a sticker that will look like its registered, but it >> wont >> matter the cops will run your plate and itll show up as not registered, >> and you >> will go to jail say hihi to any big guys with 1 tooth and dont drop the >> soap :D >> >> the point was they are not going to be using any expensive computerized >> gizmo to >> scan a car, extracting the picture of the license plate, decoding the >> plate, >> then using a silly sticker to determine if its registered or not! its >> just not >> that hard to run a plate anymore. > > Yep. We agree it is easy. Yep we agre that is also > easy for the cops to run your plates. > > SS was tryinbg to make a case for it being hard to > prodcue the sticker. Not so. > > BobLQ
I'm late to this discussion, but I would contend that there is a significant difference between a squad car calling in a plate and automatic cameras harvesting all plates that pass and archiving them for later search. The one is a reasonable -- no necessary -- resource and precaution. The cop needs to know before s/he approaches a stopped car. The latter is an unwarranted invasion of privacy, ripe for totalitarian abuse, because it would allow computer analysis tracking of ALL movement of ALL vehicles at ALL times. Total data mining on all citizens is a nightmare. The gap between setting it up and abusing it has already been breached. I personally suspect that it was set up precisely for abuse. What exactly was the program that Gonzo took to the hospital that was so illegal and pernicious that John "cover her tits" Ashcroft refused to sign off on it? That should give us all pause. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
