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Story: Police chief criticises ID cards scheme
Criticised ID cards scheme seems logical
While it may be a deterant to crime its offering some greater avenue for super criminal connectivity isuring them a way to connect themselves into a network of their own makings. Least nothing to a supercomputer programmer that could find and monitor such criminal networks when they begin operations but you got lots of people ouit there that don't know one another. The other ball of wax deals with the ill-conceived DNA database, of the many fugitives at large in America are Hispanics that have few criminal records that have no DNA on file and may never have because they elude prosecution so often. DNA evidence is only good when you have some database to match it to and theres no Hispanic database in America but there is progress. Besides this aspect of computing the DOT (Department of Transportation has banned Windows Vista stating it don't support their current operations and theres to many man hours required setting it up, but that later on in the future they will consider Vista as accepted. Police have so many smaller crime details to deal with I figure that their organisation needs to be relaxed for a ID system to work as it should from dedicated satellite reader systems within vehicles to backpack models that weigh quite less. Some Japanese & Chinese phones have the capability of scanning a credit card, they are not available in America yet but consumers would be purchasing them rapidly. This is one thought for European useage but again making a service work with such devices is like creating a Directory of users so they swipe the card and the device works as a identifier for a special account they only have access to if they are not allowed to have WII phones, Internet Phones, Computer Phones, or Cellular Phones personally. One major problem it seems is dealing with criminals and then its dealing with products they have access to.
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