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Comment So, what is actually gained by enabling "trusted" people to pass through an automatic biometric gate - even assuming that it actually works? What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment Until a public servant is made financially responsible for lost equipment in his or her custody with an automatic penalty there will be little or no real interest in "their government status symbol". What's got silicon.com readers reaching for...
[21 Feb 2008]
Comment This is a giant government system that seems able to search TV news, automatic number-plate recognition, Afghan minefield maps and a host of other databases and display it all faster than it takes my laptop to open an email.
[20 Feb 2008]
Comment Yet recent reports saw Home Secretary Jacqui Smith flouting Data Protection (1998) laws by letting the Metropolitan Police use automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) data for crime-fighting purposes.
[13 Sep 2007]
Comment The enquiry found that automatic systems to control the filling of a tank were not working but with such systems in place, people assumed that an overflow could not happen. The best results come from a constructive and imaginative integration of...
[15 Aug 2006]
Comment In contrast, our machines will only tell it the way it is, provided the entry of data is also fully automatic. Written in Washington DC National Airport and despatched via a public wi-fi service in partnership with my UK ISP
[02 May 2006]
Comment However, on-premise packaged CRM software still has substantial support right across all company sizes and is the automatic deployment choice for many organisations. It is also a key battleground in the fight between hosted and on-premise software.
[02 May 2006]
Comment We have moved on, and the options list now includes automatic transmission, air conditioning, sound system upgrades, spoilers and GPS navigation systems. Written while flying from Heathrow to Istanbul and dispatched to silicon.com from Istanbul...
[28 Nov 2005]
Comment Moreover, when I have stayed in the same hotel, or used the same coffee shop time and time again, it should all be automatic. Written at a firm in the Cambridge UK Science Park, and dispatched from a free domestic Wi-Fi network in Colyton, Devon
[09 Nov 2005]
Comment Or maybe each time anyone is dissatisfied with a bank's performance, an automatic payment of thirty pounds could be added to the account? Martin Brampton imagines a world where companies must pay customers when their products cause them grief.
[08 Nov 2005]
Comment Moreover, all this is likely to be linked to CCTV face recognition and automatic number plate recognition. Are you prepared to accept government surveillance of your every move? Martin Brampton isn't, despite what looks like the coming of a truly...
[01 Nov 2005]
Comment Campaigners against pornographic sites have built up a lot of emotional support so it was no surprise that the automatic response of 289 MPs was to call for regulation and control of the internet. While forming new legislation can help in the fight...
[20 Sep 2005]
Comment The idea that management can be more automatic and software updating can be more automatic, state-replication more automatic - there are some big things here that can drive the industry forward. Would you buy Windows Vista?
[14 Sep 2005]
Leader Nonetheless, it's looking like the switch to Vista will be a well-considered decision, not an 'automatic upgrade', like so many versions of Windows past. It may be early days but the Microsoft hype machine has already started to kick in around its...
[03 Aug 2005]
Comment The lack of automatic systems has also been a cause of accidents. In fact, the automatic systems have to be pretty good. And yet, we like to take comfort from knowing that the crew can override the automatic systems, even though the system may be...
[26 Jul 2005]
Comment The only downside of Asterisk that Dempster has found thus far is that the automatic answering system still has a strong Alabama accent, and asks people to press something unknown in the UK, called a pound key (aka the hash key).
[06 Jul 2005]
Comment He produced not only an answer to the Decidability Problem but did so with an imaginative technique that showed us how to build automatic mathematicians - computers which first solved the puzzle of the Enigma cipher machines, turning the tide of...
[18 May 2005]
Comment Last year, of the approximately 9.5 million taxpayers who file returns, nearly 10 per cent missed the deadline and received an automatic £100 fine as a result; there's also an interest charge of 7.5 per cent on money owed, with a five per cent...
[31 Jan 2005]
Comment Trials were done looking at fundamentals - how to load vans, for example - and more complex software came from Accenture to enable automatic stock replenishment. In the first of a new series for 2005 aimed at those at the top of IT or business - or...
[19 Jan 2005]
Comment For those who want to take their updates at a more leisurely pace, Microsoft has opted to allow users to disable it from Automatic Update. Windows XP Service Pack 2 - it's Microsoft's stab at patching its security reputation and three years' worth...
[12 Aug 2004]
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