scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> Especially as in the example mentioned, car number plates, you know the 
> font and size characters that are used.

  That's certainly true. The algorithm doesn't even have to guess what
the original shape was, it only has to compare the image (after correcting
for perspective) against the known font and estimate the closest match.
It probably helps if the image is first filtered to remove as much
extraneous noise as possible, and any extra information from additional
frames added.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >    The ISP knows which one of their clients has which IP address at any
> > given moment

> Really? That's news to me.

  And exactly how would an ISP charge for bandwidth usage if it has no
idea which client is behind which IP address?

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On 27/04/2012 01:23 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>>     The ISP knows which one of their clients has which IP address at any
>>> given moment
>
>> Really? That's news to me.
>
>    And exactly how would an ISP charge for bandwidth usage if it has no
> idea which client is behind which IP address?

It's news to me that any ISPs *do* charge by bandwidth usage...

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On 27/04/2012 1:31 PM, Invisible wrote:
> On 27/04/2012 01:23 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> The ISP knows which one of their clients has which IP address at any
>>>> given moment
>>
>>> Really? That's news to me.
>>
>> And exactly how would an ISP charge for bandwidth usage if it has no
>> idea which client is behind which IP address?
>
> It's news to me that any ISPs *do* charge by bandwidth usage...

Boggle! Boggle!

They often have a cap where anything above it is charged at a high rate 
in addition to your basic charge.

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     Stephen

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> It's *very* improbable that an outside adversary would know
> precisely what software your forensics lab runs.

Actually, if they were wanting to attack you they would quite likely 
know precisely what software was running.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

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>>>> The ISP knows which one of their clients has which IP address at any
>>>> given moment
>>
>>> Really? That's news to me.
>>
>> And exactly how would an ISP charge for bandwidth usage if it has no
>> idea which client is behind which IP address?
>
> It's news to me that any ISPs *do* charge by bandwidth usage...

How do you think they find people like this?:  Of course they know which 
IP address goes with which account.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7029229.stm

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a spin-off of CSI?

yep, the unlimited zoom is a favorite scifi cliche ever since Blade 
Runner... :)

of course, what they don't tell you is that all their video recordings 
are in 1 gigapixels density... :)

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Invisible escreveu:
> On 27/04/2012 01:23 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>>>     The ISP knows which one of their clients has which IP address at 
>>>> any
>>>> given moment
>>
>>> Really? That's news to me.
>>
>>    And exactly how would an ISP charge for bandwidth usage if it has no
>> idea which client is behind which IP address?
> 
> It's news to me that any ISPs *do* charge by bandwidth usage...

what isn't new to you after 30+ years of walking this planet?

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On 27/04/2012 03:15 PM, nemesis wrote:
> a spin-off of CSI?

Unrelated, AFAIK. Actually it's a spin-off of JAG.

(Like JAG, it's fairly comical, whereas CSI is dark and gritty.)

> yep, the unlimited zoom is a favorite scifi cliche ever since Blade
> Runner... :)

Blade Runner was just *absurd*! The other day, I was thinking about 
whether you could even hypothetically do that without running into the 
Heisenberg uncertainty principle...

> of course, what they don't tell you is that all their video recordings
> are in 1 gigapixels density... :)

Heh, maybe. ;-)

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> - You *cannot* take CCTV footage, enlarge it 20x, "run an imagine
> enhancement algorithm" and then read a car numberplate from 300 yards.

You'd be surprised.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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