Is Ireland also going down the toilet? Mobile fingerprint scanners for gardai

Run_to_da_hills

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/mobile-fingerprint-scanners-for-gardai-1535286.html :pac::pac::pac:

Blush_01

I'll hold my breath. They can't even manage a national roll-out of broadband , the government will probably buy the scanners and spend an extortionate amount of money on training and storage, but never use the technology.

Run_to_da_hills

Blush_01 wrote: »

I'll hold my breath. They can't even manage a national roll-out of broadband , the government will probably buy the scanners and spend an extortionate amount of money on training and storage, but never use the technology.

No it would be privatized and they would be handed out to every thug in the country

Rhyme

Unless the person in question wasn't putting up a fight at all, they'd need to completely subdue the person to use this kind of machine right?

Those automatic retinal scanners from Minority Report are the way forward (Big Brother lol)

Shacklebolt

Blush_01 wrote: »

I'll hold my breath. They can't even manage a national roll-out of broadband , the government will probably buy the scanners and spend an extortionate amount of money on training and storage, but never use the technology.

According to a reliable source broadband has arrived to Milltown co Galway which is a major victory in the battle for full broadband coverage.

token56

Why are we giving fingerprint scanners to guards when we are struggling to find places for kids in school? Good game government.

Wreck

Surely this is a good thing? What's the issue RTDH?

Run_to_da_hills

Wreck wrote: »

Surely this is a good thing? What's the issue RTDH?

This thread is ment to be a piss take :rolleyes:

token56 wrote: »

Why are we giving fingerprint scanners to guards when we are struggling to find places for kids in school? Good game government.

No they have this worked out. When the Gardai catch all these extea criminals with using these new devices, the CAB will liquidate all their assets and the money from this will be put back into the kids in schools. Sorted.

javaboy

That's the worst kind of garbage journalism. They found a suitable scaremongering story from the UK. Rang up a Garda spokeswoman and it went something like this:

Hack: You getting any of these newfangled fingerprint scanners?
GS: Dunno. I haven't gotten a press release about it or anything.
Hack: But you wouldn't rule it out.
GS: No I suppose not.
GS: Hot diggity damn that's good enough for me. What a scoop!

Dave!

Me bollix we'll see this happening. Maybe if they didn't have to use mobile phones to communicate, I'd take this seriously.

JimmyCrackCorn!

IF you like that youll probably love this.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2008/1107/1225925540654_pf.html


Once again "Your Ma":D

Run_to_da_hills

javaboy wrote: »

That's the worst kind of garbage journalism. They found a suitable scaremongering story from the UK. Rang up a Garda spokeswoman and it went something like this:

Hack: You getting any of these newfangled fingerprint scanners?
GS: Dunno. I haven't gotten a press release about it or anything.
Hack: But you wouldn't rule it out.
GS: No I suppose not.
GS: Hot diggity damn that's good enough for me. What a scoop!

It was probably leaked out from the Daily Mail. :P

Orange69

Ireland went down the toilet sometime in the 11th century and has been there since..

towel401

maybe they can attach a fingerprint scanner to those cardboard squad cars they were using a while back. so people will speed past the cardboard cut out and then go back to use the fingerprint scanner and they can then check the database and send you the speeding fine.

its like vending machine-based law enforcement. it will work for honest people who actually want to pay the fine for their own good. with the old bangers the gardee are driving these days they won't be able to catch the skangermobiles anyway

CantGetNoSleep

Ah come on now its getting ridiculous at this stage, will ya ever just f*ck off

GhostInTheRuins

Do you honestly think the Gardi will be competent enough to set up a working countrywide fingerprint database?

Run_to_da_hills

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Do you honestly think the Gardi will be competent enough to set up a working countrywide fingerprint database?

You could stick your finger up your ho*le before you place it on the scanner.:D

GhostInTheRuins

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

You could stick your finger up your ho*le before you place it on the scanner.:D

I'm getting serious Deja vu from this thread, wasn't there an identical one somewhere else and someone (Could've been you) said the exact same thing?

Run_to_da_hills

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

I'm getting serious Deja vu from this thread, wasn't there an identical one somewhere else and someone (Could've been you) said the exact same thing?

I don't think it was me, but if it was it would have been concerning the UK thumb print scanners.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

This thread is ment to be a piss take :rolleyes:

Then what the hell is the point of it?


:rolleyes:

javaboy

Ruth Bewildered Bifocal wrote: »

Then what the hell is the point of it?


:rolleyes:

I thought all his threads were piss takes.

Run_to_da_hills

javaboy wrote: »

I thought all his threads were piss takes.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

You could stick your finger up your ho*le before you place it on the scanner.:D

er, why would you want to do that?????

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

So all this is just Run_to_Da_Hills being his usual obnoxious self?:rolleyes:

It must be great to have nothing else to do!

Run_to_da_hills

MikeySligo wrote: »

er, why would you want to do that?????

The smudged sh*t would fill in the gaps between the contours of your finger thus giving it a false reading. :pac:

Radharc na Sleibhte

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The smudged sh*t would fill in the gaps between the contours of your finger thus giving it a false reading. :pac:

Yeah, but you'd have a ****ty finger then though.

javaboy

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The smudged sh*t would fill in the gaps between the contours of your finger thus giving it a false reading. :pac:

Do you really want Big Brother to know what you had for breakfast! :eek: :eek: Just think what they could do with that information!

Zangetsu

Tabloids ftw...

AlmightyCushion

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Ah come on now its getting ridiculous at this stage, will ya ever just f*ck off

Watch it.

Run_to_da_hills

javaboy wrote: »

Do you really want Big Brother to know what you had for breakfast! :eek: :eek: Just think what they could do with that information!

He knows already, I have a Clubcard. :pac:

Blush_01

Shacklebolt wrote: »

According to a reliable source broadband has arrived to Milltown co Galway which is a major victory in the battle for full broadband coverage.

Where my parents live, they were told they'd have broadband four years ago. Four years ago they were then told it'd take another two years. Two years ago they were told it'd be approximately two years. Now they're being told not to hold their breath. It makes me laugh.

Run_to_da_hills

Blush_01 wrote: »

Where my parents live, they were told they'd have broadband four years ago. Four years ago they were then told it'd take another two years. Two years ago they were told it'd be approximately two years. Now they're being told not to hold their breath. It makes me laugh.

You can always give Vodafone 3G broadband a go, they offer a free trial period if it dosn't work just hand it back, 3 and O2 offer similar. Its not as quick as normal broadband and it is also limited to a 10 gig cap.(Pending on the package) Better than 56K.

wolfpawnat

Well in all fairness these days we bloody need them, you cant feel safe going to the corner shop, and it may help sort out getting tickets quicker so we may actually get through traffic sometime before we are due to return to work tomoro!