In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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wrote
on Sat, 19 May 2007 03:29:26 +0100
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> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Police Career - Linux Computer Systems in Law Enforcement
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Kent Police have lowered the cost of running their major criminal
>> | investigations system by a factor of 90%...
>
> There's that ... and the fact that criminal investigations are one of
> many critical applications where people cannot risk nonsense like BSODs.
>
> I can just imagine the reaction of some Copper confronted by a WGA
> notification that "This copy of Windows is not genuine" after doing a
> Windows "update".
>
Hell, imagine a BSOD/hang while the cops are doing a
warrant search on an arrested perp.
Yeah, there's confidence for our boys and girls in blue
(with shiny copper [*] badges) -- not to mention the public
they serve.
"Ill just be a moment sir, please sit there fully
handcuffed while I reboot my laptop. (pause) No network?
Hmm...let's try that again. (reboot) (pause) OK, I think
it'll work now....(pause)....(longer pause)...(even longer
pause)... Hmm....(reboots again)...."
All this while the perp is rolling his eyes in the back of
the policeman's cruiser... or, worse, the cops are setting
up for an area search and the unit hangs while displaying
a map of the area or while communicating with Dispatch --
and the perp gets away clean since the cops can't figure
out where he is or was.
Not a confidence-builder.
To be sure, a more likely scenario is that the unit BSOD's
as the policeman attempts to save the paperwork on the
perp's actions during his arrest. (It's a fact of police
work, as I understand it, though I'm not a cop; the arrest
might take 10 minutes but the rest of the procedure takes
hours as the cop fills in the report.)
Either way, it impairs police efficiency, and while one
might question the police's right to arrest a certain perp
and hold him given the facts as then-known, they should at
least have reliable tools they can depend on as they do so.
[*] actually, I'm not sure what they use nowadays, but
that's the origination of the term "cop" or "copper".
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