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2004-05-28 Europe

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Posted by Fred 2004-05-28 3:32:56 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My, today's Germans are right on top of things. "After one year of limited use..." It's really pathetic that they didn't start doing this until a year ago. This should have been SOP ever since the Munich Massacre. We're taking about entry-level programming skills and the smallest bit of imagination here. Makes me wonder if the rest of the Zeropeans are equally lame. I'll wager a Euro that between 1933 and 1945 die Reichsdeutschen were quite aware that 'Shmuel' and 'Samuel' were versions of the same name.

Posted by MrGrumpyDrawers 2004-05-28 7:39:22 PM|| 2004-05-28 7:39:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Husan Mohammed Kadafi may have been booked for three separate crimes over a few years and the police would never realize they were perpetrated by the same man.

I guess taking fingerprints is too much of an invasion of privacy in Germany.

Posted by Rafael 2004-05-28 8:55:37 PM|| 2004-05-28 8:55:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I kind of like the Ellis Island solution:

"What's your name?"

"Guiseppe Cerrabuenavento"

"You're Joe Cherry now. Welcome to America."

Posted by Pappy 2004-05-28 10:36:51 PM|| 2004-05-28 10:36:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not so much the programming as it is applying it. I'm sure dem fingerprintzen sind getookt, but the prints don't follow the paper reports, and even when they do, somebody's got to match them. Not a task for the untrained, which is most of us.

Posted by Fred 2004-05-28 10:37:12 PM|| 2004-05-28 10:37:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 So why don't the fingerprints follow the German paper reports? Is fax technology something that hasn't penetrated the police departments of Eurabia yet? Pattern matching on the names would go a long way to letting the police know which fingerprint/name/report combos they should scrutinize more closely. And if fingerprint matching is "not a task for the untrained", what, one may ask, are the German police trained to do? den guten Kaffee trinken?
Next, "cooperating beyond Germany's borders on Arabic names could be more difficult..." etc. How very lame. This kind of text comparison technology has been available for over 10 years, and in multilanguage/multialphabet formats to boot. Finally, the sense of bureaucratic urgency evident in this article is overwhelming - "introduce it officially ... in July. Eventually... " and so forth. Maybe they should wait until autumn when the long Zeropean vacations are over - or maybe next year when the new budgets come in - or maybe until the Islamists blow up the Bundestag or Cologne Cathedral. Schlampen.

Posted by MrGrumpyDrawers 2004-05-31 1:09:56 AM|| 2004-05-31 1:09:56 AM|| Front Page Top

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