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THE NEW YORK City Police Department is currently beta-testing Google Glass to see if it could help it in investigations and patrols.
A ranking New York City law enforcement official told VentureBeat that the department had received numerous pairs from Google’s beta program and are using them to see what use they would have in law enforcement.
“We signed up, got a few pairs of the Google glasses, and we’re trying them out, seeing if they have any value in investigations, mostly for patrol purposes… We’re looking at them, you know, seeing how they work.”
Google Glass could potentially help speed up the process of investigations as it would allow officers to search through a database or bring up warrant checks while working. However, the issue of privacy surrounding wearable devices like Glass would arise if it ever became a tool for law enforcement.
Currently, the device is only available through the Glass Explorer Program and will cost those interested in taking part €1,100. Purchasing support prescription lenses would add an additional €165 on top of the optician’s charge to make and fit lenses.
The device has been used for other emergency services. A firefighter from North Carolina, Patrick Jackson, developed a Google Glass app which allows firefighters access to vital information when working. Through it, firefighters can look up the map of a burning building, as well as the locations of nearby fire hydrants.
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In county Waterford ,The trampoline is still on my property, the wife has worse wind than this.
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: ”In county Waterford ,The trampoline is still on my property,” can the owners please come and collect , address says , Skibereen co Cork .
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh:
Errrr, it hasn’t reached us yet
@Avina Laaf: trust me, you’ll know when it does
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: It’s managed to kill or severely injure a few people and it’s only 1:45 (it was meant to get bad from 1 onwards) yet people still think it’s nothing.
Know whats so bizarre about this? During the ebola crises people were in an insane panic about a disease that’s not even highly contagious and isn’t airborne, demanding (non existent) Ireland-Africa flights be canceled and doctors and solders coming back be quarantined, despite the fact that even if we had a few cases here it never would have caused an outbreak. People constantly worry about an ISIS attack when, although it’s possible, they’ve bigger fish to fry and prefer to use us as an admin base, but when a real actual emergency that can actually kill people hits not only do people not care they willfully put themselves, their kids and their pets in danger on the coast and say “sure it’s nothing”
@Ryan Carroll: The people who’s heads you have just bitten off for not being terrified enough, left their comments six or seven hours ago.
@Ryan Carroll: Ebola not highly contagious…so the Doctors wear all the safety gear for a bit of dress up fun
On a positive note, there’s great drying out there. As long as you sew the clothes to the line.
@Benny McHale: its not funny
@Benny McHale: I don’t think to many will be pinning their washing to the mast today
The humour police are out in force now. Apparently they volunteer on days like this, even when their day jobs are saying they should stay at home. Brave heroes.
@Ladude: it is never funny when people loose their lives.
@Benny McHale: Do you still have a line after all that?
Anyone wanna buy a groupon voucher for a kayaking trip in Cork harbour for this evening?
This is an unbelievable tempest. Wind so strong it’s pushed Cong into the neighbouring county of Galway. At least ye have an all Ireland now.
@Etherman: is this a free state hurricane or an all Ireland 32 county one?
@The Dons: this is a real one,not provisional
They’re going to be waiting a while. I can’t see the ESB repair crews being able to go out safely until late this evening or early tomorrow
@Tweety McTweeter: ESB crews will not be sent out untill the storm has passed
I’m in County Galway and the weather is very mild!..Calm before the storm!!
@Lord Clanricarde: eye of the storm…
@Gus Sheridan:
The eye hast even reaches cork yet still a couple of hundred miles away
Its a bit of wind and rain in kerry……I think the country may well have overreacted.
@stephen mc galey: well it’s calm for you not here in cork
@stephen mc galey: Christ Almighty Man the whole world is blowing away around us here in Tipperary.Tis like Florida without the palm trees!
wish me luck ,we only have an outside toilet,
@Christy Pop: Good luck. As a smoker, I know how that is. May it still be there for you.
This is what we get for allowing gays in the military .
Sorry that was meant for the Westboro baptist church hurricane committee .
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@David Preston: It’s very echoey here :D
@David Preston: Have I done a James Cordon ?
@David Preston:
Come on David, spit it out….
@David Preston: Fu*k off. I hate repetition.
@David Preston: you can say that again.
Totally beyond me why the ESB continue to run overhead lines near or through trees.
@Paul Dolan: E.S.B have the right under health and safety to “trim back ” branches to a safe distance and can only remove trees with the permission of the land/homeowner .Many who refuse but then moan and complain when their tree come down and they have no power , Seen cases when people have sown trees under lines with their children /grandchildren climbing them .Many people dont know that you dont have to “touch “the wire to be electrocuted .or that the sap in the tree will cause the electricity to travel down the tree ,depending on the voltage on the line .
@whitecross: Complete agree with you however in cases where trees have come down it is from what I have seen are 100yr old trees which have done the damage. Only last week the ESB connected a new house and ran low voltage lines via 4 new poles through or within 10ft of pretty large trees.
Cork is kicking off now, don’t go into town, even McDonald’s and Carroll’s are closed
Power just gone in Leixlip
@Brian Lilly: There’s a tree down near Cooldrinagh Lane. Nearly opposite the entrance to the ESB substation. It seems to have brought down the power lines.
@Stephen Small: Just had a quick look, and the forecasted restoration of services time is 18:00 tomorrow.
@Stephen Small: Brief flicker of power there for a couple of seconds, and now the feckin slope detectors are chirping like an aviary!
@Stephen Small: *smoke detectors
Dublin still very calm : /
@Chris Martin: Luas about to stop the service at midday. Surely they have to make Christmas shopping too. https://www.luas.ie/travel-updates/
@Chris Martin: Strong gusts of wind in South Dublin but it is really after 1.00 that Dublin is to be impacted.
@Honeybee: Quarter past 1 now, storm still taking its time to arrive
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: it must’ve bypassed where I am too because we had nothing major ..
Teresa Mannion reporting on swimmers at Salthill though
The storm here is mental! I’m in Cork and u can barely walk!
@Adam O Leary: ,Stay safe ,severe winds with gusts here in Leinster trees, down and its only starting
no jacks roll had to use the irish independent ,jesus that papers ruff. wow the door just blew off the jacks
Add the midlands to your updates, Laois offaly now without power
@Joseph Dempsey: We are in Laois, we still have p
@Joseph Dempsey: didnt think they had electricity
@Christy Pop: power gone in South Laois since before 1pm. Top wind of 66mph also
@Daniel Dunne: power was out in Birr for over 3 hours but restored about an hour ago. Well done ESB networks!
@Daniel Dunne: in general
Simon and Garfuncle
Ophelia, your braking my heart
your shaking my chimney badly
Ophelia, I’m down on my knees
I’m begging you please
to feck off
Ophelia, your braking my heart
your shaking me while house sadly
Ophelia, I’m dragging my knees
I’m begging you please
to go home
Making Zzz’s in the afternoon
with Ophelia bursting my bedroom
I got up to wash my face
when I went back to bed
’twas in a new place
Ophelia, your braking my heart
your shaking my street now strangely
Ophelia, where are my knees
I’m begging you please
to feck off, just feck off!
No no no no no
No no no no no no no no
Pick it up pick it pick it up
Well done ESB Waterford. Power restored in less than two hours.
I remember ESB crews going to the UK to help them also they went too France some years ago why not ask them for help now in stead of telling us we could be without power for up to 10 days ?
It mental in Cork, u can barely walk!
The 4 of Us are playing Tullamore next Friday night. https://www.ticketweb.ie/event/the-4-of-us-hugh-lynchs-bar-venue-tickets/7646945
@@HughLynchsBar: shameful
@@HughLynchsBar: haha you find every opportunity for a plug…..
… better atmosphere in The Manor or Joe Lee’s thou..
still have power in Leitrim. 4kw Generator at the ready just in case
Over reaction a bit of wind all hyped up
No power here in Greystones
Strongest storm in 50 years? There were much stronger in the early 80s 170kph – I remember when proper damage was done. I suspect a lot of exaggerated reporting to cover up the mistaken hype.
@Ranty McCrank: 191kph was recorded today in Cork. And all that “mistaken hype” has prevented the death toll exceeding 3 (so far) as everything was shut down and most people stayed indoors
There is a strong argument regarding the height of trees along roads I think there should be legislation not allowing them over say 20 feet in height.
@Tony Hartigan: There’s also the fact that they balance the water table. Cut down all your trees and you will find yourself squelching around in a damper place altogether.
Take the electricity from the nordies
@A B: How do propose we do that? Put it in crates on the back of a Lorry?
Couldn’t fit Donegal on that map? Arseholes.
Was lucky enough to not feel a bit of it in Dublin city centre
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