{"id":560,"date":"2005-06-17T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2005-06-17T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T16:27:23","slug":"dude-im-on-engadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/17\/dude-im-on-engadget\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude, I&#8217;m on Engadget!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000313047125\/\">Engadget<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>Out in the land where the automobile is King (you know we\u00d5re talking about California, right?), the LA County Sheriff\u00d5s Department has begun field testing a license plate scanning device called the Mobile Plate Hunter 900. Apparently in just one night of use (which is based on the Italian post office\u00d5s character recognition systems) the device was able to accurately scan over 12,000 license plates\u00d1which resulted in seven stolen car recoveries, and helped the po-po in making three arrests (including two parolees who showed up at a parol officer\u00d5s joint in a stolen hooptie). <strike>Car thieves<\/strike> privacy advocates, start your engines!<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/search.html?rank=&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fnews%2Fautotech%2F0%2C2554%2C67864%2C00.html\">Technorati watch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget: Out in the land where the automobile is King (you know we\u00d5re talking about California, right?), the LA County Sheriff\u00d5s Department has begun field testing a license plate scanning device called the Mobile Plate Hunter 900. Apparently in just one night of use (which is based on the Italian post office\u00d5s character recognition systems) the device was able to accurately scan over 12,000 license plates\u00d1which resulted in seven stolen car recoveries, and helped the po-po in making three arrests&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-92","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}