On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, jim bell wrote:
You probably don't understand how this IR technology works.
I do, actually. It's not all that complicated.
Now, American police are supposed to work on the standard of "probable cause." While, thank heaven, I'm not a lawyer, I have experience with the high level of dishonesty in various police-type organizations in America. "Probable cause" OUGHT to mean that the police have determined that, more likely than not, a crime is being committed as evidenced by a particular piece of evidence. But evidence of a warm house is just and only that: Evidence of a warm house.
I was neither defending a raid based on IR imaging (which I think is reprehensible behavior, akin to racial profiling), just as I'm not advocating extended police powers in case of drug offences (I *am*, after all, an abolitionist). Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university