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[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Guns on campus

You meant "mean, murderous suicides from off-campus, on campus."

They had a system in place, they implemented it, and it worked well. They should keep it. Only thing they could do better is acquire the reputation of being able to take the bad guy out by shooting him first. This kinda redirects them...

[TheMercenary]

Why they hell would he do this?

NUKE SCIENTIST EXCHANGE PLANNED

Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman is working on a major Obama administration initiative that would renew scientist exchanges between U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities.

The idea is aimed at promoting openness and transparency by China’s military about its secret, large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons, according to U.S. officials.

Critics say the plan is similar to an exchange program in the 1990s that sent U.S. nuclear scientists to China and produced one of the worst cases of nuclear espionage. Secrets about every deployed warhead in the U.S. arsenal were compromised, including the W-88 small nuclear warhead deployed on submarine-launched missiles.

“We’ve seen this movie before, and it has a bad ending,” one official said.



http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/20...ing-105581724/

[BigV]

Are you opposed to arms control negotiations, mercy?

[TheMercenary]

No.

[BigV]

The first steps of such negotiations include exchanges like this. The whole slander about Wu is stupid fearmongering. You're smart enough to ignore it for a much more important goal such as a nuclear arms control treaty.

[classicman]

v - Didn't we do something like this already and get royally screwed?

[glatt]

So I read a little story about that California arsonist, Harry Burkhart, this morning. This is the guy who burned dozens of cars in California, and cursed out the USA in the courtroom during his mom's fraud trial. Your typical unhinged nut.

Apparently, the local cops sent security footage to the feds, and they were able to ID him from that footage. It's all anonymous sources, but did the the Feds just recognize him the way we recognize people, or is facial recognition technology advanced to the point now that he was identified by computer?

Burkhart was taken into custody after authorities received a tip from federal officials who recognized him in a security video that showed a pony-tailed man emerging from a garage where a car was set ablaze.

"When they saw the security footage, they recognized him and they contacted the arson task force," a State Department official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigations are ongoing.

[infinite monkey]

Especially as bad as security footage is. Any local footage I've seen (if you recognize this man) is so crappy it could be ME and I wouldn't know it.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by classicman

v - Didn't we do something like this already and get royally screwed?

Yes. The nuclear weapon does not go around the squirrel

[Beest]

Originally Posted by glatt

or is facial recognition technology advanced to the point now that he was identified by computer?

I think this is pretty hot topic in security, I've seen TV shows where thay can follow an individual around town as they appear on different security cameras, the eye - eye - mouth triangle spacing is apparently quite distinctive, even from a blurry picture, could certainly be used to narrow a search to a reasonable number of people.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Beest

I think this is pretty hot topic in security, I've seen TV shows
where thay can follow an individual around town as they appear on different security cameras,
the eye - eye - mouth triangle spacing is apparently quite distinctive,
even from a blurry picture, could certainly be used to narrow a search to a reasonable number of people.

I suppose that part is possible and likely true.

But if the squirrel turns it's head and looks at the hunter out of the corner of it's eyes,
wouldn't the triangles have different ratios of sides and angles as it moves around the tree ?

Given the millions of faces and the limited number of pixels in a screen display,
this technology could be misused the same way "fiber analysis" and "tooth marks"
in flesh wounds have been in the past.

Computerized recognition might well be sufficient to point to
an individual from a relatively small group of known arsonists.
But it makes for good PR for the FBI and TV programming.

[BrianR]

No. Technology CAN pick you out of a crowd. That tech was pioneered by the casinos, who use it to enforce blacklists of cheaters. If you get tossed out of a casino, you are banned from the rest by the time you get to the next one. Even with disguises, they can find you.

I can only assume that the government has even better technology available.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Beest

I think this is pretty hot topic in security, I've seen TV shows where thay can follow an individual around town as they appear on different security cameras, the eye - eye - mouth triangle spacing is apparently quite distinctive, even from a blurry picture, could certainly be used to narrow a search to a reasonable number of people.

I saw that movie... wasn't Denzel Washington in it? He had to make a great show of staying under roofs/awnings etc. And there was a master tech geek located in a dance club/strip club etc that got him... some slack... what the hell movie was that??

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by BrianR

No. Technology CAN pick you out of a crowd. That tech was pioneered by the casinos, who use it to enforce blacklists of cheaters. If you get tossed out of a casino, you are banned from the rest by the time you get to the next one. Even with disguises, they can find you.

I can only assume that the government has even better technology available.

This, except that after 9/11 the govt turned to the casinos to learn how to do it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The casinos are using clear pictures, not half-assed video.