Geoprofiling Moves Into The Limelight

circletimessquare writes "Interesting and timely. A short piece at CNN talks about the software helping to track down the sniper currently terrorizing the Washington DC area. It was the doctoral thesis of a cop, Kim Rossmo, who developed it while walking the beat in Vancouver and reading about the hunting patterns of African lions. Googling, I found an older but deeper piece which mentions more of the tech behind the software, called Rigel. That led me to the website of ECRI, the company that makes Rigel. More good tech there."

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Technology Smechtology

[Dankling]

If you want to catch someone, just say heeeree (insert name here). It works with dogs, so i think a sniper wouldnt be too much of a longshot ;)

Re:You mean Mini14

[topham]

kneecap the bastard and make him crawl to prison.

Re:saw this on TLC

[Disoculated]

I've always been told when informally discussing force to just say force=mass*velocity because acceleration as a vector tends to confuse the audience, and to the layman it's the same thing. For anyone who cares to look: here's the relationship of momentum to force.

So the formula isn't standard, but the effect of increasing mass to reduce velocity but retain the amount of recoil energy as oppossed to dropping the powder load is still right.