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Military Testing WMD Sensors at Super Bowl
Lam1969 writes "Members of the Michigan National Guard will be at the Super Bowl on Sunday to deploy 'sensor fusion', a real-time, IP-based wireless technology that combines readings from portable and fixed devices that can potentially detect terrorist threats. While sensors capable of detecting chemical, biological, or radiological threats have been used at previous Super Bowls, the readings had to be communicated by radio between different security personnel. Sensor fusion automatically takes readings from the devices and uploads them to a central, secure Web server, where security staff anywhere can monitor conditions at the event. From the article: 'The software uses open standards and is open-source, based on the OSGi Service Platform, which is a standardized, component-oriented computing environment for networked services. OSGi allows networked devices to be managed from anywhere in the world, while allowing software to be installed, updated or removed on the fly while the device is operating.'"
Republicans?
/., but considering the incredible amount of time and $$ wasted on pointless pseudoantiterrorism efforts since 11/9/01, I just got pissed off this time).
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Members of the Michigan National Guard will be at the Super Bowl on Sunday to deploy 'sensor fusion', a real-time, IP-based wireless technology that combines readings from portable and fixed devices that can potentially detect terrorist threats.
Those bastards! Burning my tax money left and right to turn my country into a police state with the military watching my every move in the name of "protecting me"...
The software uses open standards and is open-source,
Hurray! At last our government shows good judgement in throwing it's resources behind FOSS... [Snap!] Ow!!! Whiplash!
Finally modding someone offtopic when they rant about what "Begging the Question" means: priceless.
It rotates yearly from dome to dome for some strange reason. Not the rotating, the dome part. Every year the highlights of greatest Super Bowls shows three or four of the top games outside in snow and the cold, yet they feel compelled to play the game inside now.
... which makes a pretty good metaphor for America in general, when you think about it.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.