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Holograms Help Protect Super Bowl
Apache4857 writes to tell us CNet is reporting that Homeland Security agents monitoring the Superbowl will be doing so in 3D. Using streams from two cameras, the LifeVision 3D system is able to project images onto a 20-inch screen that is equipped with a depth tube. This depth tube makes images appear to rise 30 inches off the screen and sink 30 inches into the screen allowing real world volumes and distances to be displayed accurately. Using this system security officials will be able to search sidewalks, monitor faces, and even peer under vehicles.
Its a *total* waste of resources was my point. Using your analogy of 'its for the people': if we lost '10s of thousands' of idiots, no great loss.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Terrorists strike only military / government / industrial targets. Bombing civilians and civilian populations is solely the domain of state governments.
Terrorists just don't have the kind of funds to waste bombs like that. They have to chose very carefully what to attack. Bombing some stupid football game would only turn public opinion against them, which is not tactical nor strategic.
Flying a plane into the Pentagon, now that is something else entirely. That's a bonafide military target with a power they are formally at war with. I don't think Osama or any other terrorist has any bone to pick with any major league football team. For one, no football team has every invaded and bombed or exploited their country and killed their women and children and friends and family. No, those football players and their silly fans can beat themselves senseless and play in peace for as much as its worth.
The superbowl is less about football and more about statistics and gambling anyway. In fact, I'd say its just about all about statistics and gambling now.
Terroists want to strike at the centeres of hated oppressors, spiritual corrupters, exploiters, and criminal organizations. While I'm sure the Superbowl powers that pull the strings behind the show (the mafia?) fit all those bills, its not their target nor ever really will be.
Unless theres some disenfranchised regiaonal American croquet league out there that has been run into the ground by the football leagues, its not going to happen. A total waste of resources and another example of American bumbling security ineptitude.
I myself don't want your security. I am quite comfortable living in a rough and tumble world of chance, which no mater how many police you put on the streets or how many of my civil liberties you try to take away, its still going to be anyway. I don't need to feel "secure". Life inherently is not secure. Who's going to protect you from old age and death, or you children for that matter. No one. Its the nature of reality.
Don't be fooled into giving away the farm (your liberties and privacy) for bag of worthless magic beans (false promises that you are more secure).