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Police Launch Drones Over LA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that law enforcement officials have launched a new form of drone aircraft to patrol the skies above Los Angeles. From the article: 'Police say the drone, called the SkySeer, will be able to accomplish tasks too dangerous for officers and free up helicopters for other missions. "This technology could be used to find missing children, search for lost hikers, or survey a fire zone," said Commander Sid Heal, head of the Technology Exploration Project of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "The ideal outcome for us is when this technology becomes instrumental in saving lives."'"

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  1. Re:Oh cool! by quanticle · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    UAVs are rather hard to see when painted correctly, and can be difficult to hear as well, especially in a noisy city environment. And even if you could see the thing and draw a bead on it, you'd require something more than your average handgun to hit it.

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  2. Re:1984? by vandan · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    even though 99.999% of terrorists are muslim, and even though every place on the entire planet where there is any kind of war going on, muslims are involved somehow, but yes, it's wrong to assume that only muslims can be terrorists.

    I really am growing to hate racist arseholes such as yourself.

    What is a terrorist, anyway? Do you know how many people the US has killed in Iraq and Afghanistan? How about how many Palestinians are killed by the Israelis? And you forget that the Catholics in Ireland know a bit about violence. How about Opus Dei? I ask you again: what is a terrorist? Is it only who you say it is? Is it someone who kills for political or economic reasons? Is it an entire country that wages an illegal war of aggression based on manufactured 'evidence' of WOMD?

    Speaking hypothetically, how many Muslims can the US and co kill before they are branded terrorists? They've knocked off 150,000 in Iraq since the invasions. I assure you, these were not 150,000 terrorists. They were 150,000 civilians. In my books, that makes the US a terrorist state.

    It's pretty lame to brand one group of people 'terrorists' because of the acts of an incredibly small proportion of their numbers - how many followers does Bin Laden actually have, compared to the total number of Muslims in the world? It's especially lame when you refuse to apply the same rules to all people. It's what you call 'racism'.