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Army of Davids Beats Pentagon Procurement
chris-chittleborough writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that 'a Marine officer in Iraq, a small network-design company in California, a nonprofit troop-support group, a blogger and other undeterrable folk designed a handheld insurgent-identification device, built it, shipped it and deployed it in [Iraq] in 30 days.' Compare this to the Automated Biometric Identification System, a multi-megabuck Pentagon project now 2 years old. With bureaucracy increasingly strangling innovation, will agile smaller businesses be able to accomplish what once required a sprawling government project?"
Following on the parent's questions...
> So does their device withstand extremes
of judgemental bias in the user?
> Is it impervious
to prejudice?
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
Of course it is. Didn't you see the picture that went with it? They were fingerprinting "bad guys". How do we know that they're bad guys? Why, because US troops were fingerprinting them, obviously. It's not like the US goes and rounds up entire villages after attacks or anything.
Perhaps they could apply this to traffic crimes as well. I'd love to see them fingerprint whatever maniac was driving this vehicle. Perhaps they could revoke this guy's pilot license as well. Wait, wait -- scratch that last one. Those people were probably fingerprinted remotely.
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
How long will it take for the government to forbid the use of the new device?
Technoli
Of course it is. Didn't you see the picture that went with it? They were fingerprinting "bad guys". How do we know that they're bad guys? Why, because US troops were fingerprinting them, obviously.
Wait a minute... I'm confused... the US troops were fingerprinting each other?
Doesn't their government do that to them before they send them over?
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You obviously don't have the makings of a good Democrat. You need to do a lot more hating and a lot less thinking.
The nastiest part of defeating communism around the world has resulted in all the usual Stalinists et al simply joining the Environmental movement, GreenPeace, PETA etc. So, they are still annoying.
Use an account if you have anything useful to say. Otherwise you should be getting the Troll mods. Oh wait. You're probably posting AC _because_ it was you who applied the troll mods.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac