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FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights
coondoggie writes "The FBI today said it wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 major U.S. cities in the next few weeks to show fugitive mug shots, missing people and high-priority security messages from the big bureau. The billboards will let the FBI highlight those people it is looking for the most: violent criminals, kidnap victims, missing kids, bank robbers, even terrorists, the FBI said in a release. And the billboards will be able to be updated largely in real-time — right after a crime is committed, a child is taken, or an attack is launched. Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Miami will be among those cities provided with the new billboards."
I really don't mind this idea as long as they use existing billboard space.
Digital billboards? By the FBI?
Living in the future is so cool!
The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!
I'm glad they're not setting them up in Boston, otherwise idiots might yet-again confuse LED's for bombs.
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
This is a much-belated step in the right direction - it would have been an excellent policy move 20 or 30 *years* ago, when giant billboards to facilitiate the 3 minutes hate, or to flash "OBEY" in subliminal letters, were state of the art.
But this is the 21st century - we can implant chips in people's brains now! We can contract out the manufacture of wireless control collars to the lowest bidder!
The government deiberately squelches these technologies to pander to the minority of religious nuts who have disproportional influence over our government.
That's why I support Ron Paul and the transumanist dystopian party - deregulation and the ability to sell advertizers direct access to our subconscious will enable us to achieve the economic benefits of a nihilistic hellscape.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
I can hardly wait for these to be subverted into showing Future Conan or old "Get Smart" episodes or something.
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