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FBI Releases Boston Bombing Suspect Images/Videos

An anonymous reader writes "The FBI has released images of what they say are two suspects with backpacks and ball caps. 'Somebody out there knows these individuals as friends, neighbors, co-workers or family members of the suspects,' Special Agent Rick DesLauriers, the head of the FBI's Boston office said. 'And though it may be difficult, the nation is counting on those with information to come forward and provide it to us.'"

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  1. a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://i.imgur.com/I1dF69f.jpg left of the screen with white hat

    1. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://i.imgur.com/I1dF69f.jpg left of the screen with white hat

      thats pretty good res - he's busted

    2. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Narksos · · Score: 4, Informative
      From TFA:

      For clarity, these images should be the only ones—the only ones—that the public should view to assist us. Other photos should not be deemed credible and unnecessarily divert the public’s attention in the wrong direction and create undue work for vital law enforcement resources.

      Though that appears to be the same person, please identify based upon the photos released by the FBI.

    3. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Also to the right of the girl in pink is a dude with tan pants similar to the other dude in the fbi photos. Hat similar too.

    4. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by taxman_10m · · Score: 1

      Appears that he still has his backpack by the way he's holding his arm.

    5. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by russotto · · Score: 1

      Poor #2 (if he's innocent); that photo is from an angle that makes it impossible to tell if he still has the backpack.

    6. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      high res, too. Well spotted.

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    7. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you don't have the picture expanded, he looks a lot like Bieber. Please let it be Bieber...

    8. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by mayberry42 · · Score: 1

      saved and forwarded to the FBI...

    9. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Culture20 · · Score: 1

      Also to the right of the girl in pink is a dude with tan pants similar to the other dude in the fbi photos. Hat similar too.

      Nope, Mr tan pants next to pink girl in that photo has a white hat with burgundy front and a dark? shirt. The suspect from the the video has a fully dark hat and a white shirt. Also the photo guy has a red coat, and video guy's coat doesn't look red.

    10. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Dunbal · · Score: 2

      So he planted a bomb and then changed his shirt, right? You're the reason why vigilantes are a bad idea.

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    11. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, yeah, if he did it. Or does that not matter anymore?

    12. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by ganjadude · · Score: 1

      I dont know, there are some pics that show a man in a hat 20 min before the bomb went off with a backpack and then a few min before without the backback, who looked middle eastern.... these photos the FBI are psuhing that claim to be of a man who put his bag down where the bomb went off, the bag didnt look like the one that blew up, and they havent shown us him putting the bag down (though they claim to have that)

      im not trying to claim anything about this that isnt real, im just saying that the people the FBI are pushing as suspects dont fit the suspects based on the facts out there. Go to liveleak and look at the boston bombing channel and do some research for yoursleves, and you will see way more options to go with that make more sense vs what they are trying to sell us

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    13. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by MichaelSmith · · Score: 1

      No I think he is running. The arm is in motion.

    14. Re: a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by dgatwood · · Score: 1

      And the other guy looks like Michell Musso. I *knew* it. Walt Disney's antisemitic army is in league with Al Qaeda. It's the only possible explanation. :-D

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    15. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by girlintraining · · Score: 1, Troll

      http://i.imgur.com/I1dF69f.jpg left of the screen with white hat

      "For clarity, these images should be the only onesâ"the only onesâ"that the public should view to assist us. Other photos should not be deemed credible and unnecessarily divert the publicâ(TM)s attention in the wrong direction and create undue work for vital law enforcement resources." Source: FBI

      Which part of that statement are you having apparent difficulty with? Please mod this person -1 without delay; The correct thing to do with images of potential suspects is to confidentially submit them to the FBI, not post them on the internet to encourage vigilantism. To borrow from the movie Serenity, "Do you know what a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed." Don't be a hero. Post it to the FBI, and let them do their job.

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    16. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by ichthus · · Score: 2

      Please mod this person -1 without delay

      That's not what the mod system is for.

      not post them on the internet to encourage vigilantism.

      It may encourage vigilance (different from vigilantism), and even result in a credible tip. Why assume the worst?

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    17. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Looks to me that his bag is missing from his shoulder in that photo. hmm

    18. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by vswee · · Score: 1

      the FBI is lying. that's just my opinion. not trying to bait any flames. carry on with your discussion.

    19. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly why the FBI wants us to focus on the four images they released. I have a slightly different take on the second guy near the girl in pink overcoat.

      It is our suspect. He has white T-shirt in the earlier picture. He just zipped up his black jacket and now it appears black. He has the same tan pants on. He also has the same black and white cap. Yep look at the original FBI pictures. The guy has a black hat with white on the side. It's him, just zipped up now. You can get also look at the CNN page second photograph to get an idea of what I am talking about.

      http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/gallery/fbi-boston-suspects/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

      Double ID yep it's those two going away after the blasts.

    20. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Or he just pulled up his black coat zipper. Look at the CNN second image to see how his white T-shirt can be obscured if he uses his zipper. He even has the same black and white hat.

    21. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Reservoir+Penguin · · Score: 1, Funny

      Look, everyone is running now, I declare this marathon a success.

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    22. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That's not what the mod system is for.

      Who cares? What the GP is doing is counter-productive and even harmful to a high profile terrorism investigation. Are we really going to sit here and nitpick about what the "system was designed for" ?!

      It may encourage vigilance (different from vigilantism), and even result in a credible tip. Why assume the worst?

      Because everybody in the country knows about it by now. There's a finite number of people who can potentially and legitimately help the case, and a whole big, giant, seething ball of useless people who only think they're helpful but in reality are only making things worse. The people who can help know who they are, and hopefully by now have contacted the FBI... and not posted to their Facebook where it does almost no good.

      The internet is a great tool, and as an IT professional I know this better than most. But I also know that the average person is a dumb, stupid animal, and if they get the idea that they can be a hero into their head, they may wind up getting themselves or someone else killed.

      This is something the professionals need to handle, not people like you and me. People like you and me need to just sit back, watch the news, and let them do their job. I know how I feel whenever someone screws up a computer or piece of software because they thought they knew what they were doing -- it's a big reason why I get paid so much money. Right now, if I were working on this case, the one thing I'd want from someone like me, is to stay out of the way, and not make it worse.

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    23. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not an expert, but the image that you linked to seems to have an abnormal amount of image noise localized around the head of the indicated suspect.

    24. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      same here.... I think we just slashdotted the FBI... boy are they going to be pissed...

    25. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by binarylarry · · Score: 1

      I hear Bieber is doing a tour in the middle east soon, this should give him some street cred.

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    26. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      Some people won't be happy until you provide video evidence of their finger pushing the detonator. And even then...

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    27. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Too soon

    28. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by hduff · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      >

      This is something the professionals need to handle, not people like you and me.

      Professionals built the Titanic; amateurs built the Ark.

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    29. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      What the GP is doing is counter-productive and even harmful to a high profile terrorism investigation.

      ... said girlintraining, known on /. for having years of experience in 'high profile terrorism investigation,' and no reputation at all of being a ridiculous, pompous ass.

      This is something the professionals need to handle, not people like you and me.

      Always amazing to me how people can, in one topic, claim that the government is absolutely the best people to handle the situation, and then in another, argue about how the government is not to be trusted, ever, with anything no matter how remote and unlikely the potential is for the government to fuck something up.

      That photo is, quite obviously, one of the guys they're looking for. And I fully expect you'll see copies of it posted in the next day or so by the FBI, along with surveillance video from various cameras on that corner showing him walking away. Your response is, in fact, exactly what the FBI *doesn't* want to happen - "don't say anything, don't show a photo, don't try to help." If the poster you're responding to had said, "I know where this guy lives, let's go FUCK HIM UP," that would be a different story, and you'd have a point - but that's not what was said. Now stop being a pedantic, FBI-jocking cuntrag, and enjoy the chase as these pathetic douchebags get rolled up and locked away for life.

    30. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by larry+bagina · · Score: 1
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    31. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by russotto · · Score: 1

      Which part of that statement are you having apparent difficulty with?

      Few of us here are under the authority of the FBI (and those that are ain't saying). Furthermore, the FBI didn't even say not to post random photos on the Internet; rather, they said don't bother them with anything from other photos.

    32. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Culture20 · · Score: 1

      It is our suspect. He has white T-shirt in the earlier picture. He just zipped up his black jacket and now it appears black. He has the same tan pants on. He also has the same black and white cap.

      What about the red jacket? It's not red in the videos at all (and the videos were in color as pink and yellow girls show). Where'd his sunglasses go? Why is there more white on the cap than before? Why does the cap front look more burgundy colored than black? I'm not convinced. Maybe this dude's the smart one and switched out hat et al before #2 set his bomb, but then we've lost most of the ID until better HD photos surface.

    33. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://i.imgur.com/I1dF69f.jpg left of the screen with white hat

      thats pretty good res - he's busted

      They can probably figure out how tall he is from that picture with the brick wall in the background.

    34. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Professionals built the Titanic; amateurs built the Ark.

      The Titanic actually existed.

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    35. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by getmerexkramer · · Score: 0

      The ark never existed, amateurs just made it up. The Titanic was real and insured.

    36. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by ScentCone · · Score: 0

      amateurs built the Ark

      And if we need an imaginary ride in an imaginary boat, we can ask them to do it again.

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    37. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by cyn1c77 · · Score: 2

      He's the only one not running or looking a bit disturbed by the blast in that picture too.

    38. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My wife said to me "I really wish I could do something to help, I feel powerless being so far away." I managed to bite my tongue and not suggest she knit legstup warmers.

    39. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by meta-monkey · · Score: 0

      For my imaginary boat ride needs, I'd choose Wonka.

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    40. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by khallow · · Score: 1

      Which part of that statement are you having apparent difficulty with?

      The part where this FBI statement is somehow relevant to the discussion at hand.

      not post them on the internet to encourage vigilantism.

      How does that encourage vigilantism? It's not like this is the first time that people have looked at pictures of a significant crime scene. This sort of thing has gone on for a while. And it hasn't led to a bunch of problems.

    41. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by clarkkent09 · · Score: 0

      The insensitivity of your post is only matched by the ignorance of your signature.

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    42. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by circletimessquare · · Score: 1

      i'm a belieber

      it's a beiber

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    43. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, and the fat letch in the right corner is smiling at the boobs of the girl in the teal shirt running in terror.

    44. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is that suspect #2 behind him wearing khakis and brown shoes?

    45. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by jamesh · · Score: 1

      If you don't have the picture expanded, he looks a lot like Bieber. Please let it be Bieber...

      If it is, the pre-teen copycat campaign will wipe out most of the population of the US...

    46. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 1
    47. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Tweezak · · Score: 1

      Maybe the girl directly between him and the camera has it...her arm is in the same position...wait, no...it's the guy next to her because his arm is in the same position too...wait...Hang on...this could take a while...

    48. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 1

      Oh, girlintraining, I wish I had mod points right now. I'm a fan.

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    49. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No - the hats are different.
      Suspect 1 has a large white central design and a thin white Nike swoosh-like decal.
      This guy's cap has a centre design which looks reddish and has large white panels on the side.
      I agree they are similar, but to my eye, clearly different.

    50. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by houghi · · Score: 1

      That is how the TSA profiles people too. They somehow also add the color brown.

      Perhaps he comes from London and learned NOT to run, because they might shoot him.

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    51. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by siddesu · · Score: 2

      Amateurs built the Kon-Tiki. That better?

    52. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://i.imgur.com/I1dF69f.jpg left of the screen with white hat

      the small guy is Irish, Scottish or British in his stature and manner of walking & dress style.

      Each bomb was planted either side - equal distance from the Irish bar... on the main street
      Boston is the main supply chain for the IRA..funding guns supply,..smuggling ..sicko support by naive wannabe Irish

      Irish pub is directly next to the Lodge Hotel...the Illuminati Freemason Masonic Hall is 100 yards further up the same road..past the race-finish-line

      117 th Boston Marathon... 11-7 was the bomb explosion in London on the bus system

    53. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

      He's the only one not running or looking a bit disturbed by the blast in that picture too.

      Yeah, like that's really easy to tell in a still picture. Hell, the guy closest to the camera looks like he's leaning back on the railings with a smile on his face. Get him!

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    54. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Give it up, she's a dude.

    55. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://i.imgur.com/I1dF69f.jpg left of the screen with white hat

      the small guy is Irish, Scottish or British in his stature and manner of walking & dress style.

      Each bomb was planted either side - equal distance from the Irish bar... on the main street
      Boston is the main supply chain for the IRA..funding guns supply,..smuggling ..sicko support by naive wannabe Irish

      Irish pub is directly next to the Lodge Hotel...the Illuminati Freemason Masonic Hall is 100 yards further up the same road..past the race-finish-line

      117 th Boston Marathon... 11-7 was the bomb explosion in London on the bus system

      small guy also looks remarkably Jewish...a bit like Zuckerberg

      mind you the jews always were good at planting bombs for the arabs to get the blame ...that is their regular Modus Operandi

    56. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Cederic · · Score: 1

      Out of curiosity, how did the '7' on his hat change to a '3'?

    57. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by akanouras · · Score: 1

      Good job, you just managed to get a link without rel=nofollow

      Slashcode ftw!

    58. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      If you don't have the picture expanded, he looks a lot like Bieber. Please let it be Bieber...

      I'm not normally in favour of vigilante justice, but I'd be prepared to make an exception in this case.

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    59. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We should just start arresting everyone with hair hanging out of the hole in their cheap baseball caps.

    60. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Ark actually existed, in all likelyhood. But like most things in that fantasy journal, it was terribly over hyped.

      We have Ark stories all over the area in most different cultures. The most common is of a flat barge that survived a flash flood and ended up bringing cargo of food and live animals down the Nile (if I'm not mistaken, it might have been a different river.)

    61. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      well wada ya know...two little kosher jewish boys...

      wonder when the dumab ass usa is gonna wake up to the apprentice Mossad bombers

      Mind you american dead who cares,...you drop bombs on Afghanistan wedding parties murdering children and women,..only right that shit yankee scumbags get a taste of their own medicine

    62. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by JWSmythe · · Score: 1

          If they ended up beaten to a pulp, and ended up in the same hospitals ans their victims, I suspect they wouldn't survive much longer than the first night.

          I'd prefer that they see justice. The photos may be a mistake. They may not be the attackers, it could just be that they put their backpacks away somewhere. That's why we have a justice system.

          Now, once convicted, execution by angry mobs with pitchforks and torches wouldn't make me shed a single tear. I'm not quite sure where they'd find the pitchforks in Boston, but ...

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    63. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Reservoir+Penguin · · Score: 1

      I could be pretty sensitive for the right guy, are u ready for some sweet anal loving?

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    64. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by DigitalSorceress · · Score: 1

      Thank you! That needed to be said.

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    65. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 1

      I'm not quite sure where they'd find the pitchforks in Boston

      Most hardware stores still carry them but it is a very limited supply and they only have one model.

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    66. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unlike your brain.

    67. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There were two bombs.

    68. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are a good little drone aren't you?

    69. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for your opinion.

    70. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by JWSmythe · · Score: 1

          Sounds like there may be a run on them, since they caught suspect #2 alive. Maybe I should buy out the stores here and drive them up. I could probably make a fortune at the courthouse steps.

          Maybe I should bring rope too. I think Boston PD can supply the horses for him to be drawn and quartered after his conviction.

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    71. Re:a picture of #2 walking away after bomb blast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How can this "Pixelated and Blurry" crap convict via The CNN Peoples Court or even make exhibit status yet alone agreed to be submitted and entered as evidence in a real court...?

      Al-Qaeda are the ones that just tell a story like this and tell every single citizen for days the same and only story instead of maintaining any form of real evidence integrity.

      I thought the Civilized Western World tested and proved their own created story long before they ran through the streets cheering like Al-Qaeda mobs.

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  2. Facebook? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Any chance of running these through Facebook's face recognition? That stuff is frighteningly accurate

    1. Re:Facebook? by guruevi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      a) Facebook photo's are (or should be) private especially to the government
      b) Even if it's 99.9% accurate, that still yields a lot of false positives. And having worked with that stuff, you would be glad to have 90% recognition.

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    2. Re:Facebook? by chrismcb · · Score: 1

      a) Facebook photo's are (or should be) private especially to the government

      Unless they are public.
      That's like you posting a bunch of your photos on the cork board down at the public library, then saying the government can't look at them.

    3. Re:Facebook? by guruevi · · Score: 1

      But you know that if the government wants access to them, they'll secretly make a request to both public and private data. And even so, the government would have to write a crawler specifically to target public pictures which may be against Facebook's TOS and the government is trying to legalize TOS'es so they are unlawful to break.

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    4. Re:Facebook? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      not surprizing its accurate...facebook is owned and invented by mossad..

      although Zuckerberg claims to be the inventor...this is infact mossad technology being used to fill the israeli databases with everything they couldn get by stealth before 9/11
      darpa funde cia spies with a book full of goodies...

      no wonder the usa is full of dumb yanks

  3. These are... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dead men walking.

    1. Re:These are... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uh, season just ended.

    2. Re:These are... by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Dead men walking.

      Along with anyone who looks like them.

    3. Re:These are... by rmdingler · · Score: 1

      Dead, right along with any possible future restraints upon ubiquitous government CCTV surveillance.

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  4. Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are cheap cameras today that do full HD, low artifacts, and run 30 frames a second. These images were from old equipment and software. The smudged faces is that. They should be replaced. All replaced. The city I live has less than one FPS on its non-traffic cameras. It's pathetic what salesman push on the HLS-cash-infused cities when cheaper, and much better, hardware and software is available right now. You get what you pay for, and sometimes, not even that.

  5. Re:WTF? by SternisheFan · · Score: 2

    All the money in "defense spending" both internal and international and we're crowdsourcing their jobs?

    Allright, let the FBI go on looking without any help from the general public, some of whom will know these two. That should give these two time to perform an attack on the people you know and love. Sheesh.

  6. Re:WTF? by AdmiralXyz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, idiot, they're asking people who were in Boston on Monday taking pictures with their smartphones to look through their photos again. Chances are lots of people inadvertently got photos of the guys, and some of those might be clear enough for identification (as opposed to the crummy security cam footage).

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  7. Wow by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only 2 men with a black backpack that 4chan and reddit didn't accuse.

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    1. Re: Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Seriously as if black backpacks are rare. Guess they are automatically guilty. The angry mobs will take care of them, no one understands their rights anymore.

    2. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ...and *this* is the Freewinds Scientology's advanced religious retreat.

    3. Re:Wow by unitron · · Score: 1

      To be fair to them, plenty of other sites picked out everyone with a backpack except those two as well.

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    4. Re:Wow by MichaelJ · · Score: 1

      I believe 4chan's photos are all from the other bomb site, not where the FBI-released photos were taken.

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    5. Re:Wow by girlintraining · · Score: 2, Insightful

      To be fair to them, plenty of other sites picked out everyone with a backpack except those two as well.

      To be fair to them, they aren't trained law enforcement officers with many years of experience identifying suspects. They shouldn't have been picking anyone out; They should have been submitting their photos, videos, and eyewitness accounts directly to the FBI instead of engaging in vigilantism.

      Everyone on 4Chan and Reddit who engaged in such activity should be ashamed of themselves -- they've engaged in modern-day witch hunting, with potentially deadly consequences. If I could, I'd reach through my computer monitor and punch each and every one of them in the face. Hard.

      None of you are going to "crack the case". The very most you'll accomplish is diverting valuable law enforcement resources during a critical window of opportunity. They've said what they need; If you can provide that, then do so. Otherwise shut up, get out of the way and let the professionals do their job.

      And yes, I am being a bit harsh, but the stakes are high -- people's lives are at risk as long as the people responsible for this act of terrorism remain free. I have no sympathy whatsoever for 4Chan, Reddit, and the rest of the armchair internet sleuths. We've spent billions on homeland security preparing for exactly this -- now let them take care of it. We're paying enough for it as-is, without you asshats throwing monkey-wrenches into the process thinking you're "helping".

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    6. Re:Wow by technomom · · Score: 3, Funny

      Even worse is the New York Post which posted the reddit/4chan pictures on their front page and said the pictures were being distributed by "Authorities" and "Law Enforcement". Not sure if reddit is the Authorities and 4chan Law Enforcement or the other way around.

    7. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be fair to them, plenty of other sites picked out everyone with a backpack except those two as well.

      To be fair to them, they aren't trained law enforcement officers with many years of experience identifying suspects. They shouldn't have been picking anyone out; They should have been submitting their photos, videos, and eyewitness accounts directly to the FBI instead of engaging in vigilantism.

      Everyone on 4Chan and Reddit who engaged in such activity should be ashamed of themselves -- they've engaged in modern-day witch hunting, with potentially deadly consequences. If I could, I'd reach through my computer monitor and punch each and every one of them in the face. Hard.

      None of you are going to "crack the case". The very most you'll accomplish is diverting valuable law enforcement resources during a critical window of opportunity. They've said what they need; If you can provide that, then do so. Otherwise shut up, get out of the way and let the professionals do their job.

      And yes, I am being a bit harsh, but the stakes are high -- people's lives are at risk as long as the people responsible for this act of terrorism remain free. I have no sympathy whatsoever for 4Chan, Reddit, and the rest of the armchair internet sleuths. We've spent billions on homeland security preparing for exactly this -- now let them take care of it. We're paying enough for it as-is, without you asshats throwing monkey-wrenches into the process thinking you're "helping".

      Wow, you are all about everyone looking at ONLY what the FBI deems us worthy of looking at and NOTHING else. Thanks, but I'll continue looking at what I want and drawing my own conclusions and not just bahhhhing the line the government tells me too all the way to our destruction.

    8. Re:Wow by Intropy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I like the part where you discuss taking it upon yourself to find and punish people for taking it on themselves to find and punish people.

    9. Re:Wow by khallow · · Score: 1

      At least one of them was pointed out (the guy wearing the backpack). I apologize, if I killed a joke that was actually meant to be funny.

    10. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We've spent billions on homeland security preparing for exactly this -- now let them take care of it. We're paying enough for it as-is, without you asshats throwing monkey-wrenches into the process thinking you're "helping".

      Perhaps they could get their ass in gear and show demonstrable results. We knew where bin Laden was for years, it just wasn't politically expedient to do crap about it until it had the right political payout. This is documented.

      I'd also be less pissy about them spending billions of dollars on something with no demonstrable results if they would occasionally have a public trial and then execution or acquittal to at least show use we are getting *something* in exchange for all the money and them trampling our civil rights under the Patriot Act.

      You are painting these agencies as infinitely competent compared to the laypeople, some of whom are here, who wrote the freaking facial recognition algorithms those professionals are depending on, while sifting through the big data we also wrote and looking for information using search engines we wrote.

    11. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well they do have those party vans

    12. Re:Wow by WGFCrafty · · Score: 1

      No kidding. These things have consequences;

      A teenager said he is scared to go outside after he was portrayed on the Internet and on the front page of the New York Post as connected to the deadly Boston Marathon bombings.

      Photos of Salah Eddin Barhoum, 17, and friend Yassine Zaime were posted on websites whose users have been scouring marathon finish line photos for suspects. The two were also on the Post's front Thursday with the headline: "Bag men: Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon."

      The Post reported later Thursday that the pair weren't considered suspects, and the FBI has since identified two other men as suspects in Monday's bombings, which killed three people and injured more than 180.

    13. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is said line "four legs good, two legs better"?

    14. Re:Wow by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      Even worse is the New York Post which posted the reddit/4chan pictures on their front page and said the pictures were being distributed by "Authorities" and "Law Enforcement". Not sure if reddit is the Authorities and 4chan Law Enforcement or the other way around.

      Oh dear God, truly the End Times have come.

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    15. Re:Wow by tehcyder · · Score: 1
      Well done for not actually using the word "sheeple". It must have been a tough job.

      The thing is, you can believe what the fuck you want, but it is the job of professional law enforcement to catch criminals. I quite like it that way, rather than relying on the geniuses at 4chan to decide to take time off from ruining the lives of young teenage girls with webcams.

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    16. Re:Wow by Talderas · · Score: 1

      To be strictly fair. These two individuals, of which one is now dead, are still only suspects. The FBI better hope it has the right two people otherwise there's been a serious fuck up.

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    17. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't like the part where you're stupid. Please, stop it. it's discouraging.

  8. Vigilante Justice? by DavidClarkeHR · · Score: 1

    There's a fine line between soliciting public support and encouraging vigilante justice.

    Though, if there ever was a time that we needed the detective ... now might not be a bad choice.

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    1. Re:Vigilante Justice? by femtobyte · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The government posts "most wanted" pictures for heinous crimes quite often, usually without dire consequences for either the perpetrator, or idiot members of the public getting themselves killed trying to nab violent psychopaths. I suspect these two have already gone into hiding --- they won't be obvious to the general public. But who they were and where they lived before the crime will be discovered really fast. However, I can see this type of situation getting messier in the future --- suppose the "unofficial crowd sourced intelligence gathering" had identified "suspects" on public message boards within 30 minutes of the incident (which I don't see as out-of-the-question for future incidents); then things could get awfully rough for any vague look-alikes in the area.

    2. Re:Vigilante Justice? by gratuitous_arp · · Score: 2

      There's a fine line between soliciting public support and encouraging vigilante justice.

      Well... the article does seem to make it pretty clear which side of the line they are on...

      We considered them to be armed and extremely dangerous. No one should approach them. No one should attempt to apprehend them except law enforcement. Let me reiterate that caution. Do not take any action on your own. If you see these men, contact law enforcement.

    3. Re:Vigilante Justice? by Fast+Thick+Pants · · Score: 1

      if there ever was a time that we needed the detective...

      Fun fact: In Massachusetts, the Joker is known as "the Chowderhead."

    4. Re:Vigilante Justice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      While in general I agree with your post, one thing is terribly wrong.

      I suspect these two have already gone into hiding

      This assumes that the men in the photos are guilty, please don't be another member of our society who convicts people in the court of public opinion, there's far too many Nancy Grace viewers already. How about "I suspect the people who carried out this crime have already gone into hiding" or something along those lines. Sorry if this comes off as pedantic.

    5. Re:Vigilante Justice? by femtobyte · · Score: 3, Informative

      Not overly pedantic; point well taken. Consider my post above thus edited so far as Slashdot allows.

    6. Re:Vigilante Justice? by khallow · · Score: 1

      There's a fine line between soliciting public support and encouraging vigilante justice.

      What's the deal with all these accusations of vigilantes, witch hunts, etc? This is just a standard and very effective law enforcement tactic which has been around as long as a modern police force has.

      It's not some magic threat to liberty or justice which just cropped up yesterday. As has been noted a number of times, it is likely that the person or people who planted the bombs that killed and maimed people were photographed and videoed many times over. Do you really think it would be a good idea to ignore this massive amount of evidence merely because you disapprove of the appeal for this evidence?

    7. Re:Vigilante Justice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, you were probably right the first time. If I was one of these guys in the photo and not guilty I would still be in hiding from vigilantes until I could get to protective custody.

    8. Re:Vigilante Justice? by femtobyte · · Score: 1

      The problem (what I was wrong about) wasn't with the factual accuracy of whether or not the two pictured men have gone into hiding. The problem was encouraging a "vigilante justice" approach by (implicitly) labeling the photograph subjects as "violent psychopaths" who commit "heinous crimes." In these situations, strictly upholding the standard of "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" is important to protecting what many would consider highly important rights in our legal system (being tried according to due process rather than "it's obvious to everyone on twitter they did it"). Justice will not be better served by angry internet people declaring the verdict faster than the court system. On the other hand, great injustice is perpetrated were the two pictured people actually guilty of no greater crime than wearing backpacks at an unfortunate time and place.

    9. Re:Vigilante Justice? by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      It is pedantic, since that was sort of his point. Well, more specific actually, that if people jump to accusations online, we could see innocent people lynched, which would be worse than "too many Nancy Grace viewers."

    10. Re:Vigilante Justice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... any vague look-alikes in the area

      Like a large, passenger vehicle, year model 1992! According to a slashdot story about another criminal, this seems to be as accurate as trigger-happy police can be.

    11. Re:Vigilante Justice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I suspect these two have already gone into hiding

      Oh how wrong you were.

    12. Re:Vigilante Justice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The FBI & local police are telling the public to be snitches.... to grass people up. ???
      Nothing worse than being a Judas snitch grass that informs on your neighbour or freinds

      It appears that Facial recognition Software is not readily available to police departments.....despite what CSI Miami and other assorted bossy macho-lesbian TV shows like to portray as fiction bordering on fact

  9. Do like they do on TV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We need that magical "enhance" and "ZOOM!" functions!

    1. Re:Do like they do on TV by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Yes, but please for the love of $deity don't let them program search databases. I cringe every time when they do a fingerprint or photo match on CSI. Instead of looking for the file, it painstakingly takes every picture from the database, displays it, finds out that it doesn't match... rinse repeat.

      Seriously, it is quite hard to take shows serious when they do junk like that. But then again, like a friend of mine (who actually DOES that kind of work over here) said "they wouldn't even greenlight the expense for the checks they do routinely if we'd be looking for someone who shot the prez".

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    2. Re:Do like they do on TV by codepigeon · · Score: 1

      Yeah, because watching some ubernerd executing commandline scripts in a terminal makes for great television. :)

    3. Re:Do like they do on TV by vux984 · · Score: 1

      So it -has- to be a sexually charged soap opera with impossible physics, speculative technology, and outrageous levels of no-expense-spared investigation on every case in order for people to watch it?

      -shrug- maybe. I stopped watching CSI early on... i really liked the first few episodes, thought they were doing a modern sherlock holmes with science ... still not entirely realistic but emminently watchable television.

      And then it rapidly turned into the aforementioned schlock.

    4. Re:Do like they do on TV by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      Yes, but please for the love of $deity don't let them program search databases. I cringe every time when they do a fingerprint or photo match on CSI. Instead of looking for the file, it painstakingly takes every picture from the database, displays it, finds out that it doesn't match... rinse repeat.

      I hate to break it to you, but CSI is not a gritty documentary series. It's...how can I put this? Well, it's ALL MADE UP. That's right, they're showing a load of lies, all in the name of "entertainment". Bastards.

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    5. Re:Do like they do on TV by tehcyder · · Score: 1
      Compare CSI with one of the reality cop shows. IRL the cops spend hours planning a drug raid, they burst into the house and find a bunch of students with 2 rocks of crack and a few crumbs of cannabis and proclaim it a major triumph in the war on drugs. Or someone has a fight outside a pub and gets taken to hospital with a minor head wound, then gets to sleep off the drink in the police cells overnight. A teenager gets stopped for doing 36 in a 30 mph limit and the cops act like they're a serial killer.

      It doesn't really make for great drama.

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    6. Re:Do like they do on TV by vux984 · · Score: 1

      Compare CSI with one of the reality cop shows.

      No, I get that "reality" shows a la COPS is equally unwatchable.

      But there is a middle ground, the original Law & Order was really great TV while being grounded in reality. The first season of CSI was also really quite good. And there have been other good police shows...

      Hell even Castle is more watchable then what the CSI franchise has become, in large part because it's got the sense to do enough self-parody that the audience isn't expected to take it too seriously.

    7. Re:Do like they do on TV by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      *gasp* You don't say! And here I was sitting, wondering why they didn't "enhance" the pics of those Boston bombers when they could so easily get a clear shot of the murderer from the reflection in someone's eye in some CSI'ish show!

      All jokes aside, that's actually a big problem called the CSI effect. While at one hand it may be a positive development to see juries demand more "physical proof", the portrayal of forensics in such shows being ... let's say a bit lenient for the sake of a better story also means that juries tend to expect proof where none could be possibly achieved.

      In the beginning I did actually enjoy CSI because its portrayal of forensics was quite accurate for a TV show. But there are unfortunately only so many thing you can show before they get boring (quite frankly, IT forensics IS boring from an outsider's point of view, it sure is no spectator sport). After a month of work it tends to become routine, because you just get to see the same crap over and over and over. Once in a blue moon you stumble upon something more interesting, but it sure isn't enough material by any stretch to fill a weekly show with it. I guess they took care of pretty much the whole library of "freak cases" that ever existed in the history of forensics within the first season.

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  10. resolution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is seriously the best resolution they can pull off those camera's?

    1. Re:resolution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      its a security camera that runs 24/7, you expect a shopkeep to have a archive of 2 tb hard drives for every day?

      some people are just fucking stupid

  11. image quality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I looked at the pictures and I think it would be pretty hard to identify anyone based on what I see there. I would assume the FBI has access to image enhancement technologies such as superresolution (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superresolution) - but it sure does not look like it based on these pictures. Does anyone have any idea about how much image enhancement was done on these pictures? Could superresolution techniques be used here to further enhance the images?

  12. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    you are right, anytime you go somehwere there should be an agent asking for your papers and your reason to be there

    though I have a question...

    how retarded are you?

  13. Don't mention.. by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 0, Troll

    "False Flag" .. it's undemocratic.

    1. Re:Don't mention.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't mention it because it's moronic. Bottom line is that there are too many folks with cameras all around and precisely nothing to be gained in it.

      If the Democrats were behind it, there presumably would be a firearm used as they would presumably be using it to further the cause of firearm regulation. The President has already been re-elected so he wouldn't have anything to gain by it.

      The GOP doesn't really gain anything here either as this is unlikely to be state sponsored event with only a small number of easily made bombs. And little reason to think there was a larger conspiracy behind it. This could easily have been done by 2 or 3 individuals acting alone.

    2. Re:Don't mention.. by Culture20 · · Score: 2, Funny

      The President has already been re-elected so he wouldn't have anything to gain by it

      The senate could instill him as emperor of the republic until the war with the trade federation is over.

    3. Re:Don't mention.. by Culture20 · · Score: 1

      s/instill/install/
      %&@$ autocorrect!

    4. Re:Don't mention.. by Redmancometh · · Score: 1

      Fuck I've already posted in thus thread. But that was good

    5. Re:Don't mention.. by biodata · · Score: 1

      The conspiracy theory on false flag I've seen is that the pressure cookers were loaded with black powder, so the move was to get black powder outlawed so people can't make their own ammunition legally. Just sayin...

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    6. Re:Don't mention.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      %&@$ idiots who refuse to proofread!

      FTFY.

  14. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by quantaman · · Score: 2

    I'm surprised they couldn't clean up the images more. Clearly you can't do much with a single image since there's only so much information, but with a video you're getting a slightly different set of information with each frame, I always figured you could do a mapping/averaging of all the different shots and extract something a little cleaner. Unfortunately it looks like that's not the case (or at least it doesn't work well here).

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  15. For their sake by amanaplanacanalpanam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hope they're the ones that did it, because whether they are or not, in the eyes of a public starving for villains to blame they're now as good as guilty.

    1. Re:For their sake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Yup. Check out this guy who is the guy in blue in many of the photos on 4chan.

      http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/teen-boston-marathon-bomber/story?id=18990057#.UXCjJ0qyJmF

    2. Re:For their sake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not just them, anyone that looks somewhat like them.

    3. Re:For their sake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I hope they're the ones that did it, because whether they are or not, in the eyes of a public starving for villains to blame they're now as good as guilty.

      Yes, but thankfully, the government's turning them over to the mob, which, as the internets have taught us repeatedly, is the only right and just way to do things, since the government is evil and wrong and they'd only succeed in bringing in people we like.

    4. Re:For their sake by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      Police: Yes that will be all. Oh wait, by the way, about your visits to 4chan...

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    5. Re:For their sake by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      No names have been released, since they're not known. Just low-quality images. I wouldn't recognize even the more visible one if I passed him on the street. That guy is "as good as guilty" in "the eyes of the public" for maybe two or three days if it turns out he didn't do it.

    6. Re:For their sake by pregister · · Score: 1

      Tell that to Richard Jewell. What was the name of the guy who was actually convicted for the bombing? Oh yeah, nobody remembers.

    7. Re:For their sake by tehcyder · · Score: 1
      If there's one thing I can't stand it's people who won't own up to their own actions. He's been identified by 4chan as the bomber, so he should just confess and have done with it.

      Answer me this: what's his alibi? Because I think there's pretty conclusive evidence that he was near the scene of the bombings. What more do you want, a waterboarded confession?

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    8. Re:For their sake by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      Richard Jewell's name WAS released though. These two had not been publicly identified. I suppose there's not much point in talking about it given the events since I posted that though...

  16. Same guy as the Craft International guy? by michaelmalak · · Score: 0

    I'm still trying to figure out if the black-cap guy identified by the FBI is the same guy as the apparently Craft International (Blackwater-like mercenary) guy identified by storyleak.com, and if so, why the FBI hasn't released a clearer image of the cap logo?

    1. Re:Same guy as the Craft International guy? by larry+bagina · · Score: 1

      It's a bridgestone golf hat.

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    2. Re:Same guy as the Craft International guy? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1

      Note the military style shoes/boots on the two buff goons in the image from the link above, and the random sneaker shoes on the suspects. Also though one FBI suspect is wearing tan pants, the other is not, and nether "carry" themselves like the two goons.

      But let's not let a good conspiracy theory get in to way of common sense...

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    3. Re:Same guy as the Craft International guy? by cosm · · Score: 1

      Wow. You seriously think that if a merc outfit was sent in to do a job for who knows what reason that they would wear logo gear to the gig? I though all bad guys wore a uniform for swift identification of their badness, that's what 20 years of shooters have taught me!

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    4. Re:Same guy as the Craft International guy? by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      So he changed shoes too?

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  17. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by lucm · · Score: 1

    There are cheap cameras today that do full HD, low artifacts, and run 30 frames a second. These images were from old equipment and software. The smudged faces is that. They should be replaced.

    No need for that. The police just has to call the crime lab at CSI Miami or Chloe down at the CTU. If all the moles have been properly smoked out from those organizations it should be possible to get 3D pictures of both suspects.

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  18. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Enhance."

  19. No by geek · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There were at least 4 Craft guys. They had radiation detectors on site and were caught on camera using them after the explosion. They were private contractors, not official government agents. All 4 Craft guys are well known to the FBI and were acting on behalf of the organizers of the event. This is something they do frequently.

    1. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Any reference for all that?

    2. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Gonna need a citation for that, dude.

    3. Re:No by geek · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Tho I hate linking to nuts at infowars.com they are the only ones posting the pics of the Craft guys:

      http://www.infowars.com/fbi-ignores-men-with-backpacks-at-scene-of-boston-bombings/

      Craft is contracted out at many events. This isn't the first nor will it be the last.

    4. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      FYI, when someone asks for a citation, linking them to InfoWars.com is about as good as handing them a bologna sandwich. Alex Jones is a flipping nutcase.

    5. Re:No by geek · · Score: 1

      Yes he is but he's also the only one showing the photos of the guys from Craft so our options are limited.

    6. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's infowars. Not the most respected source.

    7. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They've identified the security people by name. They've even identified the equipment used. They've credibly eliminated these guys as suspects while the rest of the internets are hyperventilating about them. Best info I've seen yet.

      But you go ahead and squirm. That's just fine.

    8. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      he's not nuts... he's BRILLIANT! raking in fucktons of cash off all those completely clueless brainwashed people.

      why.... its almost a public service... taking money from fools.

      wish i'd thought of it.

    9. Re:No by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      FYI, when someone asks for a citation, linking them to InfoWars.com is about as good as handing them a bologna sandwich. Alex Jones is a flipping nutcase.

      It's a "boy who called wolf" problem. I don't know anything aout that site, but if it's run by a conspiracy nut, it's going to be hard for anyone to take it seriously. But the information they provide can be checked easily enough by others.

      Anyway, I thought from the moment I saw the pictures of the 2 guys in combat boots and pants that they were some sort of undercover/off duty military types. Soldiers are notoriously bad at doing undercover work, it's hard for them not to show their training in the way they move, react or even stand. Plus they tend to get the clothes wrong.

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  20. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Frames are not similar enough to do averaging in a 1 fps "video".

  21. Ummm.... by Opportunist · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You could identify anyone with those pics. Put a basecap on a dog and it should work if his muzzle ain't too long.

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    1. Re:Ummm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'd say that the Swedes and Finns are looking pretty safe right now. Not one of theirs.

    2. Re:Ummm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's one thing to try to match up a strangers photograph to these video saves, but if anyone knows these two fuckwads the pictures will be sufficient. One look and they'll say "That looks like Kenny and Jimmy, the retards that hang out down the street and are always saying weird shit."

    3. Re:Ummm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shit, those two are Kenny and Jimmy!

    4. Re:Ummm.... by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      I'd say that the Swedes and Finns are looking pretty safe right now. Not one of theirs.

      Yes, because all Swedes and Finns are blue-eyed blonds, just like all neo nazis are.

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  22. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by Professr3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They just aren't yelling "ENHANCE" loud enough yet. Give it time...

  23. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by hawguy · · Score: 1

    There are cheap cameras today that do full HD, low artifacts, and run 30 frames a second. These images were from old equipment and software. The smudged faces is that. They should be replaced. All replaced. The city I live has less than one FPS on its non-traffic cameras. It's pathetic what salesman push on the HLS-cash-infused cities when cheaper, and much better, hardware and software is available right now. You get what you pay for, and sometimes, not even that.

    These look like local business security cams -- who is going to pay the businesses to replace the cameras and DVR's every year to keep up with the latest and greatest technology? Or do you think the government should blanket every public space with hi-def facial recognition cameras covering every inch of every public space so they are prepared for the next time this happens?

    Don't forget to factor in the storage needs - my "action cam" generates 8GB of data/hour for 1080p 30fps -- if a small municipality has 200 cameras, that's over 1 Petabyte of data/month. Video compression can help, but only to a point since you don't want to lose any of that high resolution that your expensive camera is providing. And at around 20mbit/sec of data per camera, that's 4 gbit/sec of network bandwidth. And of course, someone has to monitor and repair those cameras - every time someone paints over the lens or otherwise damages the camera, someone's got to go out and fix it. There's no telling whether spraypaint over the lens is random graffiti or a precursor to an attack.

    It's certainly a solvable problem - casinos are reported to have hundreds or thousands of cameras throughout the facility, but implementing such a system is not cheap, good thing casinos have people handing over bucketloads of cash to pay for it.

  24. Many are missing the point by sunking2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They know the resolution stinks. What they are hoping for is that people will go through their personal photos that they took which are much better resolution and notice that one of them may be in the background.

    1. Re:Many are missing the point by Dan667 · · Score: 1

      quite possible they may want to scare them to see if they make a mistake or tip themselves off.

    2. Re:Many are missing the point by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      quite possible they may want to scare them to see if they make a mistake or tip themselves off.

      Those would be easily recognizable by anyone who knows them. If they're the perps, they're shitting their pants right now.

      (Also there's some kind of raid going on in Watertown right now; the perps might have even better reason to poop their pantsen.
      )

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  25. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I wonder if it makes sense to create an open online database where people can upload their images and then eventually some [assisted] face match software can sift through thousands such images to identify people. this could also double as a missing persons finder/registry in the event of a hurricane/tsunami like major disaster.

  26. Re:WTF? by Paperweight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Be civil.

  27. yin yang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Not sure if it helps with the case but I noticed these two are going for a "yin yang" theme. One has a white hat, the other has a black. One wears it backwards the other forwards. One is wearing tan, the other black pants. The black hat has white on it which must represent the white dot in the black yang, and the man with the white hat has a black emblem on the white yin. Yin-yang implies they are complementary, not opposing forces. And, it shows that they probably believe that they had to commit this atrocity to transform society. A shadow cannot exist without light. There was probably some meaning in the fact that they placed two bombs that were built differently as well. You might want to ask school teachers / students / parents about anyone who had a predilection for yin-yang and opposing concepts, maybe they liked drawing the symbols in notebooks. Also, this pattern is bound to show up frequently as more details about the case come out. I'm willing to bet there's a lot of duality and philosophy being applied here.

    1. Re:yin yang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's the dumbest thing I've heard all day.

    2. Re:yin yang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      what, did you just wake up?

      thats not even the dumbest thing i've heard in the last 20 minutes...

    3. Re:yin yang by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      Not sure if it helps with the case but I noticed these two are going for a "yin yang" theme. One has a white hat, the other has a black. One wears it backwards the other forwards. One is wearing tan, the other black pants. The black hat has white on it which must represent the white dot in the black yang, and the man with the white hat has a black emblem on the white yin. Yin-yang implies they are complementary, not opposing forces. And, it shows that they probably believe that they had to commit this atrocity to transform society. A shadow cannot exist without light. There was probably some meaning in the fact that they placed two bombs that were built differently as well. You might want to ask school teachers / students / parents about anyone who had a predilection for yin-yang and opposing concepts, maybe they liked drawing the symbols in notebooks. Also, this pattern is bound to show up frequently as more details about the case come out. I'm willing to bet there's a lot of duality and philosophy being applied here.

      In that case shouldn't one of them have been male and the other female, since that is the primary meaning of yin and yang?

      Sorry to shit in your cornflakes.

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    4. Re:yin yang by Lanforod · · Score: 1

      Wrong. Yin Yang typically means balance. While a man and woman together could mean that, by itself it isn't enough. Good/Evil, Black/White, Backwards/Forwards. I think OP has an interesting notion. I doubt it was intentional though.

    5. Re:yin yang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      black & white are the favourite colors of teh Freemasons

      Most freemason & lodge buildings have two pillers (one either side of an entrence).

      Lodge hotel had two bombs place equal distance from it..

      Must be total sh*t amatuer bombers who never done a reconnisance of the area in the weeks before hand ...

      You send two teenagers with bombs inback-packs ..standing in full mug-shot view of dozens of cameras
      Nahhhh.....the attck stinks to high-heaven of a conspiracy...and OTHER Participents....

      Just cos a person does not run away in a bomb attack situation,....does not quailfy as a suspect Bomber...
      I have been in many dangerous situations ...and never ran away...
      Does being calm mean an admission of guilt???? how absurd and amateur are the FBI,..local police monkeys

  28. Re:The looks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The guy in the white hat is certainly a pasty faced white male who doesn't get any sun.

    The other guy isn't as clear, or as blazing white. Could be tanned, or Hispanic, Mideastern or Asian. The only thing I am certain of is that he isn't Black or an albino.

  29. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah, and to be fair, we wouldn't allow the FBI to install fancy pants HD camera's anyhow like the UK so this would be a non issue *ducks*

  30. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Civility is the last thing needed when dealing with fucksucking shitbags.

  31. False flag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Where are the pictures of them dropping and leaving the backpacks in the exact spots the explosions took place? You could pick out dozens of people in the crowd walking around with backpacks. There's nothing conclusive here.

    1. Re:False flag by femtobyte · · Score: 1

      Right, because a high-level government conspiracy with the complicity of the FBI would lack the resources to produce appropriate fake photos to support their deception, thus the FBI's inability to release conclusive photos indicates this was a false-flag attack. Logic!

    2. Re:False flag by drgould · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Where are the pictures of them dropping and leaving the backpacks in the exact spots the explosions took place?

      They mentioned that on one newscast. They suggested that the FBI didn't want potental witnesses to get confused by what they saw personally and what they saw on TV.

      Imagine at trial months from now, the defense attorney cross examining a witness, "Now Mr/Ms So-and-so, are you certain you personally saw my client place his backpack at the scene of the explosion or are you just remembering the video the FBI distributed after the incident?"

    3. Re:False flag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Right, because a high-level government conspiracy with the complicity of the FBI would lack the resources to produce appropriate fake photos to support their deception, thus the FBI's inability to release conclusive photos indicates this was a false-flag attack. Logic!

      Exactly. The FBI's lack of any kind of real indicators or conclusive proof, while at the same time psyching up the sheep herd; these are the guys that did it! Find them! They have been determined guilty before even being heard, that's why it stinks.

      And you realize that faking photos would just come back to bite them immediately, don't you? There could potentially be dozens of pictures from the same angle taken by the public, all of which would show the same and different thing making the faked pictures stand out like sore thumbs. See? Logic.

    4. Re:False flag by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      You're not expected to judge them, only to recognize them. It just might be possible they're not releasing every single picture they have.

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    5. Re:False flag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're not expected to judge them, only to recognize them. It just might be possible they're not releasing every single picture they have.

      The thing is it's all crowd-sourced, so if there was anything conclusive then it would've been all over the Internet by now, perhaps in this very Slashdot thread, just like the other pictures. But there's nothing, just two random picks out of a hundred guys with backpacks on these pictures, and not a request to get in contact with them for questioning but something more like a wanted poster. But we'll see what happens.

    6. Re:False flag by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      The thing about scientists like me is we don't have to take your word for it. It's the only reason science works.

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    7. Re:False flag by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      Mebbi they released the pics most likely to produce an identification, not the most incriminating ones.

      Oh, BTW, nothing says "luser" like peddling a conspiracy theory.

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  32. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There are cheap cameras today that do full HD, low artifacts, and run 30 frames a second. These images were from old equipment and software. The smudged faces is that. They should be replaced. All replaced. The city I live has less than one FPS on its non-traffic cameras. It's pathetic what salesman push on the HLS-cash-infused cities when cheaper, and much better, hardware and software is available right now. You get what you pay for, and sometimes, not even that.

    There are also completely fake security cameras. They're just deterrents and if shitty (or fake) security cameras have a clear crime reducing effect, it's harder to justify the cost of replacing them. Now that good pictures are actually needed many people will react like you do but as soon as these guys are caught, any spending on security cameras will again simply be a matter of reducing crime and whether the reason cameras do so by acting as a deterrent or as an actual aid in catching criminals will be fairly irrelevant.

  33. Re: The looks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    They white boys alright. Registered republicans too

  34. Tough angle by Patent+Lover · · Score: 1

    As usual, with the camera being slightly above the target, the angle of these security cameras are fairly bad if the perp is wearing a hat. Seeing as cameras are now tiny, it's time to start mounting them at about the 5 foot level. It's so much easier to identify a person at that angle. This would explain why they're looking for somebody with a cell phone picture.

    1. Re:Tough angle by Ruprecht+the+Monkeyb · · Score: 1

      Clearly you're either 7' tall or don't spend a lot of time at parades if you think looking at everything from a 5' eye level in a crowded place is going to improve things.

    2. Re:Tough angle by Patent+Lover · · Score: 1

      It's 1000 times easier to see a face from 5' than from 7'. Especially if they're wearing a hat. Ask any photographer.

    3. Re:Tough angle by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      One of the suspects was wearing his hat backwards in the video. Now really if you are wearing a hat to hide your face from security cams that is about as dumb a thing as you can do.

      The thing is that they may be able to hide and lie low etc. But the FBI doesn't forget.

    4. Re:Tough angle by Patent+Lover · · Score: 1

      I guess I didn't make my point clear. Is it easier recognize a person at eye level, or looking down from two feet above eye level? No offense meant here. Clearly they're having problems identifying these aholes.

    5. Re:Tough angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's easier to see the front row of people. And that's all you'll see. And if someone stands close in front of the camera you'll have a nice picture of their neck.

    6. Re:Tough angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's 1000 times easier to see a face from 5' than from 7'. Especially if they're wearing a hat. Ask any photographer.

      Unless there is another guy standing between your 5" camera and the face you are interested in. In which case it is more than 1000 times harder.

      7' actually seems like a good height. You would be safely above everyone other than NBA players but still low enough to see faces.

    7. Re:Tough angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      no, it's 100 times easier to see the *one closest face* from 5'. at 7' you can see *lots* of faces.

    8. Re:Tough angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Crowds = cant see faces ** because at 5 foot you are below _ALOT_ of shoulders.

    9. Re:Tough angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A hat flipped backwards also causes people to instantly think idiot American youth rather than murderer.

    10. Re:Tough angle by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      One of the suspects was wearing his hat backwards in the video. Now really if you are wearing a hat to hide your face from security cams that is about as dumb a thing as you can do.

      Maybe he has a very distincitve scar on the back of his head/neck.

      See, I can do internet crime-sleuthing with no real evidence too.

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  35. White hat superficially resembles Aaron Swartz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    White hat superficially resembles Aaron Swartz. Not saying it's intentional, but there is a resemblance.

    1. Re:White hat superficially resembles Aaron Swartz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Carmen Ortiz being haunted by his gh2ost?

  36. It wasn't me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I wonder if the FBI read Slashdot? I bear a moderate similarity (in profile) to the man in the white cap. Same hair, same nose, etc. However, I have a water-tight alibi - I was 16,000km away and in bed at the time.

    1. Re:It wasn't me. by j-beda · · Score: 1

      I wonder if the FBI read Slashdot? I bear a moderate similarity (in profile) to the man in the white cap. Same hair, same nose, etc. However, I have a water-tight alibi - I was 16,000km away and in bed at the time.

      So you SAY. Can anybody verify that?

    2. Re:It wasn't me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, my partner, who sleeps very lightly, and would have heard me waking up to catch a fast sub-orbital rocket to the USA, and returning before she got up at 6.45am.

    3. Re:It wasn't me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's commenting on Slashdot, so he was obviously alone in bed.

    4. Re:It wasn't me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      a Slashdotter claiming a female bed partner? Now we know you're hiding something behind those lies.

    5. Re:It wasn't me. by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      Now we know what those damned North Koreans were up to! They might want to turn the yield up on those "nukes" a little more though.

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    6. Re:It wasn't me. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      However, I have a water-tight alibi - I was 16,000km away and in bed at the time.

      Yeah, that's what I always tell the judge too.

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    7. Re:It wasn't me. by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      a Slashdotter claiming a female bed partner? Now we know you're hiding something behind those lies.

      I don't think a blow up doll is much of a witness anyway.

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  37. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And this is why people are scared of Google Glass--it'll make an already existing problem worse; that is, the government will outsource its spying to the people.

  38. Four not two? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    To my very untrained eye it also seems like there are a couple other tailing people (red cap and yellow jacket). How two are suspects and the other two are not... Maybe the two suspect backpacks were found to be the blast sources?

  39. Who cares? by rsilvergun · · Score: 2

    Occupy Wall Street showed that when the US Gov't wants a protest movement to go away, it does. So who really cares if we're being watched? What difference does it make from a practical standpoint. Plus, if we can catch these sort of things it's one less excuse for pointless wars against anybody with a turban and brown skin, and one less excuse for Patriot Acts.

    All you're really giving up anyway is the illusion of freedom you don't have. Real freedom is economic freedom, and OWS showed us who's really in control.

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    1. Re:Who cares? by AlphaWolf_HK · · Score: 1

      Occupy wall street went away because half of them realized it is better to search for jobs than to ask the media and politicians where they are. The other half are still there, with their neon dyed hair, peace signs drawn on their faces, stolen ipads, guy fawkes masks, and all. The people I described there wonder why they don't have a job, and they'll never stop wondering why to be quite honest.

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    2. Re:Who cares? by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      Occupy wall street went away because half of them realized it is better to search for jobs than to ask the media and politicians where they are. The other half are still there, with their neon dyed hair, peace signs drawn on their faces, stolen ipads, guy fawkes masks, and all. The people I described there wonder why they don't have a job, and they'll never stop wondering why to be quite honest.

      Yes, wasn't it lucky that those in power didn't have to resort to late night raids, illegal confiscation of property and so on?

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  40. Re:WTF? by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the contrary, it's is where you need it the utmost, lest you steep down to their level. When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you...

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  41. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    dont you mean shitsucking fuckbags? sounds more accurate?

  42. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by sdreader · · Score: 5, Funny

    They just aren't yelling "ENHANCE" loud enough yet. Give it time...

    Worked for CSI:

    http://insertnu.com/Funny_Images/Stills/CSI%20Enhance.jpg

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  43. How can this be a suspect? by aybiss · · Score: 0

    This is ridiculous. Are we seriously saying that the suspect description for a bombing at a marathon is anyone who had a backpack?

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    1. Re:How can this be a suspect? by Osgeld · · Score: 1

      suspect means its the person(s) of most interest based on the given evidence, and no not just anyone, anyone with a black backpack in the immidiate area large enough to hold a pressure cooker ya dink

      go be scared somewhere else and try and let the professionals narrow information down to without a reasonable doubt.

  44. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Fuck you and your damned Nietzsche

  45. Re:The FBI refuses to help catch my stalker... apk by seyfarth · · Score: 1

    How much trouble could it be for the coders of Slashdot to really limit the length of the initial part of posts to limit the nuisance caused by the person who keeps posting lengthy nonsense? It sounds like an easy fix which should be done immediately.

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  46. Apparently that wasn't the bag.. by 2phar · · Score: 1

    According to a retired deputy in Florida the bag that has been shown at the railing was his, and was gone before the explosion.

    1. Re:Apparently that wasn't the bag.. by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1

      Also, the railing was bent towards the place where the backpack was ... around the mail box. I.e. something behind the railing blew up.

      Takes quite a bit of force to bend those metal railings too.

      But not so much that the mail box was blown off the ground.

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  47. a picture of #2's smiling accomplice by aybiss · · Score: 1

    That old guy in the blue top in the foreground looks way too happy. I reckon it was him.

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    1. Re:a picture of #2's smiling accomplice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Follow his eyes. He's looking at BOUNCING BOOBIES!

    2. Re:a picture of #2's smiling accomplice by deimtee · · Score: 1

      Is that a blue bag on the ground behind him?

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    3. Re:a picture of #2's smiling accomplice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That old guy in the blue top in the foreground looks way too happy. I reckon it was him.

      Guilty of facecrime.

  48. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Kwyj1b0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since you had the courage to post with your account, I decided not to down-mod you, but ask you a counter-question: How?

    Many countries have problems with selective interpretations of religion (including Christianity - abortion clinics, for example). How would you prevent such behavior? By outlawing a religion (Won't help - you don't declare your religion upon entry into the US)? How about ethnic cleansing (huge collateral damage)?

    And if you resort to such techniques, what does it say about the robustness of your country's ideals? If you drop them at the first sign of trouble, are they really worth preserving? India (the world's largest democracy) has had attacks for decades (citation). And they haven't spent years interfering in the Middle East. So if you have a workable solution, I'd love to hear it.

  49. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    There are 1.4 billion Muslims worldwide. If it's the Muslims, you're fucked.

  50. Re:The looks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The guy in the white hat is certainly a pasty faced white male who doesn't get any sun.

    Take a look at his nose and the black bushy hair. Light skinned, but definitely middle-eastern decent of some sort.

  51. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    LOL you make it sound like they're doing it completely out of the blue and American troops aren't occupying some of their countries. I don't agree with terrorism, but come on, you can't just get pissed because they won't just let America run them over. If you're in a fight with somebody (for any reason), you have to expect to get hit back sometimes. Get a grip on reality. Besides, what Islamic extremists have bombed America in the past 4 or 5 years? I don't recall any. Also, we have no idea why the Boston bombings happened yet, but it doesn't ring of Islam, I can tell ya that much.

  52. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "existing problem"? What problem? FBI asking Americans to look at their photos in order to help identify and question suspects who *bombed* innocent civilians at a freaking marathon? What is so terrible about that? You freaking nuts are sick.

  53. Re:It's the Muslims !! by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, it's counter to American culture, and it will take a couple of generations, but the 'how' is through education. Fund schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Yemen and Sudan. Support local politicians, through dollars, who endorse education of their people, particularly girls. More than anything else, the Mullahs fear an educated populace. Educate them out of ignorance and terror.

  54. These pictures are more than good enough. by conspirator23 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm surprised that the doubting Thomases are getting so many mod points around here today. There is no better facial recognition system in the world than the human brain. The pictures are worthlessly low-res and indiscriminate? Someone who knows these individuals will correlate the physical details of the face, the expression, the height, haircut, posture, and clothing instantly and unconsciously. They will be recognized. Those acquaintances can see the forest. All we are getting is trees.

    And to cover the other criticism of why these two were chosen... Both were seen walking together with black backpacks. Then each one was seen individually right at one of the two bomb sites. In the case of suspect #2, there is video of him putting his backpack down and then walking away from it. Personally I agree that this is sufficient to refer to both individuals as "suspects."

    1. Re:These pictures are more than good enough. by murdocj · · Score: 1

      Just to follow up... I'm pretty bad at recognizing people, but for someone I know well, I can see them moving out of the corner of my eye and recognize them by their walk, even when I can't see their face at all.

    2. Re:These pictures are more than good enough. by dargaud · · Score: 1

      There is no better facial recognition system in the world than the human brain.

      That's actually no longer true. Last year there was a discussion right here of a system that can match 200 faces per second in a crowd. No, I don't have a cite for that.

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    3. Re:These pictures are more than good enough. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Humans might not have that kind of speed, but they have much better accuracy.

    4. Re:These pictures are more than good enough. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Find a psychologist and do the Osterreith Complex Figure test, amongst others. I scored 12% on that test - I am terrible at recognising people, but I also recognise people I know by their walks.

  55. Re:It's the Muslims !! by RawsonDR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since you had the courage to post with your account, I decided not to down-mod you, but ask you a counter-question: How?

    Under which guideline would you have down-modded his post? I don't have points myself right now, but I don't remember there being an option in the dropdown for "Unlikeable."

  56. Re:It's the Muslims !! by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 4, Informative

    About 70% of bombings conducted in the US since 9/11 have been conducted by neo-nazis and similar radical groups.

    http://homegrown.newamerica.net/map

  57. Re:Very suspicious move from the government by Dunbal · · Score: 2

    Maybe he was lazy and overstayed his student visa instead of renewing it, and thus deserves to be deported. And maybe he's the brat of some rich saudi connected to the government, and they don't want a big scene.

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  58. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Kielistic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not that I'm condoning any violence but when a bunch of Saudis brought down your towers you did use it to justify killing a lot more than 3000 innocent Muslims... Look at it from another perspective. You're a huge and powerful country that thought you were completely justified to kill a bunch of innocents. Why would a hurting and disillusioned Muslim feel bad about taking the hurt to you? From my perspective you both have pretty similar attitudes. If you want to claim the moral high ground you have to earn it.

    Additionally, as the other poster said there is currently no link between this bombing and Islam. So you're either a troll or a racist, probably both.

  59. Re:It's the Muslims !! by manwargi · · Score: 2

    I don't think the AC is saying it is justified so much as he is suggesting that you look at why these things might be happening. Besides, aren't you the one trying to say that this bombing justifies "doing something" about Muslims?

  60. Re:WTF? by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quod erat demonstrandum

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  61. also in Miami earlier this year... by girlinatrainingbra · · Score: 1

    Can they be seen in the videos/photos of the live fire exercises that occurred in downtown miami earlier this year? http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/blackhawks-used-in-military-training-exercise-in-miami/ is the only non-wacko-paranoid news site I can find that mentions it, though I remember more sites inculding the miami newspaper mentioning it when it happened. That CBS link also mentions


    The training is designed to ensure that military personnel are able to operate in urban areas and to focus on preparations for overseas deployment. It also serves as a mandatory training certification requirement.

    A similar operation took place in April 2011 in Miami's Brickell area, which frightened many residents in the area.

    This time, the training operations were held away from residential areas.

  62. Re:WTF? by amiga3D · · Score: 1

    spying is tapping phones and hiding cameras in a home's air ducts or reading private e-mail. Not looking through photos of people walking down the street. That's why they call it "in public."

  63. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF_qQYrCcns

  64. Re:WTF? by amiga3D · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree. We should catch them, try them and if guilty fry them. No reason not to be civil.

  65. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Dunbal · · Score: 2

    Er, how do you know they are muslim? That bit hasn't been found out yet. And if they were, to be fair, you have been bombing quite a few of their countries for quite a few years now. You expect zero backlash?

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
  66. Re:The FBI refuses to help catch my stalker... apk by larry+bagina · · Score: 1

    It is an easy fix that should be done immediately. Unfortunately, they posted the job on dice.com... Poster child for the danger of dogfooding.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  67. Re:It's the Muslims !! by cheater512 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mind you the average person in the US isn't terribly bright.

    The US governance also fears an educated population. Educate them out of ignorance and wars on terror.

  68. Re:The FBI refuses to help catch my stalker... apk by Culture20 · · Score: 1

    How much trouble could it be for the coders of Slashdot to really limit the length of the initial part of posts to limit the nuisance caused by the person who keeps posting lengthy nonsense? It sounds like an easy fix which should be done immediately.

    OMG Please yes! GP had 727 lines of SPAM before the slashcode cut off the text. That's abnormal. Tangentially related: does anyone know of a HOSTS-file based method to filter out those posts? *evilgrin*

  69. Re:WTF? by khallow · · Score: 1

    the abyss also looks into you...

    And that's a Problem, amirite?

  70. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about Timothy McVeigh? Are you saying it's ok for US military veterans to kill kids at a day care center? Are you saying it's justified for NRA members to blow up buildings? Should we look the other way when American raised as Catholics commit mass murder?

    No, I think you would disagree. Because in those instances we're tying one nutjob murderer to larger groups that he is not a representative member of. So why do you make that same mistake with muslims, assuming they're all evil or that there's a vast muslim movement to destroy the US? Are you listening to too much of the far right wing media that keeps insisting that muslims are the enemy, spending too much time reading WorldNet Daily, going to one of those churches who falsely teach that islam is a religion of violence while overlooking all the violence that Christians have committed?

    And why do you think this bombing was the result of muslims in the first place?

  71. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The USA is two hundred years old. It has no culture.

  72. Re: It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sorry you wrong, if you do simple research you will find out the terrorist that have gotten caught are almost all College educated.

  73. Re:Disinformation By White House by Culture20 · · Score: 1

    2) declaration of dictatorship

    Him and what army? Any U.S. President who tried that would lose their control of the military. Military members swear to defend the constitution. If a president wanted dictatorship, martial law with suspension of elections would be a better choice, but that would require something so severe that it would cause the American Civil War to pale in comparison, considering the elections still happened then.

  74. Gunshots at MIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://emergency.mit.net/

  75. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 1

    ...as a statistician, I feel obliged to point out that racial profiling by security forces is probably biasing the results.

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    Bio questions? Ask me to start a Q&A journal. Computer analogies available for most topics!
  76. 9/11 terrorists were all college educated by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just in case you don't know it yet ...

    The terrorists who hijacked the planes and then slammed them into the World Trade Center (and the Pentagon and the one which crashed in Pennsylvania) were ALL college educated

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    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
    1. Re:9/11 terrorists were all college educated by aquabat · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Just in case you don't know it yet ...

      The terrorists who hijacked the planes and then slammed them into the World Trade Center (and the Pentagon and the one which crashed in Pennsylvania) were ALL college educated

      Respectfully, I think they had the wrong type of education.

      I don't care how awesome an engineer you are, if you have never taken and understood a philosophy course or an ethics course, you have probably never seriously and critically examined the things you were brought up to believe, or tried to follow the reasoning of someone else's beliefs.

      Hell, even a proper, proof based, mathematics course will have you identifying logical inconsistencies in various lines of reasoning by the time you take your mid-term. Other good choices are history, psychology and anthropology. Oh and definitely, absolutely, a first year literature course, where you have to learn to think critically about what you see, hear and read, then form a supported opinion, and then express it coherently, to other smart people.

      Not to say that there aren't people out there that can instinctively and naturally think in both a rigorous and a compassionate manner (and I am definitely not trying to imply anything personal, Sir), but if you've ever read English papers written by first year engineers, you can probably see where I'm coming from. Most people need to be taught these kinds of things, if only to jump start their own awareness of just how diverse and wonderful the wider world really is. It's called "The Big Picture" for good reason.

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    2. Re:9/11 terrorists were all college educated by rtb61 · · Score: 2

      With the majority of funding coming out of Saudi Arabia. In fact the bulk of global funding for the Wahabist sect of Sunni Islam comes out of Saudi Arabia. Watch something like Lawrence of Arabia to be reminded of how little unity there is in reality between Islamic nations. Currently the only true link is Islamic terrorism is Saudi Arabian funded Islamic schools, pretty blatantly obvious, yet completely and totally ignored by the US because of, why?

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    3. Re:9/11 terrorists were all college educated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How many were women?

    4. Re:9/11 terrorists were all college educated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Respectfully whose literature, history and ethics? American liberal universities? American history is different enough from Canadian and European that it's laughable how deluded Americans are about the foundations of their own civilization. My American uncle once asked me whose philosophy I was studying and then listed Edwards, Adams and Paine who didn't figure at all except as brief counterpoint to my Canadian/European education.

    5. Re:9/11 terrorists were all college educated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't care how awesome an engineer you are, if you have never taken and understood a philosophy course or an ethics course,

      I don't know what shitty school you went to, but my engineering curriculum had engineering ethics as a required course. This is on top of the [in my opinion] excessive humanities requirements.

      So yea, about that.

    6. Re:9/11 terrorists were all college educated by aquabat · · Score: 1

      Ideally, I'd say choose from a variety of different cultures. One of the points of a university used to be to have a place where people could get together and discuss their ideas and opinions without getting punched in the face. The critical thinking part is the real meat of the matter for me. I'm not scared of reading the wrong books, because I know I can unpack whatever is in them and evaluate the contents in a more or less objective manner. Just pick something at random and have at it.

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      A republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
    7. Re:9/11 terrorists were all college educated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So were the USA terrorists of CIA members & mentally deranged Presidents that commit vile sick perverted atrocities in Latin-America (and order such atrocities while smiling at the USA dumb public in contrived sound-bite speeches)

      USA vile atrocities mostly carried out from Langley mental institution,..and others such as called Fort Bragg & Fort Benning...training any despot dictator (see UK newsreporter stories John Pilger)
      terrorist scum that drop 2 nuclear bombs on 400,000 people and burn them to a crisp in less than 2 minutes

      terroist college educated scum filth...that slaughtered the native american red-indians....
      a nation that now has illegal- fake presidents at the helm...(born in Kenya)
      and a nation infested with jewish & negro scum DEMANDING their "rights" to hold power

  77. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Nonesuch · · Score: 1
    darinbob:

    What about Timothy McVeigh? Are you saying it's ok for US military veterans to kill kids at a day care center? Are you saying it's justified for NRA members to blow up buildings?

    Nice slander there. Timothy Mcveigh was a former member --he joined while he was in the US Army, but later quit the NRA, viewing its stance on gun rights as too weak.

  78. Re:The FBI refuses to help catch my stalker... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'd like to know how the fuck he does it. Nobody else can get anywhere near that much to show up before the "see entire fucking post" cutoff. Yeah, he double spaces a bunch of shit but there's more than that going on.

  79. Look at *THIS* picture !! by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Click on the following link ...

    http://postimg.org/image/9ovtmetqr/

    I've seen enough of faces like the one in the photo above in Pakistan and in Afghanistan to know who they are

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    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
    1. Re:Look at *THIS* picture !! by cusco · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I've seen faces like that in New York, Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, Quito, Lima, Moscow, Rome, Venice, Madrid, and La Paz. For that matter he looks a whole lot like a guy I went to high school with in Michigan in the '70s. To my knowledge none of them were muslim, and the guy in Michigan was a Baptist.

      Just because someone has darker skin and a bigger nose than you doesn't actually mean that he's a bad guy, no matter how much of a racist prick you may be.

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      "Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
    2. Re:Look at *THIS* picture !! by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      I believe you were answered quite thoroughly by cusco, however you still haven't addressed my second concern. Al Qaeda is now a far bigger, more organized and frankly formidable threat than it was. After all, they've survived you for 13 years. Do you really think it's never going to come back and bite you in the face?

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      Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
    3. Re:Look at *THIS* picture !! by tehcyder · · Score: 1
      And you conveniently ignore the fact that the picture of the other "suspect" looks like a white US cop or soldier.

      If idiotic racism is your answer, you're phrasing the question wrong.

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      To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
    4. Re: Look at *THIS* picture !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I enjoy your phrasing that "they have survived you". Why is America the only country actively and vocally fighting these people? Countries who ignore or support (thanks Middle East) are cowards, full of cowards, and run by cowards.

    5. Re:Look at *THIS* picture !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Islam is the predominant religion in Chechnya.
      Source

    6. Re:Look at *THIS* picture !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shut up you racist fuck. He looks like an average white guy at a frat party.

  80. Re:It's the Muslims !! by clarkkent09 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Muslim countries on the whole are black holes of civilization in every way, from human rights to education, not to mention science and technology. Nothing positive has come from Islam for many, many centuries. Islam is a primitive, violent, mind suffocating ideology of fear and oppression and we are trying to drag them out of it's grip and into the modern world even against their will, as it is not in our interest to share the planet with a bunch of medieval ignoramuses armed with nukes. The entire Muslim world, all one billion of them, have accomplished exactly TWO Nobel prizes for Science (both of them Western educated scientists who happen to be Muslim) and few more for Peace, mostly terrorists! Meanwhile 20 million Jews have won 177 Nobel prizes! Islam needs to be radically reformed if the human civilization is to progress and I don't give a crap if Muslims feelings are hurt as there are actually more important things that Muslims feelings. So shove your cultural relativism up your liberal ass.

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    Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
  81. Re:It's the guns!!! by doug141 · · Score: 2

    if spree killers usually use guns, then we must do something about all gun owners, right?

  82. Vigilante Justice or Secondary Terrorism? by ScottCooperDotNet · · Score: 5, Informative

    This sort of thing causes secondary terrorism of those falsely accused.

    Photos of Salah Eddin Barhoum, 17, and friend Yassine Zaime were posted on websites whose users have been scouring marathon finish line photos for suspects. The two were also on the [New York] Post's front Thursday with the headline: "Bag men: Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon." The Post reported later Thursday that the pair weren't considered suspects. But Barhoum, a track runner at Revere High School, said he is convinced some will blame him for the bombings, no matter what.

    He said he was so fearful on Thursday that he ran back to the high school after a track meet when he saw a man in a car staring at him, talking into a phone. He said he won't feel safe until the bombers are caught. "I'm going to be scared going to school," Barhoum said. "Workwise, my family, everything is going to be scary."

    1. Re:Vigilante Justice or Secondary Terrorism? by WGFCrafty · · Score: 1

      Damn I just posted this. What's sad is the next tragedy, people will be playing Sherlock/Watson. Note, all the people playing the game think they're the true Sherlock and they're merely bouncing their well honed opinions off of all those Watsons.

    2. Re:Vigilante Justice or Secondary Terrorism? by elucido · · Score: 1

      This sort of thing causes secondary terrorism of those falsely accused.

      Photos of Salah Eddin Barhoum, 17, and friend Yassine Zaime were posted on websites whose users have been scouring marathon finish line photos for suspects. The two were also on the [New York] Post's front Thursday with the headline: "Bag men: Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon." The Post reported later Thursday that the pair weren't considered suspects. But Barhoum, a track runner at Revere High School, said he is convinced some will blame him for the bombings, no matter what.

      He said he was so fearful on Thursday that he ran back to the high school after a track meet when he saw a man in a car staring at him, talking into a phone. He said he won't feel safe until the bombers are caught. "I'm going to be scared going to school," Barhoum said. "Workwise, my family, everything is going to be scary."

      What is the difference between secondary terrorism and counter terrorism?

    3. Re:Vigilante Justice or Secondary Terrorism? by Sockatume · · Score: 1

      Secondary terrorism is terrorism which is secondary to the original action, counter terrorism is an action which acts contrary to (counter to) terrorism?

      Were you under the impression that the adjective "counter" meant something else?

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      No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
  83. OH SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh shit, now there's a guy shooting police officers at MIT.
    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shooter-loose-and-officer-down-mit/64379/

    1. Re:OH SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Oh shit, now there's a guy shooting police officers at MIT. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shooter-loose-and-officer-down-mit/64379/

      Related? Those suspects do look college aged.

    2. Re:OH SHIT by artor3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This shouldn't be modded off-topic. This has been confirmed to be the bombing suspects, armed with assault rifles and explosives. One is dead, having used a suicide vest, and the other (supect #2, white hat) is still being hunted by over 9000 cops. That's not a lame joke. That's the actual number of cops on the scene.

    3. Re:OH SHIT by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 1

      This is not fucking offtopic!

    4. Re:OH SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apparently they're two Russian brothers.

    5. Re:OH SHIT by __aajfby9338 · · Score: 1

      Posting to undo mods. Nothing to see here... move along.

  84. Re:It's the Muslims !! by manwargi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You completely ignored the GP's message to spout off your hostile and prejudiced tirade. The question was why do you expect them to give a crap about how innocents in America feel if America doesn't give a crap about their innocents?

  85. Bomb victim identified attacker by Beeftopia · · Score: 3, Informative

    That fellow (Jeff Bauman) who lost both legs below the knee, the one whose femoral artery is being pinched shut by Carlos Arredondo as he's being wheeled away from the incident, identified his attacker. From Bloomberg:

    "Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him.

    Just before 3 p.m. on April 15, Bauman was waiting among the crowd for his girlfriend to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon. A man wearing a cap, sunglasses and a black jacket over a hooded sweatshirt looked at Jeff, 27, and dropped a bag at his feet, his brother, Chris Bauman, said in an interview.

    Two and a half minutes later, the bag exploded, tearing Jeff’s legs apart. A picture of him in a wheelchair, bloodied and ashen, was broadcast around the world as he was rushed to Boston Medical Center. He lost both legs below the knee."

    -- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html

    1. Re:Bomb victim identified attacker by Beeftopia · · Score: 1

      Money quote from the article: "He woke up under so much drugs, asked for a paper and pen and wrote, ‘bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,’” Chris Bauman said yesterday in an interview. " - ibid

    2. Re:Bomb victim identified attacker by psydeshow · · Score: 1

      That fellow (Jeff Bauman) who lost both legs below the knee, the one whose femoral artery is being pinched shut by Carlos Arredondo as he's being wheeled away from the incident, identified his attacker.

      Okay, but then why the hell was he still standing there?

      If some guy dropped a backpack near me and walked away, I would call as much attention to it as possible and get the hell out of there.

      "Hey dude! You left your backpack here!" -- and if he doesn't respond, you start telling everyone else around you. 'That guy just dropped his bag here and walked away."

      I get not wanting to make waves or cause confrontation. But you ignore hinky shit at your own peril.

    3. Re:Bomb victim identified attacker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you cannot ..."look into the eyes of the man"....as the suspect was wearing sunglasses,..all you see is a reflection of yourself in the glass
      good for dramatic effect in a news report, but ...erroneous

      How many bags were at the feet of the victims... 1, 2, 3,.. 4 or more?
      who saw the bags ...how many bags where there on the ground by the mailbox?
      which bags had the bomb? a grey one or black one?

      why was the bomb exploded prematurely....injuring the alleged Patsy "suspect"?
      Who where their accomplices they were telephoning?

      why were Army guys in military dress suspiciously present and on duty ....
      when none were there on previous Marothon races???
      Army guys already at the finish line BEFORE,... the bombs went off...and attended to the victims immediately.
      .
      Basically MARTIAL LAW was implemented unnecessarily in a hysterical paranoid fashion....(lock-down)
        and a curfew put in place unnecessarily (sign of things to come?)

      Random shooting of bullets in a slip-shod sloppy manner by the police ...firing at anything and anybody that moves...(bullets entering wooden structered homes of the public)
      Bomb suspect finally apprehended hiding in a boat,..while the Police fired indiscriminate rounds of bullets to try to kill the "suspect"
      Flash-Bang grenades used... when they knew the "suspect" was injured and losing blood in large amounts

      (kill the witness before he gets to court)...hallmarks of Lee harvy Oswald & jack Ruby all over again
      when just a normal warning by the

  86. Re:It's the Muslims !! by clarkkent09 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Prejudiced? What did I say that isn't a fact? As for the GGP post I was replying to the idea that we have injured Muslims (rather than the other way around) and that we need to somehow try to understand that they might hate us because of that. My point is that in the big scheme of things we have not injured the Muslim world at all, without us (the West) they would be far poorer, far more backwards and pretty much worse off in every single way.

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  87. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Kwyj1b0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Under which guideline would you have down-modded his post? I don't have points myself right now, but I don't remember there being an option in the dropdown for "Unlikeable."

    Flame-bait: There is no evidence at this time to back up his hypothesis that it was Islamic fundamentalists. Also, he used a phrase "If the world can't keep Islam and all the Islamic violence out, at least USA can try" - which would seem to imply that he has a problem with the religion and the violence, without differentiating the two (and which planet would he have them relocate to?).

  88. Re:Disinformation By White House by femtobyte · · Score: 1

    Don't you know? The army of batshit-fucking-crazy delusions in conspiracy nutters' noggins. They have black UN helicopters, for goodness sake!

  89. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Darinbob · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm not trying to slander, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of attributing the sins of a few people onto all the organizations and ethnic groups that they belong to.

  90. Interesting problem by gargleblast · · Score: 0

    An interesting problem, let's see:

    Persecutory delusions are usually treated with medications for schizophrenia, especially when positive symptoms are present. Both first-generation antipsychotics and second-generation antipsychotics may be useful. Cognitive behavioral therapy has also been used.

    More here.

  91. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A signficant cross-section of the people of post-bicentennial continental USA are disadvantaged by their shallowness of cultural tradition.

  92. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Because in those instances we're tying one nutjob murderer to larger groups that he is not a representative member of. So why do you make that same mistake with muslims,

    Who are you to say it is a mistake with Muslims? The Koran tells Muslims to go to war against nonbelievers. Mecca is occupied by the house of Saud which indoctrinates hajj attendees with the Wahhabi doctrine that Muslims are the supreme people who must follow God's command to destroy everyone else. The bestselling book of the 20th century was Sayyid Qutb's Milestones, which argued for Muslims to quit living in peace with the West and start killing people again. Most importantly, those Muslims who do not believe that Muslims must be nutjob murderers have been getting wiped out by those that do, to the point where the "extremists" are now a majority in most Muslim-majority countries. Look at what happened after the nutjobs murdered Salman Taseer. The people of Pakistan came out in large numbers to celebrate the killing of a liberal.

    ... assuming they're all evil or that there's a vast muslim movement to destroy the US?

    There is in fact a "vast Muslim movement to destroy the US" called the Muslim Brotherhood. You might know them as the Taliban, al-Shabaab, the Syrian "youth movement" "freedom fighters", the "Bosniaks", the "Palestinians", the "Arab Spring", Boko Haram, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. We used to call them "Nazis." They run the Muslim Student Associations on college campuses. Do some research. I recommend starting with Revolutionary Sudan by Burr and Collins, as it ties many things together.

    Two additional "vast Muslim movement[s] to destroy the US" include the Khomeinists and the Lashkar e-Taiba, each of which is strong enough to conquer countries. You really ought to start paying attention to what is going on in the world before you start calling better-informed people ignorant.

  93. Re:Very suspicious move from the government by rahvin112 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's nice you found links that aren't directly from Glenn Beck but the story line you are propagating is directly from Mr. Conspiracy himself. He's tried to turn every single rumor about this into an attack on Obama, in this case being that the kid is actually involved but connected and so Obama is trying to sneak him out of the country. He doesn't need facts on his side, he relies on innuendo and people like you to propagate the falsehoods. Did you realize you just became a willing participant in a propaganda campaign by a crazy Mormon?

    As the other poster said there could be a million reasons to deport him, including that when they searched his apartment they found cannabis or even that his parents asked him to come home so he doesn't get hurt by vigilantes. If I was him I'd think about leaving too, you never know when someone like Glenn Beck is going to point the mob in your direction and laugh all the way to bank when his vigilante mob murders the wrong person.

  94. High Resolution Security Cameras by C0L0PH0N · · Score: 1

    Low resolution cameras are so yesterday. We use 10Mpixel high definition security cameras at our security gates that can easily identify a person with high accuracy, and they are inexpensive. All existing security cameras across the country, and especially in cities with highly popular mass activities, need to be upgraded from NEARLY USELESS to highly discerning high definition. I feel so sad at all the ancient-technology video security footage you see after every crime, when current cameras at often lower cost, are AMAZING. Please, everyone with a security camera, for the sake of innocent victims, please upgrade your security cameras to high definition. Ok, so you may need to upgrade your security camera servers too. Again, for the sake of the victims, please put it in your budget now !!

    1. Re:High Resolution Security Cameras by VortexCortex · · Score: 1

      Well if it would help the Boston Explosion victims, it will help the West, TX Explosion victims too! Put HD cameras on all Cows!

      Also, outlaw Photoshop and all other image editing software otherwise the images won't be reliable!

      Can anyone else think of a disproportionate response? I'm running out of ideas to fuck us all with.

  95. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    just give everyone an IQ test upon entry. set the threshold so very few religious people get in.

  96. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    "It's just that I can't stand it no more"

    Yea, I felt that way too when the IRA were bombing mainland UK whilst being
    bankrolled by Americans. (NORAID)

  97. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Redmancometh · · Score: 1

    Culture is just a set of preconceived notions. I don't see how that is anything but intellectually limiting.

  98. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Redmancometh · · Score: 1

    Someone was watching neil degrasse tyso lol...al-ghazali destroyed the middle east as an intellectual bastion. Who knows what nobel prize discoveries we could have had.

  99. IAWTP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    $10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski

    * POOR SHOWING TROLLS, & most especially IF that's the "best you've got" - apparently, it is... lol!

    Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING !! We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.

    Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?

    Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.

    If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.

    I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.

    Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.

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    I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.

    If Natalie Portman is not measurable, hot grits are Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!

    You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of abusiv

  100. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My country's ideals? I say our ideals should be to lower ourselves to the level of our enemy, when necessary. Certainly Hiroshima and Nagasaki were less than ideal. But they stopped the aggression against us right quick.

  101. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Presence2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look no further than the KKK to see an extensive history of violence in the USA coming from proud Christians. Thousands of people dead because of a different flavor of intolerance, in a different era. This too shall pass.

  102. Re:WTF? by Redmancometh · · Score: 1

    I bet lemon-juice boarding would suck. Also firing squads are still technically legal in areas of the us...

  103. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You are uncultured, untraveled, uneducated and you live in a tiny bubble.

  104. Sure, just like Christianity died in CCCP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sure, just like Christianity died in CCCP.

    Oh wait! My bad.

    1. Re:Sure, just like Christianity died in CCCP by Jade_Wayfarer · · Score: 1

      Orthodox Christianity had strong support from the government and KGB in the later Soviet years - from 70-s onward almost every high-level church hierarch had also been an KGB officer. On the other hand, Soviet ideology was rapidly becoming a religion on its own - with the cult of undead Lenin-Osiris, heavy symbolism and obscure irrational ideology. It was so backward and unnatural that it never took off for real, but it was enforced on every citizen of USSR from the very birth (and I'm speaking literally here - red stars and Lenin's portraits were mandatory in all clinics, nurseries and kindergartens. When powers-to-be realized that it doesn't work, they fell back to (secretly) supporting Christianity. By the 1990 it was full-on religious restoration throughout all of Union - and Party was behind it, no doubt. The rest is history.

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    2. Re:Sure, just like Christianity died in CCCP by Alex+Belits · · Score: 1

      As a popular religion, it did.

      Of course, church as an institution existed in some form, and some people (mostly old and poorly educated ones) believed in Christian mythology, but the effect of Christian beliefs (as opposed to the effect of pre-existing Christian-related art and literature recognized as fiction) on the culture was literally nil.

      Orthodox Christianity "revival" in post-USSR Russia was caused entirely by the effort of new government and its ideology, it has no roots in any popular support, and could have been any religion other than Orthodox Christianity if that religion served the purpose of new government better. It just happened that promoting supposedly "original" religion of Russia was the safest way to placate ultra-Nationalists that threatened to take over the political process like their local versions did in all other former USSR members (and then got kicked out in some of those, Belarus being most clear example).

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    3. Re:Sure, just like Christianity died in CCCP by Alex+Belits · · Score: 0

      but it was enforced on every citizen of USSR from the very birth (and I'm speaking literally here - red stars and Lenin's portraits were mandatory in all clinics, nurseries and kindergartens.

      You mean, like portraits of US president in all American government buildings, right?

      Please stop talking out of your ass. Communism and Socialism are a political/economic doctrines, and regardless of how you feel about them, they are no less "rational" than most of the crap spewed by politicians all over the world. The presence of country's symbols in people's everyday life is a completely different matter, and of all people, I recommend Americans to shut up about symbols of other countries until they will stop plastering all surfaces in their cities and all visible parts of their vehicles with theirs.

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  105. ha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    looks like the same dudes 4chan pinned.

    hope these fuckers are brought to justice and put down like the dogs they are.

    1. Re:ha by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      looks like the same dudes 4chan pinned.

      hope these fuckers are brought to justice and put down like the dogs they are.

      they're different dudes than he one's published by 4chan / post.

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  106. Re:The FBI refuses to help catch my stalker... apk by Redmancometh · · Score: 1

    Isn't half of it his signature?

  107. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Vintermann · · Score: 2

    So neo-nazis are less likely to be stopped, you mean?

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  108. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    America is my country - and they are whacking havoc in my country

    It wasn't your country initially. America was taken over by whites as they conquered the indigenous people who dwelled their in the first place. Your attitude holds an inherent flaw. Just like CISPA tries to quantify and regulate the internet and does so in such a brash unfair way, so to do your ideals.

    The problem is not Islam it's the way the world is built in general. You can't fix peoples' selfish deluded traits any more than you can stop the Govt from stealing your freedoms in the _name_ of "overall freedom".

    The world is not built on conspiracies or plans for world domination, especially not from a bunch of poorly educated religious people who don't know which way is up half the time, rather their pissed off because what their version of Bible camp told them says the reason why they are worthless is because the successful people out there made it this way and so when it suits them they thug around kick dents in our social system i.e "democracy" to make themselves feel better.

    The bigger problem is short-sighted ideals such as yours because it tries to close the door in a half baked fashion thinking that will solve the problem if we simply "go after them". Well I'm here to tell you it wont, it just feeds those poorly educated bastards by proving them right even more.

    What you should be saying, what is really on your mind, and that is destroy their entire race into submission, genocide, extermination, just like the American Indians. It might confound your "morals" by saying this but it was a tried and true method of solving these sorts of problems before.

    As for our civilised approach doesn't "seem" to be working all to well, so I ask, how bloody do you want your hands? And consider this, how much do you want to prove Islam's Bible camp right?

  109. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by sdreader · · Score: 1

    Either laugh or don't post. No-one likes a dick.

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  110. Re:WTF? by houghi · · Score: 2

    I like the 'if guilty' part. I am sure the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay also like that and would welcome it.

    I know off topic, but not completely.

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  111. Re:It's the Muslims !! by vux984 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not saying that every Muslim is bad, but the fact is, most of those bombings are connected with Islam ...

    And most of the drone strikes on muslims are connected with us.

    It shouldn't take a rocket science to see that the "war on terror" is going to generate a backlash. Doesn't matter at all "who started it" or "who is in the right". All that matters at this point is that as long as one side pokes the other side with a stick the other side will poke back.

    A war on terror can't be won, it will only generate a perpetual backlash. The only winning move is not to play.

  112. Shite going down in the 'burbs right now. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

    Radio is reporting some commotion outside Boston, with "Fire in the hole!", a concussion, hollering for someone to get on the ground with hands behind their head, requests for reporters to turn off their cell phones.

    Also a professor shot on MIT campus; who knows whether it's related.

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    1. Re:Shite going down in the 'burbs right now. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      Also a professor shot on MIT campus; who knows whether it's related.

      My bad: it was a campus cop, not a prof.

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    2. Re:Shite going down in the 'burbs right now. by rasmusbr · · Score: 1

      Radio is reporting some commotion outside Boston, with "Fire in the hole!", a concussion, hollering for someone to get on the ground with hands behind their head, requests for reporters to turn off their cell phones.

      Also a professor shot on MIT campus; who knows whether it's related.

      The police claims it is related. One suspect has been shot dead, one Boston policeman is in critical condition. One suspect still at large. The FBI has reportedly sealed off some 20 city blocks to try to contain him. AlJazeera just claimed that the police is considering shutting down all transit in the Boston area.

      Sounds like they feel pretty sure they've got the right men.

    3. Re:Shite going down in the 'burbs right now. by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      If only MIT had armed profs, a cop's life could have been saved.

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  113. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't see how that is anything but intellectually limiting.

    How very American of you.

  114. Re:It's the Muslims !! by clarkkent09 · · Score: 1

    The rest being done by the other side of the same collectivist coin, the radical leftists, such as this guy: http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wpvi/cms_exf_2007/news/local/032913_image_Sunil_Tripathi_FB_1.jpg

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  115. Re:It's the Muslims !!, at least read this!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    First off, and as far as I know to this hour, there is no link between any middle east groups, and the bombing.

    Second there are about 20 groups that call themselves Americans, that would do this, most of them right (far right) winger groups.

    I get that is what you are saying.. But on here you need to be clear in how you say it, like the two sentences above. Christians would be the first to use terrorism to take over anything they feared, and to hate what they couldn't explain. That is what cracks me about Christians that complain about Muslim beliefs, and the stereo type that every person who is Muslim has an axe to grind with any and every country.

    As dumb and completely irrelevant as this may seem, one could argue that because Christians couldn't convert Muslims, and now Muslim Religion is close to over taking Christian beliefs they want to prevent that from happening. Who may "they" be? Who wouldn't "they" be!! They tried to create an atmosphere in the US and around the world, and still do, over those who are atheists. However in all fairness atheists are not really tabooed anymore in the US...

    I would go one step further and say even if you get rid of religion, you have patriotism, which is just as dangerous. And that gets us back to where I started, the right wing groups have there own interpretation of what a country should be and the links they will go to, in order to keep things the way they want them.

  116. It's baseball fans! round 'em up! suspect 'em all! by fantomas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Both suspects wear baseball caps. They are baseball fans. Suspect and round up all the baseball players and fans you know. Clearly it is a conspiracy by baseball fans against the rest of us!

  117. Re:It's the Muslims !! by ozmanjusri · · Score: 1

    Assume you catch these guys, and find the owner of the fertiliser business which blew up in Waco to be negligent.

    Which is most likely to receive severe punishment, and which is more deserving of severe punishment?

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  118. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 1

    No, I don't mean that, although it is a byproduct of what I do mean.

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  119. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yes, i remember couple news where they have done that video enchancement thing, and to me it looked pretty good. Though could be that they looked away a lot of the time the in the video, and that's pretty much the only good picture there is, or that the software just isn't that good after all.

  120. Re:It's the Muslims !! by tehcyder · · Score: 1

    Since you had the courage to post with your account, I decided not to down-mod you, but ask you a counter-question: How?

    Under which guideline would you have down-modded his post? I don't have points myself right now, but I don't remember there being an option in the dropdown for "Unlikeable."

    Hysterical bigotry with no logic or appeal to facts generally comes under the heading of "flamebait" if it's intended seriously and "troll" if it's just done to cause a reaction.

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  121. Re:It's the Muslims !! by ameen.ross · · Score: 1

    "Support, through dollars"... you mean bribe?

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  122. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... Educate them out of ignorance and terror.

    This isn't simply fear and mis-information. It's caused by an intellectual defect.

    The basic one being: What I think/want/do is good. What you think/want/do is irrelevant. This devolves into bullying masked as justifiable violence. Christians are guilty of this as much as Muslims. When, the average voter didn't support the 'weapons of mass destruction' lie, war-mongers started preaching justifiable 'regime change' in Iraq.

    The second is a lack of social justice: Loners are alone because they don't want/have the skills/education/mind-set to be one of the happy, unwashed masses. Avoiding those unwashed masses, means avoiding the conflict caused by being inadequate. It also limits their ability to voice their problems and demand compensation when the cold, cruel world lands in their basement. Or a US missile lands in their wedding party. The result is a thirst for extreme revenge. If, the loner also has mental illness, it becomes extreme revenge on everybody.

  123. Unfortunately terrorists are often engineers by digiti · · Score: 1

    They aren't stupid, they understand that terrorism works. E.g. in Israel we had a peace process that was going relatively well between the left wing and the PLO. So the Hamas started blowing up buses and the peace process died. Hamas which was marginalized before used that collapse (and rise of Israeli right wing that resulted) to take over Gaza strip after the fact.
    So terrorists can come from a very weak position and manipulate public opinion very effectively. E.g. before 911 no one cared much about Bin Laden, now the "arab spring" is turning into religious governments who shape more after Iran than after the USA... As engineers they are remarkably effective at manipulating us (or really the dumber element of our society)

    1. Re:Unfortunately terrorists are often engineers by aquabat · · Score: 1

      That's different. You're talking about command structure; I'm talking about footsoldiers. Sure, the commanders are sharp. They have their agenda, and they give orders to achieve that agenda. (They're still heartless, but maybe they know it and have come to terms with it). However, I have trouble believing that the kids they send out to bomb random targets have thought very deeply about their own motivations for doing so. The tribe is a powerful thing.

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    2. Re:Unfortunately terrorists are often engineers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      nice of you to put engineers like Leonardo da Vinci in the terrorists compartment

      are you also going to include Joseph Whitworth,.. Marconi,.. Tesla...Rolls Royce brothers.. etc etc etc

      LOL dumb american

  124. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do you know what a suspect is? The only thing more disgusting than that attitude is the fact that it got modded insightful.

  125. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

    America is my country - and they are whacking havoc in my country

    I've seen reeking, racking & wrecking but that's a new one on me.

    What was it Einstein said about the universe being infinite?

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  126. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Religion can't survive without support from people in power. When it loses that support, it dies within a generation.

    Clearly rubbish, or they'd never get started.

    Read about Constantine I.

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  127. As Hillary Bollocks said... by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    There are 1.4 billion Muslims worldwide. If it's the Muslims, you're fucked.

    Whatever happens, we have got
    The atom bomb, and they have not.
    Well, not a lot...

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  128. Latest news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22212946

    Not sure why slashdotters aren't talking about this?

  129. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The U.S.A. is two hundred years old. It has no culture.

  130. Re:It's the Muslims !! by screwdriver · · Score: 1

    Why all the hate on Muslims? I believe all religion is evil.

  131. Boston Bombers had military training !! by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 1

    Slashdot has become a place where all the anti-American-freaks congregate

    All messages warning against the dangerous Islamic religion were modded down, and on the other hand, all messages accusing America of aggression (and Pro-Islam) got modded up and up

    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17817173-one-boston-marathon-suspect-dead-another-still-on-run-officials-say?lite

    Those of you hating the USA so much do not need to read the above link

    Those of you still believing in the US of A, click on the above link and read it for yourself

    The Boston bombers are foreign born, and they all had previous military training OUTSIDE OF AMERICA

    The Boston Marathon Bombing and the subsequent shootout in MIT is yet another sign that America is under constant attack from the Muslims

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  132. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That and the idea that terrorism is a prominently Islamic problem is stupid.

    Over the last few decades far more people have been killed in my country (the UK) by Christian terrorists (the IRA etc.) than muslims.

    It's interesting to see the difference in reactions to the primarily white Irish terrorists comprising the likes of the IRA and the primarily non-white African, Middle Eastern, and Pakistani terrorists - there's certainly more call for racial profiling which goes to show how much of the anti-Islamic rhetoric polluting the world today. It's like people forget that it wasn't even that long ago (when you consider that we've been in Afghanistan 11 years now) that a Japanese religious cult released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway.

    I'm not one for religion full stop, and there's no doubt that Islam has been at the centre of current Western tensions, but globally in general, there's still hundreds of millions, likely over a billion who want nothing more than peace and who gladly keep to themselves. People in the West are often oblivious of the fact that muslims are sometimes even victims, even buddhists have killed far more muslims in places like Burma since the start of the year than muslims have killed people of other religions in religion/racial oriented attacks.

    I never cease to be amazed how quick Americans are to call for action against muslims when they fail to carry out a terrorist attack, or carry out one that is relatively minor in impact but then are stuck with a complete stalemate over anything when a white caucasian American goes on a far more damaging and dangerous gun rampage. It's like the words islam or muslim cause a complete and utter loss of perspective in many Americans (and in fact a number of other Westerners).

    Maybe I can also explain it in NRA terms for the dumb rednecks - Islam, Christianity, Atheism, Buddhism, doesn't kill people, terrorists do.

  133. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Muslim countries on the whole are black holes of civilization in every way, from human rights to education, not to mention science and technology. Nothing positive has come from Islam for many, many centuries.

    I've read recently that around 1200 it were mostly the eastern countries who were more educated than the western world, or at least comparable. Around that time Genghis Khan came around and destroyed their entire civilisation, including their entire scientific community, libraries, and with that most of their knowledge.

    If that hadn't been the case, perhaps it'd have been the middle east that was the more advanced region instead of the west as it is now. As for your other points about violence and others, I can only say that the western world has had similar developments in the past (e.g. The Crusades). How history could have developed differently with other courses of events are nothing more than speculations.

  134. Re:It's the Muslims !! by peragrin · · Score: 2

    I would like to make a partial counter.

    When christianity was around 1500 years old you had the spainish inquisition, Slavery was considered good, Witch trials that killed by with toture and the christians brought a whole continent into slavery (South America).

    Guess How old Islam is right now?

    It is only two data points, but religions that demand you must believe and all others are to be killed is the problem. All three religions based on the teachings of Moses have this problem.

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  135. Re:It's the Muslims !! by chrismcb · · Score: 1

    I know this comment is gonna be modded down to the basement, I do not care

    Comments shouldn't be voted down because people disagree with them. This happens to be your opinion, misguided as it is. Islam happens to be a fairly LARGE religion. Most of problems you see come from a select few people.
    Kind of like how the Westbro Baptists claim to be Christian. Should he ban ALL of Christianity because of a small group?
    Not to mention a lot of violence happens for other reasons.

  136. Re:It's the guns!!! by chrismcb · · Score: 1

    I think they will start controlling sells of crock pots.

  137. How about NO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why should I help the feds form a fucking police state?
    It's bad enough everything is on camera as it is, don't encourage this shit.
    Being watched 24/7 is infinitely more 'evil' than a bomb going off once in a blue moon.
    You all have your priorities mixed up if you are helping this bullshit.

  138. Re:It's the Muslims !! by onyxruby · · Score: 1

    And you have to restrain yourself to the United States to get that figure. While I certainly don't sympathize with neo-nazis or their ilk (and I doubt they'd approve of my non-white girlfriend), your cherry picking of facts is disingenuous. Worldwide the overwhelming majority of bombings are performed by Muslims and it's only by parsing the data in a certain way that you can make it look any other way.

  139. Re:It's the Muslims !! by chaos_technique · · Score: 1

    just give everyone an IQ test upon entry. set the threshold so very few religious people get in.

    Millions of Americans will be prevented from travelling abroad...

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  140. Re:It's the guns!!! by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 2

    They didn't use crock pots but pressure cookers to build their bombs, but given the stupidity of our government they would probably ban crock pots as well.

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  141. CIA leak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "I work on a security commission and I’ve just received word to start on a campaign we’ve been working on for the last two months and now it all makes sense.

    I’ll keep it as short can I can

    They’re going to pin this event on a male late teens to early 20s and say he did it because he’s unstable.

    They are going to find firearms and a NRA book in his home. They are going to to say he used reloading powder for the explosion and that reloading powder shouldn’t be for sale to the public. They are then going to say that because the powder in ammunition can be used for explosions that the number of rounds you can buy should be limited and taxed to help pay for these events.

    I can’t do anything or I’ll lose my job and possibly face criminals charges. Please don’t let them get away with it. They won’t find the suspect till later this week and the raid is issued to occur on Friday. This was a staged event. The people hurt are real but the event was planned. Don’t let them hurt our rights."

    http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2206469/pg1

    from
    05/16/2013

    I read this on the day. It's real, and it seems to be turning out as he said..

  142. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The word you want is "stoop" not "steep".

    Furthermore when I look into the abyss the abyss blinks, tries to look away, and then wets its pants.

  143. Re:It's the Muslims !! by oreaq · · Score: 2

    My point is that in the big scheme of things we have not injured the Muslim world at all, without us (the West) they would be far poorer, far more backwards and pretty much worse off in every single way.

    Except for those that we killed. And except for those have been killed by the dictators we are financing. And except for those we kidnap and torture.

    The main mistake you are making however is where you draw the line: it's not the "Muslims" on the one side and the "West" on the other side. Both groups contain a large group of psychopaths who really like to kill "other" people and do it on a regular basis. You should draw the line between the psychopaths and their victims. But instead you side with one group of psychopaths and rationalize that by claiming that "our" psychopaths are not as bad as "their" psychopaths. The relevant question here is: Who killed more people, Osama or Obama? Probably Obama. Bush or Hussein? Probably Hussein. And even if Obama were only 1 milliHitler and Osama were 2 milliHitler you still are morally bankrupt for siding with the "lesser evil" of both.

  144. Re:WTF? by tehcyder · · Score: 1

    And this is why people are scared of Google Glass--it'll make an already existing problem worse; that is, the government will outsource its spying to the people.

    If I see someone running away after mugging another person, am I acting as a "government spy" if I report it to the police and subsequently give evidence against them in court?

    You paranoid rightwingers are so obsessed with the government being the fount of all evil that you lose touch with reality.

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  145. Re:The looks by tehcyder · · Score: 1

    Take a look at his nose and the black bushy hair. Light skinned, but definitely middle-eastern decent of some sort.

    If he's a decent sort, he's unlikely to be a cold-blooded terrorist.

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  146. Re:Low FPS Compression Artifcacts Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wrong. Roughly 50% of the populations likes a dick.

  147. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As a Christian, one who follows the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, I would not call the the actions of the KKK "Christian". Just because one claims to be something does make them that thing.

    I can go around wearing an American flag, singing the American anthem and telling everyone I'm an American while punching people in the face. That does not mean I am an American nor does it mean that all Americans are face-punchers.

  148. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 1

    Bonus ;)

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  149. Re:News for Nerds. by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

    But they did make the bombs out of recycled Nintendos :)

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  150. Re:It's the Muslims !! by gtbritishskull · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was the people who practice Christianity who bombed a government building in Oslo (killing 8) and then went on a killing spree on a youth camp (killing 69).

    See... I can do it too.

    I see why you do it. It is fun to let the actions of a few wackos condemn a whole religion.

    Also, if you hate freedom of religion so much, why don't you move to Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Egypt (or China)?

  151. Re:It's the Muslims !! by gtbritishskull · · Score: 1
    Right. Because it is not like any Catholics

    are famous for bombings.

  152. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Politburo · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

  153. That would explain today's headline by Minwee · · Score: 1

    "FBI Seeks Help In Finding Pair"

    Talk amongst yourselves, you can make up your own jokes here.

  154. Re:It's the guns!!! by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 1

    ... they would probably ban crock pots as well.

    I'll give you my Crock*Pot (R) when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!

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    That is all.
  155. Re:Very suspicious move from the government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...the kid is actually involved but connected and so Obama is trying to sneak him out of the country.

    Well, there is precedent for that sort of action. Bush let the bin Ladens leave the US after 9/11 while all of the other planes were grounded.

  156. Re:It's baseball fans! round 'em up! suspect 'em a by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1

    "Suspect and round up all the baseball players and fans you know."

    While this wouldn't do anything to stop the violence, it would certainly make my world a happier place!

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    Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
  157. Movie theatre shooting by phorm · · Score: 1

    To the GP...
    Or the more recent movie-theatre shooting, or the various school shootings, etc.
    I suppose it's "difference" because those evil [insert religion/race] use bombs instead of going on shooting rampages?

    The only difference I see between a shooting spree and a bomb is that shooters seem to get ID'ed and caught/shot a bit sooner than bombers.

  158. CCTV vs smartphone by phorm · · Score: 1

    Indeed. While those little smartphone cameras still aren't a match for a real camera in many cases, in decent light they still beat the pants off CCTV cameras etc.

    In the era when pretty much everyone has a 5+ megapixel camera or even 1080p video-camera in their pocket - with no worries about wasting film on random shots - on-site photography is going to be very valuable in situations like this.

  159. Re:It's the Muslims !! by CarbonShell · · Score: 1

    What I feel people fail to see is that this is not about muslims or christians or whatever, it is about people who hate other people. Plain and simple.
    You will find these kinds of people everywhere.

    Though there is one difference between some of the groups.
    Some hate you for who or what you are.
    Some hate you for what 'you' did to 'them'.
    Some might even be a mixture of both.

    The only difference is that in some countries, the crazies don't have that much power. Sadly, we are far to often at fault that the crazies were able to come to power and/or hold that power.

    But remember, there were times when that was different and we cannot, in all honesty, be 'confused' how 'people treat others over there'.
    I mean does anyone think Afghanistan would look like it is today if the Taliban were not in charge (simplification, but go with it for now).
    Does anyone think that after WW2, after the Nazis were 'removed' (you'd be surprised how few really were removed), the Germans were somehow magically cured?
    The civil war in the US, while it 'freed' the slaves, did not make them equal, nor did it change the people.

    If you live in a country were the crazies have the power, the entire country will be run that way. Not because everyone is crazy, but because if you do not play along, you will be next on the list.
    Only the fewest of the few have the balls to stand up to them.
    And no, you are not one of them!

    We can find such hate in all countries, in all walks of life and in all people.

    Finally, this is not only about hate, it is also about power. Regardless of most intentions, once power has been gained, all the best intentions fly out the window, because they stand in the way of keeping that power.
    So if we think about what religions or social mindsets do, it is often the crazies that try to hide their hate and vileness by using their religion or their social mindsets as excuses. I mean right-wing dictatorships and left-wing dictatorship are both dictatorships, they just use a different carrot.

  160. Re:Very suspicious move from the government by orangebox · · Score: 1

    Please don't group Glenn Beck with the rest of us. There are plenty of Mormons who find him obnoxious and crazy.

  161. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "It's okay to slaughter muslim innocents because they stone and repress women and science. If we kill kill enough of them they might surrender in fear and stop doing those things. Also, they should die and suffer anyway for doing those things."
     
    Quite a rational argument in it's own way, really. Shame about the fact that the ones he'd want to have six feet under or in a torture chamber are religious fanatics who martyr themselves at the drop of a hat, thus rendering the entire strategy invalid though.

  162. Re:It's the Muslims !! by m1ndcrash · · Score: 1

    Mind you the average person in the US is fat.

  163. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Alex+Belits · · Score: 0

    Clearly rubbish, or they'd never get started.

    Why? Most early forms of government have clearly theocratic traits.

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    Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
  164. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    saudis never brought down The WTC towers ...they were brought down by Thermite explosives planted in the building ...the same as WTC building 7
    The planes were remotely controlled by the USA military and guided to their target using laser-spotting-targeting devices

    the real passengers of the plane were taken off the plane,..long time before
    Aircraft plane spotter experts confirm no such filght number took off

    The poor "victims" on board are now held prisoner somewhere in the USA...( a sort of rendition
    for your own countrymen & women passengers) so to speak

    Aircraft fuel that burns at about 1,000 degrees....cannot burn high-tensile structural steel beams that have a melting point of over 5,000 Degrees
    Even adding the ignited paper,..computer equipment furniture...office furnishings etc..
    still will not weaken the steal structure to cause collapse

    Designers & architects can verify that the WTC were designed to with stand fire,..plane crashes...
    Thermite was used to slice through the supporting pillars...like a hot knife through butter

    That requires a degree of work lasting many months before of people to enter the building and set up the explosive devices

    Thermite residue and its chemical finger-prints were found on girders.
    Girders ...from the "crime-scene" that were hurriedly moved away to a scrapyard at break neck speed..

    Anyone caught destroying evidence at a crime-scene such as a homicide,..sexual assault is subject to punishment by coourts and prison sentences..
    GW Bush and his CIA cronies where never prosecuted

  165. Re:WTF? by amiga3D · · Score: 1

    I agree with you. Those guys in Gitmo should either be released if innocent or shot if guilty. That bullshit has gone on way too long.

  166. Re: It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So what about the aurora shooter?? He KILLED 18 ppl!!! He was white!!!
    A white terrorist!

  167. Re:It's the Muslims !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    the difference between "them" and you is that your a brainwashed product of the jews
    Your well condition to spout your love for Israel and defend the jews tto the detriment of your own country and native american idian culture.

    in other words yo are a traitor,..traitor to allow you country to be infested and over run by a foreign power...while denying rights to your own countrymen ..who have been here longer than you.
    Us ...as you claim to be

    what is "us" ?
    why jew lover and jew cocksucker?.....drops you pants at the snap of a yids fingers...to take a long one up your anal passage as a short-cut to your empty brain.
    Everythime a US president gets elected...he does not grovel and crawl to the people who elected him...nor to the native ethic indians of America...
    NO,..with les tan a month the pitiful Rep. & Democrat president is sniveeling up the Jews arse ......at meeting specifically designed t test his allegiance to a land ...10,000 miles away
    You should take yourself out the gene pool and crawl back under a rock somewhere in your fascist rabid Kosher boys desert

    what kind of world is it when its run by fatso scumbag slobs of yankee scum,..to fat to role out of bed,..to fat to fit in a japanese car,..for-ever breeding like rabbits,...forever using foul gutter langauge.....for ever eating up all the worlds food & fuel resources,..
    and then have the gall 7 temerity to blame Muslims for all your problems,..THAT YOU created the last 300 years of your sorry arse countrys existence

  168. Re:Deja vu guess which patsy gets blamed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But Bin Laden strongly denied any role in the attacks and suggested that Zionists orchestrated the 9-11 attacks:

    "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks....The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States.