You're absolutely correct - most of the vehicles on the page are unmarked highway patrol, a few detective vehicles but nothing I would consider 'undercover'. If they were undercover they wouldn't be in a vehicle that has radios and lights installed, they'd be using portables.
There isn't really any problem here, this is just the Vic Police overreacting. The vehicles are 100% obviously cop cars, with exactly the same antenna and will always have some form of lightbar inside or outside the vehicle. Anyone who can't spot an undercover cop in Australia needs their eyes checked.
When security vulnerabilities are discovered in a piece of software (that is not open source), the release of that information may be delayed to allow sufficient time for the developers to patch the vulnerability. This organisation is basically asking that the release of this information be delayed until such a time as it is irrelevant. The problem we see with this is that people will always find the unreleased vulnerabilities, and it is entirely possible that this will happen in this case, but it would be a bit more catastrophic than a 0-day IIS vulnerability.
Having big buildings doesn't make you civilised, it's more about the people and their way of life. Sure, they have skyscrapers, but looking at those images I have no indication of whether they worship uncivilised gods or continually have tribal battles. As far as I'm concerned, they are all still uncivilised locations.
The problem isn't the robotics researchers or manufacturers. I can tell you from experience that new technology like the use of robots in emergency management will always take years to come into play. There are so many great ways that technology can be integrated with emergency management, but emergency services will never have the budget and human resources to experiment with and adapt technology to real world applications.
The earthquake was a catalyst for change in emergency management in Japan, leading to an immediate requirement for the use of new technology which would have been invested in (with both time and money) when the need became apparent.
Personally I'd like to see further developments like this - the use of UAVs for bushfire operations and other disaster reconnaissance, robotic rubble searchers, etc.
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That was my first thought too - it would be quite beneficial for the Chinese government to block satellite imagery through geo-engineering.
You're absolutely correct - most of the vehicles on the page are unmarked highway patrol, a few detective vehicles but nothing I would consider 'undercover'. If they were undercover they wouldn't be in a vehicle that has radios and lights installed, they'd be using portables.
There isn't really any problem here, this is just the Vic Police overreacting. The vehicles are 100% obviously cop cars, with exactly the same antenna and will always have some form of lightbar inside or outside the vehicle. Anyone who can't spot an undercover cop in Australia needs their eyes checked.
You say that as though I read the summary.
Sure, if by 'security threat' you mean 'economic threat', and by 'United States' you mean 'Motorola'.
Just in time for tax!
Also, what a terrible article. Shaky camera is shaky, and what is the "U of O"? Is that some kind of alien craft?
This is a science story about cancer. It's got nothing to do with Canada except for the fact that the researchers happen to be based there.
It's a Canadian story published in Canada about Canadian researcher. What did you expect, a US flag?
Thanks for the tip - I always seem to get incorrect advice from "mechanic" mates.
I believe it also keeps the fuel line cleaner to use up the older petrol before dumping new petrol on the top.
I own a non-mobile wallet, it's called a safe.
My wallet is already mobile.
When security vulnerabilities are discovered in a piece of software (that is not open source), the release of that information may be delayed to allow sufficient time for the developers to patch the vulnerability. This organisation is basically asking that the release of this information be delayed until such a time as it is irrelevant. The problem we see with this is that people will always find the unreleased vulnerabilities, and it is entirely possible that this will happen in this case, but it would be a bit more catastrophic than a 0-day IIS vulnerability.
For the US embassy to take part in that, couldn't this seen as a hostile act by the victim country?
Only if said victim country wasn't already the US' bitch.
If they did, I very much doubt they will say anything about it.
Even if they did say anything, would anyone believe them?
Would almost certainly be for tracking individuals. Sounds similar to a DARPA project.
They took it down shortly before the reporters got to it, this was what it looked like before: http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8082/dellimage2.jpg
Are you calling our Lord and Saviour uncivilised?
Having big buildings doesn't make you civilised, it's more about the people and their way of life. Sure, they have skyscrapers, but looking at those images I have no indication of whether they worship uncivilised gods or continually have tribal battles. As far as I'm concerned, they are all still uncivilised locations.
The problem isn't the robotics researchers or manufacturers. I can tell you from experience that new technology like the use of robots in emergency management will always take years to come into play. There are so many great ways that technology can be integrated with emergency management, but emergency services will never have the budget and human resources to experiment with and adapt technology to real world applications. The earthquake was a catalyst for change in emergency management in Japan, leading to an immediate requirement for the use of new technology which would have been invested in (with both time and money) when the need became apparent. Personally I'd like to see further developments like this - the use of UAVs for bushfire operations and other disaster reconnaissance, robotic rubble searchers, etc.
The 9.0 earthquake is now said to have been the largest ever recorded to have hit a civilized area.
Because as we all know, Chile, Indonesia and Anchorage, Alaska are composed entirely of backwards tribal villages.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, given that most of those places are particularly backwards.
Not really something I have any plans on testing...
Hookers earn a lot of money, mate.
Holy hell this is a good idea.
Back in my day, we didn't even have rationing.