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Submission + - WorldView-1 Satellite Launch Successful (physorg.com)

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eldavojohn

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @09:01AM

eldavojohn writes: "The latest and greatest imaging satellite has been launched & is now circling some 300 miles above the earth. The company DigitalGlobe will be launching WorldView-2 late next year. The amount of data the first satellite is capable of harvesting is staggering, from the article: 'WorldView-1 was designed to collect up to 290,000 square miles' worth of imagery a day — an area about the size of Texas. Information gathered by the 5,000-pound probe can be used by governments and companies to assess damage after a natural disaster or plan escape routes before a catastrophe, the company said. It is expected to be in operation for about seven years.'"

Submission + - Detecting Terrorism From Facial Expressions (msn.com)

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Cyansoft

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @08:52AM

Cyansoft writes: "The Washington Post reports that the TSA is training airport screeners to detect lawbreakers and terrorists by their behavior, specifically signs of "stress, fear and deception", and such behaviors as traveling without bags, sweating, nervous, being "out of place", or avoiding "eye contact or veer away when police approach". Since January 2006, the TSA has detained 40,000 persons for extra screening, in which 300 were arrested for various charges. The TSA plans to train 1000 screeners in behavioral detection techniques and deploy them to more than 40 airports nationwide by the end of this year. Such techniques include "micro-facial expression" training, which "determine[s] when the slightest facial movement is masking a lie." Additionally, the government is testing devices that can see through clothing."

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