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Microsoft Game Software Preps Soldiers For Battle 44

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @02:14AM from the blue-screen-of-real-death dept.

coondoggie writes "Soldiers may go into battle better prepared to handle equipment and with a greater knowledge of their surroundings after an intellectual property licensing deal Monday between Microsoft and Lockheed Martin that will deepen the defense giant's access to visual simulation technology. The intellectual property agreement between the two focuses on Microsoft ESP, a games-based visual simulation software platform for the PC."

Comment protecting medically sensitive data!? WTF? (Score 1) 223

by rokkaku on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @01:25AM (#26276783) Attached to: NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report

In the executive summary (sorry, I haven't finished all 400 pages yet), they suggest that, "Medical sensitive data should always be protected to preserve the privacy of the the victims and their families." WTF?

It seems to me that we spend billions of dollars to train and deploy the astronauts as human guinea pigs to help understand space and spaceflight. A huge pool of applicants are winnowed down to a tiny, privileged astronaut cadre. These folks have every chance to opt out -- any and all data about what happened to them and why and how should be available.

I'm not talkin' about naked astronaut pictures, but it seems like just about everything short of that should be available. Anybody who isn't comfortable with that sort of disclosure can just stay on the ground.

Submission + - City Posts Pay Stubs to Web, Fights Blogger

Submitted by rokkaku on Friday September 14, 2007 @11:19AM

rokkaku writes: When the gadfly blogger Claremont Insider went searching for information about employee compensation on the city of Claremont web site, they never expected to find scans of pay stubs for all the employees. Nor did they expect the city attorney to demand that they remove copies of those pay stubs from their web site, especially since, according to California law, the compensation of public employees is public information.

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