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US Military Seeks Non-Cooperative Biometric Tracking Technology 98

An anonymous reader writes "Interesting article on the upcoming efforts of the Department of Defense biometric capabilities and the ability to non-cooperatively tag, track, and locate individuals from a variety of military UAV platforms. Quoting Wired: "[The] Army just handed out a half-dozen contracts to firms to find faces from above, track targets, and even spot 'adversarial intent.' 'If this works out, we'll have the ability to track people persistently across wide areas', says Dr. Tim Faltemier, the lead biometrics researcher at Progeny Systems Corporation, which recently won one of the Army contracts. 'A guy can go under a bridge or inside a house. But when he comes out, we'll know it was the same guy that went in.'"

Submission + - Where Did Groupon's Billion Dollars Go? (allthingsd.com)

ailnlv writes: Apparently, Groupon is nothing but a pyramid scheme. In a few months the early investors managed to get more than $800 million of Groupon's money into their own pockets, while the company keeps bleeding cash.

Comment Re:Them swedes. (Score 1) 420

do you see the irony of requiring compensation on something that will not be ever used on a lifetime, and the same thing also being reproduceable/copiable faster than the original author can say 'copyright' ?

i don't know about that, some of those lawyers can say 'copyright' pretty damn fast

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