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Submission + - NYPD to Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen through Internet Chatter

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Michael Wilson writes in the NY Times that top intelligence officials in the New York Police Department are looking for ways to target “apolitical or deranged killers before they become active shooters" using techniques similar to those being used to spot terrorists’ chatter online. The techniques would include "cyber-searches of language that mass-casualty shooters have used in e-mails and Internet postings,” says Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. “The goal would be to identify the shooter in cyberspace, engage him there and intervene, possibly using an undercover to get close, and take him into custody or otherwise disrupt his plans.” There are also plans to send officers to Newtown and to scenes of other mass shootings to collect information says the department’s chief spokesman Paul. J. Browne adding that potential tactics include creating an algorithm that would search online “for terms used by active shooters in the past that may be an indicator of future intentions.” The NYPD’s counter-terrorism division released a report last year, "Active Shooter," after studying 202 mass shooting incidents (PDF). “So, we think this is another logical step,” says Kelly."
Medicine

Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims 233

Posted by samzenpus from the me-and-more-me dept.
An anonymous reader writes in with a story about the possibility of having another you in the future. "Human cloning could happen within the next half century, claims a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Sir John Gurdon, the British developmental biologist whose research cloning frogs in the 1950s and 60s led to the later creation of Dolly the sheep in 1996, believes that human cloning could happen within the next 50 years. He said that parents who lose their children to tragic accidents might be able to clone replacements in the next few decades. Gurdon, who won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, said that while any attempts to clone a human would likely raise complex ethical issues, he believes that in the near future people would overcome their concerns if cloning became medically useful."
Censorship

Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks 306

Posted by timothy from the washing-your-mouth-out-with-soap dept.
tsamsoniw writes "PNC, Bank of America, SunTrust, and other major financial institutions have experienced a wave of DDoS attacks and site outages over the past couple of days, and Islamic extremist hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters is claiming responsibility. The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet.""

Comment Re:Headline is a little misleading (Score 1) 529

by youn (#41643465) Attached to: Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation

quick! somebody at HQ patch the universe DRM of the universe or the little tiny simulons on the terra grid might jailbreak the universe and run unauthorized code... that might affect the stability of the universe and they may created pirated planets... which would result in a loss for the RIAA (Galactic RIAA)
Patents

Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung 316

Posted by timothy from the as-do-we-all dept.
angry tapir writes "A California jury may have awarded Apple more than US$1 billion in damages in late August when it triumphed over Samsung in a hard-fought case over smartphone and tablet patents, but the iPhone maker is coming back for more: late last week it asked for additional damages of $707 million. The request includes an enhanced award of $535 million for willful violation of Apple's designs and patents, as well as about $172 million in supplemental damages based on the fact that the original damages were calculated on Samsung's sales through June 30."

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