How many bumbles are
you allowed before you eliminate yourself as a Presidential
candidate?
Francesca Trianni
reports:
New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that fingerprint
technology should be used to admit residents to city-run housing
projects as a way of increasing security.
“What
we really should have is fingerprinting to get in,” Bloomberg said
while speaking on WOR-AM radio about ways to improve safety in public
housing. “We’ve just gotta find some ways to keep bringing crime
down there.”
Read more on Reuters.
I’d comment on his
proposal but I’m too busy spluttering.
Anything that works.
It's avoiding duplication that is difficult.
Secrecy
News – Military Tests Data Mining of Social Media for Special Ops
“The U.S. military
has been investigating the use of sophisticated data mining tools to
probe social media and other open sources in order to support
military operations against money laundering, drug trafficking,
terrorism and other threats. But the window for doing so may be
closing as the social media landscape changes, according to an
internal assessment. U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
National Capital Region (NCR) conducted a series of experiments over
the past year under the rubric “QUANTUM LEAP” that was intended
to test “non-traditional” tools and techniques to advance the
SOCOM mission. [In fact, only the first experiment was carried
out...] An after-action report on the first experiment said it
“was successful in identifying strategies and techniques for
exploiting open sources of information, particularly social media, in
support of a counter threat finance mission.” Counter
threat finance refers to efforts to disrupt an adversary’s
finances. A copy of the SOCOM NCR report was obtained by Secrecy
News. See “Project
QUANTUM LEAP: After Action Report,” 12 September 2012.
“Major lessons
learned were the pronounced utility of social media in exploiting
human networks, including networks in which individual members
actively seek to limit their exposure to the internet and social
media…,” the report said.
The QUANTUM LEAP
project, which did not utilize classified intelligence, relied
heavily on participation by private sector firms identified in the
report, who demonstrated tools they had developed “to enhance
the ability to discover relationships, human networks, and geospatial
features” from open source data.”
Interesting. This is
the other end of the 3D Printing world.
– is the world’s
first cloud-based 3D scanning solution. Volumental’s online
service lets anyone create 3D models of
people, objects and rooms. With only a few clicks you record a short
film that they convert into a 3D model within minutes. The models
can easily be shared online, downloaded, edited and printed in 3D or
used in virtual environments.
When students tell me
they always use the default I want to reach for my stun gun... An
Infographic to get students to try new things.
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