Special Ops Takes Its Manhunts Into Space 32
Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will soon be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. "SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each about the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that's getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. They’ll sit more than 300 miles above the earth and provide a new way for the beacons to call back to their masters." When special forces are able to tag their target, the target can be tracked and located through the use of satellites and cell towers, but coverage is poor in many areas of the world. The satellites going up in September will help to fill in some gaps. "This array of configurable 'cubesats' is designed to stay aloft for three years or more. Yes, it will serve as further research project. But 'operators are going to use it,' Richardson promised an industry conference in Tampa last week."
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Please Google: NASA secret space program
How am I supposed to monetize and strip the privacy from "NASA secret space program?"
Or, did you mean perform a web search for NASA secret space program? [duckduckgo.com]
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Or plutonium nyborg.
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We're getting closer to "Enemy of the State".
"Closer"!?!?
Not trying to admin somebody else's systems, but...maybe you should consider upgrading your news feed to RFC 1149 or something else a bit swifter. Seems your current one is experiencing...umm...latency-related....uh...shall we say, "issues".
We (in the US) are already there. Just go read the recent news. IRS/TEA Party/medical records seizures, DoJ/reporters, etc etc. It's not "ooh, shiny!" Hollywood, but what in the real world ever is? The results (and the violation, terror, and suffering of inno
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Not following the news (retractions) much? That same audit targeted liberal groups with equal opportunity [nytimes.com] -- it did focus on organizations with political-sounding names, but didn't pick bones about which side of the fence that orga
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Not following the news (retractions) much? That same audit targeted liberal groups with equal opportunity [nytimes.com] -- it did focus on organizations with political-sounding names, but didn't pick bones about which side of the fence that organization was on.
I'm sorry, but you are completely wrong.
IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo [usatoday.com]
WASHINGTON -- In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked.
That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment. There wouldn't be another Tea Party application approved for 27 months.
In that time, the IRS approved perhaps dozens of applications from similar liberal and progressive groups, a USA TODAY review of IRS data shows.
As applications from conservative groups sat in limbo, groups with liberal-sounding names had their applications approved in as little as nine months. With names including words like "Progress" or "Progressive," the liberal groups applied for the same tax status and were engaged in the same kinds of activities as the conservative groups. ...
Lawmakers say IRS targeted dozens more conservative groups than initially believed [foxnews.com]
The IRS targeting of conservative groups is far broader than first reported, with nearly 500 organizations singled out for additional scrutiny, according to two lawmakers briefed by the agency.
IRS officials claimed on Friday that roughly 300 groups received additional scrutiny. Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that the number has actually risen to 471. Further, they said it is "unclear" whether Tea Party and other conservative groups are being targeted to this day.
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I'm sorry, but you are completely wrong.
Well to be fair, he's only completely wrong on the *facts*. Other than that... :)
Strat
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This was moderated "Flamebait"? Really?
Good job striking a blow for oppressive, intrusive government and against those uppity serfs thinking they have rights.
This isn't about political parties. In case you haven't noticed, the government (regardless of which Party is in office) is spying on and violating the rights of *everyone*, including the present administration's "friends" in the mainstream press (AP).
Reminds me of an abused wife that attacks the police who are trying to arrest the husband for beating
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"In your face from outer space" (Score:3)
"In your face from outer space" - Motto of the USAF Space Warfare Center, Falcon AFB.
That's from 1996. SWC never really quite lived up to that motto, and their successor, the Space Innovation & Development Center, is more of an R&D operation. It's becoming closer to reality, though.
We'll know it's real the first time some space-based weapon zaps an individual on the ground.
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"In your face from outer space" - Motto of the USAF Space Warfare Center, Falcon AFB.
but can they perform dual use missions such as "Space Patrol" on wandering asteroids? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbYjzZIQwlw [youtube.com]
last week? (Score:2)
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Is it a time machine??? How can he promise a conference last week?
Its cheaper, you just have to tell all the interested parties "sorry you missed it"
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Since when have we accepted this term into our everyday language?
Sorry, that was not PC. How about Personhunt?
Where is the justice in a "hunt"? Hunting ends with a kill, not with a prosecution. Honestly I don't know why we tolerate such dehumanisation. All I have to say is fuck Soulskill for posting this and contributing to the decline.
I think that "hunt" is entirely accurate in describing what special forces do, and in the case of Muslim terrorists entirely justified.
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except we've killed innocent people in a ratio of over 100 to 1 over terrorists with our "War on Terror"
The two major exports of the USA are death and destruction
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Been done already (Score:2)
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Angel [wikia.com]
Another military boondoggle (Score:2)