things like phone number, address, etc. are all, and have been for a very long time, one your DMV records. That part is nothing new. I just don't get how there's an increasing amount of law enforcement types essentially trying to enforce a law that doesn't exist. searched out a bunch of articles yesterday and the only one that made any sense was the guy documenting the construction on the WTC site getting permission for it. After all, photos of a building that is certainly a reasonably expected target while it's still being build could be useful.

But again, all of this seems to ignore that there;s ways to perform surveillance that don't involve cameras. And that none of the terrorist attacks in the US in the last 20 years would have been prevented by doing this.

Is there any security in the US that's NOT pure theatre?

just found this donloadable PDF about photographer's rights. US, presumably: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm

freaking nice video

I just got an idea. New government group in charge of coming up with bloody stupid invasive ideas every month. Just bundle DHS and RIAA into one nice big idiotic package, based out of one building in washington.

then, of course, demolish said building.

So.... asking for the video footage can be done, apparently easily. What would have happened if they'd filmed with digital cameras near a mall and got one of the CCTVs in the frame?

just saying, that if they're worried about surveillance, using the cameras themselves is one way to do it.

It' funny but cool, as well. since the US has been slowing it's production and just buying stuff made everywhere else, it's good to make stuff there as well.

Looks to me that the chinese are crunching ALL the numbers instead of just looking at labour costs.

It hasn't worked because we simply didn't put in enough cameras! of course!

I can see movement tracking as being a useful thing for police. Someone uses the tube after killing someone, or to verify someone (or at least their card) was on ethe tube at the time of the murder.

as for using it to harrass/ track random innocent people... well if their database has only the amount of info that DHS' no- fly list has then maybe, but if it has any amount more... like age...

couldn't the terrorists just google a potential target fro photographs of it?

oh wait... all terrorists are illiterate. forgot.

and forgetful since visual surveillance is outside of their abilities.

seriously who made up this BS?

So, how many years before they realise that a mere list of first and last names is kinda insufficient for identifying possible terrorists? They've reached Latter-day USSR levels of inefficiency here.

I despise everything about the mamas & papas version of california dreamin. The Edde Hazel version, of course, is awesome. And 6:20.

I think they flat out miss the point of copyright- to prevent others from profiting on your intellectual property. In a case where no profit is even possible- why care?

I hardly think this is the only example of the US patent office making an error. or of the US trying to enforce internal laws outside it's borders. meh.

half a million US equals 317,641.05 EUR. those who care can find out really really quickly.

Well, I was referring to how every major music mag in north america was shitting themselves over the band in the summer.

personally don't care for them, but oh well.

Hm. you're only about six or seven months behind everyone else on this one.

In the defence of the police, and such, it should be noted that if I were to actually plant a bomb somewhere i most definitely would clearly label it "Bomb" and maybe make it look all cartoony, complete with being cherry- red in colour.

Most people wouldn't take it seriously and that would be their downfall.

And of course, once things had been made clear, no charges were laid. seems like as amusing as this is, they handled it's pretty rationally.

Another reason why I say that if, say British Airways or Lufthansa were to run domestic flights in Canada or US, local airlines would go down like their wings were clipped.

Let's not bother to mention how painfully easy it is to hack into the radio signals of CCTV cameras. You don't need to know where they are if you already know what you can see.

You'd think that the underground bombings and other events which tend to speak of careful planning would tell these idiots that stupid stuff like this isn't going to stop anybody who's truly interested in doing damage.

I'm still baffled that a .22 had enough punch to actually go through the walls of a house. You'd think the outer wall at least would stop it, since .22 isn't exactly the caliber of choice to piercing....

BUt yes, it sucks for the wife, and I can see why no charges would result... although I feel that revocation of a gun licence (I assume he had one) would be an obvious consequence.

This is simply stupid (almost) beyond belief. It's another piece of evidence of the pure fantasy world that the current US government lives in. Are these imaginary terrorists any different from the imaginary WMDs in Iraq?

Gah. and a quick reminder to anyone who voted Republican in the last 2 elections: THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.

Oh.. and regardless of how effective it's been catching minor immigration violations, the cost isn't worth it. 15 mil. is not even a good price tag for catching a serial killer.

I thought this was common knowledge already. What is less commonly known is that most artists lack any clause that accounts for legit digital downloads, like iTunes. Meaning you think you're doing the right thing by the artist by paying for your download but WHOOPS! they see none of the money, because the labels isn't legally required to pay them. So the labels gets to spend $0 on production costs and get all the money. Nice system eh?

Alright.. read the article and basically it was: 1)take out old speakers 2) put in ones ripped from newer headphone set.

why the hell would someone trouble themselves to put a tutorial online for this? Anyone whoe wanted to do so could figure that out in about 5 minutes. Tutorials are for things that are actually hard to do. And preferably more useful than this.

So... how will doing this prevent 9/11 from happening?
Oh wait. it already did. And there's been no significant incidents since. So OF COURSE security must go up.

Aside from one of these toy cars (which, at least the ones put out however many decades ago they first showed up, sounded TERRIBLE) being included in a limited edition vinyl set... nothing new here. Not even very interesting.

Homeland Security guy #1: Hey there's been no incidents worth noting since 9- 11
Homeland Security guy #2: Really? guess we need to beef up security even more then huh?

Since the original terrorists they're still trying to stop entered fully legally, this won't stop the wrong sort from entering. it WILL make it more annoying for all the legitimate sorts though.

Bush can't leave the white house soon enough.

Well, it is called the "Kenny G Eliminator" on the website. So using a clarinet is pretty appropriate. Of course, Kenny G plays clarinet as well as the sax.

They were already more likely to give advanced screening to people who voiced complaints. IMO, this just gives them an excuse to harass people who MIGHT voice a complaint.

The TSA hasn't introduced a single useful measure. They're just making stuff up to look like they're doing something.