Military Testing WMD Sensors at Super Bowl 176
Lam1969 writes "Members of the Michigan National Guard will be at the Super Bowl on Sunday to deploy 'sensor fusion', a real-time, IP-based wireless technology that combines readings from portable and fixed devices that can potentially detect terrorist threats. While sensors capable of detecting chemical, biological, or radiological threats have been used at previous Super Bowls, the readings had to be communicated by radio between different security personnel. Sensor fusion automatically takes readings from the devices and uploads them to a central, secure Web server, where security staff anywhere can monitor conditions at the event. From the article: 'The software uses open standards and is open-source, based on the OSGi Service Platform, which is a standardized, component-oriented computing environment for networked services. OSGi allows networked devices to be managed from anywhere in the world, while allowing software to be installed, updated or removed on the fly while the device is operating.'"
"secure" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"secure" (Score:1, Funny)
Of course... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not saying that this shouldn't be used here, but why weren't they tested at, say, a regular Lions game beforehand? It's the same number of people in the same location, just not as many of them are VIPs with the associated security concerns in case of evacuation.
WMD's at a football game? (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Open source a good thing here? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, 'cause closed source always keeps the evildoers out.
Ob. South Park (Score:2, Funny)
So.... (Score:1, Funny)
(ducks)
The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
...will it protect the American public from the wardrobe malfunction threat?!?
Another overexposed nipple could spell doom for us all...
How about ... (Score:2, Funny)