[kellynla]

Since 2002, GE has spent $4 billion buying smaller businesses to take a bigger share of the $160 billion global security industry, a market that includes everything from building security to narcotics detection. The company expects $2 billion in revenue from its security businesses this year. That should rise to $2.8 billion in 2009, said Louis Parker, chief executive of GE's security unit.

[kellynla]

Cressey said there are about 30 million video surveillance cameras in the United States shooting about four billion hours of footage every week. Relying more on computers to go through that footage would allow manpower to be better used elsewhere and perhaps lead to faster recognition of possible threats.

[gondramB]

>>Deporting all the Muslims would be cheaper!)<<

It really woudn't be... it would cost us a big piece of our principles.

[Chickensoup]

also developing programs that can recognize faces, pinpoint distress in a crowd by honing in on erratic body movements and synthesize the views of several cameras into one bird's eye view, as part of a growing effort to thwart terrorism.

I dont want to live like this...

[BIGZ]

Roosevelt was right!

[SMM48]

Researchers at General Electric Co.'s sprawling research center, are creating new "smart video surveillance" systems that can detect explosives Muslims.

Let's hear it for GE. We bring good things to life.

[COEXERJ145]

Let's just piss on and burn the Constitution and be done with it.

Your suggestion comes right out of 1930's Germany.

[KoRn]

"Deporting all the Muslims would be cheaper!"

That's not possible. A "Muslim" isn't a race, it's a religion. You don't really have any mechanism for learning who IS a Muslim and who ISN'T. In a free society such thinking is folly.

[darth]

Way back in the 1980s my company developed a neural net chip that could be trained to recognize an individual face. Before the first Gulf War, I came up with the idea of "human-specific munitions" to drop on Iraq that would be programmed to explode in the direction of Saddam's face. This seemed like a great idea until we realized that the mines would detonate towards any PHOTO or statue of Saddam of which there were many. Kind of a new twist on "Screw you and everybody who looks like you".

[af_vet_rr]

Cressey said there are about 30 million video surveillance cameras in the United States shooting about four billion hours of footage every week.

And yet, somehow, I don't feel safer. I don't know if that's because our borders are still easy to cross, or people would rather rely on cameras or what.