A New Fashion Catches On in Paris - Cheap Bicycle Rentals - NYTimes.com

A New Fashion Catches On in Paris - Cheap Bicycle Rentals - NYTimes.com: "About 20,600 Vélib’ bicycles are in service here, with more than 1,450 self-service rental stations. The stations are only some 300 yards apart, and there are four times as many as there are subway stations, even in a city so well served by its metro system."

MSU Researcher Creates System Matching Tattoos to Suspects: Top News Stories at Officer.com

MSU Researcher Creates System Matching Tattoos to Suspects: Top News Stories at Officer.com: "A Michigan State University researcher has created an automatic image retrieval system, whereby law enforcement agencies will be able to match scars, marks and tattoos to identify suspects and victims (see also Michigan State University)."

ACLU files lawsuit to challenge surveillance law - Network World

ACLU files lawsuit to challenge surveillance law - Network World: "The new law, approved by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, allows the U.S. National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance of a wide range of people 'reasonably believed' to be outside the U.S. The law also will likely require a U.S. court to dismiss more than 40 lawsuits that have been filed against telecommunication carriers that allegedly participated in the NSA program before there was court oversight of the surveillance.
The FISA Amendments Act still allows broad, untargeted surveillance, including spying on U.S. residents who are talking with people overseas, said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project."

CCTV camera identifies people by race - Network World

CCTV camera identifies people by race - Network World: "Males, 25, a mechanical engineer who recently graduated with a master's degree from London's Royal College of Art, wrote the software for a camera that determines a person's race."

Is public CCTV effective? @ The Latest for Security Executives SecurityInfoWatch.com

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/online/The-Latest-for-Security-Executives/Is-public-CCTV-effective/16559SIW305: "While we continue to spend more on public CCTV systems, the debate on CCTV effectiveness has reached a polarizing and inconclusive standoff. On the one side, you have a number of studies and leading thinkers who cleary contend that CCTV systems are ineffective. On the other, you have numerous municipalities who are weekly green-lighting new CCTV projects."

Salute the Sky - Fly Over Tributes

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80924c91
Friday, July 4, 2008 11:08 AM
In honor of Independence Day, NFL Films takes a look at the always exciting pregame flyby.

A suburban housewife's 911 Call to Action - Shannen Rossmiller

Rossmiller developed her remarkable talent for chatting up terrorists after September 11, when she started going into online forums and cajoling valuable information from other visitors. She has passed along numerous case files to federal authorities. Her information has led US forces abroad to locate Taliban cells in Afghanistan, discover a renegade stinger-missile merchant in Pakistan, and help another foreign government identify a ring of potential suicide bombers. She has also assisted in nabbing two domestic would-be terrorists and seen them both convicted of felonies: National guardsman Ryan Anderson received five concurrent life sentences, and Michael Reynolds, convicted in July and awaiting sentencing, faces a similar fate. Timothy Fuhrman, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City office, says Rossmiller was “instrumental in the successful outcome of those cases.”http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/one-of-the-best-counter-terrorist-agents-is-a-suburban-housewife/