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December 15th, 2017, 12:58 AM #21
Re: Invasion of privacy? Vegas resort testing gun-searching radar devices (VIDEO)
The workers are he ones being over exposed. Cops get ball cancer from radar guns. People think the electro magnetic spectrum is harmless. Evidence points to it being harmful right down to the genetic level.
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December 15th, 2017, 01:31 PM #22Grand Member
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Re: Invasion of privacy? Vegas resort testing gun-searching radar devices (VIDEO)
And I see the next stage of programming is to detect these blocks. Then alert for private wanding / search. Or an outright denial of service until you prove what you have onboard.
What if all of the hotels do it? What will then be your choice? Eventually, technology will get cheap enough. I am leasing a living space. I should be allowed to have one in my room and to carry between my car and the room and back. I can understand if common areas are excluded. This technology will make conceal carry moot. Is that what they want?It is you. You have all the weapons that you need. Now fight. --Sucker Punch
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December 15th, 2017, 01:33 PM #23
Re: Invasion of privacy? Vegas resort testing gun-searching radar devices (VIDEO)
These detectors would have done nothing to prevent the idiot from shooting all those people. He apparently dragged lots of baggage up to his room over a couple of days after he checked in. The only way that these would work is if they were at the entrance and exit to every elevator or hallway. Maybe the hotel should consider better situational awareness when someone starts dragging lots of baggage to their room?
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December 15th, 2017, 01:36 PM #24
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December 15th, 2017, 02:26 PM #26
Re: Invasion of privacy? Vegas resort testing gun-searching radar devices (VIDEO)
Thank god LA's subways will be safe now!
Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Federal and Los Angeles security officials are testing equipment that would detect concealed explosives and suicide vests that are at the heart of terror attacks like the one attempted this week in the New York City subway system.
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is testing bomb-detection equipment in coordination with the Transportation Security Administration on Dec. 13, 2017, at the Seventh Street station in Los Angeles. The goal is to detect concealed explosives like the pipe bomb detonated Dec. 11, 2017, in the New York City subway system.
Courtesy: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The devices, described in an announcement Wednesday by the Transportation Security Administration and Los Angeles transit officials, look like futuristic cameras on tripods. They're designed to detect improvised explosives by identifying objects that block the natural emissions from a person’s body, according to the TSA.
The test — the latest in more than a decade of TSA experiments with the equipment — was announced the same week as a handmade pipe bomb exploded Monday in the New York City subway beneath Times Square. Akayed Ullah, 27, faces five charges, including bombing a public place and providing support for the Islamic State.
“Along with industry partners, we are committed to identifying, testing and deploying technology that addresses threats to transportation across the spectrum,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a statement. “We need to innovate and evolve faster than the adversary, and more importantly, deploy technology ahead of the threat-curve.”
"We're constantly looking on the horizon for technologies that will help improve our security posture here in the Los Angeles County area, so this is one of the technologies that shows some promise to improve security," said Dave Sotero, a Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman. "This particular technology is very non-invasive. You just walk by it."
TSA is testing equipment from several manufacturers. But TSA said the equipment doesn’t emit radiation, like the X-ray machines at an airport checkpoint, and it doesn’t reveal anatomical details of the person screened, as did an earlier generation of full-body scanners used at airport checkpoints.
A Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker monitors by laptop the images from bomb-detection equipment being tested Dec. 13, 2017, at the Seventh Street station in conjunction with the Transportation Security Administration. The goal is to detect concealed explosives like the pipe bomb detonated Dec. 11, 2017, in the New York City subway system.
Courtesy: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Transit authority workers will operate the equipment, which is provided by TSA to detect either metallic or non-metallic explosives. The worker sits beside the equipment and monitors images on a laptop that alarms for a suspicious object. The test Wednesday and Thursday is at the Seventh Street/Metro Center station in downtown Los Angeles.
"It scans for the types of devices that were found in the recent New York pipe bombing," Sotero said.
While TSA is best known for airport screening, it is also responsible for protecting ground transportation hubs such as rail and bus stations. Pekoske has called developing technology to deal with evolving threats one of his top priorities.
In addition to the New York incident, where three people suffered minor injuries, a gunman killed five people in January in the baggage-claim area of the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Deadly bombings were in public areas of airports in Brussels in March 2016 and in Istanbul in June 2016.
Securing public spaces in airports and heavily traveled transit stations represent the next big challenge for TSA because the transportation hubs are relatively open and can be filled with crowds.
Besides the Los Angeles Metro, TSA has been working since 2004 with five passenger rail and transit agencies to test bomb-detection equipment. The agencies include Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
Previous tests occurred around Thanksgiving with Amtrak at Washington's Union Station and at the 2014 Super Bowl with New Jersey Transit at the Frank R. Lautenberg Rail Station, according to TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein.
The Transportation Security Administration announced Dec. 13, 2017, that it is testing bomb-detection machines such as the one pictured with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Courtesy: TSA
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December 15th, 2017, 07:48 PM #29
Re: Invasion of privacy? Vegas resort testing gun-searching radar devices (VIDEO)
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Re: Invasion of privacy? Vegas resort testing gun-searching radar devices (VIDEO)
Casinos are doing more than that. Just last night I was watching the real life murder investigation show "The First 48" (I is addicting and I can't stop watching it). There was one murder suspect who was on the run so they put out a nationwide search bulletin out on him. The next day they got a hit 100 miles away at a casino where he was playing slots, the cops went there, and arrested him.
They did not go into details so I an not sure if it was from some kind of facial recognition or how they got his name. But it is clear from this incident if you step into a casino they run your name thru some type of a Fed database (at least).
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