yeah I always read up on this kind of stuff. I'm facenated on how things are improving, and maybe one day, not in my life time though, we'll have radios in our heads and info read stuff implanted so that we don't need to carry around such equipment to fight the fight of the just.
Take care. On Apr 22, 2013, at 7:38 AM, "Martin G. McCormick" <[email protected]> wrote: > I heard somebody on the news recently say that the > solving of the Boston Marathon bombing may be one of the first > crowd-sourced crime solutions. Technology along with a huge > amount of skill answered the question of who did the crime very > quickly. > > The huge amount of skill came from the law enforcement > community in that they immediately called for the public's help. > > In the case of large public events, there are now > thousands of amateur as well as professional photographic > operations going on and so these events get photographic > coverage which was unimaginable years ago. > > The federal and local police asked for any pictures and > then not only began looking at them on a large scale, but began > running them through software programs that are built to > recognize faces or look for images of interest. > > One of the things they looked for in the pictures taken > at the moment of the blasts was for anybody who didn't seemed to > be responding in the way everybody else was. They were also > looking for objects just before and after the explosions to see > basically what disappeared and or who set it down. > > I believe this sort of effort was what first discovered > the two brothers who appear to have been behind the bombings. > > One of the things these brothers did last week was to > steal a car at gun point (carjack) a fellow near the MIT campus > shortly after the murder of the MIT campus policeman. The victim > left his cell phone behind in the hijacked car and police were > able to track the brothers as they drove the stolen car around. > The older brother died when the police caught up with the stolen > car and there was an old-fashioned gun battle between the > brothers and the police. > > The older brother was shot and then accidentally run > over by his younger brother who escaped for a while. > > Finally, the way they caught the younger brother was > pure modern technology along with a bit of luck. > > As you probably heard, the surviving brother hid in a > man's boat which was stored in plastic tarps in the man's back > yard. > > The home owner had gone outside for a cigarette and > noticed his plastic covers were torn loose from the boat. He > looked in and saw blood and a man covered in blood lying in the > boat. > > The boat owner immediately ran back in and called 911 at > which time a police helicopter equipped with FLIR came > overhead. FLIR stands for Forward-Looking Infrared." This is > really neat stuff. It is not terribly new but is always being > improved. > > It is a video camera that sees wavelengths of light that > are below the threshold of humanly-visible red light. > > We all glow in the dark at infrared and millimeter-wave > frequencies and the near infrared wavelengths behave enough like > regular light that one can see a nice sharp picture or at least > a pretty good picture if that light is translated in to ordinary > light that humans can see. > > The suspect was hiding under the plastic tarps but the > FLIR overhead had a good enough view through the tarp to see > what the suspect was doing and he was radioing back to the > ground such things as "He's sitting up, now." > > All of this allowed the police to take him in to custody > without any further trouble. > > Boston is over 2000 miles from where I live, but I think > we all can breathe a sigh of relief that this first phase is > over. As to why they did it, that's another topic for other > lists and we'll probably never understand even if the surviving > brother tells us anything. > > Martin > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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