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[Technorotica: Titillating Technology to arouse your inner Geek] Chicago is pairing surveillance cameras with gunshot recognition systems called "Smart Sensor Enabled Neural Threat Recognition and Identification or SENTRI." The system can detect the sound of gunfire in a two block radius, turn the video surveillance camera toward the source of the gunfire and call 911.
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[Williamgibsonboard.com] The Attack Of The Killer Blog... - Topic Powered by Infopop: The album contains samples that sound like surveillance recordings of creepy conversations. I read about Clock DVA in keyboard magazine in one of their many industrial articles of the late eighties and early nineties.
[Worldmagblog.com] World Magazine Blog: November 2003 Archives: For once, gunfire in Baghdad was good news: Last Saturday, when Iraq's soccer team beat North Korea 4-1, celebratory shots rang out throughout the city. The score was meaningful not only because the team of a former axis-of-evil country was defeating the team of a continuing member, but because the victory showed how, in the words of one coach, "the fall of the regime has lifted a weight from the players' minds." As the Christian Science Monitor noted, the late Uday Hussein, son of Saddam, had "kept a jail and torture center at the national sport headquarters and often beat and humiliated athletes who performed poorly."
[Whiterose.org] A Perfectly Cromulent Blog: August 2004 Archives: There are some amusing bits (the Medieval Times/Star Trek fight scene), but continuous pop culture references - also overused in Stiller's first director's gig, Reality Bites - do not comedy make (just read this blog for any length of time). and watching Jim Carrey portray a psychotic with a speech impediment for two hours isn't nearly as knee-slapping as it sounds.
[Aaai.org] Year 2004 News Archive: August: Secom, a company better known for supplying human security guards, has developed a six-wheeled surveillance robot which can be either remotely controlled or pre-programmed. It can chase intruders, take high definition video pictures of them, issue loud warnings and release a dense, billowing cloud of smoke to frighten them off."
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