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The National Security Agency, while primarily occupied by sweeping up billions of phone calls, emails, texts and social media messages each day, wants better visual information about the earth and its residents, too, Admiral Michael Rogers said Wednesday.
"Signals intelligence ... ain't enough, you guys," the NSA chief told a gathering of contractors in the geospatial intelligence business. "We gotta create a much broader picture."
We need "the ability to visualize," he explained, because "man is fundamentally a visual creature."
Rogers, who also heads the Pentagon's United States Cyber Command, spent much of his keynote speech at the GEOINT 2015 conference pitching the technology, intelligence and defense companies in the audience on the importance of working together. The conference's slogan — appropriate, given the government's ever-growing demands — is "open the aperture."
"It's all about partnerships," Rogers told the audience. "How can we harness the power of the commercial sector?"
In how many other ways could the Director of the NSA gain a new perspective on the world?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @05:02PM
This is why kids have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day, at the start of school: indoctrination starts early.
In my case, at least, all that ever did was make me hate hearing it
That is because you have sufficient intelligence and strength of will to resist.
When I was a kid, my next door neighbor would no longer hang out with me because he didn't think I had my hand firmly planted over my heart during the pledge one morning, and so disrespected the pledge, his god(s), and country. This was around 3rd grade, and we never hung out again up to when I moved in 9th grade.
Some kids are more easily brain washed than others. I suspect you are also non-religious.
At the California public school where I lived before this incident, I was forced to stand at the front of the class to be ridiculed because I refused to pray (2nd grade). The indoctrination / brainwashing / pressure to conform is as strong in our society as our society is sick.
And, yes, "they" hate the US because it is an evil vile nation both to its own underclass, and to the rest of the world. And, the US has been trying since Reagan began "star wars", and Baby Bush said, he wanted "nukes he could use," to step up the aggression to nuclear annihilation of "its enemies". All presidents from Reagan through Obama, inclusive have pressed for funding for "missile defense". Nukes you can use means disabling the retaliatory strike-- this is what "missile defense" is all about. The world will be an uninhabitable burning cinder, if the US achieves this before its citizens wake up and revolt against their rulers, since the rich psychos who run the place wouldn't hesitate to nuke anybody who challenges their power, if they thought they would not, personally, suffer grave repercussions.