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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: 2) by Kell on Monday June 29 2015, @05:30AM
Counter point - I did the majority of my primary schooling in Ottawa, and we were forced to sing O Canada each day and recite a prayer. Right at the end of my time there, they switched from a recited prayer over the PA to a "quiet prayer time", in which we were told we had to be praying anyway. When I was in Australia, we also had ladies from the community come in for a religious education event (with cakes!), and it was much the same sort of thing, if perhaps not as obviously structured and mandatory. No matter where you go, the established order (religious, political, cultural) will try to assert itself and inculcate its perpetuation in the minds of children.
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday June 29 2015, @07:08PM
Only ever sang O Canada at assemblies (along with God Save the Queen) but did have the daily prayer and bible reading. The thing was, as long as the students were quiet, they could ignore it and no one cared whereas down the States, you were likely to get all kinds of repercussions, from fellow students beating you up to detention. Also by about 1970 the Christian BS went away whereas down the States they still do it.