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Drone used in Belgian school to catch cheating students during exams
01.13.2014
01:32 pm
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Thomas More school in Mechelen posted this silly video of students taking an exam while their drone overlord watches over them. The drone is supposed to deter cheaters and perhaps catch one or a few tricksters in action.

Honestly, this Orwellian approach seems more distracting than anything. I mean, wouldn’t the buzzing from the drone and the “OMG there’s this annoying flying thing above mah head!” hinder concentration? Kinda dumb if you ask me.
 
Update: Perhaps a hoax?
 

 
Via Metro UK and Nerdcore

Posted by Tara McGinley
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01.13.2014
01:32 pm
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Protestor disrupts speech by Obama’s drone apologist
05.01.2012
05:57 pm
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Victims of a drone attack in Pakistan.
 
A Code Pink activist spoke truth to power yesterday when she confronted White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan as he addressed an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars think tank. The woman was protesting drone strikes and the collateral damage of innocent people being killed.

“I’m here today because President Obama has instructed us to be more open with the American people about these efforts,” Brennan said. Well, that WOULD be nice, but it ain’t happening.

MSNBC reports:

Brennan on Monday spoke openly — and at great length — about what has long been one of the government’s most controversial official secrets:  the use of remotely piloted drones to kill suspected terrorists.

In doing so, he became the first U.S. government official to acknowledge that the drone strikes sometimes kill innocent people, though he characterized such deaths as “exceedingly rare.” But a new analysis by an independent Washington think tank estimates that more than 300 civilians have been killed by drones since President Barack Obama took office.

300 civilians killed to get how many alleged terrorists? And is the ratio worth living with? I think not.

The protester had to be dragged off by a security guy that looks about three times her size. She was fearless. Right on!
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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05.01.2012
05:57 pm
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UK Police Implementing Spy Drones
01.24.2010
02:30 pm
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Oh for f’k’s sake… not content with covering the whole country with surveillance cameras, the UK police are now planning on implementing US-style spy drones to catch suspected pedophiles (read: everybody in the country) or something. Drones are planned to be implemented by 2012.

Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the “routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.

The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.

Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.

They reveal the partnership intends to begin using the drones in time for the 2012 Olympics. They also indicate that police claims that the technology will be used for maritime surveillance fall well short of their intended use ?

Posted by Jason Louv
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01.24.2010
02:30 pm
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