I am not optimistic about the future of humanity.

@HK-47: Your average gun nut isn't going to get his jollies off by some elaborate science project buried over and frozen into the snow to create an illusion to trick the Internets.

@CVDon:

I've got absolutely no trouble believing this. I'd be surprised if it didn't happen occasionally.

If it is legal to video record people in public then it should be legal to video record LEO in public. They are people and they should be expected to be held to a higher standard whether or not this is the reality of the profession. End of story.

@silkworm: yes

@all_in_wonder: and a featured article at that!

How about this:

Soooo wouldn't this be a whole hell of a lot more practical as something you rode more like a snow-mobile... close to the ground, low center of gravity, low target profile, low visible profile, etc.

I wonder if the show's lawyers and insurance adjusters would agree with the "sage" wisdom of the blonde chick at the end...

That is SO much fun. From the picture it looks like the red "record" pen must be drawn toward the writer, putting a strip of magnetic ink down and then it looks like there is a tape head embedded on that little outrigger thing sticking out the side.

@Matat: This is just an every day Australian military boomerang carpet bombing run. No mystery here.

I've always wondered what would happen if...

rolling shutter = most likely cmos camera = most likely a cell phone...

I go on the "average" side with audio hardware and use a well-tuned musician-brain to extract what I want from my listening experience.

God... So ugly... yet it would work with 3rd party hardware, allowing for open competition. The cloud was us.

That first image would be cool were it not 'shoped.

@puzz: the common idea about where the rules come from is that they are physically imposed.

Maybe I'm just missing it, but could it be that Wired actually retracted the original article? Has anyone else noticed this to be the case?

This is refreshing and important. Real science should be reported on even though it's not as "headline grabbing" as fake science.