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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" (www.motherjones.com)
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Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

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[โ€“] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You seem to know a lot about this. I'm just generally fascinated by this method of tracking. Would the sensors ever become accurate enough in the future? Or is there a limit to their accuracy due to physics with a small sensor?

[โ€“] tamman2000@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It will always be a matter of "for how long?". Location from integrated acceleration is what we call a stiff problem. Meaning that any error is compounded as you continue to integrate (slight over simplification, but good enough for the point). There will never be a sensor that has zero error, so it's just a question of how much integration you can do before the errors make the results unusable.