Steve Thompson:
If that's true, then the government couldn't have stolen it.
However, I suspect that mainfraim code of any sophistication is
rarely released into the public domain. I imagine the author would
be able to clear that up, assuming he has no financial reason to
falsify its
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wrote:
Steve Thompson:
If that's true, then the government couldn't have stolen it.
However, I suspect that mainfraim code of any sophistication is
rarely released into the public domain. I imagine the author would
be able to clear
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:58 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
I've only read vague hints and rumours concerning its implicit design
philosophy and architecture from the rare instances where it is mentioned
at all. Yes, he code is probably classified (blah, blah, blah), but its
actual use must
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote:
Does anyone here have a good idea of what the PROMIS code actuall does;
what its characteristics and capabilities are in terms of its function as
an aid to intellegence analysts, logistics technicians, or consultants?
At 07:16 PM 12/5/2004, J.A.
At 6:20 PM +0100 12/5/04, Nomen Nescio wrote:
PROMIS
Beat that horse, scraped it off the floor, sent it to the glue factory.
Seven or Eight times. Musta had kin.
However, all you have to do is drop that acronym around here, and, sooner
or later, like buzzards to a shitwagon, all the usual
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote:
Does anyone here have a good idea of what the PROMIS code actuall does;
what its characteristics and capabilities are in terms of its function as
an aid to intellegence analysts, logistics technicians, or consultants?
We had a PROMIS system on our
--- Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I read a few old email messages I had and stumbled over some
interesting material relating to NSA, CIA and one Michael
Riconosciuto among other things.
[PROMIS]
Does anyone here have a good idea of what the PROMIS code actuall does;
what its
Bill Stewart shrieb:
There are several different issues related to PROMIS
Thanks for your comments.
But what about the person Michael Riconosciuto? I did some searches
online and I got the feeling that a lot people see him as an
extremely intelligent person, a one-in-a-million type of person,
At 9:57 PM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote:
is that with a
staggering 570,000 lines of computer code,
Oh, please...
Try googling the line-count of any major piece of software, particularly
in an age of object-oriented code...
Cheers,
RAH
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One the claims I have problems with (from the WIRED article):
But the real power of PROMIS, according to Hamilton, is that with a
staggering 570,000 lines of computer code, PROMIS can integrate
innumerable databases without requiring any reprogramming.
If this were true, I can guarantee that
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:57 PM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote:
is that with a
staggering 570,000 lines of computer code,
Oh, please...
Try googling the line-count of any major piece of software, particularly
in an age of object-oriented code...
OOP is a fairly
--- Neil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:58 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
[PROMIS]
Yes, I have found that puzzling too.
Articles I have read refer to the original version being in the public
domain. You'd think the source code would be out there somewhere.
If
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