On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:48:11AM -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20030729/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_market_10 > > > WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up > a stock-market style system in which investors would bet > on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the > Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence > and useful predictions while investors who guessed right > would win profits.
Jim Bell should have applied for a DARPA grant! (check out this and other programs at http://www.darpa.mil/iao/programs.htm) Eric
