I thought this was going to be about
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/weekinreview/16shane.html
where:
"
Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States, proceeded to recount what he knew about a secretive program he said he had first learned about from a newspaper article. But then he too hit a wall of secrecy.
Mr. Weinstein said part of the reclassification effort was guided by a written agreement between the National Archives and "a component of the Department of Defense." Mr. Weinstein couldn't say just which component or what was in the agreement, because "it contains classified information which I am not prepared to discuss in open session."
This prompted an exasperated Representative Henry A. Waxman of California to ask, "Why is it classified?"
To which Mr. Weinstein forlornly replied, "I don't know.""
I've tried to send this once already, but my too-smarts
email program rejected it as "not well-formed" -- so I'll
see if it goes this time. A simpler example of
technology that's too smart for itself: Copiers that
try to dynamically figure on the paper size and orientation
to use, so that if you try to copy your passport or anything
*small*, the machine refuses to copy it unless you put a
blank sheel of 8-1/2x11 paper over what you are trying to
copy so that the machine can be happy that you are
copying a normal siuze document.....
\brad mccormick
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