I never wanted to again respond, but this is too much. Did any of you read today's Courier. They caught a lot of bad guys. How would you have enjoyed leaping from the 100th floor as some folks did? What privacy matters then? How would you like to be on a plane and watch as some have their throats slit and sit there and fly to your death? What would your precious privacy (as you call it) be worth? What about the group who attacked the terrorists and the plane flew into the ground/ How much privacy did they have? Good grief folks. We live in the greatest country in the world. Its been said the if we are ever defeated it will be from within. Does anyone have any idea what this means? Good grief! B Griffis
Bill Rising wrote: > On 11/21/02 3:03, Henri Yandell wrote > > > > >Heh, sod carnivore, > > 'sod carnivore' could become a new insult (if one ignored the use of sod > as a verb). Whaddaya, some kinda sod carnivore? > > >look at the Anglo-saxon Echelon project [something > >which always used to be considered a Roswell alien x-file idea, until the > >Australian and NZ governments came clean. > > > >http://archive.aclu.org/echelonwatch/faq.html > > This reminds me of the Stasi approach to the problem of communication > between citizens: they taped all phone conversations. Unfortunately this > meant that their oversight was far behind almost immediately. Same > concept, though. > > One wonders how effective even a very useful AI could be if it were to > try an filter through 3 billion messages a day. Imagine that it falsely > flagged just 0.01% of the messages as something threatening. That would > be 300,000 communications which would need to be screened each day. At 2 > minutes per screen, that would be 10,000 hours of work each day. So... > there would need to be 1,250 people furiously screening communications 8 > hours a day, 7 days a week. > > What's scarier is that these 1,250 people would never be hired. They'd > outsource the work (oh! that's part of the Great Privitization in this > 'security' act) to someone who'd hire 50 people, and have them build a > database of suspicious people attached to the communications. This is > where the problems would start to arise. > > > > >The term 9-11 irritates me as it has shown the control of the american > >media over the UK. The event is known as '9-11' back there, and yet that > >is the 9th of November. > > Hmm... the day of the German revolution & the end of wwI to the germans. > > Bill > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
