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  1. Re:the defense of liberty by jasongetsdown · · Score: 1 · on London Tube Dangerous for Technophiles?
    "It's tempting, because profiling based upon race, gender, age, religion, and political affiliation are effective measures for combatting crime from specific and known types of person."

    This is actually incorrect. In iraq and especially some of the former soviet republics, many suicide bombers are actually young women. A number of famous terrorists in the united states (the shoe bomber, unibomber, others) were white or west indian.

    In order to avoid such cases slipping under the radar the CIA uses Psycholical Personality Profiling which compiles much more than the one dimensional evaluations you describe. Officers in the field are trained to use only behavioral clues in order to identify who to detain. The article, though frightening, does not show any type of racial or gender profiling occuring.

    What's scarry is not the method used by the aprehending officers, but the data trail left by the investigation. This is why the patriot act and its ilk are dangerous. The fact that this man now has an imprint in some national database will certainly serve as a false positive if some future cop decides he looks suspicious enough to check.

  2. Re:No matter how careful you are, you aren't enoug by innerweb · · Score: 1 · on ID Theft Made Easy
    Try this site for one. search

    The reality is once you have a few bits of information on people, you can continue to delve up more bits of information. The amount of information I can dredge up on prospective employees is frightening and legal (so is the prospect of hiring some of the ones who lie on their resume/application). The informaiton held on individuals is incredibly invasive and almost completely unregulated. It is a good thing that most identity theft is commited by two bit thieves who are not smart enough to do it right.

    It is just like virus writers. The good ones write viri you never notice. The talented thieves steal identities in such a way that it might be a decade before you know it has happened.

    InnerWeb

  3. Don't like it? Complain. by voodoo1man · · Score: 1 · on A Background of a 'Background Checker'

    On Abika's webpage there's a little link down at the left-bottom that lets you file a complaint against anyone, for any reason. Let everyone know how you feel about Jay Patel (not that it really matters, if you look on Google there's about 500 different Jay Patels out there).

  4. Test market your book online by mmartin · · Score: 2 · on Publishing-Online or "Dead Tree" Format?

    I suggest posting the book online first, so that you can get a feel for how people are responding to it. You could even use this as a means of testing your book. You could get some reader reactions and possibly make some changes before actually approaching a publisher. Also, if your book becomes popular with net readers, it may make it easier for you to approach a publisher, as they will see that you have a marketable product. I'd suggest Abika.com as I know they are pretty good with this sort of thing.

  5. Screw the publishers by mmartin · · Score: 3 · on Part One: In A Virtual World, Who Owns Ideas?

    Artists, musicians, writers and other creators of intellectual property can still be paid fairly for their work. There are all sorts of options beyond conventional royalties.

    I think it's great that they are following these new avenues of distribution. Even authors are discovering the benefits of providing material online. I checked out this free online book site, Abika.com, and it appears that they provide stock options for writers, as well as revenue from advertising. And from the look of things, the authors are doing it!

    It's a brave new world.