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Feds Undertaking Massive Passenger Profiling Plan
Logic Bomb writes: "The Washington Post is running an overview of a rather big-brother-ish airline passenger screening system the government is proposing. Keeping track of people's ticket purchases is one thing, but correlating people's addresses and living arrangements...! This attempt seems closer to completion and implementation than any other that's been proposed so far."
...just buy Doubleclick's database? Those bastards already have most everyone's data. If the gov't is going to collect data like that, they can at least have the decency to do it on the cheap and not add insult to injury by spending huge amounts of my tax money on it.
-reemul
You're just jealous 'cuz the voices talk to *me*
This will solve all of our problems! Hurah for the FBI and other organizations. they've seriously cleaned everything up.
Now that we've weeded out that large portion of the terrorist world that runs around conspicuously advertising the fact that they're terrorists, using their real names and all kinds of paper-trail leaving items like credit cards, real id's and such, all we have to worry about now is that tremendously tiny segment of the criminal population that uses devious means to achieve their goals.
Thank god the vast majority of criminals and terrorist won't be able to circumvent this measure! Otherwise, it would just be a burden on the American public. And the government would never do something that shortsighted and dumb! Right?
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
if ($passenger =~ /leftist|non-conformist|muslim|CowboyNeal|ain\'t\s right/gi) {
warn "Potential Threat\n";
jerkknee();
}
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
"She's got something against Microsoft, Intel, the Dee-Emm-See-Aye, stupidly awarded patents."
"Yeah, sounds like a radical alright, anything else?"
"She loves something called Linux, processors from a company called Aye-Emm-Dee, and open source something or other."
"Damn, sounds like one to monitor carefully."
"Oh, and she reads something called Slash-Dot."
"!!!"
Klaxons blare, national guard soldiers flood the concourse, passengers witness a woman dragged away in irons with the needles of many stunguns still embedded in her arms and legs.
Yeah, good thing we have people like Ashcroft looking out for us... excuse me, time to feed the pitbulls.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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Graceland tour guide: "Elvis has the left building."
We would only target Starbucks -- honest.
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
Please, think before you speak.
That, sir, would go against every tenet upon which slashdot is built.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed," bin Laden said as the U.S. war on terrorism raged in Afghanistan. "The U.S. government will lead the American people in -- and the West in general -- into an unbearable hell and a choking life."
I think Osama has confused the U.S. Government with the RIAA. It's an easy mistake to make. One is a bunch of pompous asses, while the other is an organization dedicated to controlling our lives by eliminating freedom. As an American, I still get confused about which is which.
Returning from Thanksgiving my boyfriend and I were rerouted through Minneapolis. We were hanging out at the gate, waiting for our turn to board. Of course they have extra security people doing random searches right at the gate these days. My boyfriend noticed that the guy who was doing the "random" searches only selected cute young women to pat down and go through their carry-ons.
We laughed about that a little, he jokingly suggested I stand behind him since I was an obvious candidate for a "random" search. Lo and behold, just as we were about to board I got pulled out of line and felt up by the security guy. My boyfriend was not so amused.
It is definitely frustrating that these extra searches which might conceivably be useful are being carried out in the most useless and insulting possible way.