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DARPA Severs Ties with Jason

Posted by timothy on from the interesting-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has severed its ties with a secretive advisory panel of elite scientists called Jason."

14 comments

  1. first post!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    take that, suckas!

  2. Steps taken after long string of problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    DARPA took this latest action as a pre-emptive step to avoid legal consequences related to Jason's activities. Prior to the latest dog-tail-burning incident, Jason was implicated in the mailbox defacement scandal that rocked sleepy Graingeville.

    "No, we can not be responsible for his actions," said an unnamed DARPA panel member, "His parents need to discipline him properly or I believe (as do many of my DARPA peers) that he will end up in jail, or worse."

  3. More description? by avalys · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't it customary to provide a little more details in the body of the story, such as why it is important enough to be posted to Slashdot?

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  4. Help, I think I'm being fucked by Profane+Motherfucker · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ok, so I read this:

    Though Darpa refused yesterday to confirm the dispute over the nominees, a spokeswoman said the move was in fact a reflection of Jason's inability to adjust its priorities to a post-cold-war world, where the physical sciences are no longer as important as information and computer sciences to the nation's security.

    Granted, this spokeswoman bitch is totally fucking off the record and could say anything short of "we thought the name Profane Motherfucker was more fitting than Jason for our line of work." But honestly, what kind of gypsy rigged bullshit is this? Darpa, the original cold war Kill them fucking commies until they die from it! agency is accusing another group of failing to adapt to the post cold war? Who the fuck is this fooling? The cold war has been over for, jesus, what like a fucking decade now. WHERE THE FUCK DO THEY GET THESE TURD BURGLARS? This shit is pretty fucking sparse cover for Reality.

    Here's my take, and you can tell them that a Profane Motherfucker told you: the pentagon people thought the scientists were uppity bitches who behaved like lazy union workers. So they put the fucking kibosh on that. It's a fucking GI Bush dotcom shakeout.

    1. Re:Help, I think I'm being fucked by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 3, Funny
      So they put the fucking kibosh on that.

      Geez, "put the kibosh"? The only person I know who talks like that is my grandpa!

      Grandpa, is that you?

  5. Jason?? by rudy_wayne · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From the "Friday the 13th" movies?

    Cool!!

    1. Re:Jason?? by 3waygeek · · Score: 3, Funny

      No -- the people who interface between the NSA and the Grays

  6. Wow by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1

    In related news, I hereby end my intimate relationship with MJ-12 and the Illuminati. The Shadow War has begun.

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  7. Jason needs a CIO by tchdab1 · · Score: 1

    According to the article, too much physics and too little IT:
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    Though Darpa refused yesterday to confirm the dispute over the nominees, a spokeswoman said the move was in fact a reflection of Jason's inability to adjust its priorities to a post-cold-war world, where the physical sciences are no longer as important as information and computer sciences to the nation's security.

    Wow. You can be a nobel laureate but without your MS Certification, you're out of a government job!

  8. NPR had a bit on this by renehollan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apparently, JASON wants to appoint it's own choices to it's organization, and others want political appointees (all of which, to date, JASON says, were not up to snuff technically). So JASON lost it's funding. That may explain DARPA distancing itself.

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    1. Re:NPR had a bit on this by phr2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's obvious both sides are bullshitting. If te Pentagon just wanted more CS geeks and the Jasonites thought the Pentagon's nominees weren't good enough, Jason would have come up with some counterproposal naming some different CS geeks instead. Maybe it would have gone back and forth but the two sides wouldn't have walked away from each other so easily. There is clearly behind the scenes crap going on.

    2. Re:NPR had a bit on this by renehollan · · Score: 3, Interesting
      There is clearly behind the scenes crap going on.

      No doubt. I suspect that the Pentagon wants more control over the makeup of JASON (named after the first letters of the months of the annual contract term - July to November) with it's own appointees and is using the lack of relevant research in recent years as an excuse to seek this kind of control.

      Personally, I think some pure research is always a healthy thing, even if the results are not immediately applicable.

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  9. Yes! by Hard_Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now DARPA can hook up with Greg!

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  10. Jason members by apsmith · · Score: 2

    How public are/were the Jason members? I met somebody from the Dept. of Energy about 6 years back who claimed to be on Jason (he claimed to have been involved with resolving the "Morris worm" problem, which I seriously doubted since I'd been at Cornell when it was released and was very aware of how the spread of the worm was detected and stopped). This guy was at Los Alamos anyway and involved with the "behind-the-fence" computing environment there, so he could well have been a member of Jason. But I always wondered whether he'd been telling the truth on this one or not...

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