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Passenger Profiling: CAPPS II
gabec writes "'Initial rollout of what may eventually become the world's largest silicon repository of personal data could be less than 90 days away....The Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II (CAPPS II) is designed to scan multiple public and private databases for information on individuals traveling into and out of the United States. The system will feed the results to an analysis application that mathematically ranks travelers' potential as security threats.' It will happen by the end of the year, if nothing is done to stop it: And
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You know, I just read an interesting article on bayesian filtering... which I find interesting, but I find no different than the statistical analysis that our elected govornment is using.
Why is it OK to use these techniques to get the spammers, but not the terrorists?
Could somebody explain this one to me?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
It's a simple fact that the Arab culture is in opposition to Western culture and values. It simply makes statistical sense to keep an eye on those who are most likely to come from the country we're at war with.
Well, there are no Arabs in Afghanistan, and we aren't at war with Iraq yet. There are over a billion Muslims in the world. I'm sure That a Young, white, "patriot/militia" type person would be more likely to be a terrorist then an average Arab Muslim. (btw, how do you feel about Arab Christians? are they OK to you? The Israelis certainly don't think so...)
How does the average Muslim feel about the US? Well, how did the average Capitalist feel about the Soviet Union during the cold war? Would that mean that anyone with capitalist leanings in Russia be treated like a terrorist, harassed, searched, imprisoned, etc? Of course, BECAUSE THE USSR WAS A FUCKING POLICE STATE!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
But what the hell, feeding the f'ing troll beats working.
Never once did I attack the parent poster. Never once did I say (or even imply) "[sic]IF YOUR NOT WITH THE USA, YOU MUST BE AGAINST USA!". I simply said that if he doesn't like the way things work in this country, he is welcome to either go elsewhere, or become a citizen and work to change it.
As for being a "little patriot", yes, I'm little (5'6" or so) and damn right I'm a patriot. You say that like it's a bad thing. OTOH, I'm not a mindless patriot. And my rights are vital to me. I watch what anyone in govt does, regardless of whether I normally agree with them.