Pentagon Soft-Pedals Total Information Awareness

PizzaFace writes "Congress was concerned that the Pentagon's 'Total Information Awareness' program would invade citizens' privacy, so it gave the program the red light until the Pentagon addressed Congress's privacy concerns. DARPA, the Pentagon technology agency that brought us the Internet in more innocent times, showed its Total Marketing Awareness by renaming the TIA program, 'Terrorism Information Awareness.' The gist of its report seems to be that data may be collected from everyone, but it will only be used against evildoers. You can read DARPA's report and a background story from the Washington Post."

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FP?

[castrox]

First post? :-)

True love: the story of Malda and Kathleen Fent

[Anonymous Coward]

When Rob Malda was looking for a good wife, he figured out a way to tell if a prospective mate is a virgin or not. Whenever he saw a girl that looked all right he took her out for a ride on his moped. All of a sudden he would stop, unbutton his pants, and show her his tool. "What's that?" says he. "Why it's a pecker," the girl says. So then he would button up his pants. "You aren't what I'm looking for," says he, and back to town they'd go.

He kept on like that for several years, but all the girls gave him the same answer. Finally he found a pretty little waitress with yellow hair that worked in a hotel. Kathleen Fent was her name. They went riding on his moped, and when he pulled out his cock she just kind of giggled. "Why that's a tee-hee!" says Kathleen. Right then and there Rob Malda know she was just what he wanted. So he and she got married and they were both mighty happy.

About six months after the wedding, they got to talking about old times. "Honey," says Rob, "how did you come to call my tool a tee-hee, that first time we went riding?" Kathleen replied, "tee-hee is the right word for it and any other girl would tell you the same."

Rob shot back, "Oh no, out where I was raised they call it a pecker." Kathleen just laughed. "Shucks Rob Malda," she said, "them corn-fed Michigan floozies ain't been around much. Why everyone knows that a pecker is a whole lot bigger than that!"

YU0=FAILURE

[Anonymous Coward]

You should join the slashdot first post awareness program.

Re:Only used against 'terrorists'

[ThaReetLad]

except that it should have been who's

Your sig

[Anonymous Coward]

Methinks your sig is perhaps a little too ironic for your comment, no?

Re:name change

[broken.data]

"It's a trick. Get an axe."

Re:Rebranding

[elefantstn]

Keeping the Jessica Lynch fake-story line in your sig even after the reporter who wrote it admitted he was wrong seems kind of stupid. The kind of thing that makes everyone discount whatever you say in the body of your comments.

Re:Rebranding

[elefantstn]

From an interview with the article's author on CNN:

HARRIS: Is it your belief right now based upon your investigation that this rescue of Lynch was in any way a staged event and not real?

KAMPFNER: No. First things first. Credit where it is due. The Americans had a legitimate right in getting Lynch out of the hospital in Nasiriya. They had no way of knowing what her fate was, whether she was being well or badly treated.

Re:Rebranding

[pubjames]

From an interview with the article's author on CNN:

Jeeze, you're being a bit selective with the interview there. Did you read the whole thing? If you read the whole thing it does give a very different impression than just that selective statement.

The Lynch cover-up....what is the point?

[AtariAmarok]

I wonder what the goal of creating such a "Fake" story would be? Why would someone go to the bother of it?

I cannot see how it makes anyone feel differently about the United States military, one way or another. The only person I feel strongly favorable toward is that Iraqi lawyers who helped Lynch, and I do not see how that helps a "propaganda war".