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False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List
lindner writes "According to a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, the United States No-Fly List uses a soundex algorithm to match names. Designed 'to quickly summon passenger names or to catch deal-hunting passengers making duplicate bookings.' The system has only managed to rack up a slew of false-positives, including everyone matching soundex ("J. Adams") at one point in time. The problem has gotten so bad that there is now a "Fly List" for chronically misidentified passengers."
Yeah. You read it right.
That's gotta suck.
FP!!!
Amen, Brother.
It's this:
In COMMUNIST AMERICA, the 'NO-FLY' LIST plagues YOU!
Really!
It's not like Slashdot is limiting its moderators to all-out-Trostkyists, is it?
yes.
the rest of us have real jobs. only a bunch of pseudo-marxists would have time to make posts to an internet buletin board all day to get karma and mod posts.
Do us a favour, and go to sleep lying on your back. Or sing us a song.
RAMALLA, 8 June 2003 â" A letter from a Jewish child to a Palestinian child, said, âoeI hope you and your family will burn in hell.â These ugly expressions and desires come from an Israeli child who took part in a research study. The study was conducted by an Israeli researcher and translated into Arabic. The study was presented to a teaching committee at the London School of Economics (LSE). The researcher is a former soldier and a member of the anti-terrorist unit in the Israeli army. He studied psychology at the LSE.
The study involved more than eighty Israeli children and it indicates that the current generation is passing a Zionist legacy to the next generation. Zionism is being passed to the younger generation â" even more than knowledge of the Torah. The parents of this generation know how to plant hate and anger toward Arabs in childrenâ(TM)s minds to such an extent that children are happy to hear of the death of Palestinian child or to hear news of a Palestinian officialâ(TM)s being assassinated. The researcher observed the problem and has searched for results and reasons. The reason he conducted the study was because of a contradiction in Israeli policy. In August 2000, Ehud Barak promised to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and in August 2001, Sharon was talking about the assassination policy.
The researcher talked to eighty-four children after the suicide bombing in the nightclub. The result shows the hate Israeli children harbor towards Palestinians has reached a high point. Children under the age of eight have pictures in their minds of Palestinian children as blind and with no teeth. They wish that those children would suffer from Aids and burn in hell. Israeli children admitted to these feelings. What is even stranger is that they used very strong language, which cannot be published here.
The researcher asked each child to write a letter to a Palestinian. He also asked them to draw a picture of a Palestinian child. The results were amazing because of the quantity of hate these children under the age of eight manifest. There is a mixture of fear and anger in these children. To begin with, the children asked two questions. The first was whether to write the letter to a good or bad Palestinian and the second was if they could curse in the letter.
These are excerpts from some of the letters written by Israeli children to their Palestinian counterparts. A girl wrote, âoeI wish that you would die and be sick. I am looking forward for the day of your death.â Another child wrote, âoeI do not like what you are doing to us and I hope you die.â Another child wrote, âoeTo disgusting Muhammad, I want you to die. I want you to live a bad life. I do not like you. I hate you because you are terrorists. I hope you burn in hell.â Another child wrote, âoeTo ugly Yassir, do you think you will win? I think you are very wrong. Here is some advice for you â" take a knife and stick it in your fatherâ(TM)s and motherâ(TM)s hearts and then blow yourself up.â Another child wrote, âoeGreetings to a girl who lives with bad people. I want you to tell your father to stop attacking us and for peace to prevail. I hope you will grow old quickly and die fast.â Another one wrote, âoeI hope you are sick and will die quickly.â
An Israeli child drew a cartoon of a Palestinian child watching a suicide bomber on TV and saying as he laughed, âoeThis is exciting. Many people are killed.â Another child wrote, âoeTo me, you are nothing. You are stupid and dissolute. We are going to blow you up until you all die. You are happy because you blow us up and kill us. Wait until we blow you up.â Another child wrote, âoeI know it is difficult to live without a home. I do not like your people fighting my people. We want to live in peace.â Another child wrote, âoeI want to say you are a piece of garbage. I hope you die, amen. That is all what I wanted to say.â Anot