Florida's Version Of TIA May Spread To Other States

Annoying Cowwart writes "Looks like TIA is coming back, this time through the by-the States-but-all-together backdoor. Now called M.A.T.R.I.X. ('Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange'). See the Washington Post article for details. I wonder: do they have to try hard to find such apt names for their projects or does it come naturally? (For German speakers, there is another article about this in Der Spiegel.)"

Comments

Hm... Bush Runs FL, too

[Ishin]

Any surprise that the state that the Bush family currently runs would be the one that's getting this off the ground?

The FL legislature has been battling all year about medical malpractice suit caps on awards from juries, with the senate holding strong (so far) against them. However, at this point, no matter how anti-common-man the proposal's coming through this state I remain unamazed, I just chalk another one up to the Bush family. Was FL the head of the serpent that Nostradamus predicted?

Re:Hm... Bush Runs FL, too

[FroMan]

I love how open minded slashdotters are.

Bet you hate Christians too?

Remember

[stratjakt]

Information wants to be free.

Oh, except to law enforcement.

You are all hypocrites.

This shit already exists, this is no different from existing systems like NIBRS or MILES. Everyone's out to either reinvent the wheel or bitch about it.

Compromise

[stratjakt]

Will you all feel better if they promise to use Open Source Free-as-in-Willy software?

MySQL is robust enough now that they could track at least 3 dozen people, give or take.