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Passenger Risk Database to be Implemented in U.S.
bluephile writes "CNN is running an article on the The Transport Security Administration's (TSA) renewed efforts to implement the CAPPS II color-coded passenger risk-assessment program, despite outcries by numerous privacy activism groups at the program's collection and redistribution of personal information. The TSA has made several claims that the system respects passengers' privacy, but their track record isn't impressive. Congress suspended the program last year in order to investigate its privacy implications. One MIT paper suggests that CAPPS II could make flying MORE dangerous, rather than less."
Now it's Homer Simpson's cue, "Oh, what a bleak and horrible future we live in! "
On the other hand, I was promised flying cars! Where the hell are my flying cars?
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The solution to stopping terrorism on flights is two-fold. One, everyone travels naked, without carrying thing on the plane. Two, luggage goes on a second plane operated by robots.
The terrorists will start taking the train.
Color Coded, eh? Now I can sleep easier at night, knowing I am protectected by a color coded system. I wonder if this will be about as useless as our fabled Homeland Security "Orange Alerts"?
Well they'll only get me for one flight...As i move to Canada...
"In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria." --Old German Proverb
Thank god for DVD players in cars now... That will make those 3 day trips cross country with the family much quieter.
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Properly planned without a panic-timeframe schedule, such trips can actually be enjoyable, in and of themselves.
You obviously have no need to drive to L.A. then, eh?
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
And yet again I will stand there while the person behind the counter asks questions repeatedly and sees 14 things on his screen that he has to check.
"Have you been involved in an armed robbery in Des Moines?"
And all of this after the green form that asks you if you are a terrorist or drug smuggler.
I know this is a moan, but really what the hell information will they ACTUALLY use to colour code people ? I have a common name, there are people with that name who have done bad things, does this mean yet more delays for me?
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In other news, Al Queda agents and officials retired en masse today. Evidentally, the U.S. government is now doing a far better job of making Americans fearful and submissive than Al Queda could hope to do with the techniques they have. "We did a lot of damage and killed a lot of people," said one unnamed source. "But Americans responded only with defiance and belligerence. Within a couple of months, they'd gotten on with their lives. The DHS, on the other hand, can frighten the American people practically at will, just by announcing rumors or cancelling a plane flight. In this climate, we can't hope to compete."
Representatives of the Bush Administration called the mass retirement a possible ruse, and urged people to remember all the rumored attacks that might have been thwarted had Al Queda attempted any attack on U.S. soil since domestic security initiatives were put in place.
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I find it interesting that you used the word "assassin" in your posting.
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Nothing new here, the police Already use a color coded system!
Also, today's Dilbert got a good one on this: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/imag es/dilbert20024398640114.gif