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Total Information Awareness, Disguised And Alive
unassimilatible writes "According to the AP, aspects of the controversial Total Information Awareness DARPA program, officially shut down by the U.S. Congress in September 2003 after a public outcry, seem to have survived. The article reports, 'Some projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices, congressional, federal and research officials told The Associated Press. In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million research program run by a little-known office called the Advanced Research and Development Activity, or ARDA, that has used some of the same researchers as Poindexter's program.'"
and here I just packed my tinfoil hat, again!
That's the government for you. Did you expect anything less?
:)
On a lighter note, I find it endlessly humerous that this psuedo-top secret department, causing all this controversy, that "sponsors high risk, high payoff research designed to produce new technology to address some of the most important and challenging IT problems faced by the intelligence community" has an Upcoming ARDA Calendar of Events!! that it so gleefully links to on its target="_blank">home page.
Xbox reviews.. We think they're funny.
So, the bastards think they can keep track of my porn collection, do they?
i am not suprised at all by this article.
i'm definately not voting for bush (not like i did) because the terror color code thing has my little cousin scared of clifford the big red dog because he thinks he's a severe terror threat.
So most of the projects continue, but under a different name.
Except for the Adm. John Poindexter project. From Wikipedia:
However, in spite of being a convicted criminal, he hasn't changed his name. Duh -- what a fucking amateur!
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
in other news.... osama just consolidated his debts through a home equity loan using ditech! ::crickets::
i try.
S
bah.
I thought government researchers were killed when their programs got cancelled.
Turns out, they just go get similar jobs in a similar field. Wow.
Sorry, what were you saying? I was distracted by my enjoyment of this fine carrot.
-The average voter
The logo of the new project can be seen here.
Maybe someone should post a front page link on Slashdot pointing to the project, then we could ...
oh wait....
...well, fucking, DUH.
FreeBSD for the impatient.
Right now, in the TIA database, a flag just went against your record for that post.
When the thought police kick down your door and drag you off to an internment camp the politicians and their friends who set up TIA will sleep a little safer at night.
> 1.) DARPA gets a crazy idea (like "I wonder if we can make an anti-gravity device".)
I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!!!!11!11
I'M NOT CRAZY ANYOMO-
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap...
Thank God you finally figured that one out.
Five bucks says that, with enough digging (pardon the expression), you could find some regulations on the quality of paper that can be sold commercially as tissue.
Also, the government limits your right to blow your nose on the sleeves of the following government representatives: The president, the Secretary of State, officers of the law, military servicemen of ranks above E-6 or O-3, senators from states with more than ten million citizens, visiting foreign dignitaries, and Condoleeza Rice.
Finally, depending on what you do with the tissue after your nose is blown, the government can hold you on charges ranging from littering to arson to attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice.
One Bolshevik, one kulak, one "Enemy of the People", one Jew, one Japanese-American, one Communist, one educated person, one literate person, one Arab.
Walk into a bar...
Fran
:):):)
1st 1st Poster of the new Millennium!
Does anyone else find that Admirals name highly amusing. Maybe its just me.
-- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
That's right. Two.
One on each hand.
-FL