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.'"

Comments

Damn

[Anonymous Coward]

and here I just packed my tinfoil hat, again!

I think not

[mikeophile]

ARDA said its software would have to deal with "typically a petabyte or more" of data. It noted that some intelligence data sources "grow at the rate of four petabytes per month."

So, the bastards think they can keep track of my porn collection, do they?

Re:No surprise

[Aardpig]

So most of the projects continue, but under a different name.

Except for the Adm. John Poindexter project. From Wikipedia:

Poindexter was convicted on multiple felony counts on April 7, 1990 for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair.

However, in spite of being a convicted criminal, he hasn't changed his name. Duh -- what a fucking amateur!

Friday?

[MachDelta]

I will not live in a country that has Friday Night Hockey.

Thats good, because I think knowing that 'Hockey Night in Canada' is usually on a saturday is one of the requirements for citizenship.

Re:My recent experience

[SkorpiXx]

in other news.... osama just consolidated his debts through a home equity loan using ditech! ::crickets:: i try. S

This IS surprising

[Kohath]

I thought government researchers were killed when their programs got cancelled.

Turns out, they just go get similar jobs in a similar field. Wow.

Re:This just keeps happening

[stewby18]

Sorry, what were you saying? I was distracted by my enjoyment of this fine carrot.

-The average voter

Re:Get real

[Anonymous Coward]

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.