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What's Your Terrorism Quotient?
unassimilatible writes "From the Department of Pre-Crime, the AP reports: before helping to launch the criminal information project known as Matrix (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange), a database contractor gave U.S. and Florida authorities the names of 120,000 people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists - sparking some investigations and arrests. The 'high terrorism factor' scoring system also became a key selling point for the involvement of the database company, Seisint Inc., in the Matrix project. According to Seisint's presentation, dated January 2003 and marked confidential, the 120,000 names with the highest scores were given to the INS, FBI, Secret Service and Florida state police. Seisint and the law enforcement officials who oversee Matrix insist that the terrorism scoring system ultimately was kept out of the project, largely because of privacy concerns."
If your name is "Ben Louden", I'd be cautious about ordering a pizza! If you do, ask for LOTS of ham and other pork items on the pizza. That might help.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Minority Report meets the Matrix.
Judging by the title, I thought the article was going to tell us how to find out our score.
"There is a 20% likelyhood of you blowing up a building this year. Have a nice day."
OSDN announced today that the Slashdot Karma system will be integrated with the Terrorist Quotient database.
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Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
It's just like my karma level... "Excellent"
You forgot the air guitar.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Officials in Washington DC revealed plans to start a brand-new 'Precrime' program to arrest perpetrators before they even commit a crime, using sophisticated 'Comatose Psychic' technology.
Said one official: 'Yeah, we reckon this will beat everything we've seen so far. I mean, why profile people when you can have 'em psychics see the stuff happening, right? Much more reliable all in all.'
More details here
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
Ha! 9/11 was a Republican wet dream if there ever was one. All those juicy defence contracts ... yummy! The fact that it was centered around the middle with Isreal and more importantly oil involved ... oh yeah baby! It involved terrorists based inside the country soooo ... ohhhhhh yeah mama ... defence contacts against our own populace (think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts) ... can't hold it any longer ... anybody have spare underpants?
Wake up Neo. The MATRIX has you.
Really, can these guys pick a name with worse symbolism? Skynet, maybe?
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
I hope you realise that being seen wearing a tin-foil hat will immediately add 15,000,000,000 points to your Terrorist Quotient: after all, if you're paranoid, you must be doing something illegal.
I want an America that isn't full of easily amused idiots watching crap on TV.
Yeah? Well, I want an America full of nymphomaniac supermodels who own breweries. Deal.
Man, there are gonna be a lot of mod points wasted on this one. Already 4, and it's only at +1. hehe
BTW, there's nothing wrong with gangsta rap. It's R&B that's really bad.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
I'm sorry, I'm not cleared to know that. If I could tell you, I'd have to kill me.
Judge: State your business.
Prosecutor: Your honor, we seek a warrant to search the home of J.Q. Public for terrorist related materials.
Judge: Grounds?
Prosecutor: Your honor, Mr. Public scored an 87 on the Matrix.
Judge: And why did he score an 87?
Prosecutor: Um..., national security interests prevent me from divulging the complete basis for his score. I can say that he got a speeding ticket in '03 and has a mustache.
Judge: Well, I'm sure we can assume the underlying data is correct, was duly entered and processed by an impeccably accurate algorithm, yes?
Prosecutor: (purses lips and nods).
Judge: This court finding probable cause to issue said warrant, it is hereby done and ordered.
And I was hoping for Ashley Judd. Deal.
Brian Dowling.
nah, MATIE is what the RIAA and MPAA are using to track down all those darned pirates. ARR!
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Fucking Norgegian terrorists. Nuke their ass and take the gas!
Donations from sympathetic Americans who think they're Irish?
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Shouldn't we start attacking Florida?
You don't get it. The fact the there are not "more acts of terrorism in the US" is *PROOF* that things like this database, the PATRIOT act etc... are working.
If you don't believe this, we will be happy to put you name on this list we have here...
Hooptie
"Heavens, it appears that my weewee has been stricken with rigor mortis!" -- Stewie Griffin
He also wrote "programmes", so he's definitely a foreign terrorist. I hope he enjoys Guantanamo Bay.
Yes, but D6s or D20s?
...watch as McCarthy...I mean Rumsfeld, rounds up all the commies...I mean terrorists.
First of all, pork is tasty
Second it tastes good.
The ancient jews and muslims didnt' eat it because of health concerns.
Those health concerns have been taken care of, but today jews and muslims don't eat it simply to show that they're special to god.
They're all crazy. Nuts.
Anybody who listens to a Rabbi, or Priest or holy man about important things in your life has a self-image problem.
"I hope you realise that being seen wearing a tin-foil hat will immediately add 15,000,000,000 points to your Terrorist Quotient"
Well sure, if you don't wear the INVISIBLE tinfoil hat. Mine's been working great for years now. Just watch out for cosmic dust, it dampens the field.
This is Bush's system - it doesn't have an entry for Agnostic. It's just "Christian" or "Heathen".
I prefer false negatives (spam messages that end up in my inbox) over false positives (real mail that end up in the bin)
Sooo... you're saying you'd prefer to have a bin laden with spam messages?!
Allright FREEZE!!!! Get down on the ground!
If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and you cut off it's head and there's a fully functional biological cranium, maybe it's not a clockwork toy resembling a duck and is in fact a duck.
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
Don't worry, if you're not a terrorist, you probably don't have anything to worry about!
Just another reason why I'm re-voting against Ed Rendell, the most nearsighted governor of all time, when his turn comes around.
~Ben
My textbooks still stay that Americans value freedom and free speech more than Canadians...
You sir, are correct. We Americans are prepared to pay a higher price for freedom than we are for Canandians. They smell like bacon.
Bin Laden's Scared Armour of Terror
False beard
Defense: 255
Durability: Invulnerable
Required Strength: 56
Required Level: 99
[Only usable by Terrorist]
+150 TQ
+3 to RPG
+150% Enhanced defence in caves
+500% Enhanced evasion against US
75% Better chance of finding magic WMDs
+1 mana after each kill
Requirements -100%
Socketed (6)
computer: British in origin, but developed to its current form mostly by Americans
The British gave up on making computers because they could not figure out how to get them to leak oil.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Oh yeah, it was the Paranoia RPG.
anata sekai o kakumei surush ga nai deshou? Anata no susumu michi wa yoi shite arimasu.
If they were so concerned about privacy, how did they compile the database and develop the profiling method in the first place?
Copy unreasoning rant against the U.S. into an Anonymous Coward first post: (Score: 5, Insightful).
"You'll probably be modded down, but I agree.": (Score: 5, Insightful).
Insulting and spitting on Americans on an American computer forum over American internet connections in order to piss off Americans and getting applauded for it (probably by Americans): Priceless. Er, I mean: (Score: 5, Troll).
YHABT. YHAL. HAND.
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