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."

Comments

Pizza

[AtariAmarok]

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.

hmmm

[ziggyboy]

Minority Report meets the Matrix.

Would be interesting to find out

[Anonymous Coward]

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."

Re:Would be interesting to find out

[Enlarge Your Penis]

Going by the current success of counter insurgency measures in Iraq, I think you just roll some dice and add them together

In related news...

[k4_pacific]

OSDN announced today that the Slashdot Karma system will be integrated with the Terrorist Quotient database.

Re:In related news...

[ENOENT]

As a result, the FBI has placed "Anonymous Coward" on their Most Wanted List.

Might as well seed the system a bit.....

[southpolesammy]

Bomb, gas, crash, Afghanistan, airplane, fire, biowarfare, sarin, nuclear, Muqtada Al-Sadr, barbarism, CIA, Al-Qaida, terrorist, seize, drugs, fertilizer, kill, plot, chemical, RPG, bin Laden, canister, Iraq, plague, sniper, sleeper cell, C4, guerilla, Barbara Streisand

In other news ...

[spellraiser]

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

Had to be said

[PsiPsiStar]

Wake up Neo. The MATRIX has you.
Really, can these guys pick a name with worse symbolism? Skynet, maybe?

Re:It's tin-foil hat time again!!

[0123456]

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.

Re:Fuck you America

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Fuck you America

[Hatta]

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.

My TQ? I'm not cleared to know that!

[Tackhead]

> "What's Your Terrorism Quotient?"

I'm sorry, I'm not cleared to know that. If I could tell you, I'd have to kill me.

Re:Relevant quote

[meringuoid]

Anyone care to guess one of the main sources of terrorist income?

Donations from sympathetic Americans who think they're Irish?

Re:Likely to commit an act of terrorism?

[Hooptie]

If there are 120,000 people on the list, shouldn't there have been more acts of terrorism in the US?

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

Which dice?

[pjt33]

Yes, but D6s or D20s?

Re:It's tin-foil hat time again!!

[MooseByte]

"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.

Obligatory quote

[phyruxus]

"The matrix has you, Anonymous Coward."

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.