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Flash Mobs a Threat to Security?
RawCode writes "News about a recent report released by the RCMP suggests that flash mobs could pose a future threat to security. 'Some are aimed at celebrities. Tech-savvy teenaged girls in Britain can quickly spread the word on the whereabouts of Prince William, surrounding him with hundreds of screaming fans. Some are political, organizing protests. Text-messaging was instrumental to organizing public demonstrations in the Phillippines that forced President Joseph Estrada from office'."
Can you impeach me now?
a Beowulf Cluster of flash mobs!
Wow, this isn't NEARLY as interesting as the "Flash" Mobs I was thinking of...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Tech-savvy girls flashing for Prince William - :)
now THAT's a power to be reckoned with!
(Yeah yeah, and tell them they can have their joke back too)
That tech-savy girls would be smart enough to set their sights on a better target than prince William . . . .
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
It's the largest flash mob in the US. Why do you think they call them "Thousands Standing Around"?
Yes, I'm that old. This was around 1986 or so.
Anyway, one night there was a food run declared for midnight at the Lyons restaurant in Capitola. One hundred and ten students descended all at once on the otherwise empty restaurant, and all ordered coffee, some ice cream, and at the end asked for separate checks, each of which ranged from maybe one to five dollars.
There were only a couple employees on staff when we arrived. It took a long time to get served because they had to call off-duty employees on the phone, waking them out of bed to come work for the hour or two we were there.
As we prepared to depart, the restaurant manager sternly said "Don't ever do that again".
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Having a LUG meeting could be a security threat with the right type of people :)
I'm thinking more of a biohazard.
I'm sure a cat wondering the lawn of the whitehouse is a security threat just because *gasp* somebody may have injected it to carry some kind of biological agent.
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:)
My first thought to that was "well I suppose if you use a catapult. .
Sorry, bad joke
- "Nobody came out that night, not one was ever seen. But Old Man Stauf is waiting there, crazy sick and mean!"
...than masses of students stuffing themselves into volkswagons and phone booths.
If only there were people whose job it was to prevent mayhem... We can dream, can't we?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Like in this movie.
Arianna H. talks about it, too.
There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments. --Bene Gesserit Axiom
Are we afraid of teenage-terror-girls ?
/.ers...
Hell, yes! We're
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
Just give the celebs powerful, wearable "jammers" that obliterate all cell phone activity within a two-block radius! ;-)
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Outlawing cities is a bit extreme however I agree something needs to be done.
Maybe it would be better to cordon off the areas of the cities where the main terrorist targets are living or working: the business district, famous celebrities, politicians, influential business leaders etc and make sure they are well defended and secure.
The main terrorist suspects could live outside this cordoned off area and maybe be given passes to get into to work as cleaners, shop assistants etc if they conform to sufficiently secure personality profiles.
Terrorism is clearly the biggest and most dangerous threat the world has ever known and it's only by protecting those in power who do there best to protect us all that we can defeat it, that and lot's of bombs - laser guided bombs.
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We can dream, can't we?
The first rule of project mayhem is you do not ask questions.
You'd have a "flash posse" then.
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
General Jack D. Ripper is already proclaiming: "Mr. President, we cannot allow a flash mob gap!!!"
The president knows... it's the followers of him that we must shelter.
"The majority of people who come out to wave do so in a friendly fashion, although there is of course the occasional unfriendly wave."
-- George W. Bush
Several hundred Britney fans gone in one go?
That's not terrorism, that's cultural improvement!
He's only a terrorist if you don't agree with him, after all.
Outlawing text-messaging wouldn't eliminate the perceived security threat; they'd have to outlaw all forms of communication. I beleive that communication was used in the planning of virtually every terrorist act to date.
-Rich
I'm afraid this is the best I can do for now.
DNA just wants to be free...