U.S. Gov To Spider Internet

HopeSeekr of xMule writes "Perhaps as one of the first high profile uses of Alexa's WebSearch Platform, the U.S. government plans to search, link and reference every news site, blog and email on the Internet, using sophisticated AI codenamed ADVISE to do the correlations. Unlike traditional dataveilance like Echelon, ADVISE aims to find terrorists before they strike and even deduce their motivations in wanting to commit their crimes. Part of the breakthrough is a way for humans to view data as 3D holographic images with tech recently used at the Superbowl."

Comments

Wrong name

[Z1NG]

Its called Skynet. But it is looking for terorists...like Sarah Conner.

BUSH BOMB WHITE HOUSE

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see how well it works.
Sorry slashdot.

Re:BUSH BOMB WHITE HOUSE

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you're not really anonymous when you post as an AC here...

Re:BUSH BOMB WHITE HOUSE

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Lets do a better test of this new system.

I'm gonna shoot some Americans!

Negative. No knock on the door.

I'm gonna blow up the empire state building!

Negative again.

I'm gonna poisen the American food supplies!

Negative yet again. Damn I might as well stop and start downloading some mp3s...

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!

ADVISE

[cgenman]

Unlike traditional dataveilance like Echelon, ADVISE aims to find terrorists before they strike and even deduce their motivations in wanting to commit their crimes.

"Hmm... ADVISE seems to think the terrorists are fed up with the 'nazi-like spy regime,' and are planning to use undead monsters to attack its servers.

Also, the terrorists want more boobies."

This was a good use of a few billion dollars to Haliburton.

When "24" is the source of knowledge..

[broothal]

Someone should have told them that 24 is not a reality show.

Jack Bauer : Chloe, I'm sending you a picture. Can you datamine for him?
Chloe O'Brian: Sure. send it to my screen.
Computer: Blip...blip...blip.
Chloe O'Brian: Jack - it's the well known terrorist named...

does not work ...

[mbaudis]

... but they expect you not to post as AC! Play by the rules, trarist!

Re:Big Brother ADVISEs you!

[XxtraLarGe]

I wonder how long it will be before this system is used for political and/or selfish purposes?

Oh, I'd say in about 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... [signal terminated]

I feel safer now...

[edmicman]

Whew! I'm glad their developing their own algorithm. If they'd license something from say, google, then I'd be worried they'd actually find something.

It's good to see our tax dollars are going to work replicating of all things - a SEARCH ENGINE. Is this because google wouldn't turn over their search results to the govt?

Sheesh

[Archalien]

Well the cat's outta the bag now! The fact that we're even talking about this means that somewhere a terrorist is smiling. Good job liberal Christian Science Monitor! You're officially on notice!

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Re:again..

[scooter.higher]

What if the terrorists can do this (see figure 3): ASCII Stereograms

Re:Can it detect sarcasm?

[Winlin]

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      Damn...I knew I picked the wrong week to order The Complete Idiot's Guide to Defeating the Great Satan. But the price was just so good.

Govt@Home

[infinityxi]

I can just see this now, using the BOINC client you can aide homeland security in detecting and catching those evil doers. It will send a portion of those emails (public mailing lists), websites, blogs, news groups, etc to any patriotic American to process and possibly flag the internet for a black list of words and certain contexts. Just wait and see.