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Software to Randomize Police Operations at LAX
owlgorithm writes "A USC research group has created software, named ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring over Routes), that will be used at LAX Airport to make security and police operations there truly unpredictable. The software records the locations of routine, random vehicle checkpoints and canine searches at the airport, and police provide data on possible terrorist targets, based in part on recent security breaches or suspicious activity. The software then makes random decisions (which are thankfully based on calculated probabilities of terrorist attacks) and tells the police where to dispatch and when. The most notable detail is that terrorists who had access to ARMOR still wouldn't be able to predict the searches."
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Oh, come on, it can't be that bad. Personally, I'm considering one for my IT people. It will randomly select a computer and randomly pair that computer with an IT person. The IT worker will then be forced to drop whatever it is that he is doing to go investigate the random computer. Brilliant! ~ PHB
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This will make us FEEL safer, maybe... but that kind of money buys a lot of air marshals.
Which would you rather have?
I posted a similar idea to a proposed improvement in a homeland security project last week and people modded me up for it. Sure glad we are free to say such things and that we'd never be suddenly interr
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
It's about time airports started using their luggage routing software for security purposes.
Are they going to have truly random responses?
Thursday, Red panties are prohibited from carry on Luggage.
Friday, the X-ray conveyor machine will distribute Salisbury steak.
Periodically travelers will be pulled from the security line,
some will be sent directly to their planes, some will be beaten with sticks.
Saturday, the first 100 customers get a hand grenade!
Sunday, 100 random travelers will be conscripted to run security for the rest of the day.
More to the point:
"The software then makes random decisions (which are thankfully based on calculated probabilities of terrorist attacks) and tells the police where to dispatch and when."
Does that mean that, given that the US's rate of deaths from acts of terrorism is so low as to be negligible, it will tell police to dispatch to the Whitehouse?
I can see it now, the presidential motorcade gets pulled over by airport security "Sorry sir, please step out of the vehicle, the computer has flagged you as being a person of interest in the global war on terror."
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They tried that at Heathrow, but they found that the baggage area became quickly infested with level 4 trolls, a small army of Orcs had set up camp in the ladies toilets and a level 12 necromancer took over the computer system.
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the name says it all.
(but seriously though... yes, i know there is already too much security theater. I am not advocating tighter security - its just a joke)
ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring over Routes) is approximately AMOR (Amusing Misuse of Resources...) There is an extra "R". But essentially it amounts to the same thing.
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