Well, as we work down Douglas Adams' ladder of earthly intelligence, I can't help but wonder if this will eventually lead to the fullfillment of the dream of those poor souls over at dolphinsex.org
Maybe a strain of super-human/dolphin hybrids will supplant mice at the top of the intelligence hierarchy.
Sorry, I know it's obscure, but hell, this story deserves it.
According to the TIA website, they've renamed the Total Information Awareness project, replacing Total with Terrorist... so I'll skip the political spin and just go along with the idea that this new name indicates a new technology not intended to spy on everyone, just bad people! Man, I'll sure sleep better knowing that.
In this respect it's much like those damn telemarketers that call my home phone at all hours of the day. Luckily I live in Florida where the state maintains a list of telephone numbers that are registered no-call numbers for telemarketers. For ~$5 per year people in the state of FL can be listed and although this doesn't stop the unsolicited calls altogether it does give the offended party some basis for recourse. I wonder if any states are providing similar no-spam lists to citizens.
Anyway, as stated before spam continues because,like telemarketing, *it works*. IMHO spam is much preferable to telemarketing though because it seems much less invasive and a few spam filter rules go a long way.
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Well, as we work down Douglas Adams' ladder of earthly intelligence, I can't help but wonder if this will eventually lead to the fullfillment of the dream of those poor souls over at dolphinsex.org
Maybe a strain of super-human/dolphin hybrids will supplant mice at the top of the intelligence hierarchy.
Sorry, I know it's obscure, but hell, this story deserves it.
According to the TIA website, they've renamed the Total Information Awareness project, replacing Total with Terrorist... so I'll skip the political spin and just go along with the idea that this new name indicates a new technology not intended to spy on everyone, just bad people! Man, I'll sure sleep better knowing that.
In this respect it's much like those damn telemarketers that call my home phone at all hours of the day. Luckily I live in Florida where the state maintains a list of telephone numbers that are registered no-call numbers for telemarketers. For ~$5 per year people in the state of FL can be listed and although this doesn't stop the unsolicited calls altogether it does give the offended party some basis for recourse. I wonder if any states are providing similar no-spam lists to citizens. ,like telemarketing, *it works*. IMHO spam is much preferable to telemarketing though because it seems much less invasive and a few spam filter rules go a long way.
Anyway, as stated before spam continues because