On 11/21/02 3:03, Henri Yandell wrote > >Heh, sod carnivore,
'sod carnivore' could become a new insult (if one ignored the use of sod as a verb). Whaddaya, some kinda sod carnivore? >look at the Anglo-saxon Echelon project [something >which always used to be considered a Roswell alien x-file idea, until the >Australian and NZ governments came clean. > >http://archive.aclu.org/echelonwatch/faq.html This reminds me of the Stasi approach to the problem of communication between citizens: they taped all phone conversations. Unfortunately this meant that their oversight was far behind almost immediately. Same concept, though. One wonders how effective even a very useful AI could be if it were to try an filter through 3 billion messages a day. Imagine that it falsely flagged just 0.01% of the messages as something threatening. That would be 300,000 communications which would need to be screened each day. At 2 minutes per screen, that would be 10,000 hours of work each day. So... there would need to be 1,250 people furiously screening communications 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. What's scarier is that these 1,250 people would never be hired. They'd outsource the work (oh! that's part of the Great Privitization in this 'security' act) to someone who'd hire 50 people, and have them build a database of suspicious people attached to the communications. This is where the problems would start to arise. > >The term 9-11 irritates me as it has shown the control of the american >media over the UK. The event is known as '9-11' back there, and yet that >is the 9th of November. Hmm... the day of the German revolution & the end of wwI to the germans. Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
