Real-life "Minority Report" program gets a try-out

CNET via CBSNews.com ^ | October 7, 2011 | Declan McCullagh

[Daffynition]

(CNET)

Updated 2:12 p.m. PT: An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned.

If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called "Minority Report," or the CBS drama "Person of Interest," it is. But where "Minority Report" author Philip K. Dick enlisted psychics to predict crimes, DHS is betting on algorithms: it's building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent."

[bigheadfred]

Thanks for the hand out.

Oh wait. Well. Cool Hand Luke to the rescue.

[Daffynition]

What union R U in?

[bigheadfred]

What does it matter as long as it is a union and I R in??

[Daffynition]

NSFW - perhaps.

[Daffynition]

[ShadowAce]

[Molon Labbie]

DHS is now working on an enhanced side scan sonar...

[bigheadfred]

You don’t have to get so testes.

What comment took the hit? I went to bed.

[for-q-clinton]

Love it!

[Daffynition]

I sent it to you in FReepmail.

Are the mods nuns?

[bigheadfred]

Well, they certainly don’t seem to be funyuns, but they do leave that funky aftertaste.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Daffynition.

DHS is betting on algorithms: it's building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent."

Plans like this won't survive contact with the ACLU. We could get rid of 90 percent of the wars being fought and 99%+ of the terrorism by wiping Zero's 57 Muzzie states off the map.

[DTA]

Are you curious where the term "homeland" in DHS came from? I am. It sounds suspiciously similar to German term "Heimat", like in Heimat Sicherheit Abteilung and would be at home in Nazi Germany. Very threatening by its vagueness.

With Executive orders left by Bent One and W, Odumbo could flip the switch and shut down democracy as we know it and legally take dictatorial powers. Masses of grown up idots are outside for him already. The only thing missing is Obama Jugend.

"Occupy Wall Street" gives me chills in such light.

Hopefully, another Smedley Butler will step in.