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Real-life "Minority Report" program gets a try-out
CNET via CBSNews.com ^ | October 7, 2011 | Declan McCullagh

Posted on 10/09/2011 2:31:22 PM PDT by 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."

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To: Daffynition

Thanks for the hand out.

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


41 posted on 10/09/2011 7:06:33 PM PDT by bigheadfred (But alas)
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To: bigheadfred
What union R U in?


42 posted on 10/09/2011 7:47:52 PM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: Daffynition

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


43 posted on 10/09/2011 8:06:37 PM PDT by bigheadfred (But alas)
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To: bigheadfred
NSFW - perhaps.
45 posted on 10/10/2011 2:45:36 AM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: CaptainKrunch

46 posted on 10/10/2011 3:01:06 AM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...

47 posted on 10/10/2011 5:02:46 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Daffynition

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


49 posted on 10/10/2011 5:14:15 AM PDT by Molon Labbie ("It's Free, Swipe Your EBT!")
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To: Daffynition

You don’t have to get so testes.

What comment took the hit? I went to bed.


50 posted on 10/10/2011 8:19:35 AM PDT by bigheadfred (But alas)
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To: Diogenesis

Love it!


51 posted on 10/10/2011 10:07:46 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: bigheadfred

I sent it to you in FReepmail.

Are the mods nuns?


52 posted on 10/10/2011 3:20:56 PM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: Daffynition

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


53 posted on 10/10/2011 3:36:22 PM PDT by bigheadfred (But alas)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

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.


54 posted on 10/10/2011 6:21:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Daffynition
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.

55 posted on 10/11/2011 12:08:49 PM PDT by DTA (U.S. Centcom vs. U.S. AFRICOM)
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