[Nuke'm Glowing]

The pertinent language is somewhat "governese"....

* Collaboration and sharing over TCP/IP networks across agency boundaries
* Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas that can be changed interactively by users
* Foreign language machine translation and speech recognition
* Biometric signatures of humans
* Real time learning, pattern matching and anomalous pattern detection
* Entity extraction from natural language text * Human network analysis and behavior model building engines
* Event prediction and capability development model building engines
* Structured argumentation and evidential reasoning
* Story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance
* Business rules sub-systems for access control and process management
* Biologically inspired algorithms for agent control
* Other aids for human cognition and human reasoning



"Even that would be worthless, as they couldn't even figure out how to run a SQL query on the sniper database to figure out that a certain Caprice should be checked out."

I have to call you on this one. The "LEOs" used their own profilers to make that call. This was a prejudice which no system could anticipate or correct.

"Actually, storage isn't that expensive any more. And I think corporations would raise an alarm on some of these matters."

I doubt they would. This gives them the free "pass" to increase fees on the users justifying it as part of the "war on terrorism". I can see the tradeoff here, IMHO. I have to agree with you. The goal is a warrantless search, then if some nugget is turned up, request the warrant for specific purposes to give it the veil of legality. The sheeple would be happy and the politicos can brag about how they saved the U.S.

[dirtboy]

Here is where I believe you are being led astray:

* Collaboration and sharing over TCP/IP networks across agency boundaries
* Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas that can be changed interactively by users

I saw this section, and interpreted it to be high-level standards for systems WITHIN THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT - not upon corporations.

I have to call you on this one. The "LEOs" used their own profilers to make that call. This was a prejudice which no system could anticipate or correct.

I have to call you in return. The bias of users is one of the greatest potential failure points for any system.