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2010-10-12 Science & Technology

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Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-12 12:12|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 And the false positives, who will decide those?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-12 12:23|| 2010-10-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Can DARPA check Congress and the executive branch while they're at it?

Posted by Matt 2010-10-12 12:24|| 2010-10-12 12:24|| Front Page Top

#3 NO! US Government and DoD employees shall be exempt. Only soldiers and greedy contractors will be tested as they are obviously the problem. See US Army Regulation 600-85, The Army Substance Abuse Program and urinalysis testing.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-12 12:34|| 2010-10-12 12:34|| Front Page Top

#4 ...nor can it be applied to visa or citizenship applicants because that would be RACIST.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-12 12:38|| 2010-10-12 12:38|| Front Page Top

#5 They are looking for a technological fix to a people problem - something you can plug into the wall vs changing the culture of an organization. Looking at the data with hindsight, Army Major Nidal Hasan was a ticking bomb waiting to go off, but all the alarms were unplugged because the people who noticed the problem were prevented from speaking up by their institution's culture. A little data mining might provide some warning indicators but unless you remove the political correctness filters, it will be pointless.

Posted by SteveS 2010-10-12 13:43|| 2010-10-12 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 And we have a bingo! Steve S. wins this game, but be sure to play again next time.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-10-12 14:05|| 2010-10-12 14:05|| Front Page Top

#7 This cancerous pseudo-technology crops up every now and then. I remember when they were sending software to public schools that could theoretically be used to divine "future antisocial behavior" of "at risk" students.

As you might expect, it was garbage in-garbage out.

That is, depending what the principal decided to input, he could use it to justify abusing students he didn't like, personally or socially.

I believe someone pointed out that if you wanted to, you could subtly justify punishing every red-headed kid in school, but without appearing to.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-10-12 15:45|| 2010-10-12 15:45|| Front Page Top

#8 From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, net, land, and sea;

Posted by Penguin 2010-10-12 16:14|| 2010-10-12 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Crap! Above post #8 was supposed to be for the "Marine Corps considers creating new class of cyberwarriors" thread.

Posted by Penguin 2010-10-12 16:17|| 2010-10-12 16:17|| Front Page Top

#10 But even though Cinder is overseen by top hacker Peiter Mudge Zatko, it doesnt sound like Darpa knows precisely what its looking for.

That's the point of data mining. You are looking for patterns you didn't know existed.

Posted by phil_b 2010-10-12 18:39|| 2010-10-12 18:39|| Front Page Top

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