29 Jul
2003
29 Jul
'03
1:53 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:48:11AM -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up a stock-market style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence and useful predictions while investors who guessed right would win profits.
Jim Bell should have applied for a DARPA grant! (check out this and other programs at http://www.darpa.mil/iao/programs.htm) Eric