Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] Quoting from http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard3.html I didn't really need to be reminded of that... Now I have diet coke all over my keyboard. Shame on you.
========== I make a mental note of his license plate. In fact , I did that 60 times a minute for 15 and a half minutes. Oh dear.. oh dear.... Looks like another call to the DMV Database to register a vehicle as stolen by out of town arms dealers... ==========
So when some jackhole cuts you off in traffic,
... accelerate, close and then force him off the road. Oh, wait. We have cell-phones now and so should rather telephone the local constabulary and let _them_ apprehend the miscreant.
now you don't report him as a possible drunk driver, now you can turn him into DHS as a highway terrorist.
On the other hand, we could save lots of money if we used bullets that have been drilled out and filled with mercury. True, we might have to deal with PETArds getting in a uproar over the heavy-metal poisoned wrecks littering the sides of the roads, but we can write that down as an opportunity cost. Fight fire with fire, I say.
Unless he's preemptively called you in. Everyone remember the rules of the prisoner's game?
I think so, but I should probably go back and refresh my memory. Just to be sure.
Anyway, you already have snitch lines. http://www.fbi.gov/page2/oct04/seekinfo103004.htm says you can use the online tip form, or contact your local FBI office or US embassy. Or your police department.
But if I submit a terrorist report to one of those places will it eventually end up registered in their terrorism database? Probably not. Obviously, they need a 1-800 number or something that goes straight to the DHS.
[not in favour of large gov't databases]
Howzabout the difficulty of sorting the useful tips out of the chaff when you just know that some new spam network will be set up to flood the system with bogus yet somewhat plausible tips.
If they don't have a good enough dictionary for their filters now, they never will.
Howzabout the difficulty that you - the meat blob - will have trying to get your name out
"you - the meat blob." How flattering.
of the database after you unfortunately happened to be within a 10 mile radius of "the real terrorists".
That can't be good. Is the measure of proximity to "real terrorists" on a scale that uses a linear scalar, or a logarithmic one?
Howzabout the fact that in this day and age of the internet and telephone, no one seems to have successfully managed to hack up some little Law-Enforcement-Only forum where "They" go to talk about how to catch terrorists.
I imagine that it would be too hard to screen for criminals and terrorists completely, rendering the idea of a private forum moot.
That's a people problem, really.
No shit.
Howzabout the fact that all LE organizations seem to have a real hard time working together, squealing about jurisdiction, etc.
Sounds like bad management if that's still the problem. Maybe the cops should hire a few management consultants and tune their workflow system. We should tell them, though, that if they do that they must remember to brief the consultants thoroughly on the other consultants from the private sector -- the ones that are _already_ involved with various things related to law enforcement. Good consultants hate surprises.
If they were actually serious about getting the job done, they'd either put the "juris-my-dick-tion bullshit" or there would be some presidential directive simply ordering everyone to play nice together. I don't think
How about a presidential order that says that they all have to run and use Peoplesoft (or something similar) to facilitate better interoperability? That might work too.
either of those are happening, based on the number of security czars who seem to be retiring suddenly.
I suppose that last bit depends somewhat on the number who are going into the private sector, as opposed to those who are going into a `true' retirement from work. Regards, Steve
-- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
It's likely they just haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Maybe it'll get done for the next major release. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca