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From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 23:15 's cameras then showed cars doing that constantly at the same intersection. They said they counted hundreds the same night. The police chief then tacitly admitted they were pulling over black people on purpose. ---- [ Yes, I am aware of the cocaine/crack sentencing discrimination. ] You monitor any group real close, you'll get many arrests. The implications of heavy monitoring are serious. * Jan 30 1997, The New York Times, page A12 * * Blacks make up 51 percent of the 1.1 million inmates in state and * Federal prisons, the Sentencing Project study said, though * blacks are only 14 percent of the nation's population. * * Of a total voting age population of 10.4 million black men nationwide, * an estimated 1.46 million have lost the right to vote [as a result]. Wow. This highly focused monitoring of blacks should be way illegal. Blacks make up 14% of our U.S. population. Blacks make up 51% of our prison population. Never forget what it means to be heavily monitored: there is no place to hide. Noone is an angel. Are you? What's in store next for black Americans? # "This Modern World", by Tom Tomorrow [political cartoon, in NYT] # # Biff: You know why we should eliminate welfare, Wanda? # It's been A COMPLETE FAILURE! # After all -- there ARE STILL POOR PEOPLE! # # Wanda: Hey, good thinking Biff! # And while we're at it, why don't we eliminate the FIRE DEPARTMENT? # After all -- there ARE STILL FIRES! # And talk about FAILURES -- what about the MEDICAL INDUSTRY? # Why, there are still SICK PEOPLE everywhere you look! # # Wanda: And why don't we shut down the POLICE DEPARTMENT as well -- # since there are STILL CRIMINALS!
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:45 concerns" on child pornography. They have raided private homes and seized computer equipment after monitoring Internet traffic and spotting regular people browsing WWW/USENET clicking on an article they CAN'T SEE UNTIL THEY CLICK ON IT which contained nude pixels representing children. Out of fear that child-molesting child pornographers might encrypt these files, even pro-cryptography legislation has 'using cryptography to commit a crime gets you an additional five years'. What happens with a five year prison clause? Well, let's say the person clicked on what turned out to be child pornography. So they click on something else and that wipes it off the screen. It's still sitting in their browser's cache. * "Man Arrested After Retrieving Child Pornography by Computer" * The New York Times, May 19, 1995 * * A Los Angelos man has been arrested on charges of possessing child porno- * graphy that he obtained over the Internet. His Internet traffic was under * surveillance because he placed an ad seeking an "open relationship" with
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 21:31 and control in the living organism AND in the machine. Its application is sometimes called operations research. I personally rank Norbert Wiener above Albert Einstein. Operations research is a difficult discipline --- I certainly don't understand it --- but when it was desperately needed during World War II, the U.S. Dept. of War went for it gung-ho, rightfully. Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is the first step...the NSA grew out of these wartime operations research efforts. To seek out information from noise, then act on the information. Target accuracy for precision high altitude bombing requires a complex feedback mechanism to control deployment (pre-GPS WW II). * My dad: * * Norden bombsights revolutionized aerial bombing. * * They were so accurate we stopped putting explosives * in the bombs and just aimed for people. Communications, Command and Control. The above wasn't really the best example of OR, but I did get to quote my dad again. ;-) * "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance in * the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70403-X * * A discipline named operations research had begun to develop prior to World * War II that aspired to use quantitative methodologies to develop a science * of management. [snip] * * For the physicists and mathematicians of the Rand Corporation, the * intuitions of common sense were utterly insufficient as a guide to * management. Mathematical precision was necessary, and operations * research promised to supply that precisio
From: David Bernier on 18 Apr 2008 22:34 * But to do this they are creating a system which can monitor everyone * and everything. * * At the first meeting of the new Council of Justice and Home Affairs * Ministers in Brussels on 29-30 November 1993 they adopted the following * Resolution on "the interception of telecommunications" which speaks for * itself and reproduced here in full: * # CONFIDENTIAL MEMO # # "COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON THE INTERCEPTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS" # # The Council: # # 1) calls upon the expert group to compare the requirements of the Member # States of the Union with those of the FBI; # # 2) agrees that the requirements of the Member States of the Union will be # conveyed to the third countries which attended the FBI meeting in # Quantico and were mentioned in the memorandum approved by the Ministers # at their meeting in Copenhagen (Sweden, Norway, Finland [countries # applying for accession to the European Communities], the USA and # Canada), in order to avoid a discussion based solely on the # requirements of the FBI; # # 3) approves for practical reasons the extension to Hong Kong, Australia # and New Zealand (which attended the FBI seminar) of the decision on # co-operation with third countries which was taken at the Ministerial # meeting in Copenhagen' [ The whole world, not just EU...Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong... ] # 4) hereby decides that informal talks with the above-named countries may # be envisaged: to that end the Presidency and the expert group might, # for example, organize a meeting with those third countries to exchange # information. * * * Further memorandums state: * * There is a need to introduce international interception standards * and "norms" for the telecommunications industry for carrying out * interception orders in order to fight organized crim
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:11
though strictly speaking * it had not always been the same war. * * The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil. * "Taking Control - Politics in the Information Age" * Authors Morely Winograd & Dudley Buffa, 1996, ISBN 0-8050-4489-2 * * From Richard Nixon's law and order campaign in 1968 to George Bush's * infamous Willie Horton ad in 1988, Republicans have attempted to define * their differences with Democrats by a no-nonsense position on crime and * criminals. * * It helped Republicans win the presidency, and it also gave them the * tool by which to control the Democratic majorities in Congress that * might allow their opponents to label them as soft on crime. * * No Democrat, except those in overwhelmingly Democratic districts, could * afford to cast any votes in Congress that might allow their opponents * to label them soft on crime. A constant state of law enforcement hysteria. The absolute pinnacle of War terminology was the phrase "Zero Tolerance". We will monitor and prosecute mercilessly with mandatory minimums because letting even one criminal not be caught means you are soft on crime. Everyone is potentially guilty. We need a Police State to combat crime. * USA Today, undated: HOME GARDEN RAIDS: Federal drug agents want to * raid indoor home gardens in search of marijuana plants. The DEA has * subpoenaed Florida garden centers to turn over records showing who * has bought items like fluorescent lamps and plant food. [What???] * CBS News, Dan Rather reporting. See this camera on a building at the * mall? It's aimed at this lighting store's customers, recording them * and the licenses on their cars. Little old lady: I was growing some * plants indoors, here aren't they pretty? When the police burst in... * USA Today, undated: Kalispell, Montan |