Eastern Standard Blog

Tiananmen Square 20 Years Ago Today

Amazing. Sad. Disturbing.

And we couldn’t even be bothered to be that upset about the 2000 election.

Here is today’s disturbing fact…the US Terrorist Watch List has now crossed over the 1 million name mark.

Obviously you will find more terrorists if you just keep making bigger piles of data to sift through. Your odds of finding statically rare events always increase by increasing the size of your data set. Oh wait, only if you have an amazingly accurate system to detect them. Otherwise you just get a jump in your false positives.

A safer America through the magic of the false positive!

But I guess we are all on the watch list now that the Congress has seen fit to ‘overhaul‘ the FISA laws.

Oh, and boo to Barack Obama for voting for this pile of shit.