From: Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc. (megao@sasktel.net)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 14:55:38 MDT
Did you try the archived version (cache) on google?
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> Giulio wrote:
>
> Assuming that the system would work, we have here an idea
> > that someone at DARPA has considered worth spending millions on, on
> > the basis of operational considerations, then has been dropped on the
> > basis of ethical and PC considerations. So this looks like a terrific
> > business opportunity for the private sector, as the BBC author says.
> > It would be interesting taking a look at the DARPA project
> > documentation, that has disappeared from the DARPA website, does
> > anyone have copies? How could such a business be developed?
>
> ### I wouldn't be surprised if the Pentagon went ahead with a covert futures
> market, open to FBI/Homeland Security?CIA/NSA/OtherUnheardOfSpyAgency
> employees, so as to allow aggregation of data among persons most likely to
> have data in the first place, with a big "Top Secret" stamp on it and some
> deniability (perhaps as in a tolerated semi-informal betting market to be
> ditched if the sanctimonious crowd gets wind of it). Almost all the benefits
> of PAM, none of the exposure to idiots.
>
> Rafal
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