Re: NEWS:Why 'Terrordaq' will come - if the Pentagon likes it or not

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 17:32:01 MDT

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    On Saturday 02 August 2003 14:28, Adrian Tymes wrote:
    > --- Robin Hanson <rhanson@gmu.edu> wrote:
    > > PAM was never intended to predict individual terror
    > > attacks, especially
    > > their details.
    >
    > Err...then what was it intended for? Another vague
    > general alert status?

    As I see it it doesn't have anything per se to do with terrorism at all. It
    is a way of measuring/approximating dynamically the relative confidence or
    lack of it in various aspects of various troublesome parts of the world.
    That seems like a very good thing to have around.

    - samantha

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