Software to Randomize Police Operations at LAX 221
owlgorithm writes "A USC research group has created software, named ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring over Routes), that will be used at LAX Airport to make security and police operations there truly unpredictable. The software records the locations of routine, random vehicle checkpoints and canine searches at the airport, and police provide data on possible terrorist targets, based in part on recent security breaches or suspicious activity. The software then makes random decisions (which are thankfully based on calculated probabilities of terrorist attacks) and tells the police where to dispatch and when. The most notable detail is that terrorists who had access to ARMOR still wouldn't be able to predict the searches."
Dupe damn you! (Score:5, Informative)
My first Slashdot dupe report. I'm so excited! What do I win?
Dupe (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Wait! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I leaked the algorithm: (Score:1, Informative)
A plain old while loop would be better.
while(guy.hasBeard() && beardedguy == brown || self.needToFillQuota)
{
goAfterTheBeardedGuy();
}
Re:US airport security theory: (Score:3, Informative)
Maybe someday they'll fix Amtrak....
As someone who commutes regularly on Amtrak (in fact I'm on the train as I write this, thanks to EVDO), you just made me laugh. Bush has nearly killed Amtrak. Maybe the next President will be nicer to it, but currently, Amtrak is fighting to get even a few hundred million dollars of support, while other countries are putting billions into their systems. *sigh*