http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2048790,00.asp

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday unveiled its own secretive version of Wikipedia, saying the popular online encyclopedia format known for its openness is key to the future of American espionage.

 

Very cool use of a private sector tool. I love it when people take something and run with it. Great idea. There are some obvious security issues, but I'm confident they can be managed.

I just can't wait until it gets hacked and made public.

I just love wiki. I'm a complete outsider looking in, but I want to jump in in a big way.

 

I just signed on for a year of freelance contract work through Smithsonian to take over a web-based estuary species inventory project where I have to knock out painfully detailed descriptions of 50 different species to add to a slowly expanding database. I'm thankful for the gig and the money to do it, but if it were me I'd go wiki and and try turning a bunch of bio-geeks and naturalists onto a cool community build with an expert oversight panel. Probably get the whole database fleshed out in 1/10th the time.

 

Maybe the Borg had it right and it's best just to plug into the collective after all.

Edited November 3, 200619 yr by FlaSoxxJim

I just love wiki. I'm a complete outsider looking in, but I want to jump in in a big way.

 

I just signed on for a year of freelance contract work through Smithsonian to take over a web-based estuary species inventory project where I have to knock out painfully detailed descriptions of 50 doofferent species to add to a slowly expanding database. I'm thankful for the gig and the money to do iy, but if it were me I'd go wiki and and try turning a bunch of bio-geeks and naturalists onto a cooll community build with an expert oversight panel. Probably get the whole database fleshed out in 1/10th the time.

 

Maybe the Borg had it right and it's best just to plug into the collective after all.

 

Could somebody translate?

Jay Mariotti threatened to sue wikipedia if they didn't remove anything in his article that mentioned he has feuded with anyone (ever).

 

they gave in and removed any suggestion that jay is anything but a respected journalist. they also locked it for a while, someone should go update it.

 

other than that , wikipedia is the best.

Edited November 3, 200619 yr by mr_genius

Could somebody translate?

 

Forget the translation, damn I need the new Firefox with the built in spellcheck!

Forget the translation, damn I need the new Firefox with the built in spellcheck!

 

That's the fun thing about big and technical words... who the hell will know if they are spelled wrong in the first place???

That's the fun thing about big and technical words... who the hell will know if they are spelled wrong in the first place???

 

Yeah, I happened to mis-spell big technical words like "different" and "cool" in that post.

 

You'd think my fingers were fat sausages the way I type.

Yeah, I happened to mis-spell big technical words like "different" and "cool" in that post.

 

You'd think my fingers were fat sausages the way I type.

 

Somewhere there is a lady smiling at the thought . . .

And of course the headline today in the Trib is about the US putting too much information on-lkine and possibly helping Iran along in the Nuke program...

That's the same Trib that endorsed the President in 2000 and 2004, right?

That's the same Trib that endorsed the President in 2000 and 2004, right?

 

Yeah, and? The point was the US screwed up by giving by away nuclear secrets because they don't know how to handle their info on-line... What does that have to do with who the Trib endorsed for President?

Sorry I thought this was going in a SCLM (so called liberal media) slant.

Speaking of which, apparently the US government apparently accidentally put up a basic guide to building a nuclear bomb in Arabic recently. This was to make public an archive of seized documents from the Saddam Hussein era.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/mi...artner=homepage

Speaking of which, apparently the US government apparently accidentally put up a basic guide to building a nuclear bomb in Arabic recently. This was to make public an archive of seized documents from the Saddam Hussein era.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/mi...artner=homepage

 

This is utterly amazing, and I've become almost too jaded to be surprised by any act of complete incompetence performed by or at the behest of the administration.

 

. . . I thought a story about how our illustrious War President and Defender against Terrorism over rode his own weapons security experts at the behest of the Rubber-stamp Republican Congress and posted highly classified, detailed technical tips for making a fission bomb on the Internet might be worth a mention.

 

Here's a summary of some of what is being reported:

 

* In the aftermath of the Iraq invasion, facing the embarrassment of no WMDs found, the White House found themselves in possesion of thousands of pages of Iraqi documents pertaining to obsolete WMD programs from before the first Gulf War

 

* To provide fodder for out of context quoting and neocon fear monergering, to save time and money on translating, and to retain a few votes, the Republican Congress with the cooperation of President Bush wanted to post the raw docs on the Internet and invite right-wing bloggers and web surfers to pitch in and read through it all to find any quotable gems.

 

* John Negroponte, bless his black little heart, had enough brains to oppose this incredibly asinine idea knowing full well that the data had not been read and vetted.

 

* Apparently, Bush the Decider, a guy who wouldn't know a neutron from a noble gas, reportedly decided to over ride expert advice and do it anyway.

 

* Buried in the stacks of dull inventories and mundane trivial minutia were the plans for how to fabricate and assemble the critical components of a working fission bomb.

 

On top of everything else some of it was published in Arabic and available for several months, thus giving the bad guys plenty of time and saving Al Qaeda the bother of having to translate it. I can only imagine that Islamic terrorists and sympathizers the world over fell off their camels peeing in hysterical laughter.

 

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