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Re "Tax Advisers to Bush Prepare 2 Overhaul Plans That Will Take Aim at Popular Breaks" (news article, Oct. 19): The proposed tax-code changes should be cause for alarm for every middle-class American.
This equipment is costly ($750,000 to buy and as much again each year to maintain), large (in excess of 16 feet long), inaccurate (one false alarm for every five bags), and scarce (1,100 units are needed, seven times the number in operation a year ago).
The death of Ken Caminiti at age 41 should have sounded a loud alarm for every baseball player and anybody else who has used illegal anabolic steroids as well as for the players union, which reluctantly agreed to accept Major League Baseball's toothless steroids program.
Suppose that we issue an alarm for every case of probability higher than the threshold.
Set an alarm for every morning, even the weekend, to make sure that you always get up at the same time each day.
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But Mr Schneier, the security expert, says that even with an accuracy rate of 99.99%, and assuming that one in 10m fliers is a suspect whose face is on the watch list, there will still be 1,000 false alarms for every suspect identified.
Even this unrealistically accurate system will generate 10 million false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers.
This means that even very accurate systems will be so flooded with false alarms that they will be useless: millions of false alarms for every one real attack, even assuming unrealistically accurate systems.
For example, you can say "Alexa, set a repeating alarm for 7AM every day". You can also use the words "weekdays" or "weekends" and Alexa will understand.
Angela Mitchell's shifts at the hospital required her to rise before dawn, so Mitchell learned to set his alarm for 6 a.m. every weekday so he could shuffle into her room and talk with her for 30 minutes while she fixed her hair and applied her makeup.
So now Mr. McLaughlin sets his alarm for 6 a.m. every Saturday, as if it were a workday, loads the week's trash in the car, carts it to the local dump, then drops his wife and daughter at soccer, then races off to T-ball.
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