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If they bring back the Time Lords in series 8 (or later), wonder if it will start to resemble a sci-fi action version of "The West Wing" or "House of Cards".

I won't be buying either one in the meantime. Presently there is no game that is an immediate deal breaker for me. I'll wait for the next Grand Theft Auto franchise game, and decide then.

Watching "Idiocracy" and "Demolition Man". Kinda funny.

I always liked Tommy Aldridge. Especially the drum solo on the Ozzy Osbourne live album "Tribute". He sounds like he's playing the drums with his hands (without sticks) during some sections of the drum solo.

I'm almost finished watching season 2 of Continuum. So far, I've found season 2 to be a lot better than season 1.

The pilot episodes "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" appear to be somewhat different than the rest of episodes. (ie. Different cast, etc ...). Most of the other episodes seem to be self-contained, and can be watched in just about any order. (Except the two part episode "The...

(Ignoring the liberty part). One could calculate how much at minimum it costs in manpower to investigate 10,000 positive hits each year. For one employee being paid a federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour) working 9-5 (8 hours), it will cost $58 per day per employee. (In practice, the salaries may...

Are you examining how much $$$$ it costs to get the scarce successes while weeding out the false positives?

The only other reasons I can think of offhand for the existence of such programs (even if they're ineffective in practice), is for "security theater" and CYA (cover your ass) type of reasons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_your_ass

I suspect human intelligence may be more effective at identifying badguys which are a part of an organized (or semi-organized) group, where feds (or informants) have made efforts to infiltrate the ranks of such organizations. Though human intelligence might not be as effective in finding the...

This would be highly dependent on the details of how the positive hit was made, and how exactly the list of positive hits is being whittled down. For example, how much analyst manpower will it take to eliminate enough of the false positives, so that they have a manageable list of candidates...

With a time dependence element added in, all it does is make the mathematics more complicated. If one were to do so, the easiest thing to incorporate it is a Poisson process. But as with any statistical tool, even a Poisson process is dependent on past measurements as input data. This is...

This is a very bad rate. The question is how exactly will the 10,000 people be further distinguished. Such as another computer program whittling down the list further, or actual teams of human analysts examining the data further by hand (or some combination). If human analysts are examining...

Let calculate the probability that a positive hit from NSA's computer program, is actually indeed a badguy. (ie. P(badguy|+) ). From Bayes' Theorem, P(badguy|+) = P(+|badguy)*P(badguy)/[P(+|badguy)*P(badguy) + P(+|goodguy)*P(goodguy)] To be charitable, let's assume that NSA's computer...

^ What would be an example of an extremely realistic procedural show?

Especially the Stargate franchise.

One could also go back several decades for previous precedents, such as the original "Knight Rider" from the early-mid 1980's. (For example). Instead of a baseline effective AI with unlimited surveillance capability in "Person of Interset", in the original "Knight Rider" it was a baseline...

Wonder what made the show "24" palatable for network television (for 8 seasons on Fox), while Homeland isn't. (ie. Besides the sex scenes and bad language in Homeland).

More generally, aggregator/critic ratings at best only tells me whether something is really really horrible. Higher aggregator/critic ratings don't necessarily tell me that something is "good". In the case of really really horrible stuff, aggregator/critic ratings don't tell me whether...

Another near-future show that comes to mind is Total Recall 2070. (The show resembles more Blade Runner, than Total Recall). It's like a police show with Blade Runner style androids, Total Recall style memory modifications, evil corporations resembling Tyrell or Rekall, etc ...