On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:36:47 +0200, Gilles Tran wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 4845fdf0$1@news.povray.org...
>> We must've read the same article - bbc.co.uk?  I do think that there's
>> more to the story than was there.  The scary thing is that even as
>> written, it's believable.
> 
> Here's the pic of the guy.
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023560/Man-threatened-arrest-
Heathrow-wearing-Transformers-T-shirt.html

Yeah, didn't look too threatening to me. :-)

> Note that he has a sri lankan name. Since Sri Lanka is home to one of
> the most ferocious terrorist organisations (they had cornered the whole
> "suicide bombing" market until Al Qaeda came along, and they have tried
> to claim the title back since) I wouldn't be surprised that people with
> this background are special targets for the authorities. Perhaps this
> works like some spam filters.

Ah, racial/ethnic profiling at its best.  That explains a lot. :-)

> X-Terror-Report:
>         *  0.4 M_30 Young male below thirty
>         *  2.5 DK_SKIN Person with dark skin
>         *  4.5 FROM_TRR_CTRY From: country with lots of terrorists * 
>         4.3 CLTH_OFFENS Clothes: wearing potentially offensive message *
>          8.1 BNN_IMG Image: contains banned images including guns, bombs
> and nail clippers
> 
> X-Terror-Status: Yes, score=19.8 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_99,M_30
> ,DK_SKIN, FROM_TRR_CTRY ,CLTH_OFFENS,BNN_IMG

You forgot on the BNN_IMG portion of the report that that list also 
includes knitting needles.  It probably *should* include "big 
hands" (since you could cause some serious harm with big hands), but the 
real filter doesn't.

Jim

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