Comments on: Quote of the day http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/ The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:52:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: frost http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/comment-page-1/#comment-691530 frost Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:27:48 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/#comment-691530 I actually do something extremely similar to this in my job everyday (though I'm not looking for terrorist info, I'm looking for something else). I would guess the heart of their analysis is the Bayesian Theorem. It's amazing what can be done with it when you have enough data to mine. I would also guess that these folks get a ton of hate mail. When you run a web crawler, you need to obey robots.txt files or web masters get very angry. You can bet the terrorists are using them if they don't want their "hidden" sites discovered, so the crawler has to be ignoring them. It's no big deal to ignore the wishes of a terrorist, but in order to crawl enough sites to find these "hidden" sites, you've got to crawl plenty of benign ones that also don't want to be crawled, hence the hate mail. I actually do something extremely similar to this in my job everyday (though I’m not looking for terrorist info, I’m looking for something else). I would guess the heart of their analysis is the Bayesian Theorem. It’s amazing what can be done with it when you have enough data to mine.

I would also guess that these folks get a ton of hate mail. When you run a web crawler, you need to obey robots.txt files or web masters get very angry. You can bet the terrorists are using them if they don’t want their “hidden” sites discovered, so the crawler has to be ignoring them. It’s no big deal to ignore the wishes of a terrorist, but in order to crawl enough sites to find these “hidden” sites, you’ve got to crawl plenty of benign ones that also don’t want to be crawled, hence the hate mail.

]]> By: kate q http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/comment-page-1/#comment-691461 kate q Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:50:25 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/#comment-691461 The kind of thing you always hope the good guys are doing...and used to <em>assume</em> they were.... The kind of thing you always hope the good guys are doing…and used to assume they were….

]]> By: Ordinary1 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/comment-page-1/#comment-691420 Ordinary1 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:12:34 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/#comment-691420 Tucson is a nice place. I've lived here almost two years now and I really like it. The hiking is awesome! Besides, it's a dry heat :-) Amazing how smart people and technology can be! Nice to see we are making real progress on many fronts in the terror fight. Hackers and geeks saving lives!!! Tucson is a nice place. I’ve lived here almost two years now and I really like it. The hiking is awesome! Besides, it’s a dry heat :-)

Amazing how smart people and technology can be! Nice to see we are making real progress on many fronts in the terror fight. Hackers and geeks saving lives!!!

]]> By: Connie http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/comment-page-1/#comment-691394 Connie Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:49:51 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/#comment-691394 Kind of like Able Danger only Hillary's name doesn't show up? Kind of like Able Danger only Hillary’s name doesn’t show up?

]]> By: Limerick http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/comment-page-1/#comment-691386 Limerick Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:46:05 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/#comment-691386 While I lament the lack of privacy I also applaude the effort to trackdown the bad guys. Let's face it, you type, someone you didn't think would is reading it. I figure that if they want to put me in a camp for grammar and spelling terrorism that my friends at HA will march on Washington and get me out. Well almost all my friends at HA. (Yeah right).....:) While I lament the lack of privacy I also applaude the effort to trackdown the bad guys. Let’s face it, you type, someone you didn’t think would is reading it.

I figure that if they want to put me in a camp for grammar and spelling terrorism that my friends at HA will march on Washington and get me out. Well almost all my friends at HA.

(Yeah right)…..:)

]]> By: Christoph http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/comment-page-1/#comment-691373 Christoph Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:36:06 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/14/quote-of-the-day-107/#comment-691373 <blockquote>Dark Web also uses complex tracking software called Web spiders</blockquote> Wow. Spiders. Amazing technology. Heretofore unheard of. Okay, sarcasm aside it makes sense.

Dark Web also uses complex tracking software called Web spiders

Wow. Spiders. Amazing technology. Heretofore unheard of.

Okay, sarcasm aside it makes sense.

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