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Comments on: Very Interesting https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/27/very-interesting/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sun, 28 May 2006 22:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/27/very-interesting/comment-page-1/#comment-10396 Sun, 28 May 2006 22:17:52 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/27/very-interesting/#comment-10396 If there’s no pattern to match, pattern matching doesn’t work.

It has never made sense to me because these guys do not “phone home”.

They keep building data bases that only make sense if you’re are spying on the population of the United States.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/27/very-interesting/comment-page-1/#comment-10395 Sun, 28 May 2006 22:03:00 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/05/27/very-interesting/#comment-10395 Bayes’ theorem is not rocket science, and its implications here need not puzzle the average reader, even the math-phobic reader. The short version: the method NSA is allegedly using to track terrorists would work effectively only if there were a huge number of terrorists in the U.S. population. There are surely not that many terrorists in America, but there are plenty of opponents of Mr. Bush.

So if the watchers were looking, not for terrorists, but for Mr. Bush’s opponents, specifically, opponents making phone calls and sending emails while organizing to defeat GOP candidates in the 2006 elections, or perhaps to advocate impeachment of Bush himself, they might well be able to spot and track such organizations in the patterns they are monitoring.

Let’s review: it’s demonstrably useless for finding terrorists; it’s possibly effective for identifying political opponents and their organizing efforts. What kind of government does that? You got it right in one.

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