The NSA trying to find terrorists

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/rudmin1.html


No matter how sophisticated and super-duper are NSA's methods for identifying terrorists, no matter how big and fast are NSA's computers, NSA's accuracy rate will never be 100% and their misidentification rate will never be 0%. That fact, plus the extremely low base-rate for terrorists, means it is logically impossible for mass surveillance to be an effective way to find terrorists.

I will not put Bayes' computational formula here. It is available in all elementary statistics books and is on the web should any readers be interested. But I will compute some conditional probabilities that people are terrorists given that NSA's system of mass surveillance identifies them to be terrorists.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/rudmin1.html


interesting read.
PEACE

[Brody]

wow.. lame.. I believe they have.. well picked up a few terrorist phone calls in there day..

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

wow.. lame.. I believe they have.. well picked up a few terrorist phone calls in there day..

what is lame ?

i'm sure they did. but with more conventional intel actions i guess.

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Sitting on our hands is the answer. Peace thru lack of action.

Nothing is 100%.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

Sitting on our hands is the answer. Peace thru lack of action.

Nothing is 100%.

some things are 0.000001 %.
but yeah, paradoxal
doing a lot of things that does nothing.
or doing nothing that does nothing.
?

[Brody]

wow.. lame.. I believe they have.. well picked up a few terrorist phone calls in there day..

what is lame ?

i'm sure they did. but with more conventional intel actions i guess.

Whats lame? the fact that your read an article on NSA and all of a sudden your an expert in NSA Intelligence.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

wow.. lame.. I believe they have.. well picked up a few terrorist phone calls in there day..

what is lame ?

i'm sure they did. but with more conventional intel actions i guess.

Whats lame? the fact that your read an article on NSA and all of a sudden your an expert in NSA Intelligence.

i didnt say that ...  it's an article about mathematics.

[SLCPUNK]

[Guns N RockMusic]

And SLC is here to save the day with another picture.  You must be a firm believer "in a picture's worth a 1000 words."

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

And SLC is here to save the day with another picture.  You must be a firm believer "in a picture's worth a 1000 words."

at least your words .... oooooo man !!! that was funny !

[SLCPUNK]

The NSA did eavesdrop on my grandma and get her apple pie recipe..........

She hasn't been the same since.

wow.. lame.. I believe they have.. well picked up a few terrorist phone calls in there day..

i think sum of them terrorists are working for citicards, cuz everytime i call them they got a funny accent like they are from india or summin'..............

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

i think sum of them terrorists are working for citicards, cuz everytime i call them they got a funny accent like they are from india or summin'..............

humm, that's wierd ... i dont know what citicards is, but it sounds made up.

[Axl4Prez2004]

Okay wateveri'mbuggin, I give up.  What methods would you employ to snag terrorists?
 

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

Okay wateveri'mbuggin, I give up.  What methods would you employ to snag terrorists?
 

education and atheism.

[SLCPUNK]

i think sum of them terrorists are working for citicards, cuz everytime i call them they got a funny accent like they are from india or summin'..............

humm, that's wierd ... i dont know what citicards is, but it sounds made up.

I think you are a terrorist and am reporting your IP to the FBI................

Okay wateveri'mbuggin, I give up.  What methods would you employ to snag terrorists?
 

Bear traps and beef jerky............

[Brody]

Okay wateveri'mbuggin, I give up.  What methods would you employ to snag terrorists?
 

Appeasment.. We know how well it worked for the french during wwII

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

Okay wateveri'mbuggin, I give up.  What methods would you employ to snag terrorists?
 

Appeasment.. We know how well it worked for the french during wwII

oh man ! i'm gonna report you !! you're insulting my country ! omg !! lmao lol ! cd html ! dvd css web 2.0 ! omg !
this is so mean !! i dont think i'll be able to go to work !! because .... i understand now .... you are making fun of France ... the french 50 years ago..... but i AM french NOW ... therefore you are making fun of me ?!!!?? OMG GOSH LOL MSN HTPP !!! 11!!!

[Will]

You two have been warned once already.

I really don't like these threads because they always end in useless cyberfights. I know these are important/ interesting issues but people just can't control themselves on the internet and always have to insult the next guy or his country.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

You two have been warned once already.

I really don't like these threads because they always end in useless cyberfights. I know these are important/ interesting issues but people just can't control themselves on the internet and always have to insult the next guy or his country.

i was just playing, i hope he was, as you said this is the internet, no big deal

[Will]

I know you were.

I do know how this kind of threads end up every single time, though...