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November 25, 2013

NOT READY!!!// NYT: NSA's info snarfing had to be reduced because the data was overwhelming
— Purple Avenger

This is something I've remarked on in comments previously. Its possible to have too much information if the retention selection criteria are too loose.

... In a world of ballooning communications, the agency is sometimes simply overwhelmed. In 2008, the N.S.A.Â’s Middle East and North Africa group set about updating its Sigint collection capabilities. The Â“ambitious scrubÂ” of selectors Â— essentially search terms Â— cut the number of terms automatically searched from 21,177 to 7,795 and the number of messages added to the agencyÂ’s Pinwale database from 850,000 a day to 450,000 a day.
The reduction in volume was treated as a major achievement, opening the way for new collection on Iranian leadership and Saudi and Syrian diplomats, the report said...

***Put stuff here about combinatorial explosion
***Put stuff here about curse of dimensionality

This was lingering in draft, and I'm probably not going to ever finish it..but its interesting anyway.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 07:01 AM | Comments (146)
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1 Foist!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 25, 2013 07:02 AM (wtvvX)

2 Put stuff here about stuttering clusterfucks of miserable failures

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 25, 2013 07:03 AM (wtvvX)

The mustache is against the wall...

...er...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 07:04 AM (lHb9q)

4 But their thirst for data on US citizens in insatiable, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2013 07:04 AM (JRmiD)

5 Even the dumbest of terrorist networks can overwhelm network storage. Just add "For the glory of violent jihad" to every email or text.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:04 AM (czMsg)

6 Just cutting "Muslim Brotherhood Akhbar" from the search terms reduced it that much?! More capacity to use on us...

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2013 07:05 AM (FcR7P)

In medicine there is a thing known as herd immunity. Similar concept in a way.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 07:05 AM (lHb9q)

8 Of course, 'tea' 'party', 'patriots', 'constitution,' 'god', 'conservative', 'gun', 'second,' and 'amendment' with combinations thereof still make up 6,100 of those selectors.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at November 25, 2013 07:06 AM (r0KFD)

9 I saw Combinatorial Explosion open for the Grateful Dead in Des Moines in '74.

Posted by: Marmo at November 25, 2013 07:06 AM (QW+AD)

10 New thread!!!! Thank you Jesuuus!

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2013 07:06 AM (YEQ2h)

11 I saw Curse of Dimensionality open for Kansas, Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, 1979. High point of the show was finding a baggie full of joints on the floor during intermission.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 25, 2013 07:06 AM (7ObY1)

12 off topic, you can now buy a set of four "Ready for Hillary!" champagne glasses for thirty dollars. Another reminder of how the elites reach out to the FSA.

Posted by: Mallfly at November 25, 2013 07:07 AM (bJm7W)

13 Or add "The C4 is in the music box and the camel flies at midnight" or other gibberish. to every communication.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:07 AM (czMsg)

14 3 The mustache is against the wall...

The crow flies at midnight.

Repeat: The crow flies at midnight.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 25, 2013 07:08 AM (U82Km)

15 8 Of course, 'tea' 'party', 'patriots', 'constitution,' 'god', 'conservative', 'gun', 'second,' and 'amendment' with combinations thereof still make up 6,100 of those selectors.

A fine, fine selection of watchlist words there, son.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2013 07:08 AM (YEQ2h)

16 What are you Purp, a Tearrorist? The NSA is doing this to protect you. From freedom.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at November 25, 2013 07:08 AM (09o/X)

17 So all those mouthbreathing teens endlessly texting are actually doing us all a favor.

Posted by: Waterhouse at November 25, 2013 07:08 AM (yobtO)

18 Yes, if reports were correct than the NSA was collecting far more information than they could possibly process in real time. It's impossible to write an algorithm to sift through data that is current to the minute. What is and what is not important changes from second to second.

That tells me that the information was mostly for future reference. Only after analysts know what they're looking for can they go back over the information to look for patterns.

Posted by: gastorgrab at November 25, 2013 07:08 AM (FX38i)

19 *put stuff here about proposing that "put stuff here" ought to be a new HQ meme.*

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 25, 2013 07:09 AM (i02Ds)

20 This has always been the problem - trying to figure out what actually is important in that huge pile of messages. And half of those messages will consist of cat pictures.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at November 25, 2013 07:09 AM (hLRSq)

21 #14 Negatory on the crow...it's camel.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:09 AM (czMsg)

22 That tells me that the information was mostly for future reference. Only after analysts know what they're looking for can they go back over the information to look for patterns. Posted by: gastorgrab at November 25, 2013 11:08 AM (FX38i) Yep. A gigantic database of everything we've ever done. No way this could be abused at all.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at November 25, 2013 07:09 AM (09o/X)

23
Put stuff here for first comment of the day.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 25, 2013 07:10 AM (iGPSR)

24 Yeah, I've wondered about that. Absent about a million new analysts I'm assuming that they're either using some kind of artificial intelligence to sort all this data for them or they're simply sitting on it. There's such a thing as too much data.

Posted by: joncelli at November 25, 2013 07:11 AM (RD7QR)

25 13 Or add "The C4 is in the music box and the camel flies at midnight" or other gibberish. to every communication.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 11:07 AM (czMsg)

Awesome..... how about freedom, NRA, and Moochelle? With a little commie thrown in? After all the stuff I've said, I'm just waiting for the knock on the door. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2013 07:11 AM (YEQ2h)

26 I got nothing. I'm just here for the new thread smell.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 25, 2013 07:12 AM (zF6Iw)

27 in that list : large govt. , Taxes, any u.s regulatory group,

Posted by: willow at November 25, 2013 07:13 AM (nqBYe)

28 >>> So all those mouthbreathing teens endlessly texting are actually doing us all a favor. In the Automotive thread about 10 days ago should have referred to an ignition problem, just to ping the data vacuum.

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 07:13 AM (Ua6T/)

29 Its possible to have too much information if the retention selection criteria are too loose. We already know more about Sandra Fluke's cooter than we need to......

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:13 AM (cB3Ay)

30 It's like looking for a needle..... in a stack of needles.

Posted by: Jimbo at November 25, 2013 07:13 AM (V70Uh)

31 So far we have benefited from the terrorist masterminds having the ego and maturity of preteen boys flush with the first floods of testosterone with the computer skills of said preteen boys.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:14 AM (czMsg)

32

I still have my eyes on you Kulaks.

Posted by: Barack O'Stalin at November 25, 2013 07:14 AM (Pr6hk)

33 ** put some clever word play here **

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 07:14 AM (Ua6T/)

34 *** put stuff here about not caring about what the NSA does with foreign spying and caring All The Things about what it does with domestic spying Yes, if reports were correct than the NSA was collecting far more information than they could possibly process in real time. It's impossible to write an algorithm to sift through data that is current to the minute. What is and what is not important changes from second to second. That tells me that the information was mostly for future reference. Only after analysts know what they're looking for can they go back over the information to look for patterns. Posted by: gastorgrab at November 25, 2013 11:08 AM (FX38i) Isn't that roughly the excuse that's being used to justify retention of license plate scanner data? Oh, we don't need it against you now but we might need it against you later so we're going to save everyone's so we can go back and look. See also mosaic theory of surveillance. By the by, I don't know what I think about license plate scanners though I do know that I am am incredibly skeptical that the data is being retained securely and that it is only being accessed by appropriate people for appropriate reasons. Uh. Huh. Also is *** put stuff here the 404care website code? Because it sure seems like it.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 07:14 AM (VtjlW)

35 I got nothing. I'm just here for the new thread smell.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 25, 2013 11:12 AM (zF6Iw)

----

yeah.... but new thread smell has a shelf life slightly shorter than an Obama pivot point.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 25, 2013 07:14 AM (nELVU)

36 The thing is that for Bashir to have that podium on that bully pulpit and in that bubble he lives in and that's something God Bless me that I have that a child who say is having that disability does not have that, well who am I to accept that apology or not to accept that apology is to say that for someone to say that about a conservative woman that isn't really what this is about but really shouldn't compare with that Alec Baldwin or that slavery really means being beholden to that master so that's that.

Posted by: Sarah Palin (send me that money) at November 25, 2013 07:15 AM (7ObY1)

37 It's as if these 'Elite' Ivy types are a mile wide and an inch deep.

Posted by: George S. Patton at November 25, 2013 07:15 AM (Pr6hk)

38 The mustache is against the wall... John has a long chair. Repeat, John has a long chair.....

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:16 AM (cB3Ay)

39 *put stuff here about proposing that "put stuff here" ought to be a new HQ meme.*

HHS already nabbed it. When I'm blowing through code with a Georgie Patton approach, there will be thing I know are possible to do and I just don't want to do them NOW, so I'll stub out their presence. Like:

int CalculateGronkulatorEfficienty(GronkStruct *p)
{
return 10;
//************* PUT CODE HERE **********//
}

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 25, 2013 07:16 AM (Xlbr8)

40 *** put stuff here the crosses memes; include longbows ***

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 07:16 AM (Ua6T/)

41 The average College students known vocabulary.... ie what they know, not how they speak... 12,000 to 17,000 words... Now, there are 6.500 living languages... so I guess they could be searching obscure dialects... And I understand Peruvian does have a LOT of words which mean attack.... so there is that...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2013 07:16 AM (lZBBB)

Put stuff here about combinatorial explosion

Word!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's Cooter at November 25, 2013 07:17 AM (NF2Bf)

43 #31 sorry meant to say WITHOUT the computer skills

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:17 AM (czMsg)

Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 07:17 AM (lHb9q)

45 It puts stuff about combinatorial explosion on the skin, or else it gets the hose again.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2013 07:18 AM (TOk1P)

46 Suffice to say (or is it "suffice it to say", I never can keep that straight) none of us here will be on the Preezy's Kwanzaa card list.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2013 07:18 AM (YEQ2h)

47 44 Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed. == sven probably keeps a whole team of analysts employed.

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 07:20 AM (Ua6T/)

48 Microsoft has a semi-convention they've used in their code to indicate shit the programmer isn't certain about, or know is wrong.

They'll put "BUGBUG" in a comment.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/03/29/403439.aspx

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 25, 2013 07:20 AM (Xlbr8)

49 44 Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 11:17 AM (lHb9q) WHICH IS WHY WE LURK

Posted by: Colosus, the Forbin Project at November 25, 2013 07:20 AM (lZBBB)

50 ** the meme is stale and the goat gambols away on delicate hooves ** ** the Great Satan likes popcorn **

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:20 AM (czMsg)

51 Suffice to say (or is it "suffice it to say", I never can keep that straight) none of us here will be on the Preezy's Kwanzaa card list. Be still my broken heart......

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:21 AM (cB3Ay)

52 In 2004, I was collecting over 35 million real-time data points annually on an off-the-shelf SQL server for performance analysis on a very modest manufacturing system. Worked like a champ. Only problem was, nobody but me knew how to do a fucking query, -and I'm a moron.

Posted by: Fritz at November 25, 2013 07:21 AM (UzPAd)

53 Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 11:17 AM (lHb9q) Oh please, are you trying to say that a comment stating that Serious You Guys, be sure to use a longbow to shoot the glowing mass of stuff (which is a type of weasel) in the Barrel before I have to perform the interpretative dance of rage avec stompy boots would be incomprehensible to those outside the HQ? Unpossible!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 07:21 AM (VtjlW)

54 Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 11:17 AM (lHb9q) WHICH IS WHY WE LURK Posted by: Colosus #atwerk

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:21 AM (cB3Ay)

55 46 Suffice to say (or is it "suffice it to say", I never can keep that straight) none of us here will be on the Preezy's Kwanzaa card list.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2013 11:18 AM (YEQ2h)

Well then the day is looking up.

Posted by: joncelli at November 25, 2013 07:21 AM (RD7QR)

56 Posted by: Purp at November 25, 2013 11:20 AM (Xlbr

At the last software development company I worked for.... we in the testing Dept. called it 'Dreamware'... Short for 'in your dreams...'

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2013 07:22 AM (lZBBB)

57
healthcare.gov source code:

main()
{
// BUGBUG
// *********** PUT CODE HERE *********/
ClusterFuck();
exit(-1);
}

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 25, 2013 07:22 AM (Xlbr8)

58 ** the binary elements are in the cookie jars **

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:22 AM (czMsg)

59 The quick brown fox....

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:22 AM (cB3Ay)

60 Oh please, are you trying to say that a comment stating that Serious You Guys, be sure to use a longbow to shoot the glowing mass of stuff (which is a type of weasel) in the Barrel before I have to perform the interpretative dance of rage avec stompy boots would be incomprehensible to those outside the HQ?

Unpossible!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 11:21 AM (VtjlW)

Madame, I tip my hat.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2013 07:22 AM (YEQ2h)

61 Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed.

***Processing string "Baby lambs"***
***unhandled exception***
***core dump***

Posted by: NSA Detect-O-Bot 1.2 at November 25, 2013 07:23 AM (yobtO)

Oh please, are you trying to say that a comment stating that Serious You Guys, be sure to use a longbow to shoot the glowing mass of stuff (which is a type of weasel) in the Barrel before I have to perform the interpretative dance of rage avec stompy boots would be incomprehensible to those outside the HQ?

Unpossible!

***

I suspect they are scouring old maps and atlases looking for a geographic reference point to identify the location of Peruvia.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 07:24 AM (lHb9q)

63 healthcare.gov source code: main() { // BUGBUG // *********** PUT CODE HERE *********/ ClusterFuck(); exit(-1); } //droptable

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:24 AM (cB3Ay)

64 Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 11:17 AM (lHb9q) WHICH IS WHY WE LURK Posted by: Colosus, the Forbin Project I think it's the socks that would cause the core meltdowns.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2013 07:24 AM (FcR7P)

65 O/T You knew it was coming. Hitler discovers Obamacare. http://tinyurl.com/px9jfd3

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 25, 2013 07:25 AM (0FSuD)

66 Oh please, are you trying to say that a comment stating that Serious You Guys, be sure to use a longbow to shoot the glowing mass of stuff (which is a type of weasel) in the Barrel before I have to perform the interpretative dance of rage avec stompy boots would be incomprehensible to those outside the HQ?

Unpossible!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 11:21 AM (VtjlW)

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Im sure "pointy elbows" beneath NSFW pix leaves more than one NSA watcher scratching his head.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 25, 2013 07:25 AM (nELVU)

67 #53 ** release the ravage at cock's crow or the Ewok gets the pudding ** Would be like totes decipherable, my liege

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:25 AM (czMsg)

Posted by: Sarah Palin (send me that money) at November 25, 2013 11:15 AM (7ObY1)

At least she's honest about her awkwardness. What about your Teleprompter Jesus, assmunch?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 25, 2013 07:26 AM (zF6Iw)

69 ***Put stuff in here about sweater puppies.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at November 25, 2013 07:26 AM (Iyi/j)

70 65 O/T

You knew it was coming. Hitler discovers Obamacare.

http://tinyurl.com/px9jfd3

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 25, 2013 11:25 AM (0FSuD)

I really need to resist going there.......

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2013 07:26 AM (YEQ2h)

71 We called it "vaporware."

Posted by: Jimbo at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (V70Uh)

72 Im sure "pointy elbows" beneath NSFW pix leaves more than one NSA watcher scratching his head. And the "baby lambs gamboling about" comments must really screw with them.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (cB3Ay)

73 Principal Component Analysis! Regression Models! R-squared values! Rank-Nullity Theorem!

Posted by: Chris M at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (+7Usq)

74 I think it's the socks that would cause the core meltdowns. Dude. Since finding this joint, I need therapy.

Posted by: SkyNet at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (naUcP)

75 The thing about "BUGBUG" is its easily GREP'd for if everyone adheres to the convention, so a simple source scan can identify known bits of sketchiness.

The hard part is social -- getting people to admit that they didn't have a perfect understanding and just had to move on to something else.

Sometimes you'd use BUGBUG as an implementation note. Like:

// BUGBUG, this code works, but is not as efficient as it might be

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (Xlbr8)

Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 11:17 AM (lHb9q)

WHICH IS WHY WE LURK

Posted by: Colosus

But first you will blow me!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (zF6Iw)

77 And of course "N!"

Posted by: Chris M at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (+7Usq)

78 ***unhandled exception*** ***core dump*** Yay, dump!

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (Ua6T/)

79 47 44 Hell, half the comments at AoSHQ would leave an artificial intelligence algorithm scratching its head and looking perplexed. == sven probably keeps a whole team of analysts employed. Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 11:20 AM (Ua6T/) That was the theory behind spurwing plover. But when Ace openly confronted spurwing, he emphatically denied it. http://goo.gl/mcguuX

Posted by: François Villon at November 25, 2013 07:27 AM (kkbgQ)

80 I think it's the socks that would cause the core meltdowns. Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2013 11:24 AM (FcR7P) Nah, I agree with fluffy, it's sven that has that rack of Crays sobbing and attempting self-immolation. I can't remember where I saw it but some university had an ad out putting up a Cray for sale and one of the first comments was "But will it play Crysis?"

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 07:28 AM (VtjlW)

81 *** Put stuff involving boobs here ***

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 25, 2013 07:28 AM (wtvvX)

82
Of course, 'tea' 'party', 'patriots', 'constitution,' 'god', 'conservative', 'gun', 'second,' and 'amendment' with combinations thereof still make up 6,100 of those selectors.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at November 25, 2013 11:06 AM (r0KFD)

"God, you've got a strong constitution. I could never drink tea that strong, I'm a lot more conservative with my libations. One amendment though, the way you gun that Earl Grey in less than a second......I'm thinking that doesn't help things."

I might have missed one search term.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2013 07:28 AM (TIIx5)

83 At least she's honest about her awkwardness. What about your Teleprompter Jesus, assmunch?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 25, 2013 11:26 AM (zF6Iw)

Teleprompter Jesus.... made me laugh, stealing that if you don't mind...

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2013 07:28 AM (YEQ2h)

84 I've been told by reliable sources that over half the data were dick picks sent from Anthony Weiner.

Posted by: Dr. Mr. Badman at November 25, 2013 07:28 AM (MlqTY)

85 Didn't BUGBUG open for GWAR at the Meadowlands in '93?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 25, 2013 07:28 AM (zF6Iw)

86 I can summarize it for you: it is like looking for a needle in a stack of needles. Yes, you can find a needle. But is it the right needle?

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at November 25, 2013 07:28 AM (1hM1d)

87 Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur....

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:29 AM (cB3Ay)

88 On a more dastardly note, the Governor has a new butt boy...

Posted by: François Villon at November 25, 2013 07:29 AM (kkbgQ)

The thing is that for Bashir to have that podium on that bully pulpit and in that bubble he lives in and that's something God Bless me that I have that a child who say is having that disability does not have that, well who am I to accept that apology or not to accept that apology is to say that for someone to say that about a conservative woman that isn't really what this is about but really shouldn't compare with that Alec Baldwin or that slavery really means being beholden to that master so that's that.

Posted by: Sarah Palin (send me that money) at November 25, 2013 11:15 AM (7ObY1)

Oh great! Those assholes at that Ace's place are at it again.

Posted by: NSA Tech at November 25, 2013 07:29 AM (57ubW)

90 31 So far we have benefited from the terrorist masterminds having the ego and maturity of preteen boys flush with the first floods of testosterone with the computer skills of said preteen boys.

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Tell me more! I'm deeply interested in the, er, policy implications.

Posted by: Harry Reid at November 25, 2013 07:29 AM (AiYlm)

91 @HoboJerky

Let me clarify: The claim that information collected illegally by the Obama administration could be used to "protect" anyone in real time, is impossible.

Even the 'good intentions' excuse doesn't pan out.

Posted by: gastorgrab at November 25, 2013 07:29 AM (FX38i)

Greetings, information analysts.

*puts something somewhere*

SNAFU, y'all.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 25, 2013 07:30 AM (0HooB)

93 I saw Teleprompter Jesus open for Budgie at Randy's Rodeo in '77...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 25, 2013 07:30 AM (wtvvX)

94 I might have missed one search term.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2013 11:28 AM (TIIx5)

***

Did you catch that Patriot's game last night?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 07:30 AM (lHb9q)

95 /* BUGBUG this is where we charge the kulak enough to cover three of our people. May have to increase that if enough of them don't sign up. */

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2013 07:31 AM (FcR7P)

96 ** release the ravage at cock's crow or the Ewok gets the pudding ** Would be like totes decipherable, my liege Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 11:25 AM (czMsg) Heh. Indeed.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 07:31 AM (VtjlW)

97 Honestly, given my standard nic, I'm not sure why I even socked SkyNet in this context...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at November 25, 2013 07:31 AM (naUcP)

98 You are in a twisty maze of datas all alike...

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 25, 2013 07:31 AM (Xlbr8)

99 #81..speaking of Crays...Tulsa has the only public access Cray. It was donated by Tangy and you must submit a usage proposal justifying your proposed run. It's purpose is to allow entrepreneurs and others to run models of their business plans, etc.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:31 AM (czMsg)

100 That was the theory behind spurwing plover. But when Ace openly confronted spurwing, he emphatically denied it.

http://goo.gl/mcguuX

Wow, a post with only 31 comments, not including spammers.

Posted by: Waterhouse at November 25, 2013 07:32 AM (yobtO)

101

it is like looking for a needle in a stack of needles.

Yes, you can find a needle. But is it the right needle?

There can be only one!

Posted by: Anthony Weiner MacLeod at November 25, 2013 07:33 AM (NF2Bf)

102 You are in a twisty maze of datas all alike... Posted by: Purp at November 25, 2013 11:31 AM (Xlbr Hmmmm. So 404Care was eaten by a grue?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 07:33 AM (VtjlW)

103 Tandy. .not Tangy...got to turn off auto correct

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 25, 2013 07:34 AM (czMsg)

104 Dealing with some legacy assembly code, I once encountered a section of code with the comment: "This is just too complex to explain"

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 25, 2013 07:34 AM (aDwsi)

105 98 You are in a twisty maze of datas all alike...

Posted by: Purp at November 25, 2013 11:31 AM (Xlbr

Pick up hammer.

Posted by: joncelli at November 25, 2013 07:34 AM (RD7QR)

106 I have a Tangy Model 100.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 25, 2013 07:35 AM (aDwsi)

107 the N.S.A.Â’s Middle East and North Africa group Which would be more damning: that Benghazi was in their data haul or that it wasn't?

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2013 07:35 AM (FcR7P)

108 that Downfall parody was almost too true to be funny, but whoever did it did a great job with timing and lines to make it the best done one ever.

Posted by: Rudy Hess at November 25, 2013 07:35 AM (Pr6hk)

109 Pick up hammer. Posted by: joncelli -------------------------- Excuse me?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 25, 2013 07:35 AM (aDwsi)

110 Autocorrect tastes tangy.

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 07:35 AM (Ua6T/)

111 The passcode phrase for today is 'eat a bag of dicks'.

Please make a note of it.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 25, 2013 07:36 AM (wNF3N)

112

You are in a twisty maze of datas all alike...

Nice.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2013 07:36 AM (C2eMH)

113 I'm more gamy than tangy, myself.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at November 25, 2013 07:37 AM (zF6Iw)

114 Hmmmm. So 404Care was eaten by a grue? Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 11:33 AM (VtjlW) Please note that nay contextual comparison between Zork and the Healthcare dot gov will force us to legal action. We can clearly prove there is no relationship between the Games of the Zork line, and Healtchcare dot gov, because with enough time, you can Win at Zork thankyou.

Posted by: Infocom Legal Dept. at November 25, 2013 07:38 AM (lZBBB)

115 104 Dealing with some legacy assembly code, I once encountered a section of code with the comment:

"This is just too complex to explain"

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 25, 2013 11:34 AM (aDwsi)

Which means, in translation, "I have no idea what I did but for now it seems to work."

Posted by: joncelli at November 25, 2013 07:38 AM (RD7QR)

116 you can get them in bags now?!!

Posted by: Bwarney Fwank at November 25, 2013 07:39 AM (Pr6hk)

117
I might have missed one search term.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2013 11:28 AM (TIIx5)

***

Did you catch that Patriot's game last night?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 11:30 AM (lHb9q)

ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH! Can't believe I didn't think of that, but then again, I'm not a basketball fan.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2013 07:39 AM (TIIx5)

118 This post is too syllabic.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at November 25, 2013 07:40 AM (S+fbC)

119 I always thought algorithm was that dorky looking dance that Al and Tipper did at the Democratic National Convention back in 2000?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 25, 2013 07:41 AM (lHb9q)

120 Back in my AS/400 days, I wrote a command called blwchnks *all.

Posted by: Marmo at November 25, 2013 07:41 AM (QW+AD)

121
I saw "NSA Watchers" open for "End of Liberty" in 2013.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 25, 2013 07:41 AM (nELVU)

122 You knew it was coming. Hitler discovers Obamacare. http://tinyurl.com/px9jfd3 ...but I had no idea it could be so good. Bravo!

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2013 07:42 AM (FcR7P)

123 As a platinum level member of the Free Shit Army, data collection from my free Obamafo doesn't concern me. I vote with the seat of my pants. As long as I got an EBT card back their, my vote goes to whoever keeps that sucka filled.

Posted by: Free Shit Army[/i] at November 25, 2013 07:42 AM (UL/Aj)

124 Pass the Dutchie 'pon the left hand side. Repeat: Pass the Dutchie 'pon the left hand side.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 25, 2013 07:43 AM (cLyUx)

125 I saw Twisty Maze of Datas open for Big Audio Dynamite at the Boston Tea Party back in '79,

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 07:43 AM (Ua6T/)

126 Dealing with some legacy assembly code, I once encountered a section of code with the comment: "This is just too complex to explain" Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 25, 2013 11:34 AM (aDwsi) I once made the following statement at the end of a half an hour long meeting to determine strategy "Well, if we're going to respond, we should respond." Hilariously, that made sense in context.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 07:43 AM (VtjlW)

127 I saw "NSA Watchers" open for "End of Liberty" in 2013. Posted by: fixerupper at November 25, 2013 11:41 AM (nELVU) Yeah.... but NSA Watchers were pretty good until they got that new Manager... that Obuma guy, and went all corporate.... and hired the old Lead Singer from KGB...

Posted by: Infocom Legal Dept. at November 25, 2013 07:44 AM (lZBBB)

128 It's interesting how Drudge has compiled a list of attacks on Hollywood animal abuse. Kudos to him. Hollywood is usually impenetrable. Stuff the hypocrisy in their faces. I can't wait until his compilation of abuse on women. We've already seen the child abuse charges. They've covered up by trying to push the extreme from the left - the unspeakable.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 25, 2013 07:44 AM (IXrOn)

129 Ugh to all of this spying stuff.

How about some Norm Reedus with his cat? http://preview.tinyurl.com/m23x8kt

Does that flag any potential tea-rrorist leanings, NSA?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2013 07:44 AM (JRmiD)

130 Back in my AS/400 days, I wrote a command called blwchnks *all. At that point did the program shitthebed*?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:44 AM (cB3Ay)

131 I once made the following statement at the end of a half an hour long meeting to determine strategy "Well, if we're going to respond, we should respond." Hilariously, that made sense in context. And if we're going to RavageÂ…we should ravage. IYKWIMAITTYD

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 25, 2013 07:44 AM (F3G1y)

132 We've already seen the child abuse charges. They've covered up by trying to push the extreme from the left - the unspeakable.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 25, 2013 11:44 AM (IXrOn)

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Wut......?

Posted by: Roman Polanski at November 25, 2013 07:45 AM (nELVU)

133 We already know more about Sandra Fluke's cooter than we need to......

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 11:13 AM (cB3Ay)

That's hot!

Posted by: Paris Hilton at November 25, 2013 07:46 AM (GgPam)

134

#130

Pretty much. It crapped out a big hex dump. I would have been perfect for helping out with Obamacare.

Posted by: Marmo at November 25, 2013 07:47 AM (QW+AD)

135 "This is just too complex to explain"

I usually write comments like:

; This code is tricky and relies on blah, blah, blah.
; NAIVE HACKING WILL BREAK IT!
; Unless you REALLY know what you're doing...
; DON'T FUCK WITH IT

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 25, 2013 07:48 AM (Xlbr8)

136 And if we're going to RavageÂ…we should ravage. IYKWIMAITTYD Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 25, 2013 11:44 AM (F3G1y) wink wink nudge nudge

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 25, 2013 07:50 AM (VtjlW)

137 >>> How about some Norm Reedus with his cat? He loves his kitteh.

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2013 07:51 AM (Ua6T/)

138 Nood. Grab willow!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2013 07:54 AM (cB3Ay)

139 I've always said that if somebody is going to monitor your e-mails, the best way to fight back is to make their job burdensome by increasing the volume.

Posted by: Frankie Goes To NSA at November 25, 2013 07:55 AM (e8kgV)

140 Gluttony is just as much of a Deadly Sin in the intelligence community.

Posted by: grognard at November 25, 2013 07:59 AM (/29Nl)

141 Interdasting...meningitis outbreak at Princeton, and two cases at UC Santa Barbara. Wonder what those two places have in common....hmmmm?

Posted by: Country Singer at November 25, 2013 08:03 AM (L8r/r)

142 This post looks like one of my status reports in progress !Show increased concern level here !message: the doctors are going to be pissed

Posted by: toby928© at November 25, 2013 08:08 AM (QupBk)

143 Allahu-ay Akbar-ay. No one will be the wiser, eh Ahmad? We fool them! Hahaha!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 25, 2013 08:09 AM (f9c2L)

144 Really, Purp: Allman-style braces!? I'm losing all respect!

Posted by: rev dr teej at November 25, 2013 08:27 AM (X0gUV)

145 Normally I indent braces, always line them up vertically (not that abominable K/R style), and always put them on a line of their own to promote clarifying white space, but comment formatting is primitive...

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 25, 2013 08:37 AM (Xlbr8)

146 I came up in that generation of the mid-90's whose comp. sci. 101 textbooks taught Java, for the first time, not C++. So I was raised on the 1TBS/modified K&R that was in Sun's styleguide. Even in the wilderness years when writing god-awful PHP, I styled my braces that way, contrary to their conventions. Now that I earn my bread'n'butter doing front-end web stuff, churning out 1000's of lines of JavaScript everyday, 1TBS is pretty much necessary if you're gonna be consistent (Allman- or related-styles will get you in trouble in your return statements). Appreciate all the tech-junkie posts that you contribute, Purpster. A nice contribution to the Horde's daily readings.

Posted by: rev dr teej v6.7 at November 25, 2013 08:59 AM (X0gUV)

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