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2010-01-13 Home Front: WoT

State Dept. Mending Ways After Xmas Day Incident

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-01-13 11:59|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Bull$hi+.

Posted by gorb 2010-01-13 13:13|| 2010-01-13 13:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if they should use Google(tm)?

Posted by Tarzan Ominemble7842 2010-01-13 13:27|| 2010-01-13 13:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Dear search engine, please search any combination, sequence or spelling of the following names beginning with the letters A-B-D-U-L.....

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-13 15:44|| 2010-01-13 15:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Dear Besoeker, please get a strong drink, it will take a while ...

-- search engine

Posted by Steve White 2010-01-13 16:08|| 2010-01-13 16:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Quite correct Steve, if one is using commercial search engines.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-13 16:20|| 2010-01-13 16:20|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not the search engine but the indexing strategy, for the most part, that determines time/effectiveness for partially specified searches.

Posted by lotp 2010-01-13 16:33|| 2010-01-13 16:33|| Front Page Top

#7 SE tool in layman's terms, yes. Layman being myself of course. A bit more advanced than Bing. I see you are familiar with the basic protocol. Gorb's comment sums it up nicely. I'm always a bit wary of those who immeditely blame a computer or system for a shortcoming.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-13 16:41|| 2010-01-13 16:41|| Front Page Top

#8
I did a search on Abdul and came up with this:

I think she needs to be frisked ....

Posted by gorb 2010-01-13 16:57|| 2010-01-13 16:57|| Front Page Top

#9 if only for the sake of the security of our nation, i would volunteer to frisk that particular Abdul.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-01-13 17:49|| 2010-01-13 17:49|| Front Page Top

#10 I see you are familiar with the basic protocol.

Indeed. One might even venture to say that I'm familiar with a bit more than the basics.

Posted by lotp 2010-01-13 20:28|| 2010-01-13 20:28|| Front Page Top

#11 There are only 1/2 a million records in the no-fly db you can cache that in ram.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-01-13 20:49|| 2010-01-13 20:49|| Front Page Top

#12 When you're dealing with non-English names and variants, it'd seem useful to use something a little larger than the name as a tag-- name+parents' names + home town--and allow for fuzzier matches in the database.

Posted by James 2010-01-13 21:08|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2010-01-13 21:08|| Front Page Top

#13 ION NEWSMAX > [DHS Report]AL QAEDA LINKED TO ROGUE AVIATION NETWORK. Mystery Twin-Turboprops = Shuttles, Executive Jets, + retired Boeing 727's flying trans-Atlantic drug routes between HUGO'S COLUMBIA + UNSTABLE WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES + SAHEL.

* SAME [last week]> THE JIHADIST DECADE COMETH.

** TOPIX > FREEREPUBLIC = REPORT: AL QAEDA PLANNING NEW ATTACK AGZ THE UNITED STATES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-13 21:58|| 2010-01-13 21:58|| Front Page Top

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