I did a search on Abdul and came up with this:
I think she needs to be frisked ....
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| Philip J. Crowley, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, acknowledged last week at a news conference that State Department officials made two key errors in the initial reporting about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. They misspelled his name -- "a one-letter difference," an intelligence official said -- in filing their first report Nov. 20, the day after Umau Mutallab, a Nigerian banker, described his concerns about his son. And they didn't officially look for Abdulmutallab in a department database of U.S. visa-holders. Abdulmutallab, Abdulmutalab, there's no real difference between these spellings, except to a computer |
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| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-13 21:58 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5 Quite correct Steve, if one is using commercial search engines. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-01-13 16:20 |
| #4 Dear Besoeker, please get a strong drink, it will take a while ... -- search engine |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-01-13 16:08 |
| #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 |
| #2 I wonder if they should use Google(tm)? |
| Posted by: Tarzan Ominemble7842 2010-01-13 13:27 |
| #1 Bull$hi+. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-01-13 13:13 |