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How a Team of Geeks Cracked the Spy Trade
drunken_boxer777 sends us to The Wall Street Journal for a lengthy article on a small tech company, Palantir Technologies, that is making the CIA, Pentagon, and FBI take notice. The submitter adds, "And yes, their company name is a reference to what you think it is." "One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketplace, Palantir Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective tool to date to investigate terrorist networks. The software's main advance is a user-friendly search tool that can scan multiple data sources at once, something previous search tools couldn't do. That means an analyst who is following a tip about a planned terror attack, for example, can more quickly and easily unearth connections among suspects, money transfers, phone calls and previous attacks around the globe. ... With Palantir's software 'you can actually point to examples where it was pretty clear that lives were saved.'"
> ..a small tech company, Palentir Technologies..
> ..Palantir Technologies has..
> The submitter adds, "And yes, their company name is a reference to what you think it is."
A spellcheck company?
Palantir Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective tool to date to investigate terrorist networks
What? a crystal ball to fight the terrorist:
A palantír (sometimes translated as Seeing Stone but actually meaning "Farsighted" or "One that Sees from Afar") is a stone that functions somewhat like a crystal ball.
Slashdot ya no es que lo era!
SlashDotter (due to her articles in this forum)
"Her" on slashdot? What do you mean?
... we hatesss it, Preciousss, yesss we doesss.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Thanks, my internet is down, I was unable to google that myself.
moox. for a new generation.
If an intelligence officer in the government hated a particular SlashDotter... her friends... her adulterous lover
A female SlashDotter with friends and a lover... it would take a top tier spy tool to find that unicorn.
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
It's not like as though the company was named "Rusty Trombones Inc." or something
That would be a Commander Riker reference?
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Trust the computer. The computer is your friend. (There is no ultraviolet classification)
Come play free flash games on Kongregate!
Thanks, my internet is down, I was unable to google that myself.
So how are you posting this?
Probably using the legendary Posting Stone of Minas Wooshgul
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Adultery? You mean like using your other hand?
I was taught to respect my elders. The trouble is, it's getting harder and harder to find some.
Please turn in your geek card.
No, that would be nerd card. Geeks have social skills.
You obviously didn't READ the books.
neither did I. I tried - I really tried.. but they were so horribly boring and long-winded it was impossible for me to make it through even part of the first one.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A by Tolkein: The chicken, sunlight coruscating off its radiant yellow-white coat of feathers, approached the dark, sullen asphalt road and scrutinized it intently with its obsidian-black eyes. Every detail of the thoroughfare leapt into blinding focus: the rough texture of the surface, over which countless tires had worked their relentless tread through the ages; the innumerable fragments of stone embedded within the lugubrious mass, perhaps quarried from the great pits where the Sons of Man labored not far from here; the dull black asphalt itself, exuding those waves of heat which distort the sight and bring weakness to the body; the other attributes of the great highway too numerous to give name. And then it crossed it.
Obviously, it refers to Jack Palance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Palance