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Edward Snowden Kills Team Trump's Conspiracy Theory By Explaining How The FBI Can Quickly Comb Through Email (geekwire.com)
FBI director James Comey told Congress Sunday that the further investigation of emails related to Hillary Clinton didn't turn up anything that would cause the bureau to recommend charges against her. The FBI had reviewed over 650,000 emails under nine days. Upon hearing this, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supported started to question whether the FBI could go through all those emails in such a short period of time. We will never know for sure until the FBI explains its process to us all (which is unlikely to happen), so people turned to Edward Snowden over the weekend for answers. And Mr. Snowden didn't disappoint. From a report on GeekWire: How easy would it be to cull out the duplicate emails? Outspoken journalist Jeff Jarvis posed that question to Snowden in a tweet, and got a quick response: "Drop non-responsive To:/CC:/BCC:, hash both sets, then subtract those that match. Old laptops could do it in minutes-to-hours."
It would be very easy via automation to tag the emails which are dupes of ones already in the data set.
Which, apparently, was all of them. No shit, Sherlock.
Um, if you "deduped" the list using hashing the resulting list was zero because there were no fucking new emails. It would literally take less than 5 minutes to run the algorithm.
I work for an organization that is heavily involved in electronic discovery processing for large corporations, law firms and the United States government.
Email threading, and duplication detection / dedupe are standard tasks that are performed on a daily basis on huge datasets. (As part of the Processing phase of the EDRM model.)
It is not at all unfeasible that the FBI could have used standard, off the shelf software to identify duplicates and generate an exception report for all 'new' emails that were not in the previously collected datasets.
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There were no "non-dups". There were no new emails. Not too hard to grasp.
Well apparently Trump and his supporters aren't high school level then.
Trump does poll well with the uneducated.
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That you elected a lying bitch instead of a lying asshole?
As one Republican consultant said in a Politico article, "Given a choice between crooked and crazy, the American people will always vote for crooked."
He had no difficulty in declining to release FBI's conclusion that Russians were behind the DNC hack, because it was "too close to the election day". That was about a week before he decided to make a very vague, inconclusive announcement that FBI was "looking into" these emails allegedly tied to HRC. In other words, he clearly picked a side in deciding that something that might hurt HRC was fit to release right before the election but something that was even barely connected to Trump was not.
First, I don't know who's going to win, I only know it will be razor close...Closer than Al Gore's loss if the polling is anywhere near reality.
Second, your partisanship is showing if you don't realize #1.
Third, Trump is not an idiot, nor is he stupid, he is just a bigger than life persona that refuses to couch his language in politically correct terms. He is thus readily misunderstood (both willingly and mistakenly) by those who don't like his positions. Yes, he's not smooth, polished and well spoken, but brash, common and not politically correct. But don't be fooled, this very thing you hate about him, is key to at least part of his success. Also, don't fool yourself into thinking he's somehow stupid, he's not.
Finally, underestimating ones adversary is a common cause of failing to prevail. You may not like Trump, but underestimate him at your peril. His "country bumpkin" persona may not appeal to you, but nearly half of this country will be voting for him. Best you and yours not forget that. Apparently he has a lot of appeal, enough to draw the nomination for president, and enough to make the other side's candidate struggle to best him to the bitter end.
Truly, both candidates are flawed in their own ways. We all need to realize that we've been witnessing a "scorched earth" political practice now for multiple decades, where both sides are guilty (to varying degrees) of playing identify politics, pitting one group of Americans verses another in a no holes barred effort to get just one more vote, worthy of a WWE (or what ever they call it now) prize fight. We've been having "the most important election of our lives" about every 4 years for the last two presidents. Eventually this won't work anymore, just like pumping adrenaline into a cardiac arrest patient.
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