I hope that your FBI has better success with Data Mining than junk mailers. How may credit card offers have you had this week? Responded to any?
These companies are big-time users of Data Mining and your name was no doubt picked as a 'likely to respond'.
I work for a bank that is a heavy user of 'Data Mining'. Often the best we can do is 2 or 3 percent better than 'no mail' (lift over control for those of you in the industry).
If you can build a model that results in five percent response above 'no mail' you are looking at a 'Great Success' to quote Borat.
I think the best approach to finding potential terrorists is ground-level intelligence myself. Just my two cents . .
I am old enough to recall the claims made back in the late 1980's that computers would usher in the paperless office. Believe me, we now use more paper than ever!
These "wireless" claims remind of that, a lot. If history is a guide, I suspect that in 10 years we'll have more wires than ever.
Having read Clifford Stoll's book (The Cuckoo's Egg) I believe that government employees suffer a credibility problem when discussing computer security issues. In his book, Stoll describes the arrogance of government staff who would not take him seriously when he detailed the security breaches he had found. Although I haven't read the book being reviewed here, I would also highly recommend Stoll's book to those who are interested in this issue (IMHO).
The humour on the Simpson's hasn't been the same since Conan O'Brien left in 1993. Since his departure I've found the jokes to be forced. When Conan was Producer, there was a serious 'bite' to the humour that is sadly missed, at least by me.
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I hope that your FBI has better success with Data Mining than junk mailers. How may credit card offers have you had this week? Responded to any?
These companies are big-time users of Data Mining and your name was no doubt picked as a 'likely to respond'.
I work for a bank that is a heavy user of 'Data Mining'. Often the best we can do is 2 or 3 percent better than 'no mail' (lift over control for those of you in the industry).
If you can build a model that results in five percent response above 'no mail' you are looking at a 'Great Success' to quote Borat.
I think the best approach to finding potential terrorists is ground-level intelligence myself. Just my two cents . .
I am old enough to recall the claims made back in the late 1980's that computers would usher in the paperless office. Believe me, we now use more paper than ever!
These "wireless" claims remind of that, a lot. If history is a guide, I suspect that in 10 years we'll have more wires than ever.
Having read Clifford Stoll's book (The Cuckoo's Egg) I believe that government employees suffer a credibility problem when discussing computer security issues. In his book, Stoll describes the arrogance of government staff who would not take him seriously when he detailed the security breaches he had found. Although I haven't read the book being reviewed here, I would also highly recommend Stoll's book to those who are interested in this issue (IMHO).
The humour on the Simpson's hasn't been the same since Conan O'Brien left in 1993. Since his departure I've found the jokes to be forced. When Conan was Producer, there was a serious 'bite' to the humour that is sadly missed, at least by me.