On 9/16/06, thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think the original poster posted on this list for some technical inputs that plug members they could suggest not unsolicited political berates.
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> > why stay within collating the results? why not data mine the known > facts about the people that may or may not influence the results? like > who their friends are, where they are at and their priorities? just > crunching public knowledge and then some.
i dont really make a distinction between political and technical issues. i believe that everything we do is related to the political. it is about being able to do something effectively. and control of major aspects and details of our future is one thing we all lack except for the social elite. now this project shows that ordinary people now has the capability to process large amounts of information covering a large area of current events and use it for their own interest. moral or immoral. so why limit yourself to the consequences of social interactions like the election tally? once they have the capability to analyse the tally and spot irregularities in real time whats to prevent them from seeing the potential of a more pervasive datamining? once you track tally reports and kidnappings and movement of officals and their friends and relatives and maybe food purchases and gasoline purchases... and maybe some information from illegal sources... and corelate them... using fee software... awesome!!!! im not surprised if the administration is doing this already... -- the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
