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SECRET SERVICE SOFTWARE WILL 'DETECT SARCASM' IN SOCIAL MEDIA USERS
Reuters ^ | June 3 2014 | No Attribution

Posted on 06/03/2014 11:53:16 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey

The Secret Service is purchasing software to watch users of social networks in real time, according to contract documents.

In a work order posted on Monday, the agency details information the tool will collect -- ranging from emotions of Internet users to old Twitter messages.

Its capabilities will include “sentiment analysis,”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: praetorianguard; sarcasm; secretservice; socialmedia; ss; waffenss
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To: MeshugeMikey

How drunk and/or hungover is the secret service that they need a computer to recognize sarcasm? /sarc. (See there I’ll help yah.)


21 posted on 06/03/2014 12:01:11 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Alex Murphy

I need at least one of those...shirts!


22 posted on 06/03/2014 12:01:20 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey

23 posted on 06/03/2014 12:01:44 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
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To: matt1234

thats just not believable


24 posted on 06/03/2014 12:01:52 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Sarcasm means anything they deem subversive to the new order.


25 posted on 06/03/2014 12:02:11 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: MeshugeMikey

Oh that is great....


26 posted on 06/03/2014 12:02:25 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: MeshugeMikey

Couldn’t find it at your links, but - here is a differeent source I found :)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/03/the-secret-service-wants-software-that-detects-social-media-sarcasm-yeah-sure-it-will-work/


27 posted on 06/03/2014 12:02:32 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr. Eric Cunningha.m)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The article says that actual terrorism, like the Boston Marathon bombing, ain’t something this committee is interested in. Which means, of course, they’re once again going after their political enemies, people who for some unknown reason think the Obama Administration are all depraved scumbags. /sarc


28 posted on 06/03/2014 12:02:49 PM PDT by afsnco
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To: Snickering Hound

hey thats the HANGING CHAD INSPECTOR guy from Florida

where did they bury old chad anyway?


29 posted on 06/03/2014 12:03:32 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: lowbridge

everything will be graded and the grades kept secret until they figure out how ti use the data to humble us..with it.


30 posted on 06/03/2014 12:04:25 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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31 posted on 06/03/2014 12:04:46 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: xzins

its National Double Day by the way....By The way...

/sarc ..../sarc


32 posted on 06/03/2014 12:05:38 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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33 posted on 06/03/2014 12:05:59 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (There's no there there.)
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To: nascarnation

word is that he was in fact Looking for WALDO!!


34 posted on 06/03/2014 12:06:13 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: musicman

Ha!


35 posted on 06/03/2014 12:09:20 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Did I miss something or is Bush still in office? Has Obama read about this in the newpaper yet?

Does the Secret Service' software detect any prisoner trades from Gitmo that Congress would never approve of if they knew about it in time?

36 posted on 06/03/2014 12:11:52 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: MeshugeMikey

We need a real Congress that will shut this crap down.


37 posted on 06/03/2014 12:12:30 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Their sarcasm detector will work as well as Obama’s policies.


38 posted on 06/03/2014 12:13:59 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Well good!!! They will understand me when I say how much better that makes me feel. . . .


39 posted on 06/03/2014 12:14:36 PM PDT by RatRipper (The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
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To: MeshugeMikey

It won’t be watching DU or Kos because it’s too hard to determine whether the term “bat sh*t” is actually sarcastic or not.


40 posted on 06/03/2014 12:15:01 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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