Please, saying the future should have been known a dozen years past this catastrophic mass murder is preposterous. How bout placing the blame on the Muslims instead of denigrating Americans.
“Please, saying the future should have been known a dozen years past this catastrophic mass murder is preposterous. How bout placing the blame on the Muslims instead of denigrating Americans.”
That is so sensible, it receives no response.
This particular article doesn't say exactly when Drake ran the comparison, but if you read Drake's biography on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake), it was likely to be back in 2002, when the Inspector General was investigating the replacement system.
The issue is being resurrected now precisely because it worked, without the violations of privacy that have been committed since then. Congress is considering legislation to reauthorize the funding for systems that replaced it.
But, as I posted earlier: this kind of testing is an absolute requirement for data analysis and mining systems. If it doesn't identify known events, you can't rely on it to identify unknown events.
An addenda: read the sections about Drake's prosecution under the Espionage Act. Consider what he was accused of doing, and what a certain Presidential candidate has done.