tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post1683314341425786433..comments2023-10-02T03:32:41.685-07:00Comments on The Significance of R: Mr Nix... the Original Mr Fix It!...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-31770456129400335922018-03-24T13:19:00.390-07:002018-03-24T13:19:00.390-07:00Hi Dennis Thanks very much for your comment - Know...Hi Dennis Thanks very much for your comment - Knowing someone is listening keeps me going! <br /><br />Marie<br />:-)...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-11323664359324053092018-03-23T14:55:06.678-07:002018-03-23T14:55:06.678-07:00Hi Maria
Thanks so much for your great comments a...Hi Maria<br /><br />Thanks so much for your great comments and the info. I urge everyone to read up on this. Yes, I've been reading all The Guardian stuff... its all pretty unbelievable. Now I hear that SCL was most definately a government contractor for the MOD - you have to be to get on the so-called X-List... strange situation indeed. <br /><br />I'm of the opinion that this is a lot more to do with global geo-politics than at first appeared... as they say the story continues...<br /><br />Marie...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-1756566970959583492018-03-23T13:45:13.308-07:002018-03-23T13:45:13.308-07:00Maria, you are very intelligent. Keep digging girl...Maria, you are very intelligent. Keep digging girl! To shine forth is key. 87Dennis/87https://www.blogger.com/profile/03703473570098929681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-78278602962712430422018-03-22T16:58:44.443-07:002018-03-22T16:58:44.443-07:00I actually did some research on Cambridge Analytic...I actually did some research on Cambridge Analytica and SCL back when the first batch of info about them came out. It was before the snap elections on the UK, and I have a friend who has journalist contacts in the Guardian. So I was giving my friend info to pass on to the journalists. At the time, the main line of journalist research seemed to be "follow the money". Because I have some IT background, I immediately thought that the real story was in the databases, and my research tried to steer people in the direction of "follow the data", while giving some starting points. <br /><br />In particular, I located a guy in Canada (not the one that has come out) that was working in one of the spinoffs of SCL that had been involved in the Leave campaign. His online portfolio gave some food for thought. Especially this one: why would he be asked to create a platform for online voting in mayor, councillor and sheriff elections when it isn't possible to vote online for any of these races in USA or Canada? He also had something about extracting info from the interactions between users and a large Facebook group. Which leads to questions about what information, exactly, can a Facebook group owner extract from the people that interact with it.<br /><br />On the Cambridge Analytica stuff, one thing that stood out to me was that somebody asked for the information they held on him, and they had various numbers with his estimated feelings on national debt, gun rights, traditional social values, etc. Obviously, these were the outputs of some model that needed some inputs to spit out those results. So the question is: where did those inputs come from? And shouldn't those inputs be also part of the info they held on him? (Which he didn't get).<br /><br />Another thing I wonder about is the potential connection with meme magic and forum posts ending in 7.<br /><br />Something else that's highly suspicious is where they seem to host their stuff. It's gandi.net, a company with the attitude that the privacy of their customers is of utmost importance. The sort of place you'd go to put a database when you knew for a fact it was breaking the privacy laws of everyone concerned, because the host would never ask you any questions or give you any hassle.Maria Rigelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01462530303945149045noreply@blogger.com