> I spent the next few months after work writing a small component which uses the same heuristics. While not unheard of, I find it pretty peculiar you spent se

> I spent the next few months after work writing a small component which uses the same heuristics. While not unheard of, I find it pretty peculiar you spent several months of your personal time: * Developing some speculative software which is very likely to be protected IP from your company. * Not telling managers you were using proprietary data to build an application for which they are your only possible customers. * Only after all of the leg work is done building an app to process info do you yourself process the only info you had all along > I know some of the analysts are single mothers or people close to retirement. I mean, what were you doing this whole time where this didn't occur to you until hundreds of hours later? Just casually break out your GUI interface via visual basic, plug the ip address into heuristics, lookups, guesses and techniques[0] and get missing, incomplete or incorrect data? It's not an impossible task but in several months I find it hard to believe you alone would be able to find the correct address for "Dan Palmer from Kansas" or identify that he moved from the apartment a few months ago. I would assume if you were clever enough to pull this off you would have been forward thinking enough to consider the ramifications. [0] list of arbitrary nouns related to prediction.