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Any ideas how they could use it?

• tomschlick 11y ago
  Graph databases are perfect for identifying connections between who talks to who, relatives, contacts, etc.
  • samstave 11y ago
    Didn't echelon effectively invent this concept? oracle was founded to serve the CIA for fucks sake.
    • acveilleux 11y ago
      Every oppressive regime's secret apparatus is basically a large scale database management system. Whether that's with files and folders a la Stasi or with huge data centers in Utah... Given that, it's not surprising they'd be involved in funding and doing R&D on database systems.
  • Hermel 11y ago
    Ironically, "Gaffer" is the German word for rubberneck.
    • genericpseudo 11y ago
      British English word for "boss", traditionally in blue-collar jobs (building sites, factories, that kind of thing) but used informally everywhere.
      • SixSigma 11y ago
        Gaffer is the name of the head electrician in film production, the assistant is called the Best Boy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28filmmaking%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28filmmaking%29 Hence "Gaffer tape" which is black, rather than duct tape, which is the same construction but grey.
        • samstave 11y ago
          PSA: Gaffer's tape makes the best ad-hoc mouse pad for surfaces that are not mousable... (at a trade show and your new shiny glass counters are acting weird with mice... make a small square with gaffers tape, which you already use to secure cords under carpet... Its my favorite tape for general use.
          • EvanPlaice 11y ago
            FYI, unrelated to the topic but they make mice that work on any surface how. I currently use this one on my glass desk: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Anywhere-Mouse-Mac/dp/B0082D5660 http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Anywhere-Mouse-Mac/d...
            • samstave 11y ago
              I replied to myself - but meant to reply to you: >Haha yeah I have at least ten of those... They do not work on certain glass surfaces, namely any shiny black granite desk.
              • EvanPlaice 11y ago
                Do you own one of the 'Darkfield Technology' ones? That's specifically why I bought this one and it works flawlessly on every glass surface I've tried.
                • samstave 11y ago
                  Apparently not, I'll have to try one of those.
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        • DanBC 11y ago
          Traditional gaffer tape was a cotton cloth adhesive tape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape#/media/File:Black_gaffer_tape.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape#/media/File:Black_... It's a bit harder to get this style, because when people say "gaffer tape" they normally mean "duck tape, or duct tape, or anything like that".
  • Xorlev 11y ago
    Also aggregating disparate information about a single contact.
• sammorrowdrums 11y ago
  Exactly as @tomschlick says. Taking in lots of data, and analysing its internal relations (rather than analysing it based on imposed foreign key structure) is far easier in a graph DB and is better way of establishing links between data that would seem disparate in most other DB types.
• pjc50 11y ago
  It may used for targeting the drone assasination program, among other things. Given the who-talks-to-who metadata from a mass surveillance program, and a set of edge nodes manually identified as terrorists, graph analysis will tell you who's in the "centre" of that network of communications. This guy is then killed and a press release put out about "Al-Quaeda #2 killed". http://www.longwarjournal.org/pakistan-strikes-hvts http://www.longwarjournal.org/pakistan-strikes-hvts