It assigns a probability to outcomes across the country based on the data collected.
It outsources the time-consuming job of distinguishing tin roofs from thatch to a web service called "Mechanical Turk", which breaks big jobs into small parts and assigns them to jobbing freelances around the world.
The framework agreement plainly assigns exclusive competence for "law enforcement" and "internal security" to the population of Western Sahara.
Fulfilling them, even if it means trampling laws to do so, can mean career advancement and financial bonuses.Mayling Birney at the London School of Economics says the system assigns the cold logic of a scorecard to behaviour often dismissed as the excesses of little dictators far from Beijing.
It then assigns a "smell" to each link.
This, they charge, is why the draft preserves much of the administrative structure, assigns presidents majestic powers, and safeguards the military, which the Brotherhood seeks to woo, from systematic civilian oversight.
After removing common words that it finds evenly spread through the original documents, it assigns each of the remaining ones, at random, to a bin.
The router in turn relays the DNS server addresses to any computer connected to the network (it also assigns a private address to each computer).DNS was long regarded by broadband firms as a necessary evil because adequate performance was the only requirement.
Regardless of where one assigns blame, when nearly two-thirds of the next generation is struggling to find "a secure foothold in the middle class", everyone ends up paying the price.Correction: A previous version of this article wrongly stated that about 37% of 18-to-29-year-olds are unemployed.
But it is "extraordinarily unreliable" when sniffing out terrorist plots, which are uncommon and rarely have a well-defined profile.By way of example, Mr Schneier points to the Automated Targeting System, operated by the American Customs and Border Protection, which assigns a terrorist risk-assessment score to anyone entering or leaving the United States.
In her computer program, Dr Clark assigns these structures to different instruments, chooses a key, and lets the sequence run.
