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Can you substantiate this? Every time somebody has said this to me and they've gone into specifics, it's been bullshit.

You know, it's good that you come to me instead of the morons you've been talking to you, because I can definitely substantiate this:

http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04...

http://arstechnica.com/busines...

See, the reason "Silicon Valley" (meaning the tech industry) is allowed to play this game is because they're willing to let the NSA upskirt your private information and communications. And since they've already got their hand up your dress, they're going to cop a little feel for themselves, you know? So the US Government is happy, the corporations get to make a shitload of money from your private information and communications, and they get to keep playing their little tax game.

If you had a government worth a damn (like during the trust-busting era), they wouldn't allow companies like Apple to perpetrate their little willful fraud.

Now, the next time somebody tells you about Apple and the government playing footsie to protect Apple's tax advantage, I hope you won't continue to say it's bullshit.

Same here. Which anti-trust laws? Be specific.

Same here. Now when somebody asks you "Which anti-trust laws is Apple violating?" you'll be able to tell them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

http://www.jstor.org/discover/...

See, the problem is "vertical integration". You can't control both the product, the store that sells the product, the insurance that covers the product, the consumables (media) that plays on the product and on and on down the distribution chain. Even making both the hardware and the software is arguably a violation of anti-trust. But when you start to also own the only store that sells software for the product and have a vested interest in every bit of software that runs on the product you've crossed so many lines that Apple should have been broken up into several companies long ago. Same with Microsoft and many others. They're not just over the line, they're WAY over the line. The technical term is an oligopoly. They are anti-competitive and they destroy entire markets. Oligopolies are what happen in fascist countries.

I hope you appreciate the time and energy I spend disabusing you of your notion that "it's bullshit". And I hope you enjoyed edification as much as I enjoyed providing it.

No, it is not "here in the open", because "250 and fewer" includes zero as an option. As per the Ars article someone already posted early on in this /. discussion, http://arstechnica.com/tech-po..., the 0-250 range is a reflection of new guidelines from the department of justice. A canary almost becomes unworkable for companies now because saying you have not received such a warrant in the given time period is equivalent to saying you have received 0 orders, which is more specific than the smallest allowable range of 0-250.

Here's an interesting follow up from Ars

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Joe Mullin at Arstechnica has a decent piece on the case: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Or this

Joe Mullin at Arstechnica has a decent piece on the case: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

But for once, I like something said by the FCC.

Negatory, tower.

They need to a two zeros to the end of that minimum speed requirement.

If those companies want the gold, they gotta provide service worth paying for. 1gb or GTFO.

Don't know why, but link provided isn't functional. This is a working link: http://arstechnica.com/busines..." - onproton (3434437)

Australia & Europe NFC seems to be SoftCard based from what I understand. Apple Pay will be compatible with Softcard (with additions like needing the fingerprint reader to authorise sales instead of just accepting all requested payments blindly).

Look here for more info.

Good job in exposing your ignorance. Apple Pay uses the contactless specification of the EMV standard to provide "industry-standard EMV-level security” -- essentially the existing SoftCard EMV standard. There will be no wait, Apple Pay can be used wherever Softcard is deployed.

Here. Read this and the associated documents.

Apple Pay's adds onto the SoftCard a level of security in using the secure fingerprint reader & in not being able to see user transactions (whereas Google Wallet leaves itself in the loop so that they CAN see each transaction).

Perfect example: Apple Pay. Google has had NFC payments via Google Wallet in Android for years. They could have built a huge business there, but they completely fucked it up. They put out the feature with almost no retailer support, minimal bank support, even worse CE vendor support, only in the US, and a half-assed marketing effort even for Google's usually low standards.

This article might be an interesting read. Timing is definitely on Apple's side, but you shouldn't underestimate Google's attempts to trail-blaze.

Personally, provided neither ecosystem destroys the other, I'm happy. The iPhone6 is at least some serious competition against an Android juggernaut which has really stagnated in the last year. Similarly, it was the larger displays of Android phones and their market dominance that spurred Apple to finally break away from their tiny screens. Competition is always good.

And don't come back with the "US is too biiiiig!" excuse. You have electricity, water and gas, don't you? How did you get that if the area you live in is "Too biiiig!" The density where I live is no more than a place like Nashville, or Arlington Heights, or Jacksonville, or Albuquerque, or Portland, or Anytown, USA.

I largely agree with your post, but I wanted to quibble on this point, since you've overlooked an important fundamental difference between those utilities and the Internet: connectedness. The water line for the suburban-without-a-nearby-urban area where I live (pop: ~210K) is managed by my local municipality. They draw its supply from the river that runs through this area. We don't have to run a pipe a hundred miles to the nearest major city to get water. Likewise, we have power plants in our immediate vicinity, including a nuclear plant, and our local municipality supplies all of our power needs. We don't have to go to a major city to get our power. Neither do most of the nearby cities and towns, since they either produce their own or can get their power from nearby towns like us that have an overabundance. As you get more remote, things become less connected and the lines get smaller and smaller, but they still work, since it's perfectly possible to function without having to draw your entirely supply from a more central location.

In contrast, for our Internet connections to work, we have to run backbone lines that supply all of our bandwidth to the major cities, given that the whole point of the Internet is that it's actually networked together. The town I live in has a population density that's not meaningfully different than places like the cities you mentioned, but because we're located in a "remote" location, it's been incredibly difficult to get quality Internet service out here. In fact, our service has been so bad that it was even making it into tech news last year, since prices for some tiers of service were 34x higher (not a typo) than comparable markets around the country.

All of which to say, it's not entirely about density, nor is it entirely about size: there's also a question of the quantity and proximity of the clusters to one another. I don't pretend to have a magic formula to define what makes it easy or hard to network a country, but even a quick glance at a population map should make it quite apparent that it's comparatively trivial to network countries like Japan or South Korea, where population centers run right into one another, as opposed to the US, where the in-between areas are absolutely massive, yet still house a large portion of the population.

Of course, none of what I've said justifies or explains why Americans in urban centers still have crappy Internet, nor was I intending to provide an explanation for that issue. I lay the fault for that problem squarely at the feet of the ISPs, as you do.

Nice story, though inaccurate... http://arstechnica.com/busines...

The benefits are that pupils are less likely to lose [money stored in the fingerprint system than money carried in their pockets]

That is a spurious claim. The security on money stored in pockets and exchanged by physical transfer of a monetary token is fallible, but so is the security on the cafeteria electronic wallet system. Home Depot, Supervalu, and Albertson's are very recent examples of major compromises, and the number of small scale compromises is enormous.

Fingerprints can be faked, networks can be cracked, databases can crash. Merely moving from physical currency to electronic currency does not make it more secure -- just ask Mt. Gox.

Don't forget they fired their award winning composer who'd been with them since Marathon (?) days & treated him bad while doing so - made me wonder what was going on over there at the executive level (and add a bit of apprehension for this game's release - which turned out to be warranted).

The problem is Activision. That's the problem with Activision - they are all about the money, and even Kottick's admitted to it. And they've already forced Bungie's hand - it's presumed Activision put pressure on Bungie's board to fire Marty. He's been there since the beginning I believe - one of the founding members.

Unfortunately, Marty had the last laugh. First, the courts awarded him unpaid overtime and vacation accrued ($30K, plus another $30K for being idiots for not just giving it to him, and $40k in attorney's cost). And in the past couple of weeks, the courts also re-awarded him Bungie Founder's Shares, that Bungie tried to illegal take from him.

Well, the courts ruled that according to the terms of issuance, yes, Marty is due all his shares (even ones that weren't issued yet), undiluted. The argument that he left was invalid since the only way the shares could get cancelled was if he voluntarily left. Since he was forced out, he's still due all shares. And Bungie even protested saying Marty would use his shares to screw up the business because he holds powerful shares as an ex-employee forced out. The judge disregarded that reason basically stating that Bungie made the bed.

So $100K and powerful shares because Activision didn't want him. (Probably because he cost a lot of money and with Paul McCartney's special track). And Marty's not obliged to sell those shares, either. So he technically still has a say.

Bungie's following the path of Blizzard - from great gaming company to hollowed out shell coasting on a name.

Hell, Bungie/Activision made a super classic mistake - they didn't let game reviewers have a go in advance. The cynical response (and history has shown it to be true) is that it's because the game is so bad, they can at least count on a few early sales before reviews basically end up killing sales. They tried to couch it in terms of "we want everyone to evaluate it on the full content with real players" but that rings hollow - the easiest way to do that is to recruit a bunch of beta players for a special play session for reviewers.

Ars Technica wasn't kind to it either. Their same-day early review showed a lack of content (though they were kind in saying "the servers worked". Their later review calls it "Rent it" saying there's not enough content for whatever-kind-of-game-it-is.

Somehow, after taking 4 years to do it (2010 - Halo Reach), to release this disappointment means that Bungie probably had a few ideas for a Halo MMO like game in the background, then used that. And tons of committee meetings later, well, you have this as everyone tried to get their say in the game. Resulting in something no one is quite sure what it is.

Hell, I suppose the final insult is when Activision reported "shipped" numbers. Well, at least they got a bunch of money from Sony for exclusives.

Don't forget they fired their award winning composer who'd been with them since Marathon (?) days & treated him bad while doing so - made me wonder what was going on over there at the executive level (and add a bit of apprehension for this game's release - which turned out to be warranted).

The problem is Activision. That's the problem with Activision - they are all about the money, and even Kottick's admitted to it. And they've already forced Bungie's hand - it's presumed Activision put pressure on Bungie's board to fire Marty. He's been there since the beginning I believe - one of the founding members.

Unfortunately, Marty had the last laugh. First, the courts awarded him unpaid overtime and vacation accrued ($30K, plus another $30K for being idiots for not just giving it to him, and $40k in attorney's cost). And in the past couple of weeks, the courts also re-awarded him Bungie Founder's Shares, that Bungie tried to illegal take from him.

Well, the courts ruled that according to the terms of issuance, yes, Marty is due all his shares (even ones that weren't issued yet), undiluted. The argument that he left was invalid since the only way the shares could get cancelled was if he voluntarily left. Since he was forced out, he's still due all shares. And Bungie even protested saying Marty would use his shares to screw up the business because he holds powerful shares as an ex-employee forced out. The judge disregarded that reason basically stating that Bungie made the bed.

So $100K and powerful shares because Activision didn't want him. (Probably because he cost a lot of money and with Paul McCartney's special track). And Marty's not obliged to sell those shares, either. So he technically still has a say.

Bungie's following the path of Blizzard - from great gaming company to hollowed out shell coasting on a name.

Hell, Bungie/Activision made a super classic mistake - they didn't let game reviewers have a go in advance. The cynical response (and history has shown it to be true) is that it's because the game is so bad, they can at least count on a few early sales before reviews basically end up killing sales. They tried to couch it in terms of "we want everyone to evaluate it on the full content with real players" but that rings hollow - the easiest way to do that is to recruit a bunch of beta players for a special play session for reviewers.

Ars Technica wasn't kind to it either. Their same-day early review showed a lack of content (though they were kind in saying "the servers worked". Their later review calls it "Rent it" saying there's not enough content for whatever-kind-of-game-it-is.

Somehow, after taking 4 years to do it (2010 - Halo Reach), to release this disappointment means that Bungie probably had a few ideas for a Halo MMO like game in the background, then used that. And tons of committee meetings later, well, you have this as everyone tried to get their say in the game. Resulting in something no one is quite sure what it is.

Hell, I suppose the final insult is when Activision reported "shipped" numbers. Well, at least they got a bunch of money from Sony for exclusives.

Speaking to Oklahoma City University faculty and students, the justice said Thursday that technology has allowed devices to "listen to your conversations from miles away and through your walls." She added: "We are in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too."

The President Obama appointee also discussed the lack of privacy standards concerning drones.

"There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that’s happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against government intrusion, but I don’t like the fact that someone I don’t knowcan pick up, if they’re a private citizen, one of these drones and fly it over my property."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

... and will switch back again in a few years, at a net cost of E12 million.
http://arstechnica.com/busines...

(Yes, I'm trolling, but desktop experience for the average Joe really is a problem, no matter how many excuses we Linux folks make.)

When Arstechnica ran that WP story about corruption in the USPTO, several current and past patent examiners posted comments that are worth reading. Two key ones in particular are this and this.

Short story is that USPTO has stupid counterproductive performance metrics, so everyone games the system to look good by the metrics (we've all seen that before). Some managers recognize this and don't want to be assholes about time charging rules because of it, as long as employees are doing good work. Others get upset that the rules are being broken and assume it is blatant time card fraud, and blew the whistle to the news outlets.

When Arstechnica ran that WP story about corruption in the USPTO, several current and past patent examiners posted comments that are worth reading. Two key ones in particular are this and this.

Short story is that USPTO has stupid counterproductive performance metrics, so everyone games the system to look good by the metrics (we've all seen that before). Some managers recognize this and don't want to be assholes about time charging rules because of it, as long as employees are doing good work. Others get upset that the rules are being broken and assume it is blatant time card fraud, and blew the whistle to the news outlets.

When Arstechnica ran that WP story about corruption in the USPTO, several current and past patent examiners posted comments that are worth reading. Two key ones in particular are this and this.

Short story is that USPTO has stupid counterproductive performance metrics, so everyone games the system to look good by the metrics (we've all seen that before). Some managers recognize this and don't want to be assholes about time charging rules because of it, as long as employees are doing good work. Others get upset that the rules are being broken and assume it is blatant time card fraud, and blew the whistle to the news outlets.

As a bitter partisan, I'd hate to say that the things that Apple is playing "catchup" on are things that by getting right now, they don't have to worry about everything going to hell later.

For instance, how iOS implements third party keyboards is that the keyboard itself is sandboxed away from the rest of the running process. In comparison, on Android, keyboards are basically key loggers running onto of the current running process.

Intents vs Plugins? Similar.

see: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...

There were reports that Swiftkey was going to be announced for iOS 7, funny enough, as a third party keyboard. However, it seems like all of the XPC stuff Apple has been doing, Google has a LOT to catch up on. Apple now just has the low hanging fruit.

yes

The main feature is data checksumming. All the other features are just icing on the cake (snapshots, data dedup, etc.). Ars has a good article with illustrations.

Apparently this was a big concern for Dick Cheney http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Yes, but who decides the limit on that? You have companies so uptight they sue people over neutral reviews.

Accusations that climate science is money-driven reveal ignorance of how science is done
http://arstechnica.com/science...

In fact, the conspiracy theory that the government is funding climate scientists who say that global warming is real and caused by human activity with the purpose to strengthen the government's authoritarian grip on society is a myth. But also the more plausible idea that scientists exaggerate their findings to get more funding does not seem to be true:
http://arstechnica.com/science...

Err, not quite like any Android phone. You don't get to install a lot of apps.

Google/Android has two tiers of "openSource" when it comes to Android. If you play by their rules, you get cool stuff like the Play Store, Google Maps, and Google Now, and others. If you fork (FireOS, Tizen to a lesser extent) you get none of those, and you need to build them out, since those are the expectations (especially maps) for a modern smartphone. This is why Samsung is licensing mapping data itself - it doesn't want to feel beholden to Google on everything.

Remember, it's not just that you can't use the Google Maps app. You can't use any app that uses the Google Maps API. Foursquare (or whatever it is this week), unusable - unless they come out with a FireOS version. Smaller developers won't target FireOS because of lack of resources for the porting.

Err, not quite like any Android phone. You don't get to install a lot of apps.

Google/Android has two tiers of "openSource" when it comes to Android. If you play by their rules, you get cool stuff like the Play Store, Google Maps, and Google Now, and others. If you fork (FireOS, Tizen to a lesser extent) you get none of those, and you need to build them out, since those are the expectations (especially maps) for a modern smartphone. This is why Samsung is licensing mapping data itself - it doesn't want to feel beholden to Google on everything.

Remember, it's not just that you can't use the Google Maps app. You can't use any app that uses the Google Maps API. Foursquare (or whatever it is this week), unusable - unless they come out with a FireOS version. Smaller developers won't target FireOS because of lack of resources for the porting.

It might not be an obscure possibility, but you make it sound like it would be a common problem, with criminals just waiting in line to suck your account dry. Which it evidently is not. Oh and regarding fingerprints, they are not so secure either.

Touch ID is broken and will be until Apple uses a non-crap (expensive) fingerprint reader.

Here is a template.

Yes I'm sure this has never happened to a private company or multiple major financial institutions, or academic institutions, or security companies or IT companies.

Major financial institutions, academic institutions, security companies, and IT companies don't force us under penalty of law to use their wares and put our personal confidential information at risk. Furthermore, few if any of them have managed to create something of such colossal expense, enormous failure, corruption, and risk we see now.

Yes I'm sure this has never happened to a private company or multiple major financial institutions, or academic institutions, or security companies or IT companies.

Oh wait.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

Problem solved. :-)

AC the backdoor aspect is both national and international
"FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging"
http://www.wired.com/2012/05/f...
".... drafted by the FBI, that would require social-networking sites and VoIP, instant messaging and e-mail providers to alter their code to make their products wiretap-friendly."
Then the world was given more details "Encrypted or not, Skype communications prove Ãoevitalà to NSA surveillance" May 14 2014
http://arstechnica.com/securit...
As for the "nobody on the inside has ever leaked out." aspect try http://cryptome.org/2013-info/...
The "inside" can now be understood by aspects like "Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.Ã(TM)s"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09...
..."employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987."
How past "parallel construction" and telco support will respond to any new "peer-to-peer and voice calling" will be interesting.
How did the US and UK get to past bespoke crypto telco hardware in the 1950's and beyond? Plain text always seemed to emerge just in time.

There was a company back in 1997 that had a fantastic (series of) cards that did all this 3d transformation, reflection, deflection and occlusion of audio in hardware. The company was Aureal, and their A3D system was fantastic, doing everything that this demo showed. The competitor, Creative's EAX, instead used the entirely dumb method of "turn on reverb in a room". Creative sued Aureal, thinking that they had a leg up on 3D audio. Aureal countersued, and won, but the legal costs drove them into bankruptcy. Creative then bought Aureal's assets, and buried the company, and all it's technology, never to be seen again. In fact, EAX is still the stupid-simple (and very broken) "turn on reverb" (though now it also has "Adjust reverb"). And, as Creative have shown before (With the whole "Carmack's Reverse" fiasco) They're more than willing to use legal means to muscle their way.

Ars Technica confirms your story is bullshit: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

"The tide of abuse first surged over Zoe Quinn, creator of the game Depression Quest, who got a deluge of negative attention, abuse, threats, and harassment over a blog post written about her by an ex-boyfriend that was published August 16. The post, composed of narcissistic analysis mixed in with screenshots of several online conversations, exposed many personal details about Quinn irrelevant to her profession or professional conduct.

Details from the post were quickly spun into a conspiracy. Based on the lone fact of Quinn's relationship with one Kotaku writer, Nathan Grayson, who quoted her once in an article and never covered or reviewed her game, rumors circulated that Quinn had "alleged affairs with video game journalists" which influenced coverage of her game. There is no evidence to support this assertion, and the only fact that it's based onâ"that Quinn began a relationship with Grayson some time after he quoted her in an article and never published anything about her againâ"disproves it. The other two people named in the post are a sound designer and Quinn's boss, who do not work in gaming journalism."

Mod parent down.

A specific threat, with a listed address, proving ability [address doesn't prove "ability" the standard is how a 'reasonable person would view the threat - so if I threated to beat you to death with foam dildos, adding your address doesn't make that 'reasonable] is a crime in all 50 states [only if you are referencing a federal law, otherwise, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about], and probably most countries. Yes, someone posting your address and death threats is scary. If you disagree, post your address here. Why not? Scared?

Scared of death from a random luser? No.

Scared of getting swatted? Yes.

Also what you ask for is a legal opinion ("If you disagree...") and the counterproof you require is for someone to post their physical address. WTF is that?

SCOTUS might have more to say on it:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

If you disagree, post those pictures of your mother jacking off the postman. Scared? Pussy!

In most cases money laundering starts with large amounts of cash. Buying bitcoin does not magically make it look ligitement, and what exchange takes cash?

Bitcoin ATMs? Localbitcoin?

Or, I dunno, ask this guy? He'll probably be even helpful and tell you how to throttle your actiivity as not to trigger AML reporting requirements.

Well, they have been actively trying to block exactly that for some time as well.

Its not more a natural monopoly then is pizza delivery.

There is no reason you can't have dozens of ISPs running cable in the last mile. Now could you have hundreds? Probably not. But then the economics of that probably wouldn't allow that.

However, having as many as a dozen last mile ISPs in a major city is entirely viable and about two is viable in rural areas.

Currently the reason you do not see competing last mile ISPs is because of government regulations. Mostly local governments... cities... towns... counties... states. The sorts of laws that allowed this at the federal level have mostly been made illegal/forbidden. So the big ISPs mostly lobby to get these laws imposed on the local level and are typically pretty successful at it.

Here you're going to claim this doesn't happen or that the last mile has to be a monopoly... well... here is my counter point:
http://arstechnica.com/busines...

CenturyLink which is owned by Qwest Communications is saying Comcast is blocking them from providing last mile internet service in various areas.

Its a thing and its happening. There are many examples of it and I really have no patience pointing out the obvious to people that refuse to use a basic search engine to inform themselves.

Free market advocates are not supporters of government backed monopolies which is precisely the root of our problem with Net Neutrality and the internet itself in the US. Phrase your argument in those terms and the capitalists will back you. Refuse to do that, continue to phrase it in communistic terms, and ignore all pleas to moderate your argument and do not be surprised if you get a horde of free market people shutting you down.

Choose.

You can either listen, change your argument a little, get everything you want or ignore everyone, piss off powerful factions, and get nothing.

Your choice.

Good day, sir.

Maybe it will backfire on them. In my view "prohibit political or religious interpretation of scientific facts in favor of another.", could just as well mean that you have to accept the scientifically proven age of the earth and any notion of it being 10,000 years old would be prohibited. Same goes for other junk theories that contradict accepted science. This is wishful thinking of course because these kind of idiots get their say in text book and curriculum choices.

Cite TFA http://arstechnica.com/science...

This might be part of an answer to your question: "Ohio lawmakers want to limit the teaching of the scientific process".

In other words, you live in a country where being an ''egghead'' (your term - not mine) is not respected. As a matter of fact, you live in a country where a large percentage of the population still thinks some invisble man in the sky has created the entire Uinverse in 6 days, and the Earth itself might well be 6000+ years old (instead of 4+ billion years old).

Need I say more? Case closed.

Here's some more interesting and informative articles, even:
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

http://www.howtogeek.com/18051...

You saw the DEA do it with phone call records.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... Sept 4 2013
".... to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987.""
Thats just one tiny project with once set of data.
Water news http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Power news http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Thats just for one classic storage site thats in the news a lot.
Re So what would it really take to put this sort of thing together?
"The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control" 11 July 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
"At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality'"
Should give an average reader an idea of the US internal scale to store, track, index, search, voice print, call to, call from, other numbers, work back from hops surrounding people of interest.
ie well funded, all of the USA, over years, aspects of calls stored for years ready to be found in storage if seen at a protest, near a protest or near a person who was near a person at a protest.
ie you just need a lot of tame Room 641A like access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You saw the DEA do it with phone call records.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... Sept 4 2013
".... to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987.""
Thats just one tiny project with once set of data.
Water news http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Power news http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Thats just for one classic storage site thats in the news a lot.
Re So what would it really take to put this sort of thing together?
"The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control" 11 July 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
"At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality'"
Should give an average reader an idea of the US internal scale to store, track, index, search, voice print, call to, call from, other numbers, work back from hops surrounding people of interest.
ie well funded, all of the USA, over years, aspects of calls stored for years ready to be found in storage if seen at a protest, near a protest or near a person who was near a person at a protest.
ie you just need a lot of tame Room 641A like access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Ars Technica has more on the story, and links to actual news sites covering the mess. And as many insightful Slashdot commentators have surmised, there's more to the story than a lousy cam-rip of a lousy movie.

Copyright silliness may have led to him being caught, but Danks got his 33 months all by himself.

Danks was arrested only six days after he'd uploaded the video, and two days later he wrote on Facebook, "Seven billion people and I was the first. F*** you Universal Pictures."

Danks had also sold DVD copies of the movie for £1.50 each. He said his total profit from the scheme was about £1,000.

To who? Who buys these things? Why would anyone spend money and time to suffer through a cam-rip?
how much of this was earned after he was arrested?

The prosecuting and defending attorneys both seemed to agree that Danks' motive for the piracy of Fast and Furious 6 was “Street Cred.” His defense attorney told the court, "He has no substantial assets of any sort, and his financial gain has been extremely limited, but he was obviously aware that it was a popular film that would be of interest."

The judge was particularly harsh on Danks because of his cavalier attitude."This was bold, arrogant, and cocksure offending,” he said to Danks, as Sky News reports.

If this paper were to turn out to be correct, current climate models are useless and will need to be completely reworked.

No model, in any branch of science or engineering, is complete and perfect; that doesn't mean they're useless.

I'm curious to see which fundamental assumptions made by current models you believe to be contradicted by this paper. To me it looks like they're simply pointing out a deep-ocean cycle that could soak up heat from the surface - not unlike the well-known ENSO, PDO and AMO cycles, which most models don't attempt to predict. Unless you think that "incomplete" means "fundamentally assumes that no other factors can exist"?