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  1. Re:So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    NSA can and does use them but they do not want this to be useful to the Chinese as well.

  2. Re:So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    'wrong topics'???? Perhaps you mean pulling up Child pornography? OR, you are searching how to murder trump or connect with AQ? Because otherwise, the American gov does not care. In fact, unless they have a warrant, they can not do anything.
    OTOH, The Chinese gov can and WILL use that evidence against you to turn you against America. For example, if they can get evidence that makes it look like you committed murder of some scientists, they might fabricate a bit more and then approach you and blackmail you with it.
    And if you think that the American gov is worse, then by all means, show us the evidence of such.

  3. Re:So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The Chinese gov WILL blackmail an American and turn them to traitors IFF they have hard evidence of your being a criminal. After all, if you steal from one group, you can steal for china just as easily so that the evidence is not turned over to the American gov. Of course, then they have you for the original crime (which the American gov may/may not have cared about), along with your then turning traitor to the American ppl.

  4. Re:So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here. Watch this, esp. the end where they Chinese spy gets incriminating evidence on an America so that he can FORCE him to spy for him.
    China and Russia do this heavily. And if you think that a foreign backdoor is preferable to a domestic one, then you have NO clue of what is going on in the world. At times, I wish that ppl like you could see/hear some of what goes on. You would understand that in general there is a real reason why the western nations, along with Japan/S. Korea, are banded together and deals with the same groups the same way.

  5. depends on what you are up to on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are a spy or are committing crimes in a domestic nation and you do not mind the idea of being blown by a nuke, then go with the Chinese stuff.
    OTOH, if that does not apply to you, you can get networking gear from America, Canada, Spain, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, S. Korea, etc.

  6. Re:So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    juno.
    Your own locally made switches and routers.

  7. Re:So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you live in America, come to the Western states and go look for prairie dogs during the summer. If you see dead ones located about 100' or more away from the colony, then you have found it.
    Otherwise, you can go to any undeveloped nation and find it in various mammals.

  8. Obviously, it is not independent. Or are you meaning that it is say a subsidiary? I agree with you that they can not be working together in any way shape or form. That was the issue with MS and IBM. They used to have groups working together that should not have been.

    I would like to think that they are isolated from each other, but with the google CEO, we will have to see.
    It is kind of sad. Google has gone from do no evil (and they were actually good about that, IMHO), to lets be like MS and IBM. Hopefully, Page is not allowing Pichai to cheat much more.

  9. I agree that it was not really fair. However, it is absolutely no different than when Google first set-up. That is, the first row is for whomever wants to bid top price. Obviously, Google has to bid on it as well. I see nothing illegal with this set-up.

  10. It allows all of the 'stores' to bid on the items at the top. I mean do these ppl think that they get it free? Obviously not. Google is not giving away things.

  11. Re:This one is going to hurt on Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Having a high safety level does not mean that errors are not made, or that some ppl do not allow pressure to get to them.
    If SX was obeying 100% of NASA's safety rules, then they would not pre-board the crew PRIOR to the fuel. From NASA's POV, that is a big safety violation. It took more than half a year to convince NASA that it is safe (and yet, logic should have told them that it is MUCH safer).
    SX does not follow the letter of the regs, but the spirit of it. As such, they will have other areas that they have 'cut' corners and it will take time to convince NASA that it is safe.

  12. Re:This one is going to hurt on Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    where did I say that they were unsafe? I said that they were NOT as safe as Boeing/NASA. I worked for Boeing. It goes a long ways due to lawyers as well as making sure that they will pick up NASA/DoD contracts.
    SpaceX does not cut corners as much as they meet the requirements as they see them. IOW, they will figure out the easy way to meet nasa's wording. For example, consider SX doing the pre-board to loading fuel. Boeing would NEVER do it because of the wording of NASA's. OTOH, SX has no issue with it.

  13. Not just NASA, but DoD, cia, nsa, etc take this seriously.

  14. I have no doubt that the DoD will be joining , or worse, doing their own. Many accusations against SX/musk have been claimed, and I would guess that nearly all were lies and dropped. BUT SX does not have the safety level of Boeing or NASA. This review will show that. The question will become, will NASA or more likely the DoD force SX to obtain that level.

  15. so what? Kill the program and move the ppl over to greencards. It will do far more for America since H1Bs go home.

  16. Re: We actually did just that on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Constitutionalist? Kavanaugh is a fucking liar and under iath. The GOP ignored when in his yearbook, it asked if he boofed some chick, and he claimed it was to fart. And that is the minor stuff.

  17. A huge problem is the H1B program. These ppl come over and are pretty much slaves to the companies. We need to kill the H1B program with 50k/year, and instead add 25-40k in greencards, but only for needed job. This way, we address the jobs, but still force competition into the job market.

  18. Re:We actually did just that on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That is why I am backing public funding, combined with ranked-choice voting. The second should allow for the destruction of the DNC and GOP. The first will make it harder to bribe politicians (which is what is going on). Lawrence Lessig has this right.

  19. Re:Leaking the truth on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, that was mostly the Europeans that did that. The Americans benefited from it, but the vast majority of killing/stealing from native Americans was by Europeans.

  20. Re:IMNAL, but this seems right on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally, I would rather see BOTH the GOP and Dems die. They are corrupt sleazy groups that have more in common with the Chinese communist party than they do with that America was. Sadly, it will take time to do that. I know that I will be dead by the the time the first one is killed off.

  21. IMNAL, but this seems right on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is silly that we are chasing foreign military for spying/hacking on American politicians. In fact, it seems wrong that we are pursuing Assange. They are NOT American citizens or under American legal system. In addition, I believe that they all did this while outside of our nation.

    The ones to go after, are the Americans that worked for/with the Russians and Assange. That is what Mueller is up to. Supposedly, he has a large number of indictments waiting to go.

  22. they should kill SLS and focus on getting multiple private space stations going. That would enable multiple launchers to exists and make the moon easy to do.

  23. Ah, they boosted the SLS load. Block 1 used to be 70 tonnes. Now, it is 95 tonnes. Of course FH was at 64 tonnes to LEO. It will be interesting to see what block 5 brings in final LEO loads.

  24. Seriously, FH is already a bigger launcher than New Glenn in terms of mass. And SX can build a bigger hammerhead to handle larger volumes if needed.
    Though I guess having all 3 running would be reason enough for SLS to drop out.

  25. Re: ??? How come the far left will not regulate it on Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Caffeinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami, the house is mostly in the ground, and covered. Very little exposure. Fire is not an issue.