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  1. Re:Good idea on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    Wireless security cameras can be jammed and then fail. Ease of installation and wifi is no good if the bad people can take over wifi and turn off wireless security cameras.

  2. Re: Hard wired and behind a firewall is the ONLY w on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    Re done correctly wireless can be almost as secure.
    Not if the bad people jam all consumer wifi. That is very bad for security that will use wifi.

  3. Re:CAN-bus is patented on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 2

    Security as in anything that can be jammed on consumer wifi. So wired is getting interesting again for low cost security products.

  4. Re:How does this differ from existing E911? on iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Why not leverage the existing device data?" Why sell a city, state, counties, parishes on an existing service. Make them upgrade and pay in full for a new service.

  5. Re:Wouldn't it be funny on Google To Invest $550 Million In Chinese E-Commerce Giant JD.com (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Like all the other bands that entered Communist China since the 1970's and thought they would be selling to millions of people and make billions in new profits?
    No ability to move profits out of China. All later profits became lost to unexpected local costs.

  6. Re:John Oliver just did an interesting piece on Google To Invest $550 Million In Chinese E-Commerce Giant JD.com (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    AC its getting much more creative in China.
    The "In China you cannot even access information that is critical of the government." is now moving to collect any information thats critical of the government and connecting it back to the user.
    As the Communist government in China has total control over a person the government can start to take away some of them more accepted and useful parts of a persons ability to function.
    A persons access to fast transport, a passport, their banking, to get a loan, good health care, housing in a part of China, to stay at work, pensions, further education, the removal of the results of all past education. All aspects of a persons ability to interact with modern society have the ability to be rationed or removed.

    Social Credit System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. AC the user does not have to approve an ad or what a "trusted" web site that is infected with malware does. Ad-Blockers work to block ads that are well understood.
    Script that link to another site will be blocked. What if the malware is the same site thats trusted?
    Thats why good quality AV software is another wise product to support.
    As the malware attempts to change and stay deep in the OS, an AV product might just detect that new action. Then report that action and protect all other users of that AV product....
    Stopping expected ads and blocking other linked websites that are not trusted is not going to stop new malware thats part of a once trusted site.

  8. So just like US brands on iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    did for PRISM with the NSA?

  9. Yes political SJW groups removing all they don't like.
    To make the internet push their political world view.
    No history, art, culture, informative movie reviews, no blasphemy, no questioning the results of EU wide politics.
    Just a constant reporting and removal of content.
    People got invited into an open and free public commons to upload their content in the past.
    Only to face SJW censorship as the public commons had no freedom of speech.

  10. Think of each AV company having a pace and style of their own. When they get something from one of their users they will work on the results in their own time.
    When they are sure they are ready the update is released.
    Until then a lot of other researchers who could have helped work on the same malware have to wait until they too find the same in the wild.

  11. Thats nice if the only way malware gets pushed down into a computer is with users doing "download".br? Malware is pushed down by via ads, sites, networks. No user to download software is needed.

  12. The reason to use encryption is so that other people don't know what's in files. Keeping aspects of whats encrypted in the open on an OS gets around what file encryption should support.

    Used by forensics experts for some time, would it not be a place for governments and government created malware to look too?
    Encryption becomes a joke.

  13. Re:so if I understand correctly... on macOS Breaks Your OpSec by Caching Data From Encrypted Hard Drives (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    To make the GUI look nice and have the GUI be more responsive sooner the OS has a nice easy way to show the thumbnails on file the user looks over in their encrypted external drive.
    More at the linked "Cache Me Outside" AC.
    https://objective-see.com/blog...

  14. All the helpful GUI ways around encryption.

  15. Re:Why is this news? on New Commercial Amiga 500 Game Released · · Score: 1

    1+ for the 8 bit guy and his work on Planet X2.

  16. Re:I have a little question of developers... on Gaming Companies Remove Analytics App After Massive User Outcry (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    In 1984 ram and cpu parts where limited and the OS was limited... displays only had so many colors. The tape and storage media for the home media was limited. Games had to look good and sell within a set of limitations.
    Now we have 4K and 5K and 8K and advanced gpu and cpu. The wonders of Windows 10 to help games get created.
    As for the other 1984, thats the just big gov doing collect it all.

  17. How to get that ratio on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The stats from within every company now follow every profession, not just a total count of staff and a SJW set ratio.
    Every profession within the USA now has to reflect wider US community demographics.
    50%, 10% 5% 1% as exists in cities and states all over the USA.
    Top engineering people what can keep a company globally competitive have to reflect that same US demographics.
    How can any US company work with that SJW demand?

    Offer money and a house and a free bus and the ability to earn and save more money and good food and gym and a work location in a nice community and a ... with a free... support for ... better... more of ... with .... longer.... better .. in a nice community thats clean and safe... solar ...

    The problem is the working hours, conditions and the educational demands on the top engineering people. All that free stuff and amounts of free money does not make for a happy professional person with the hours of work.
    Other nice jobs with the same/more pay, less hours, more freedom start to look much better. Not having to be work ready at 3 am any day for years.
    Smart people walk out of that job to nicer start up, create their own work, become contractors, work with a smaller brand that has much better hours.
    Brands that want new ideas, have growth. New jobs in great parts of the USA where excellence and merit is seen as good.
    In a part of the US thats safe, clean, has fast networking, has a nice community and good education. Solar.
    The SJW cant make people take work and stay at work in the ratio of workers they want to see the USA changed into.

    The USA can solve all this by:
    Remove all need for merit and skills. Only hire on demographics. Every new worker then has a professional worker look after them for years.
    Make people keep their jobs so the ratio and demographics cant change?
    For an offer of free university make workers take a job later?
    Use the tax system to keep people in a job to make up the ratio of workers needed?
    Work in a profession with a short list of brands for a better tax credit and free education?
    Escape that job and the tax credit stops, the once free education becomes a loan.
    With that gov guidance smart people will have to stay at the job offered and not look for any other jobs. Ratio of workers and demographics are then set by gov and tax laws.

  18. How good can a beta game communicate about its conditions in a modern OS? Windows 10? Linux? Mac?
    CPU heat? GPU heat? CPU/GPU throttling? Networking speeds? RAM amount/use by OS/game? Age of motherboard?
    What is the most interesting part to making a new game work well for most users?
    Did the beta stats show some really interesting ways a new OS like Windows 10 got used with an old CPU, new GPU? New CPU and new GPU? Ram amounts? 16 gb? 32 gb? 8 gb?
    Does code created have to really take a lot of unexpected conditions into account?
    Ty.

  19. Assembling any type of IKEA furniture from the box?

  20. Re:Not the way USA business works on America's Nuclear Reactors Can't Survive Without Government Handouts (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    The profit was hidden with nuclear weapons production line support.

  21. Re:We are using natural gas inefficiently on America's Nuclear Reactors Can't Survive Without Government Handouts (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Gas prices are set globally. Nations pay for that and exports win over domestic use. Why sell locally when exports make real profits.

  22. That crash can be cleaned up by experts and that part of the USA returns to normal.

  23. Re: "High up front capital costs have been a primary problem for nuclear power generation for most of its existence."

    Have to design good foundations. Found out whats below the site.
    Have to find workers who can do the foundations. That wont fail over the initial span of the design.
    Bring in the experts to do the design and welding.
    People who understand the metal, long term radiation design work.
    Build the reactor. Build the rest of the plant and support services.
    Pay the locals to work at the site for decades. Good pay to attract the skills needed to look after a nuclear reactor day and night.
    Upgrades to security. Upgrades to the computers. An understanding of new demands and changes to grid prices on the grid in that part of the USA.
    As parts need replacing, find workers who can work with radioactive parts.
    Keep the reactor working for decades after its design limits.
    Pay for decommissioning. Experts putting reactor parts into special storage. Thats some super new and old costs for the power grid to pay back.
    Pay to look after the fuel cycle in the USA long after decommissioning.
    Someone is paying for a lot of contractors and nice jobs and top security jobs.

    Nuclear weapons support out the side door was a nice way to cover costs :)

  24. Re:who knows? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet past generations could to pass a mil IQ test.
    Thats a person today who is innumerate, illiterate, who cant learn a task, who cant work to time.
    Who cant recall a task. Who has to have help with every task given.
    Why cant a generation educated at school in their own nation use the skills they got educated with for many years?
    Cant use the math they just got educated with for many years?
    Cant communicate in their nations own language?
    Do not have skills to be learn after yeas and years of schooling?
    Thats a very strange change to one generation given the mil standards are very, very low. The parents generation passed the mil IQ test just fine. So the past generations genetics, education and family size did not see past generations have low IQ problems. They could do an IQ test, show they could do a task, use their own language, do math, work within a time limit.
    So who cant use language, cant be educated, cant do math, cant read, cant write, cant keep time, cant recall a task? In such numbers as to change the results of a nations mil IQ test past generations could do?

  25. Re:But what about the spread? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To fail a mil IQ test the person has no language, no math skills to show in a set time.
    A person that would need constant support and care with any task given.
    Illiterate, innumerate, unable to take in information about a new task, unusable to do a given task. Unable to recall any information about the given task.
    Its not the "spread". Thats the low part of an IQ test for that person.
    The number of geniuses has nothing to do with the number of people in a given population who cannot communicate in their own nations language.
    Who cant do math in their own language. Who cant be given a task and then recall the task without help.
    Who cant do the math their many years of schooling just educated them with for years and years.
    A massive number of people in a generation of the same age who cannot do a task, learn a task, recall a task. Who cannot read, write, do math, keep time.
    Thats all the mil IQ is looking for. A person who can be told to do a task and who can recall that task. Who can do a task with out needing constant support.
    Any nations education system in an advanced nation should have found all such people with testing and exams over the many years of schooling.

    Past generations could. The EU and NATO nations populations still can use their own nations language and pass a mil IQ test. Why the drop in some nations? What would change a nation so much that its own language use becomes a problem within a generation?