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  1. Re:20 years behind the US... on China's Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    China got around that freedom. So all transport could be tracked by police. Communism is like that.

  2. Re:Here we go... on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Now with federal NN rules lifted more innovative communities all over the USA can invest in their own networks.
    No getting held back by federal rules demanding every area gets a new network.
    Productive parts of the USA can invest into new telco networks without federal rules expecting a telco to build out networks into poor areas.
    This could see a huge investment into new networks all over the USA offering services to communities who can afford to pay for such new network investment.

    With federal rules relaxed the "telcos" cant hide behind powerful federal NN rules to keep other networks out.
    Got no new networks?
    Build it in areas that can support the costs and pay back the investment.
    A monopoly telco cant block as much without their federal NN rules to block new services and telco products.
    Communities can now do the telco they need thanks to not having to build NN ready networks for all areas.

  3. Re:20 years behind the US... on China's Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The change is that the chip is now getting talked about.
    Huge police actions tracked every chip movement in and around Hong Kong for years using toll road payment chips.
    Drivers had no idea they got tracked with that police method when police moved in. Criminal groups always went looking for informants for years. Was it a person, phone, CCTV...
    Every van, truck, car can be tracked in the same way. That had been going on for many years in China. Criminal groups kept on changing methods but always got tracked.
    Re 'They can be legally removed from the vehicle at anytime."
    A car with no chip stands out in real time surrounded by other cars with a chip moving down a road...
    Removing the chip is not a way around such laws. No chip, no car trip.

  4. This is news? on China's Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The UK had its ring of steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... using tracking in/out of a city in the early/mid 1990's

  5. Re:Comprehensive? on 78 Indigenous Languages Are Being Saved By Optical Scanning Tech (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Ada.

  6. Re:When the sun is out. on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Re 'The energy use for lighting becomes insignificant."
    The grid design has to be ready for solar and night use. For productive industry, all the dwellings. their energy use that ramps up at night. For heating, cooling. Just adding more solar that cant ramp up at night might not be the design solution.

  7. Re:Amazon on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "... has the laws." Then its just local politics using selective enforcement. The better quality cities keep their streets clear and attract investment.
    A clean city with no RV's and no new taxes?
    A city with an RV problem, tents and new taxes?

  8. Re:Here we go... on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Re "Who cares how they use the bandwidth they pay for?"
    Thats what federal NN rules attempted to demand of networks all over the USA.
    That every part of a network had to be upgraded to some standard and offered to all.
    So all networks stayed slow as no investment would get covered if every poor community for "free" new networking.
    With NN rules removed the federal side is now more relaxed.
    A community with some ability to pay for new networking can try community networking, have a telco invest in a new network.
    New networks, new telcos, new ISP all over the USA offering new networks in areas that can support such investment, growth and expansion.

  9. Re:So they should become cable companies then? on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes AC with the lifting of federal NN rules a lot more innovative network products and services can now be used.
    No more having to stay on federal NN paper insulated wireline networks.
    Communities all over the USA can now build their own networks. No more having to stay on a monopoly telco network due to NN federal rules.

  10. Re:For what use? on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    RAM drive.
    Photoshop.

  11. Re:What else would one do? on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats all that needs to be done. The codecs just work. The existing CPU and GPU products are ok for 4K. Sound is ok.
    Its not the codec.
    Its not like having to work on Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

  12. Re:What else would one do? on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The best codec still needs some new bandwidth. Looking at every part of every "frame" of a 4K movie, tv series again and again with new maths is not going to make the existing bandwidth to a dwelling any better.
    Want a good looking 4K movie? Thats going to need a better network. The movies and shows are ready. The payment system works. New content is getting paid for and making a profit.
    Bandwidth and the network is the last part that needs some support.

  13. Re:When the sun is out. on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So the dwelling stays cold all winter at night? Some parts of the USA are not "summer" all year. They need energy all day and at night.
    Something "energy" is going to have to warm and light many parts of the USA.
    Stop productive work at night and wait for the solar grid to return later next day?
    Solar stops. Pumped hydro? Nuclear? Coal? Whats going to support the grid when the sun goes down?
    The USA is to go home during the winter months? Short solar work days and stay cold for months at nights?

  14. Re:What else would one do? on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Build new networks that are not just paper insulated wireline?
    Usable bandwidth to the dwelling would allow for 4K, HD and other video resolutions on demand.

  15. Re:Instead of repealing it on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Much better parts of the USA will list their plus side to investors and innovative people:
    Low cost energy.
    Educated population who passed exams on merit.
    Fast ISP products and services ready to connect.
    Land ready to expand onto. Services are ready.
    Nice parts of a city ready for workers and owners to buy/rent in.
    That friendly welcome to people who work to create jobs.
    No "outreach" tax once a productive and creative brand grows.
    A city that will welcome and listen to investors. Not on ways to tax the productive results of investment.
    The tax on investment and growth could be a great teaching meme to future generations of investors and business leaders.

  16. Re:When the sun is out. on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then its back to coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, wind and other ways of making energy for the dark winter nights.
    Find a US state thats all summer all year? Make the work day stop work early in the afternoon?
    Its going to get "winter" early in parts of the USA and then energy will be needed. Solar wont cover that larger rush in demand much later in the day. At night.... all night.

  17. by the NSA? FBI? Ongoing investigation?

  18. Re:Amazon on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Better cities have laws. Want to camp in a tent? Try the many wonderful RV parks. Some have tent camping, cabins too.
    The better US cities have laws about their streets not getting filled up with parked RV's all day and night.

  19. Re:Fix homelessness easily on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Think of the loss of overtime for the police. The more empty legal system. The prisons and jails not getting to stay at 90% to 100%. No more DEA and city/state funded task forces. The meetings in distant parts of the USA for a week to talk about new ideas in law enforcement every year.

    All that gets replaced by a city working with a new low cost clinical environment.
    Where will that police budget go if the overtime is not needed?
    Wont someone think of the decades of overtime at risk.

  20. Re:Instead of repealing it on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It cant be fixed. The total cost of looking after so many homeless people has to be covered by more tax on .....
    Whats going to be taxed next to what amount? Thats the only question.

  21. Re:Blue smoke sniffers? on Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on who the PD got their k9 from. The ability to alert for "anything" is a great legal trick.

  22. Re:The Big Almost on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The magic was not in the solar brands as they gave it all to China for free. Any factory in China with skills had sent its staff out to expert nations like a West "Germany" in the 1970's-1980's to return with the very advanced methods of making solar. Return to China with the design ability and upgrade the production lines.
    When the world wanted solar, China was ready with low wage cost products. The advanced engineering was ready in China to make a product that would last for decades.
    China could out spend on needed engineering to make a quality consumer solar product, out produce with cost per unit and had low wage workers.
    Made in the USA, Canada, Spain costs added no value to any consumer solar product at that time.
    Inverter production was a bit more skilled and a good brand was still worth something.
    Now its all about the race for battery power and the electronics of when to store and use battery power vs solar and grid costs.
    Then follow the next factory designs full of robots to an Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh for lower cost workers than China has.
    Battery design is the last engineering race for profit.

  23. When the sun is out. on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In winter when its dark and everyone returns from their job and wants to internet, TV, to warm up, cook, read? Then its back to the grid and the sun is not out.
    Solar is great in summer with the sun and time zones later into the day. Winter is not so great when demand is up and the sun is not up.

  24. Re: UK's security minister on Digital IDs Needed To End 'Mob Rule' Online, Says UK's Security Minister (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The EU laws never held back the GCHQ, SAS, MI5/6. The UK kept all its mil and security services direct actions well away from police, EU laws and lawyers.
    A 1984 telescreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for every ISP users in their dwelling? Direct to the security services.

  25. Re:Wiat a min... I thought Intel was done... on Intel Says Its First Discrete Graphics Chips Will Be Available in 2020 (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Selling a lot of old CPUs on a card as a new expensive GPU product line will help with that.