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  1. Re:You are the product on Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access To Data On Users and Friends (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Free" should not suggest a lack of privacy.
    PRISM should how in control social media was of their product.

  2. Re:NSA should spy on everyone outside the USA. on 5 Years on, US Government Still Counting Snowden Leak Costs (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Illegal domestic collection should have stopped in the 1970's.

  3. Re:Yeesh, would it be cheaper... on 5 Years on, US Government Still Counting Snowden Leak Costs (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "everything would have been fine"

    The problem for the US gov is the hiring practices.
    Too many random people entering the US gov/mil have to be considered not for their loyalty and skill.

    The US gov could just hire on merit. Have top experts fill every sensitive gov job.
    The political leaders over decades have filled the US mil with random contractors and workers.
    Created mil/gov jobs in random states to win votes.
    Jobs that have to be filled from a random pool of local workers.

    The UK went for the "fine" approach and ensured its GCHQ, SAS, MI5/6 only got filled with trusted staff after decades of information loss.
    The US looked at the changed UK methods, considered the US political requests to hire "anyone" at a career fair and decided to just open gov/mil jobs to all.
    The politics of another nation, faith/cult loyal to another nation, citizenship and a criminal past could be looked over in the USA to work for the US gov.
    Lots of interesting new people got accepted as contractors.
    The USA is now full of cleared and trusted contractors the US gov and mil have ability to consider for security.
    The private contractor got "security" for a project and the approved workers got added.

    People with politics, people in cults, people with faiths that want to convert the USA long term, people with split loyalty to other nations, people 100% loyal to their own faith/another nation.
    Contractors with politics that wants to change the USA. People loyal to other nations political causes after decades working for the US gov/mil.

    The US mil/gov could have stopped all the personality types that walk out with secrets from entering the US mil/gov. But the political hiring practices have resulted in millions of people with no loyalty to the USA having a clearance.
    The US thinking on security over the past decades is that lots of unskilled staff makes the US more able to do more things globally.
    The security services got enriched over the decades by many different staff.
    Other nations, cults, faiths, criminal groups just line their spies up at US gov/mil career fair and watch as the resumes are accepted every decade.
    It would have been cheaper and more secure to actually know who wa entering the security services, getting a job as a contractor.
    But think of the local jobs, new staff, changes to the culture within gov. That radical change within the US gov resulted in so many new jobs for people who traditionally would have never had a security clearance.

    The USA mil/gov is now stuck with generations of staff it cant trust and never did deep background investigations on.
    But the staff now all reflect the wider US community and thats good politically.

  4. Re:Not preventing Snowdon 2.0 on 5 Years on, US Government Still Counting Snowden Leak Costs (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The US gov and mil hired random contractors to watch over each other as the do sensitive tasks.
    Every contractor has a larger file on them covering their education, friends, computer use, politics, movements, new friends, spending.
    The systems to detect personality problems that make a contractor talk to the media are in place.
    Contractors are collected on at work, in other nations while they work for the USA and at back in the USA at home.
    The spending on the buddy system, more contractors and experts will discover any personality with the change in personality that results in the need to talk to the media.
    A lot of work was done to find the how, why and when of media contact.
    Anyone in the media is also watched for new contacts within the US gov, mil.

  5. You are the product on Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access To Data On Users and Friends (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    and that product can be passed around a lot.

  6. Re:Skype style UI coming to GitHub ? on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 2

    New comment guidelines? No offensive language. No political speech?

  7. Re:What did they expect? on Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Funding and more funding?

  8. Database on Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Finds what humans create and reports back really fast.
    A new search engine?

  9. Ads meet PRISM on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant Are Coming To Xbox One (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 2

    with a mic and games.
    A full range of collect it all.

  10. Re:A great argument... on German Spy Agency Can Keep Tabs On Internet Hubs, Federal Court Rules (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Strange how the few really good AV brands with real time global comparison ability are not so welcome in the NATO nations.
    Clean code in lots of other nations makes real time government malware changes in just one nation stand out.

  11. degree of separation from a really smart person got into the USA under the cover of Operation Paperclip?

  12. Dont let an ad company on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    make your browser and trusted crypto.
    Dont let an ad company near your webcam, microphone, data.

  13. Laughed at.
    LOL at the best the company hired for their skills to do security that big governments collect on:
    The very best who could not imagine, protect against, discover, detect, speak out.
    Government spies deep in secure networks gathering all data for years who went totally undetected by the top "experts".
    Staff without the education to understand "someone" was getting to all the brands data.
    Why where they hired on merit if outside gov networks could just export plain text data everyday from big brand secure internal networks?
    In house legal teams happy to sign over their brands privacy obligations covering domestic users to give all data to big government.
    Other agencies without domestic law enforcement ability doing full collection on US citizens for decades.
    Big brands creating and supporting junk encryption so collect it all would be more easy for big government.
    Laugh at the universities who graduate the crypto experts who pass that kind of crypto junk as the best their generation can develop and support.
    Laugh at the professors who teach university level cryptography to that low standard and who have no idea what big government can do.
    Laugh at the very smartest corporate network experts working for big brands who totally fail to notice that law enforcement network extracting all their plain text data in real time for years.
    LOL at the peer review and out side code experts who glance over big brand code and give it their full "academic" "expert" approval.
    LOL at the experts who go to crypto conferences and say nothing about weaknesses in junk crypto big brands push onto consumer systems.
    LOL at the AV experts who did not support the few brands of good AV products that find and detect government malware.

    A tax can be paid and a big brand will just see that at part of doing business.
    LOL at the diploma mills that churn out computer "experts" with top qualifications who are lazy, always incompetent, a big government collaborator, a supporter of junk crypto and support junk standards.

    Too busy to secure a network?
    Too lazy to secure a network?
    Dont have the skills to secure a network?
    Had to support a government collecting for decades?
    The math was too hard so the security had to wait a few years?
    Creating junk crypto and have it trusted by generations of consumers was? Fun? A math puzzle that no other crypto expert worked out? A company joke for decades over every code review and product line?

    Starting your own brand? Working for a brand thats supportive of your users?
    Think about who you accept as a new "expert" and what their last "jobs" really resulted in. Their only real "skill" might be in breaking your new product so big governments can spy on everyone.
    Hire a better expert who can code. Who can secure a network. Try not to LOL at the big failed brands listed on resumes.

  14. Re:A community of politics? on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on the content and the bans, shadow bans, removal of ads.
    Some are moving to their own hosting and welcome all of the same user content.
    Some link to other video sites with links left on old boring political social media as reminder that new fun content is a link and new brand away.
    The funding is moving to a support platform that connects funding directly to content creators (no video site's ads needed :)

    The power the one sites social media is gone.
    They cant ban a video talking about linking to another site for 30 seconds and a hint at the creativity that awaits on another site that supports freedom.
    They cant remove their ads as the video has its own user funding and ads on another site.
    The video clip has no site related external ads to "remove".
    The ability to use ads to demonetized content has been avoided. Ads follow the fun content around the internet..
    Users follow the fun and soon learn to trust much better brands that don't have bans, shadow bans to consider.
    The new content is just a friendly reminder to click the link to a better video hosting site that supports freedom.
    Nothing to build a brand on and to attract more ads to.
    Party political censorship on one big brand makes creative people link out to many much better brands.
    Freedom sells. Censorship is not something people used to freedom seek out. Creative people still have the freedom in the USA to find better hosts.

  15. Re:Am I missing something? on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    In the old days the marketing was for an open platform for all ideas and new content.
    A movie review, politics, music, art, history, cartoons, blasphemy.
    Freedom of speech, freedom after speech just like the rest of the US internet.
    Smart, creative people with talent and skills invested their time and ability into the big social media brand.
    Then the big social media brands walked back from US freedom of speech. Only approved topics could stay. Bans, reporting, shadow bans followed.
    People could have invested that time and effort into other better emerging sites that really supported freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
    Why support a social media brand that was going to ban content and accounts?
    If a site had wanted partly political content rules then just say so from the very start. That would have been noted and content would have found a better site.

  16. Thats why peering was so not expensive to the USA. All the "international" data got lured to the USA for collection.

  17. Re:A community of politics? on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    The way around that is to just use the SJW account on big brand social media as a link to a better site with US supporting Freedom of Speech and Freedom after Speech.
    The funding goes via an external funding platform that users are thanked for in scrolling credits. The new short clips just has the direct link to another hosting site.
    Social media becomes the simple reminder site that new content is ready on a real hosting site and that support direct to creator is a click away.
    30 seconds of click the links below to another site is not the new content a brand wants their ads on.

    The more US party political censorship is enforced, the more any other freedom supporting sites becomes really useful to creators.
    Sites that let a user review a movie.
    Talk about news, events, politics, computers, bands, arts, culture, music, history, DRM, crypto without getting banned, reported, shadow banned.
    Bookmarks change, reminders move to the new hosting sites. New content is discovered on other sites that are fun and new.
    The bulk of users follow a small group of smart, fun creators to sites that look after their content. Not banning users. Not blocking users.
    Sites that don't feel the need for teams of users banning content for domestic US party political reasons.
    The placed ad funding surrounding a video is totally lost.

    The ads follow the content into the video clips.
    Ads spoken by the creators people trust on new sites people can trust.
    The ads people still trust becomes part of the video and the content is supported.
    No politically active social media site can withdraw "ads" anymore from content they don't politically approve of.
    Once a big brand totally fails its most important to support US politics users everyone moves to much better services.
    An ad company that allowed users to upload approved content becomes something creative content moves away from.
    The ads, the money, the users are on other sites waiting to enjoy the next amazing video. Not to see if the content creator they support has been banned by SJW.

  18. Re:No matter how good AI .... on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "A picture processing algorithm is not AI at the slightest."
    3 lens designs on the back of a consumer smartphone can only do so much.
    So the 3 images that result are going to have to be presented in some interactive way to the user expecting something new out of their new and very trendy smartphone.
    Lets call it the AI bokeh enhancer. The AI focus creator. The AI part helps the very average user enhance their images. Detects the face, gets people in focus and allows the user to save the most pleasing image.
    The end user is sold on their new found creativity. The company sells more 3 lens smartphones. The cloud AI looks into every image and sells ads back to the user when "helping" with the complex math needed for every image.
    Dog food ads for the people with lots of dog images.
    Cat food for ads people with lots of cat images.
    The AI and the cloud is not just for better bokeh and amazing low light images. The correct ads will follow the AI down to the correct users account.
    The AI correct the images and pushes the ads. A win for more advanced smartphone design and AI developers get to show that AI has a real world use.
    Pushing ads to the correct accounts in real time.

  19. Nuclear. Its always nuclear thats hidden and never mentioned in the media much.
    Was it an industrial scam, consumer junk, an export scam it would be in the comedy section of the tech news.
    Country A pumps out CFC to scam with fake industrial air conditioner. Name and shame.
    With no names and no really funny make cash quick "origin" story?
    Something really funny like Country B imported the industrial air conditioners and found them to be really good for the price until they needed servicing and the CFC free gas did not work...
    No funny story? Its military and nuclear.
    CFC only works for some many things and all the easy stuff got upgraded over the decades.

  20. Re:A great argument... on German Spy Agency Can Keep Tabs On Internet Hubs, Federal Court Rules (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    The BND has a way into the very end of every DSN.
    German quality malware. With extra government and now with 200% more contractors.
    No OS, no modem is safe from the reach around of the BND. They will get into any OS.
    From space. "German intelligence agency gets spy satellite system funds" (06.11.2017)
    http://www.dw.com/en/german-in...
    In cyber space.
    New surveillance law: German police allowed to hack smartphones (22.06.2017)
    http://www.dw.com/en/new-surve...
    Welcome to the world of the "State Trojan"
    The German gov malware reads plain text along with the user.

  21. Re:Commies/Nazis/Krauts on German Spy Agency Can Keep Tabs On Internet Hubs, Federal Court Rules (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Nobody expects the new look Stasi on the webcam, in the OS, listening to the mic.
    All that bad Germanness stopped in 1989 right? All the other bad Germans had long since found full employment in South America, the USA, UK, France...

  22. your hub is any microphone, camera and text the German gov can detect on the internet.

  23. Re:Solving the wrong problem on Three US States Will Spend $1.3 Billion To Build More Electric Vehicle Charging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Union real car ready in 2038 for you.
    In Capitalist West California builds free charging station for you.
    California is still working on the free car part.

  24. Re:Something doesn't add up on Cost To Build a Tesla Model 3 Is $28,000, German Engineers Say (www.wiwo.de) · · Score: 1

    Thats why other car companies build in nations like Italy, Spain, Mexico, China, Thailand over many years. As the high local high tariff protections went away production could be global.
    Find a nation that wants to build jobs and ask how much their gov will pay for every worker who has a full time production line job.
    Thats how the worker price can be adjusted. Then it is just the cost of parts :)

  25. Code Assistant looks over your code on Microsoft Is Talking About Acquiring GitHub, Says Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    to see if any of it could be used to remove DRM.
    It looks like your trying to share code that will circumvent DRM...