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  1. One trusted worker can watch a lot of people. The US has a lot of people who can watch.
    "5.1 million Americans have security clearances. That’s more than the entire population of Norway." (March 24, 2014)
    https://www.washingtonpost.com...
    "Who has security clearance? More than 4.3M people" (June 6, 2017 )
    https://www.usatoday.com/story...
    Nearly 5 Million People Have Government Security Clearances (07.23.12)
    https://www.wired.com/2012/07/...

  2. Re:The cloud gives a tactical edge? on Microsoft Wins A Big Cloud Deal With America's Intelligence Community (spokesman.com) · · Score: 1

    Connect the MS federal cloud to city efforts like Domain Awareness System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Spy on people like its was PRISM in every city, state, federal, globally.

  3. Just like Canada did Avro Arrow? on How Canada Ended Up As An AI Superpower · · Score: 2

    Lots of really smart people attracted to doing advanced things in Canada does not result in a product people need later.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    But its all fun in Canada doing AI until then.
    Could it be like the MCM/70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with Canada doing pioneering AI work?

  4. Re:Not enough competition on All Major ISPs Have Declined In Customer Satisfaction, Says Study (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    A private network company cannot just take its money and invest in a poor city that will never pay back for the work done.
    Then commit to a government that it will look after and upgrade the network.
    For POTS and a broadband rate that has to get faster and faster. So the poor wont slip into internet poverty.
    The money would run out.
    Then what? Ask for a government loan to construct the network in poor areas? At what rate? Should a city take on that risk?
    Do poor people pay a lot for internet? Do they use existing wireless services more?
    Would poor people change from a set price wireless service they can use on the move to a city backed network service?
    Set up a community broadband that any ISP can connect to and sell its services on?
    Ask for a direct government payment for every "poor" home connected?
    Ask for government support for every "poor" home that needs a faster new network?
    Set the price low so more people can pay for the service and try to catch up with many more consumers paying small amount every month?

  5. Re:Not sure if this is a good idea... on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What could go wrong.
    Buy solar for the roof.
    Its free solar all day.
    Have city inspect the solar and the grid power company accept extra power.
    Buy a big battery.
    Have the battery inspected, approved and connected.
    Buy energy at consumer prices.
    Get a set low rate to sell solar back to the grid. Solar power not used is a credit for coupons, discounts, a very low set price?
    Sell "extra" battery power back at what the "free" market will pay.
    After all the big spending and not been paid much for the extra power every year the user will be in profit when?
    Pay back that solar and the big battery.
    The big battery last how many years of power in and out?

  6. Re:Meh, take some college courses on A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Dont have the app show words or draw into the reserved space for the notch?

  7. Thats the academic foundation of todays very best real engineers.
    People who had to learn math on merit to a great standard.
    The ability to create and sell a GUI app while been guided by todays app creating GUI software will not create a person who can understand and think about more complex code.
    They need the deep math of something like a Pascal, Ada, Lisp to be able to adjust and get the most out of any new code over the next decades.
    Getting the very most out of every part of a very advanced gpu, cpu design for a given battery limitations.

  8. Re:Define 'requests' on Apple Will Report Government Requests To Remove Apps From the App Store (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apps that are pure blasphemy in a growing market of billions of captive users?
    Apps that show a person how to escape their religion of war?
    To convert to another faith?
    What life is like without their cult, faith, religion?
    The history of their faith of war and how to read the texts of another much better faith?
    Apps written by magicians, astrologers, soothsayers, diviners that a faith has their nations laws totally ban?
    Apps that display a faiths text from God mixed in with the work of astrologers?

  9. Re: Short term or Long term? on Eric Schmidt Says Elon Musk Is 'Exactly Wrong' About AI (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The amount of money wasted over the decades on merging AI.
    That AI can recall given facts quickly and in a politically safe way.
    Let the AI learn from the internet and humans step in to correct its "politics".
    So the AI is given a sub set of politically correct data.
    So that AI can be presented to civil society as trendy and politically correct. Worth more money.
    Thats the limitation of AI. The data sets have to be selected and filtered. The requests have to be safe.
    The wrong results and the money stops.
    The AI grows on a limited amount of data that reflects the politics of its designers.
    Thats why an AI is only as good as the data its allowed to work and learn from and the data its then allowed to present.
    One trendy political mistake and the money stops.
    The AI gathers its politically safe datasets in a sheltered workshop.

  10. Track all people who attend any opposition party events.
    Track who gave a speech and all the faces of people who attended the political event.

  11. Logo.
    Basic.
    Pascal.
    Ada.
    Lisp.
    Finally move to todays most best and newest trendy online app ready gui app code that can really code for apps.. ready for a big fast gpu with many cpu cores..
    Avoid any new trendy code that comes with strange political demands as part of "using" the code.

  12. Re:Not enough competition on All Major ISPs Have Declined In Customer Satisfaction, Says Study (dslreports.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The USA needs to replace its paper insulated wireline networks.
    That needs the freedom in invest in some parts of a city that can pay back for that network investment.
    Under the federal NN rules every part of that city would have to have an equal network upgrade.
    So the poorest communities would get new networks. A network in a poor community that would never make a profit.
    Everything is just left as is and sold as a NN ready network. No investment needed. But its all NN.
    The networks get slower and slower.
    Its not the ISP. The networks are getting beyond the data speeds of POTS.
    Allow innovative and investment ready parts of the USA to build their own new community networks without federal NN rules to hold new investment back.

  13. Re:Short term or Long term? on Eric Schmidt Says Elon Musk Is 'Exactly Wrong' About AI (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Long term we had the AI winter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    AI did not work in the past after getting a lot of money. AI does not work now with all the new money it gets. AI will not work later after getting a lot more money.
    All AI is a collect it all system database that has extra storage and much faster CPU power to index. Sort and be ready for every aspect of its use.
    Human asks a question and the instant correct result seems like "AI" thinking finally works.
    Great for making the clandestine services seem able to AI "predict" the future based on todays fashion, trends and politics as vast real time data sets.
    Its not intelligence. Just vast amount of data related to any given task thats on a really fast computer with time to get ready for expected questions.
    Do anything human the preprogrammed "AI" is not expecting and the AI is lost and has to take time to "learn".

    AI has one use. To secure more funding for humans working on AI.

  14. +1 AC. That will be all kept going for months as part of ongoing "investigations".
    To see who logs in and attempts to alter the command and control software side.
    Until then the feds will keep looking at the results in real time.

  15. AC the US captures every drivers face, passenger face and front/back license plate in most of the interesting states.
    Social media tracking is just one part of larger digital databases.
    See the Domain Awareness System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... too AC...

  16. Re:EU Privacy Law on Facebook Accused of Conducting Mass Surveillance Through Its Apps (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    EU privacy laws got set up to ensure EU profits stayed private in the EU nations.
    Nothing to do with the privacy of the user and the services used.
    The EU does not want to compete with the USA. The EU want to keep innovative new US products and services out of the EU.

  17. Re:I saw Solo last night on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 0

    Fan service with a happy SJW ending.

  18. AC East Germany had internal checks on approach to the Restricted zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. When its free on Facebook Accused of Conducting Mass Surveillance Through Its Apps (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    everyone is the product.

  20. Re:Cockroach Milk on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Book of Leviticus, Deuteronomy and other good books set out in easy to understand terms what is acceptable for humans.
    ie But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

  21. Juche. Go full Korean. Clamshell all the way.

  22. AC the NSA can fly its space plane up to any satellite.

  23. Re:Still need to take this with skepticism on First Cuba, Now China? A Worker In US Embassy In China Experienced 'Abnormal' Sounds, Brain Damage (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Cuba wants the US embassy investigations to stop. Cuba has too many of their own spies deep in the US gov to keep undercover.
    Generation of spies all over the USA. Why would Cuba do and risk the one thing to make the USA to do more security work that would find Cuba spies?

  24. Re:Still need to take this with skepticism on First Cuba, Now China? A Worker In US Embassy In China Experienced 'Abnormal' Sounds, Brain Damage (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The NSA and CIA like US embassy workers to travel deep into a China and Cuba.
    Look at things, photograph things. Talk to people. Collect soil, air samples. Look for local wifi networks.
    Talk to civil society groups, academics, artists, engineers. Sway them over to the US side with offers of charm, cash, "democracy" and "freedom".
    Embassy staff have freedoms in many nations. The CIA uses that freedom of movement every day for its embassy "workers" in China, Cuba.

  25. Re:Here's something interesting to think about on First Cuba, Now China? A Worker In US Embassy In China Experienced 'Abnormal' Sounds, Brain Damage (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The ghosts of NSA and CIA communications attempts for the US embassy deep into China and Cuba?
    Some 1960's long forgotten Room 641A in the US embassy is still functional. The haunted paper scanner prototype is emitting a haunting glow up into the AC ducts Set to warm up ready for a 1970's US communications satellite pass over.
    The satellite is long gone but the spy fax machine warms up every day ready to send documents.
    A room nobody has keys and clearance to go into.