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  1. Re:Never give in, e'en in the face of apocalypse.. on RedDawn Android Malware Is Harvesting Personal Data of North Korean Defectors (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    The thinking would be that a North Korean would be many generations behind in food, language use and culture.
    Step by step cooking and lifestyle apps that presented Korean food, way of life, language use. In an easy to follow way would be a way to for a defector to study and discover in their own time.
    The words used would be telling for any Korean app search terms. Vocabulary, jargon, slang, international words, fashion, brands would allow per app per user filtering.
    The Korean terms to cook French food would be different from a move simple Korean search request on how to cook.
    Not apps listed for people new to Korea learning Korean with another language listed. Korean apps about life in South Korea in Korean as bait.
    South Koreans would on average not need apps like that as they would have been educated within that culture, had the food prepared for them, be looking for a restaurant.
    A South Korean might want to show their French, German, Japanese, American food skills and buy into more international and advanced food, lifestyle apps.
    A South Korean could want an app about expensive international car bands. A North Korean on a limited budget now in South Korea could be more interested in their first app for a first South Korean car.
    The tracking then gives North Korea a location to study. A home to watch for defector support services and contractors. Doctors, lawyers, South Korean mil, gov, academics with decades of questions and visits.
    Track the few approved gov/mil visitors and find more defectors.
    Track the defector to a "secret" gov/mil support building and track everyone in and out. A lot of other defectors and all the people who are cleared to work with defectors.
    Its all about movement and location of everyone working with defectors. Its not a long list as the CIA and South Koreans are very protective due to past human spying efforts. Find the short list of approved support staff in South Korea and track them all. One defector trusting one app can uncover a lot of South Korean gov/mil support networks and other defectors.

    The easy way for South Korea to prevent that would be to give defectors lots of printed books on every aspect of South Korea culture.
    No lifestyle app networks to follow back. But its digital and thats so new and fun.

    North Korea is doing what the CIA, NSA, FBI, MI5/6, DEA, AFT does with gov created advanced study guides on software, apps, ebooks on topics within their areas of interest.
    Create the prefect ebook, app topic, blog and see who buys, downloads.

  2. That would block ads and detract from the look and feel of the OS for investors.
    Consumers are the product and their data is the profit.

  3. Re: Let the US consumer buy what they want on Utilities, Tesla Appeal Federal Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    AC "think they can save a few bucks".
    So poor people should have to save up longer and only be able to select from a limited set of federally approved electric cars?
    No small bus, van, SUV, truck. Just a short list of expensive federally approved electric cars AC?
    The US electric version of an East German Trabant for the working poor to "select" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The USA has freedom of choice. Car makers in the USA can respond to the needs of people and offer them a wide range of transport.
    Some at a low costs, some with amazing levels of luxury.

    Cars, vans and trucks, SUV's. Cars to get to work, low cost transport to study.
    A low cost van when starting out in business, a trade.
    A truck, SUV with the power needed to support farm work. With lower costs to keep it working for years.
    People have real world reasons to select the transport they do. That "save a few bucks" AC is the difference between getting an education, starting work, the ability to get to work on time or waiting for a bus for hours every week. A low cost to move their needed equipment and tools from site to site. That first van has to be paid for along with a lot of other business costs.

    Staring your own business? Getting into a trade? The federal government, state gov, city should be supporting that person. No demanding the use of a list of approved expensive electric transport options.
    Federal rules and the demands for electric cars should not be forced on people who only have "a few bucks".
    A low cost car allows people all over the USA to get to work, to study. Not to have to wait for bus, rail adding hours onto travel times every week.
    To have the freedom to enjoy their weekends, to travel, to see more of the USA.

    Skilled engineers who passed their exams on merit will have to work harder on getting the costs of electric transport down.
    Then people can review the costs of new electric transport and find the perfect low cost electric car, van, truck, SUV, bus with the needed support. No long term battery costs years later.

  4. Re:Free from bias? on NYC Announces Plans To Test Algorithms For Bias (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Crime is not a simplistic assumption.
    Some areas have low crime. A car is safe during the day and at night. A home is not getting its door or window opened and property is not getting removed.
    A person can wait for a bus, drive their car without having to worry about robbery.
    Shop for food without having to consider the risks.
    Police can map that crime rate. Move in and track the bad people. Entire areas can be policed with better methods and the crime rate can be reduced.
    Get the voice prints so nay changes to cell phones will not offer any protection, the faces on CCTV, track the movements and find the bad people.
    Track the serial numbers on cash. Cell phone movements of who stops and talks in person together. Someone is going to spend cash that was tracked. Follow their movements back to a crime.

  5. will the next generation of smart people have to be creative?
    If their parents and grandparents can pass down payments for the next generations?
    From the need to support the food and rent of a creative person for been productive to non productive generations getting payments 143 years later?
    A book becomes a play. Produced for radio. A book on tape. Then a new movie. A book for the movie with new cover art. A 3d movie. An ebook. A VR game...
    Every generational product alteration adds 144 years?

  6. Let the US consumer buy what they want on Utilities, Tesla Appeal Federal Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why shape and tilt the market with more federal rules and regulations.
    The grid has had a lot of investment and can get electrical power to a user to charge their new electric car.
    The maker of a car thats "electric" can sell the car on its own range and recharge specs.
    The advanced GUI in the electric car can show range and what the range will be under different conditions.

    When a consumer wants an electric car, truck, van they will read the reviews and buy that type of advanced product. Allow the US consumer to do the math on the costs of needed servicing and long term battery support costs.
    A consumer can also select to buy a new standard SUV, truck, car, van for fun, work, weekends, holidays, moving a boat around.

    When electric designers offer what existing transport offers then the market will move to what users want and will pay for.
    No federal government needed. No power company and electric car company government advice needed.
    The consumer will select the products they want and designers will have to respond to that demand every decade.
    Get that mix night and your brand grows. Get it wrong and your brand fails.
    Hire smart designers on merit who have real skills and understand what people want. Design safe transport that people will like and line to buy.
    If that is electric, well done. If that is not electric, keep working on the design until its ready.

    Dont use the US government to make the US consumer have to buy into products they don't want. Have to buy products that don't work and that are not ready for consumers.
    A new car that comes with a faulty computer system should not be supported by US federal rules as road worthy.
    Stop using federally rules for virtue signalling environmental party politics by setting prices and long term service costs.

  7. Re:Stuxnet is piece of shit on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    If its only difficulty of the objective we can list:
    Korabl Maket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    N1 (rocket) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Dornier Do 31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Lunokhod programme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Anything to do with Ada and Ariane rockets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Stuxnet had to work with a very well understood computer OS, USB and listed industrial specs.

  8. Re:The Windows Kernel on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    The complexity of keeping the FBI, NSA and CIA tasks per interesting user hidden.
    All that extra spying and decryption in an OS.

  9. What does it get beyond gps, ip, camera, mic in the OS? Persistence in the OS?

  10. Re:Why is spelling still a thing? on Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It sorts the students who can read and spell out from the students who cant.
    The students who can study to some standard from students who cant, won't.
    The students who have had the support needed to learn to spell.
    Such students will do well at university when given other new subjects to study.
    Students who can learn to spell might do well with other languages, science, math, arts.

  11. Re:Complete Design Failure on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The approved ads are now secure so the site is working. Let the user view the ads.

  12. Re:If anyone from Mozilla is here. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Dont GUI like google is the way to stay away from getting an evil GUI

  13. So the user can enjoy the site and approved ads without distracting terms like "secure"

  14. Police and FBI support. DEA and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area policing. State task forces and city, state police.
    Their hardware and software has to work.
    A cellphone thats too hard to decrypt and track all around the USA is a cell phone that should not be approved.

  15. Ethernet on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 2

    Fast so it can support a quality VPN.
    Then have a computer just for "internet" on it as the only computer on the network.
    An OS some bookmarks and what apps are needed.
    Have all long term data well away from any networked computer.
    Find a fast router with a good CPU that can support the best VPN protection.
    Make sure the loss of the VPN will not revert to any ISP ip.
    Should any malware get into a computer, they get nothing. Some bookmarks, some productivity apps.
    Everything can be restored and be back online quickly.
    Stay away from wifi, big brand devices with "helpful" always on microphones, webcams.

  16. Re:This is why we continue to have these problems on Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software, Again (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    FBI? NSA? CIA? Other agency staff keep on doing their job and try to avoid such audits while undercover.

  17. Re:Who the Fuck is Writing the Shit? on Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software, Again (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Welcome to PRISM.

  18. Free from bias? on NYC Announces Plans To Test Algorithms For Bias (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Is the person poor? Generational poverty? No job? Living in an area with an above average crime rate?
    Who is committing the crime? What crimes? What policing method has best reduced that crime rate around the USA?
    Make some maps of the city and fund some new police in the areas with crime.
    Add some CCTV. Bring in the next gen IMSI-catchers to see who is talking with criminals. A better voice print system?
    Start tracking crime down to a street and building level in real time.
    Ask the FBI to provide some statistics on who is doing what crime, when and where. Find the predicable patterns for the police to work with.
    Todays tech can map most of the problem areas and detect most of the repeat criminals.
    The only bias is not funding the police to do their jobs. Stop looking for "bias" and start funding police work.

  19. Will the approved side of politics on social media then start reporting their own?
    Will US social media go full Hundred Flowers Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and ban its own politically trusted users?
    From what starts as conversations getting banned will then become having to support healthy criticism of all approved accounts?

  20. might not be good for a worker who is "fit" and "outside" all day...
    Wondering around all day fixing pipes that leak toxic chemicals might not be good all day.
    Teaching wealthy people how to surf, climb a mountain, ride a horse would rank as?

  21. Re:The logic is painfully twisted. on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A collection of long term cars, RV down residential streets?
    Homeless encampments?

  22. Re:The logic is painfully twisted. on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When a specific location adds in a new tax then other parts of the USA become much more attractive.
    Why stay in a city with a tax and the same services other parts the USA can offer. With no new tax.
    That would welcome new brands to their state.
    That could offer long term support for anyone investing in their state?
    A state where productive effort can go to making a profit. Why spend band money and time on the city politics of new taxation?
    New taxation thats just going to demand more and more.
    Move to a better part of the USA and put all that effort into the brand. Build a brand rather than just pay a new city tax.

    Re "can't make moving to their state very attractive or something" that would need state and city political leadership to really present a state in a good way all over the USA.
    Low existing tax rates, low power costs, a educated low wage population ready to work. ISP that can support any type of networking needed. No strange new taxes. Good universities. Nice clean cities and low crime rates. Locations just waiting for new investment.

    Many parts of the USA still have all that for free. No new "Seattle tax" needed.

    If only some interactive business owner app existed.
    Power costs, education level, crime rate, ISP speed, tax. Politics thats welcoming to all new investment.
    That could present every larger city in the USA on an interactive investment GUI.
    Historic rates of unionism. What other parts of the USA did a "Seattle tax".
    Maps, charts, costs, tax incentives, tax reductions for investing. Lower wages. Skilled students who still pass on merit. Less snow and rain.
    Every state and city could feed in their best offers in real time.

  23. Save on Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    your monopoly ISP and its paper insulated wireline.
    Welcome back to federal rules and a telco monopoly.

  24. Re:Let them leave... on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is what to do with poor people who need housing.
    One idea was to build a lot of new low cost housing in poor areas.
    A lot can be done with not much new money and a lot of poor people get a home.
    Slums result. Location and isolation keep the crime problems to a small area of a state and city.

    Another idea is for a government to buy expensive housing in wealthy areas and put poor people into good housing.
    That a poor person now in a wealthy area will become like the wealthy people due to a new home.
    Not many people get a new home and the government needs more and more taxation to buy expensive homes.
    Poor people then need to be fully supported in wealthy areas. More tax to pay for more support services.
    Once nice wealthy areas slowly become slums as more very poor people are moved in.
    Slum conditions result in every part of a nice city.

  25. Re:The logic is painfully twisted. on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with a state trying that special tax is that every other state in the USA can:
    Offer low cost power.
    Has fast internet.
    Supported students who passed on merit and who want to work.
    Can make moving to their state very attractive.
    Can make staying in their state much better long term than a "Seattle" with a social homelessness "tax". Seattle becomes a generational story of tax and risk.
    A warning to operations to really consider the politics of any area of the USA before they invest in.