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  1. Re:Complete idiocy. on World Cities Go Dark For 'Earth Hour' Climate Campaign (afp.com) · · Score: 1

    re "they do it because their message will be in the evening news.."
    Really smart people make computer art about the news. Evening news get turned into fake news. All from the comfort of a computer making a funny picture.
    The evening news is not trusted and the pipeline construction is approved.
    The advisors have moved to get past any larger Vietnam war style protests getting "news" at any one location.
    The protest that thought it had the optics to get on the news got turned into a funny meme online about the news.

  2. If its not an emergency why are people getting told they need to do more work after work...

  3. Re:Somebody tell me on A New Era For Linux's Low-level Graphics (collabora.com) · · Score: 2

    A free to pay game will look as pretty on Linux. Just like Windows and OS X and the cell phone.

  4. Re:Anti-intellectual garbage on World Cities Go Dark For 'Earth Hour' Climate Campaign (afp.com) · · Score: 0

    Political leaders like the dark and cold. Its their natural habitat.
    Now we all have to join them in the cold and dark for some reason.

  5. Re:Classic Math on Pirate Music Site's Owner Sentenced to Five Years in Prison (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Soon music will be worth 60000000000.

  6. Re:6.3 billion dollars lost on Pirate Music Site's Owner Sentenced to Five Years in Prison (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    What can music be worth?
    The government might suggest an average music CD costs $30.
    Some easy number of 12 tracks of 4-5 minutes of music on a CD.
    Say $2.5 per track.
    Now enter that 6,000,000,000 number into the law computer and divided by ...
    A law computer with a bigger display is finally found.
    The federal music math is presented before the court.
    Just the math. No music is allowed.
    Each 0 carefully entered into the computer by hand and the loss of profits calculated before a live audience.

  7. Re:The FBI.... on Pirate Music Site's Owner Sentenced to Five Years in Prison (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The people who work for the gov don't like to think about what history recalls.
    Tuskegee, MK-Ultra, Gulf of Tonkin.
    The mission is all about keeping the music profits safe.

  8. Re:Sure glad I don't have any social media account on School Pays To Get an Algorithm To Scan Students' Social Media For Threats and Suicide Risks Posts (wbur.org) · · Score: 1

    So the NSA/GCHQ backbone crypto keys got offered to the DEA, then the FBI. Now its down to state and city police. Then contractors got a support role.
    The network collects it all.

  9. Re:why not... on World Cities Go Dark For 'Earth Hour' Climate Campaign (afp.com) · · Score: 1

    AC Most nations are more advanced than that and have had fully working power grids for decades.
    The lights come on and skilled people can do productive work at night.
    Having light allows useful work to be done all over a normal nation all night. Jobs that support exports, sport, hobbies, music, art, culture, farming, transport.
    Having light allows shift workers to work and an advanced normal nation to be ready for the next day.
    Products and services are then all ready for the next morning.
    Darkness all night would remove a lot of very normal productivity and the advanced nation would become a third world nation.
    Only having the option to move around during the day would stop an entire shift of night time productivity.
    Most normal nations would want more jobs every day and night. Not finding ways of stopping all useful work for hours.

  10. Re:Complete idiocy. on World Cities Go Dark For 'Earth Hour' Climate Campaign (afp.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The important people who get to travel from international city to another important city can then
    enjoy the virtue signalling about what they made their city do.
    That their city was part of a global effort to go back to the dark ages. To make nations be like some third world nation.
    Just the first step in getting large groups of people political active.
    Finding out who can sway politics and make a city not support a normal service.
    The first event is for nature, something that is easy to get support for.
    The next part will be party political.

  11. Re:There were plenty of red flags on How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "pursuit of political aims."
    Thats why police and the FBI have to be very aware of who they are looking for.
    A person of faith can be fully supported by the texts of their faith and could have the full support of a large faith community in the USA.
    A community that would fund, support and hide a person.
    That could offer a person a no go area for people of the faith to hide in.
    Where any attempts at CCTV is removed by criminals of the same faith.
    To provide a new real identity for any person of faith on the move trying to evade police. To even have supporters of the same faith within law enforcement.
    To have to consider cleared people of faith in state and federal law enforcement having split loyalties and who will always put their faith first.
    A faith group can split the needed design and buying patterns up between different people all over the USA over a longer time.
    No one face, use of transport, cash payment to link back from months and years of CCTV.
    No changes to spending patterns and no way to find moments as support is done by random people of faith.
    The teaching of the faith can not be altered and any act would be seen as following the teaching of the faith.
    Everyone in the faith would support the person and the faith would have texts about not supporting law enforcement.
    That requires a lot more effort on the part of the FBI to keep methods for investigation an entire faith more secret.

    Re "no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern."
    Than a person with no support network who has to stay secret about all their actions.
    Who cannot risk CCTV. Every needed task then has the same person in front of CCTV. Investigate every face, movement of people at a set time in an area and movement patterns start to show on CCTV. The numbers of people who get tracked again and again after each event start to get smaller due to time and location.
    Shift work, the need for sleep, shopping, hobbies, sport, family, friends start to remove the very large numbers of people as the investigation into every face and method of transport goes on.
    The US can be given more details and asked for help.

  12. Re:Sure glad I don't have any social media account on School Pays To Get an Algorithm To Scan Students' Social Media For Threats and Suicide Risks Posts (wbur.org) · · Score: 1

    Have to wonder what software a gov at a state and city level are getting for the price. That they can map out most online usage.
    Facial recognition back over years of accounts to find patterns still in use?
    4 hops of most accounts would map a community. Finding many of the unexpected and random accounts in use?
    Creating new random accounts often and never going back for reuse them would not be protected from malware getting into the same home computer network.

  13. Re:An active tinfoil hat on British Scientists Develop Wearable MRI Scanner (wcax.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "every bug spray smoking conspiracy theorist absolutely knows that the military is working on hard hacks to turn the device into a mind controller!"

    Why just be limited to selling the UK mil a mind controller?
    Why not sell the UK military on the ability to read the mind as well?
    A Russian detector.
    The UK security services can go full Five Techniques on a person and see what the computer of truth shows.
    The Hooded Men go digital.

  14. Lets see why the this is news in March 2018. The words "Future Video" might be a hint. Slashdot got used.

  15. In the real world the experts get called in no matter the shift and time of day.
    Whats why most advanced nation ensured the needed experts had a landline phone that would be just for a call from work.
    The alarms sound and the nuclear priesthood is called back to work to help the shift at work.

    Thats during an emergency situation angel'o'sphere and why very good communications networks got supported all over the USA for many decades.

    Why a modern city would be pushing everyday digital work like emails to normal everyday staff after hours is another question...

  16. They got a good few years of growth after the PRISM news.

  17. Re:Thanks but no thanks on Apple To Unveil a Cheaper iPad Next Week At Its Educational Event · · Score: 1

    Look at the average IQ and consider the non university end of that bell curve in a normal educational setting that can only afford educational priced computer devices.
    Extra computer parts that can get pulled out and lost are not good in todays more inclusive educational setting.
    One flat new computer is what todays educators can work with and what parents expect.
    GUI software sold to the school that everyone can learn with.
    Different students will learn at their own pace and in their own ways.
    The challenges of small computer parts do not help education.
    A nice new GUI and more of that Elementary and Secondary Education Act funding is what is needed.

  18. Re:So if I understand this right... on Apple To Unveil a Cheaper iPad Next Week At Its Educational Event · · Score: 1

    Next gen Apple LC. Flat so it looks modern and trendy. No Apple IIe Card.

  19. Some jobs need that. Nuclear, chemical, medical, computer experts.
    Why is a city pushing work out that should have been done? Should be worked on by the next shift of workers?
    Some contractors also sell their workers to a city and as part of that winning bid have to always be ready for work.

  20. Re:Sure glad I don't have any social media account on School Pays To Get an Algorithm To Scan Students' Social Media For Threats and Suicide Risks Posts (wbur.org) · · Score: 1

    Burtosis,

    So many random services and products now demand an email, cell phone other contact data.
    How long before they demand "social media" to stay in contact?
    The lack of social media now starting an investigation to find a hidden social media account?
    Trying to discover if a US student has another way of communication? An account lacking most account details but a classical music CD collection?

    The only way to detect that would be gov backed contractor malware pushed out to all home computers. Just to be sure.
    --

  21. Important people who had to be on call had an extra landline phone connected just for work.
    Later generations had a pager.
    People with needed skills remained in contact in the past.
    Doing emails and work related digital messages sounds like the city has not hired enough people on merit.
    Skilled people get their work done during their work shift.
    Then another shift of skilled people take over with the ability to get more work done.
    Try finding people who can do the work without having to send more work out after hours.

  22. Re:time to bring back USENET? :) on Reddit Bans Subreddits Related To Selling Guns, Drugs, Sex, and More (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    AC they are all topics SJW want to see banned from the internet.

  23. Re:As SJW censor one part of the net on Man Starts 'Gunbook' Social Media Site After His Gun-Loving Friends Were Kicked Off Facebook (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The UK has the Intolerable Joke Act so SJW in the UK can ban comedy.
    The net has to now work its way around all this politics and censorship and find freedom of speech again.
    Make the internet fun again.

  24. Re:lemme ask this on FCC's New 5G Rules Favor Fast Setup Over Federal Reviews (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Getting data down using real bandwidth?
    Waiting for HD and 4K data to stream over paper insulated monopoly telco wireline?
    The race is on to get the USA connected and able to enjoy new internet products and services.
    Products that need real speed and much more bandwidth all the time to enjoy.
    5G can allow the USA to escape its old telco networks and the wireline monopoly brands that kept the US internet slow for generations of new content.

  25. Re:IP addresses mean jack shit on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "I don't necessarily buy into all of this myself, but why do people tend to treat the government and its operatives as infallible masterminds?"
    Why would someone in Russia do the one any only thing that would get Russia detected?
    A super easy to find tail back to Russia?
    Russian code litter led to be found?
    Russian spy method are then all over the Western media in real time?
    Reading about the GRU and code litter would tell Russian about its fictional "missions" in the US news?
    Who would allow the USA to talk to the media about what Russia is doing right and what it had to not do to not get caught?
    Real spy work to discover Russian and Soviet methods by the NSA and CIA stays secret for decades.
    So the Russians cant lean form how the USA works and wins.
    Yet now we are to accept a real time account in the media? By an anonymous source who is allowed to talk to the media again and again about US methods and what was found?

    Why would Russia have used the GRU? The GRU is the wrong part of Russian intelligence collection to quote and is very telling about the age and skill of the anonymous source.
    GRU is not trusted by Russia for complex political data collection and working in the West on politics and not with human spies. The GRU made huge human spy mistakes in the Cold War and Russia is more careful now about who gets in Russia gets sensitive missions. The GRU lost the Soviet Union one of its best placed spies and did not get to go back to everyday spy work in the West after that.
    What the GRU lost the KGB and what replaced the KGB had to be trusted to look after.
    GRU is not what replaced KGB. GRU is not the political and Western spy side of Russian government. GRU has many other complex tasks not related to political spy work.
    The anonymous source may have been out of US intelligence since the 1980's.
    The anonymous source could be younger and does not really understand the long internal history of the GRU having never experienced the Cold War.
    The GRU and its attempts at spying and why it does not spy in the way "the anonymous source" thinks it would.
    It all makes great real time spy fiction for the media and online clicks. The all powerful GRU that can get into any computer but can work out the ip part and drops code litter all over everything all the time.
    Then the story is in the US media in real time for free to show fictional US skills at doing Russian GRU discovery?
    A GRU mission thats caught and that the US media can report on?
    Thats the amazing super power with the most mazing computer skills ever?
    Something like a spy sports event we can all read long with at home.