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  1. Re:The more the EU embraces censorship on EU Wants To Require Platforms To Filter Uploaded Content (Including Code) (github.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AC:
    In the US you are free to give a speech.
    To publish a book. To write a message about the news online. To engage in any political discussions about politics and talk about any part of history.
    In the USA you don't have to be a government approved reporter or academic to comment within set laws about politics or history.
    In the USA you are still free after the speech.
    In the USA a person is still free after researching a book. A person is free to publish a book. The author can self publish. The author and publisher do not face jail time for the content of a political or history book.
    In the USA you can upload an interview talking about your book to people who are free to ask any question about the book.
    Nation in the EU would try to investigate everyone at all such events.
    The US supports the freedom to talk about the book in public.
    The EU supports nations investigating anyone who reads a book.
    To give an interview about their book that mentions politics or history. The freedom to give talks about history. To go online and join in any discussion about their book.
    The USA protects their citizens from any gov that wants to ban their publication and free speech.
    In the EU a nations police record the speech.
    The EU nation then investigates the person speaking, their work, their bank accounts, their politics, any publications. Who they are and what they do.
    What was the topic and why did the person think they have a right to give speeches?
    An EU nation starts a formal investigative police interview into why a person wanted to write a book. Has the person go over the political content of their speech in a formal legal setting.
    The EU nations then support and consider court action and fines for speech.
    The EU supports its nations using jail time to stop speech.
    The US is the freedom to publish and talk again on any topic. The EU supports jail time for talking for the first time.

  2. Re:Better question on US Says Russia Hacked Energy Grid, Punishes 19 for Meddling (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    AC the US connected its grids to the wide open internet to replace union workers on site.
    No union workers, no union to deal with. No wages to increase. No union negotiations.
    Thats money back into profits and as shareholder value by using the internet as a network using fewer staff to watch over a lot of different sites 24/7.
    A few engineers can watch over sites and send in contractors when a computer system finds a problem.
    The bad part was the networking and automation was not done with site secure, encrypted hardened networks.
    The free "internet" was used to save on having to think about and fund special new networks.
    So all that data is moving around the big wide internet from vital US computer networks that cant and won't be updated.
    Any advance new criminal malware that searches the depths of the internet for existing problems finds old networks and does what average criminal malware does.
    The US security forces don't suggest the US brands secure their unencrypted, plain text, internet facing, wide open industrial networks.
    The US security forces spin common criminal malware found all over the net as some super advanced, mythical nation level code litter.
    The US grants new funding to its cyber forces to study the malware. The US energy grid is left wide open as cyber bait so more criminal malware can be found in the wild to tell the media about.
    More malware found is more over time.
    Nice for the over time and contractor budget growth.

  3. Re:Stupid question - WHY?? on US Says Russia Hacked Energy Grid, Punishes 19 for Meddling (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Follow the money.
    Millions of people in the USA with a security clearance and as contractors need to be able to predict and plan for their futures.
    The ability to pull a "Russia" out allows for decades of budget growth, over time, share holder growth, no bid contracts and personal advancement.
    Every one on the USA is winning with cyber news like this.
    A new cyber command, over time, growth in funding, new products and services.
    The public thinks "Russia" is doing magical cyber things all the time to the US computers.
    The US security services place cyber news in the press and media to ensure the topic gets traction.
    Political leaders demand action and want news about US cyber efforts.
    The security services get funding for one issue everyone can understand and get behind. Cyber.

  4. Re:Europe has so many crazy internet laws! on EU Wants To Require Platforms To Filter Uploaded Content (Including Code) (github.com) · · Score: 1

    The internet will just route around the EU censorship.
    People in the EU who want to enjoy some freedom will just use a really great VPN.
    The more EU bureaucrats enforce censorship, the more people in the EU will use US products and services.

  5. The more the EU embraces censorship on EU Wants To Require Platforms To Filter Uploaded Content (Including Code) (github.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The more freedom after speech in the USA becomes attractive again.
    How did all that censorship work out for the Warsaw Pact nations?
    Keep the population from talking and thinking?

  6. AC remember how bad ads got? With the sound and the video. The malware?
    Want a political message on a video site to go the same way?
    What if the message changes from one party to another?
    Still good with a political message AC?
    What if the brand finds faith?
    Like a quote from their religious text? A nice big font to spread the faith? Something from a cult leader with every search result?
    A site that just offers video clips would be great. No need for extra messages, text, thoughts, comments, politics appearing.

  7. Re:Yet no one can do a decent translation of spani on Microsoft Announces Breakthrough In Chinese-To-English Machine Translation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Follow the funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–United_States_relations
    The US direct methods in South America did not need any translation.
    The US expects China to be generating a lot of digital information so fast new translation methods are getting funded.
    When a nation needs a lot of new quality translation support it means another nation is giving away information at a huge rate.
    The USA now has access to a lot of China and has to translate what it has found in real time.
    So much information the US human translators cant keep up with the amounts getting collected in real time.
    So much sensitive information the US cant trust its own human translators?
    China has lost control of its crypto and the USA has to look for new methods to keep up.
    The last time the US was so interested in translation was for Korean in the 1950's.

  8. Re:"Promoted Posts"? on Reddit Is Bringing Promoted Posts To Its Mobile Apps (marketingland.com) · · Score: 1

    The user content expected has its visibility reduced. The ads become the GUI and the content.

  9. Think of the nice GUI and fast browser experience.
    Without outside servers pushing party political results all over the content the user wanted to find.
    Browsers had to protect users from ads, pop ups, loud ad audio and unwanted video ads.
    Now browsers have to consider links to other sites getting placed over content.

  10. Smart money on Google Will Ban All Cryptocurrency-related Advertising (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    is going to have to create a new search engine soon.
    No ads is the first step to big brand censorship?
    All the activist party political US brands trying to push their political view onto search results?
    Whats next? No search results?
    Deranking comments and content that mention term like crytocurrency? The math and academic papers too?
    How deep with the big brand crypto ban go?
    Time for a new search engine that actually finds results without having to guess at how a big brands political views will alter the search results.

  11. Smart people code around ads on Reddit Is Bringing Promoted Posts To Its Mobile Apps (marketingland.com) · · Score: 1

    Look deep into any mobile OS and work out a way to protect users from having big brand content pushed into their devices.
    The more a big brand attempts to make a user do something the more fun it becomes to return the GUI to the real device owner.

  12. Re:If supply really demand on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Computer engineers should have looked after the word engineering and cared less about the new term computer.
    Look at what lawyers and the medical profession do to protect their profession in some nations.
    Look at what electricians and plumbers have to show in some nations to start and then keep working.
    What to work? Have to pass real exams at a national level and get granted permission to work after passing tests and exams.
    After graduation that signature for a project carries legal standing and is valued in the community.
    A company wants to create software thats going to be used for more than computer games?
    Ensure a number of computer engineers have to be on staff to look after the project. Large project? Engineers have to be on staff.
    Use a nations laws to prevent another nations computer "workers" wondering in and taking engineering jobs. Until they pass the same university courses and exams in your own nation. Add in security questions to prove a background investigation was done too.
    Make universities graduate on merit again. Everyone has to pass the same very difficult exams to finally become an engineer.
    Too many graduates passing well in a generation due to much better education? Make the exam harder again and keep the number of professionals lower.
    Wages stay up and emerging competition is reduced over decades.
    Computing returns as a profession with experts who have legal standing.
    Protect the profession. Keep the numbers of workers low and ensure the wages up.
    Stop letting just anyone be an "engineer" as they use a computer.

  13. Re:Just ask yourself one question. on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Engineering and math would let people advance on merit after passing years of tests and exams.
    Now creating apps is open to people who just turn up at a university and get granted an education.
    Virtue signalling political correctness created a generation of graduates who never studied much.
    Who would hire a person with not much ability just based on their university granted results?
    So many can hold up the same political correctness grated diploma mill results?

  14. That was the trick. Cant find the person in the USA after running all the programming experience ads in the US press?
    Time to get a low paid person from another nation to fill that job.
    The "ads" had to be run for a set time in the US to legally show the position could not be filled.

  15. Time for a FF extension on Wikipedia Had No Idea YouTube Was Going To Use It To Fact-Check Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    In the past we had to worry about ads pushing malware.
    Now political activist US brands want to push their side of US party politics onto your browser?
    Time for a script that blocks US party political big brand alterations of your search results.
    The ads go blocked.
    The party political propaganda as results can be blocked too.
    Just say no to big brand activists pushing their partisan political results all over your browser.
    It is time to take back our browsers- and make the Internet great again.

  16. Re:Facebook and Twitter don't seem to get it on Facebook Quietly Hid Webpages Bragging of Ability to Influence Elections (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    The more terms like neutral public forum are used to censor people.
    The more an internal brand policy is used to support one side of US politics.
    The more users encounter a brand policy of reduced visibility.
    The more content will be supported by really great brands that understand freedom of speech and freedom after speech.

  17. Re:Looks like a sea-skimming missile on UFO Disclosure Group Releases Newest Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet UFO Encounter Video (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes the talk of getting "it".
    China, Russia, private sector or the UK is not sharing again.

  18. Re:Add APK Hosts File Integration on Mozilla Working On In-Page Popup Blocker For Firefox (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    How about some GUI for that?
    Mac, Windows, Linux.
    Click on the malware pushing ad and get the nice GUI to ban that from the computer.
    As an app that would be worth something as a lifetime licence per computer, mobile.

  19. The option to buy better trains is not going to be supported.
    The ability to rework the signal system is not something that could happen.
    The trains stay safe and staying slow is the only method that supports that is not a story.
    Want a good train? Invest in a great transport system.
    The UK, Japan, South Korea, parts of the EU can offer great turn key rail networks for export.
    Tunnel design, working air-conditioning, new systems to move a lot of people around faster.

  20. Re:This is just the start on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is a lot of people got invited into that politically neutral platform.
    They created content and supported the brand and site for some time under that neutral platform.
    Once self-censoring and big brand US party political censorship is used to ban once approved political content creators?
    Some of the past US state laws about public use of private property open to the public for political use can become interesting.

  21. Re:What could go wrong on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up a type of gasoline engine and get extra free unrelated information added on:
    Sleeve valve.
    The Wankel engine.
    Look up Apple and get the history of Microsoft for free?
    Interested in Microsoft? The web site will offer that with the history of Amiga.
    The big brand owners are spreading a new look FCC fairness doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... all over the users browser?

  22. Re:This is just the start on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "private platform"
    Once a private area starts to invite the wider population in?
    That depends on US laws and what some US states say about the role of a private area as a forum open to the public for political use.

  23. Re:Usenet on Reddit and the Struggle To Detoxify the Internet (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    The good thing about the internet of the past was the educated user had that ability.
    The user could select what groups to find, join, help, support.
    The internet worked just fine connecting people with the same ideas, politics, interests and ability.

  24. on a computer used to play computer games.
    Enjoy that gpu, cpu and directx for fun games.
    For any real computing, find a real OS that respects users.

  25. A nice game company should on Google and Ubisoft Are Teaming Up To Improve Online Multi-Player Video Games (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let users have access to their own offical servers all over the world while the game is enjoying sales.
    When the game is no longer supported push an update to let people host the game, use p2p. A way to keep multi player working within a user community.
    Pushing a big brand party political data mining ad company onto a game is just not useful branding.