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  1. Re:How many new patents has Singapore filed? on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of nations are setting up science departments just to publish, patent and get more rankings for their nations, university.
    The result of such created science rankings is then more international students who have to pay for university and their stay in that winning nation to "study"
    A lot of nations try that science, patent, university ranking, graduate wage result to sell their many university products. More patents, more publications, more paying students.
    Any advance nation can get the count up. Are they innovating? Using a few experts at a top university science campus to churn out academic results with no further investment. No business culture able to invest, take risks on new products and bring the best results to market.

  2. Re:Yep, partly because of U.S. immigration policy. on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Was America ever that great though?" and "great time to be alive there."
    The US had freedom of speech, freedom after speech. That was rare considering what communist nations did to people who wanted to read books. Look back at Communist China, the Soviet Union, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the UK, at the same time...
    Their views on sconce, books, publications, politics, investment, working, jobs and innovation.
    Educate populations need investment, support to get products and services to a global market. The freedom in the USA allowed people to try new ideas, products, invest and profit, invest and fail. The best products did well and more investment followed. The failed projects got rejected and not more gov/mil investment like in many failed nations.
    Average people in the USA could read books, newspapers, magazines, talk about government, science, arts, culture. Buy books, write books, self publish, write letters about any topic, petition their gov. Read fiction, non fiction, talk about politics without the fear of gov, mil.
    The US manufacturing boom was due to US skills and quality education for the best students. People worked hard for their company and new products got created, tested and sold to the world.

    The US tested its students on merit. Not social advancement just on political correctness, virtue signalling for students who could not study.
    Real exams, real tests over years of competitive education soon found out who could study, would study and could get results.
    Only the very best got top scholarships after they could show they could study and pass tests, exams.

    The "US manufacturing" gave the world products and services the world wanted to buy into. Not what a gov, theocracy, monarchy, mil, dictatorship, communist gov allowed their people to buy, rationed out, set a product for their nation.
    Different parts of the world "sucked" as they could not innovate, publish, create, invent, discuss, share in new science.
    They had a gov, mil tell the population what could be studied, published. What tech their nation was going to use, buy into, study and export.
    Who would get what jobs and who would get how much money to buy new tooling, hardware, what brands and when.
    Thats why the USA kept on winning for decades. The US population was free to think, design, create, be smart, be productive and got rewarded for hard work and having real skills.
    The US rewarded skills and innovation with real wealth in the private sector. Investment in new projects was a private sector risk and reward.
    Not getting a product right was a pathway to bankruptcy in the USA. No easy bailout by a gov/mil.

    Other nations reward their people with food, housing. The USA innovated as other nations stagnated under their own bureaucracies, censorship, communism, faiths, mil, corrupt leaders.

  3. Re:I'm not surprised on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    The funding is the same. Its just been moved to virtue signalling, politically correct groups that want to correct the results of research to match their politics.

  4. State enforcing a NN telco monopoly? on Montana Becomes First State To Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That will be some creative networking.
    A wealthy gated community wants to set up their own community broadband.
    A municipality wants to set up broadband services.
    An industrial estate wants to give exiting and new business total ISP freedom via their own new network.
    Will state bureaucrats now demand the use of existing monopoly telco providers as only they legally meet the new state NN rules?
    The state will enforce connections only to a set of NN approved ISP and a telco monopoly?
    Did the state gov help the gated community, industrial estate, municipality build their own new private sector network?
    Now the state gov wants to use a takings clause to enforce only selected state approved NN telcos can be an ISP for the private networks to connect to the internet with?
    The state regulates what a NN ISP is and demands any private network wanting the internet have to connect with a telco the state has found to be NN ready?
    A state enforced mandatory NN monopoly ISP gets state protection. Want to be a network? Have to prove to the state your NN just like the existing telco monopoly.
    Lawyers, experts and billable hours to show state bureaucrats a new ISP is NN compliant. The existing telco monopoly thats NN ready can just set that NN standard so the state can enforce rules so no competition can enter the telco market.
    A selection of ISP that are NN ready that connect to the state approved NN ready telco.

  5. Re:We all know how this is gonna turn out, right? on UK Hospitals Can Now Store Confidential Patient Records In the Public Cloud (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of the heath "care" work that can be done to shape a new sales pitch the perfect new medicine to the UK gov.
    Find out what most people will need to be medicated with long term and offer new expensive medical support for that.
    The data sets will be a marketing dream for any new sales pitch to the UK gov.

  6. Re:I see the advantages on UK Hospitals Can Now Store Confidential Patient Records In the Public Cloud (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If one company gets to encrypt for the gov then other contractors cant get the money thats on the table.
    Thats why so much of the US gov/mil work is plain text, on internet facing networks.

  7. Such efforts can be found in France with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Just more messing with politics by people who want to impose their own revolutionary "change".

  8. Re:and your solution is? on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    AC wait and see what is done. Test before investing into the next gen. Find another brand that listens to its customers. Buy from them.

  9. Re:and your solution is? on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    Wait for the next gen of CPU. The design work, testing is done with that gen? Given the cost to the consumer of each CPU.
    Consider any other working CPU design from any nation that has the skills to listen to its customers and has the skills to test its CPU design.
    Stop investing and paying for products from a brand if the next gen is defective.

  10. Re:How do you feed the engine ? on Can Machine Learning Guess True Emotions From Facial Microexpressions? (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Why are so many social media sites asking for a baseline profile pic for "reasons" as a baseline.
    The AI knows what a normal user looks like. The AI can be educated by SJW about what past comments got banned and accounts removed.
    Connect up the past images of the banned person as they created the text of the wrong type of comment and thats the SJW AI learning.
    Use that created data set to detect other real time users trying to type messages that SJW want banned.

    The detection of a problematic users face as a not positive movie review is been typed.
    The AI can then look at the words used in the review and look at the face of the user as the review is been created.
    Add the face changes and the type words used and that review will be blocked from been published and the account blocked, reported and reviewed
    No need to just consider the words. The face can show what the user is really thinking.

  11. Re:Lie Detectors on Can Machine Learning Guess True Emotions From Facial Microexpressions? (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    The SJW will use their social media GUI to see every message as its been typed and then corrected. Before been visible on their site.
    Type out a thought crime and expect to have the account banned by SJW.
    Add in a camera to capture the "emotions" of a person wanting to create the social media message.
    Now the SJW social media worker can study a users face and see their emotions as they type, be politically correct and finally use the site to virtue signal .
    The actual emotions and profile of the account user have to match the social media comments and presented profile information, photo.
    1984 telescreens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with a social media SJW worker to account ratio.

  12. Re:Uses of gold on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A thought experiment on selling gold when needed in the future under very different regulations in a fictitious nation that has new tax rules.
    What to do with gold? Hold the gold until needed, selling domestically for cash sounds great.
    Who is going to give a good cash payment for that gold even with full ID and paperwork?
    Do they have to report that payment for gold to the gov?
    Steep new tax considerations could be in place after selling the gold?
    A short holiday to a more normal nation might allow bitcoin to be used without risking that domestic physical gold sale and any new regulations about a luxury tax, reporting.

  13. Re:Why should JPEG be replaced? on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    8 bit is getting limited for todays RAW images.
    Keep the quality and color.

  14. Re:Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    People all over the UK voted to exit the EU.
    "Russians" did not drive out of the embassy and "vote" a lot all over the UK to sway the result.
    Real citizens all over the UK wanted out of the EU and the vote results reflected that.

  15. Try Bodhi Linux on Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? · · Score: 2

    Bodhi Linux http://www.bodhilinux.com/
    Read about the ISO images.
    http://www.bodhilinux.com/w/se...
    A 64bit operating system is supported.
    Need a 32bit release with no PAE extension?
    Thats supported with the Legacy 32bit release.

  16. Re:Prepare for the daily Cold War II fearmongering on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Its all about Cina and Russia now. The waves of US domestic propaganda will flow all over social media now.
    Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    "Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media" (18 Mar 2011)
    https://www.theguardian.com/te...
    Operation Earnest Voice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    So now its a confirmed story about a super big torpedo thats got a super long range and a super sized payload.
    Kanyon has what designers crave.
    It's got Cobalt-60.

  17. Re:There are already legal ways on Microsoft Fights Search Warrants for Overseas Emails in the Supreme Court (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Nobody smart noticed all that data moving around from a big brand back to the gov/mil?
    The big brands even helped decrypt so the gov could get plain text.

  18. Re:Yes, but... on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    But all the new jobs in Northern Ireland and Wales... with computers. Just keep adding more funding this time. It won't be like the 1980's :)

  19. Re:China has the CPU future on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    Yes AC consider the average CPU speed and generation.
    http://store.steampowered.com/...
    All China has to do is be in that CPU speed range for desktop games at a much lower cost every generation.

  20. Re:Yes, but... on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    Step 1 Find and get the rights to some new open chip design in the USA.
    Step 2. Goto the UK government and tell them of a new educational chipset design that is 100% Russian/China resistant.
    Step 3. Offer to set up a "production" line with lots of good paying local jobs in a Northern Ireland, Wales like region of the UK if granted gov funding.
    Agree to terms and get the CPU made in a low wage nation.
    Step 4. Get the money granted and fab the CPU. Ensure the CPU becomes a part of the UK educational system with some apps, GUI programming language, robot kits. Get the gov to buy the CPU for most of its schools and get the use of CPU into the national curriculum.
    When the CPU arrives in the UK, have the local workers build the "computer" around the CPU using low cost imported parts.
    Invite political leaders to see the fully imported CPU moving down local the production line and local workers expertly building the advanced 100% UK computer around the low cost fully imported CPU.
    Step 5. Lobby the UK gov for more funding for a new CPU. Return to the USA for another next gen chip design.
    Step 6. Fab the next gen CPU. Repeat the request for funding, getting a CPU design from the USA as needed.
    Step 7. Suggest that with more funding a next gen fab could be somewhere in the UK. Offer to goto the USA and bring back a turn key fab design.
    Step 8. Build a fab in the UK after political consultations to select the best location. That would welcome new tech jobs and new investment. i.e. any marginal seat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    What is needed:
    Gov funding for one skilled person in the USA who can do an open source CPU design.
    A few charming people to sell the idea to the UK gov.
    A few UK educational experts to ensure the national curriculum has to use the CPU, related GUI robot kits, GUI kits that explain the CPU, buy the educational publications to assist all teachers with the new CPU.
    Later one skilled person in the USA who can suggest a turn key fab design.
    A trade publication and consumer website to suggest/support games and other non education uses for the CPU. A way to respond to changes in CPU use and support the domestic user and their code projects for the CPU.
    Someone in the UK with a security clearance to sell the 100% Made in the UK, Russia/China resistant CPU's to the GCHQ in bulk for educational use.
    No "wealthy individual or organization" needed, just some really great lobbying to get the gov funding secured.
    Present a vision of local jobs, generations of CPU fab jobs, educational excellence for generations all over the UK.
    A trusted UK CPU the GCHQ can educate with.
    The British CPU.
    Just find the right person in the USA who can design the CPU and some low wage nation who can make it. Then sell 110% local production. The extra 10% is educational exports.
    Ask to use some of the UK foreign aid budget to fund more CPU production as free educational support in other Commonwealth nations.

  21. Re:Name it NEW RUSSIA! on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    South Oregon? West Nevada?
    If a Russian name is wanted try someone from the Russian/American Revolutionary War time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. Re:Which billionaire is funding this one? on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    Wont someone think of the Gerrymandering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
    CA splits and the next census has a 2020 US citizenship question?
    All the illegal migrants in the existing CA who now get counted for budget and gov growth won't get counted as normal US citizens and then don't need services, won't count for politics.

  23. Re:Default setting? on EFF: Thousands of People Have Secure Messaging Clients Infected By Spyware (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    If the gov/mil is paying then yes the can ask for that from their contractors to be part of any malware.
    Recall DROPOUTJEEP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Some malware still needs a human to allow it in, others just get pushed down the network.
    i.e. "spearphishing" ... "to go to a fake app store-like page, where fake Android apps waited."

    Some contractors like their gov/mil malware too just look like normal, existing malware if found. To suggest the code had another nation origin, another gov was doing the funding if found. Code litter to cover the actual origin. e.g. the anti-forensic Marble framework https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
    Other nations mil/gov expect to push the bespoke code down only a user and not need any user intersection. Depends on the price, mission, risk, skill of the user, optics of been detected, what researchers will find when they take part what they find in the wild.

    So spearphishing can be an easy way in, make the user grant permissions and if discovered it looks like most other spearphishing except for who/how it reports back.
    ' Get too smart with the number of people been wanted with push down bespoke code and a lot of researchers take note.
    Gov and mil save that bespoke push down code for interesting people, not mass collect it all efforts over a few nations and a list of professions.
    The easy way in for a gov/mil is just to go full Operation Socialist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... into the telco.
    "The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco" (December 13 2014)
    https://theintercept.com/2014/...

  24. Re:For those of you wondering why they backed down on Ajit Pai's FCC Can't Admit Broadband Competition Is a Problem (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Did the years of new NN rules and federal rule changes bring about new innovative community networking all over the USA AC?
    Did existing telco network monopolies stay protected from competition thanks to NN rules?
    Could some private sector state and city competition build better networks once federal NN rules got lifted?

  25. Re:Pretty simple subject to understand on Ajit Pai's FCC Can't Admit Broadband Competition Is a Problem (dslreports.com) · · Score: 0

    I'll take Astroturfing for ... thanks AC
    For the big network brands to keep their profits for the shareholders and still connect everyone equally money from the hard working wealthy consumers who pay their bills on time has to subsidize telco work in the very poor inner city areas.
    For that network support for city and states that will never be profitable due to the large amount of poor people a near monopoly is granted.
    That ensures poor inner city people can use a POTS and surf the internet equally. The poor people can use social media and petition their city, state and federal gov electronically.
    Just like people in the more wealthy cities and states. Federal NN rules ensure people can communicate equally on social media with dignity.
    Federal NN rules ensure the data flow from poor people arrives at the same time as wealthy people who can pay for "community broadband" in their gated communities.

    So support your telco monopoly so poor people all over the USA can enjoy POTS and internet.
    Just say no to states rights to build community broadband.
    With more direct subsidize, new grants and further tax reductions existing paper insulated wireline monopolies can be an exciting part of Americas networking future.