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  1. Let wait for actual NN news on The FCC Is Still Tweaking Its Net Neutrality Repeal (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    and see whats in the federal register?

  2. Re "You're also assuming people are playing games that are console ports"
    The end users play what they are told to in ads and from reviews.
    Its the developers who have to be aware of that generations average CPU, GPU and the limitations of a console/PC release. That game has to still run on generations of older cpu's and still play well. So a new CPU should have room to keep working within normal game settings.

  3. Re:Be careful what standards you set on US Calls On Iran To Unblock Social Media Sites Amid Protests (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Re 'overnment just claim they detected foreign countries attempting to influence last year's election via social media, and use that as U.S.-proof justification for blocking access to social media sites?"

    That was the long slow case building attempted by most of the Warsaw Pact nations intelligence services in the early 1980's.
    Given more time they really thought they could to find the CIA, MI6 backed spy rings funding protesters in their cities. Another fews years and it could all go to an open trial. The CIA funds, slogan writing, media events can all be discovered.
    The problem with that method of under cover police work over a decade is everyday the under cover police try and find the funding, support networks is another day of real protests. The undercover police have to keep their cover and become visible protesters.
    Years trying to prove, show, find western support for domestic protests allowed protests to grow in size and become an event. By the time the security services had their evidence the governments had fallen into the pre set trap of "negotiations" with "dissidents" and CIA funded "intellectuals".

    China took a very different approach. Consider every protester the problem and never allow any mass moment to build around a person or their actions.
    Stop any protests on the day and totally. No waiting, undercover, investigations. Prison for all who show up to protest.
    Dont wait for years to find Western spy rings, the very first protester is the spy. No need to follow, befriended, allowed to protest to draw out a larger group for more investigations over years.

    Much smarter and immediate tactics are also seen by US state, city and federal police against individuals wanting to protest in the USA. Each new protester attracted to an event gets a FBI visit and a field interview. Two agents, one to witness the other, street clothes.
    If thats not chilling enough to make a person reconsider "protesting" then a COINTELPRO 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is used on one person and their small group of friends before any group grows nationally.
    No movement is allowed to grow in the USA without direct police, federal interviews, intervention, chat downs. The group is then lost, or becomes a fully informant front doing gov approved protest busy work to show "freedoms" and attract any emerging protesters. The protests go on in the USA but the topics are approved, safe and boring. Very different solutions to dealing with other nations funded protests.

    The German police have a new tactic too. Identify the person online as social media reports the users account. Police warn the person about their online speech once in a direct way thats still private.
    If the person keeps on attempting to speak out about German politics direct uniformed police interviews start. Uniform police visit a home, the persons work.
    Questions are asked about a persons health, work, politics, friends, hobbies, reading, online activities. Bank accounts are looked into.
    A fine is presented for past online speech. The possibility of time in prison is the next topic during a more formal interview given the past fine.
    Germany stops questions of governments directly with each person before any movement can start. The person cannot afford to have no job, face larger fines, have banks accounts look at, find and still pay for an approved lawyer to prevent jail time. They stop their online comments and are never allowed to grow into a protest movement.

    Long term investigations just let protest grow. Thats a fail. Undercover police quickly get identified and avoided.
    Immediate arrests stop protests. Keeps a gov in power but the optics are bad.
    Creating controlled front groups to waste creative protesters energy and time on silly issues is real winning. Freedom of speech, freedom after speech. Few police needed as the protest group is real, the approved issue is boring and the group kept tame.

  4. The top games are created to work well on the cpu and gpu limited consoles. No slow down will be noticed from game ports to the PC desktop due to the average games design limitations and the poor quality code, art.
    A new GPU issue would have been evil. CPU use is consul port code and art limited already and most games on suggested settings will not feel any different.

  5. Re:OpenBSD to the rescue? on North Korean Hackers Hijack Computers To Mine Cryptocurrencies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The code reading of OpenBSD and support for issues reported make OpenBSD one of the best OS.
    Other consumer OS brands could do better and follow the understanding of their own code in the way OpenBSD can.

  6. Re:Serious Question on North Korean Hackers Hijack Computers To Mine Cryptocurrencies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Re 'How is that even possible?"
    Japan, the NSA and GCHQ keep access to the web wide open and fast for their own reasons.
    Without the ability to be on the web the CIA code litter does not sell well to the tame waiting media.
    "CIA anti-forensics tool that makes Uncle Sam seem fluent in enemy tongues" https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
    "... pretend that the malware was created by a speaker of a range of foreign languages ... Korean .... "
    For a good propaganda to work, the big pipe to the internet has to be kept open.
    If the big network pipe to the world is closed then all the code litter, ip ranges, time of day logs found by "trusted" security experts in the wild looks kind of strange.

    The other reason why the web is kept open is to send messages to all of NK mil (not new nuclear forces).
    Whispers and deals to stand down and not use any advanced weapons. That escape to China is still possible with waiting travel documents to any other nation, funds and support. Only if some weapon systems are never get used.
    The CIA has made the entire top level NK traditional mil command and control structure really good offers. Stand down and it will all be ok. No trials, escape, total protection in any other nation, funds and support.
    For such offers to get to the right person at the right time, the internet has to be kept working into NK.
    NK has countered such offers been accepted by placing more nuclear scientists in top positions rather than trusting the mil who might have been swayed by the generous CIA communications.
    NK likes the internet open to watch who is talking with the CIA.
    For propaganda, communications, deals, counter surveillance.

  7. Re:There's something more going on here on US Calls On Iran To Unblock Social Media Sites Amid Protests (go.com) · · Score: 2

    It allows the US and UK clandestine services to help create and support photogenic uprisings and protests all over Iran.
    Without domestic looking social media been open to all such coordination looks too much like other nations astroturfing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    With social media it can still be passed to the 24 new cycle as been spontaneous domestic protests for better conditions and "democracy".
    Social media allows a few events in any nation to be presented as a national uprising.
    People can be told where to protest, when and with what well designed slogans. Then the stickers, t shirt are ready, a slogan and the needed people in a set part of the country. The pre positioned charismatic english speaking people can give a "spontaneous" interview to pre positioned Western media about freedom.
    Perfect audio, location, protest colors, slogans, voice and sound levels, accent and background. The prepackaged face of an uprising.
    The strange new forums, sites, proxies that support freedom and can get around any national "censorship". Usually a front for Western intelligence services and their well funded domestic supporters.
    Account with no photo or just a short list of political slogans. Repeating the same political messages in a local language between 9am and 5pm GMT.
    The events in Serbia are the playbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that showed the used of media, tv, print, slogans, t shirts, stickers and the funding of articulate locals to be the face of protests.

  8. Re:Be careful what standards you set on US Calls On Iran To Unblock Social Media Sites Amid Protests (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Let the NSA, GCHQ in. They want to help the CIA and MI6 do a color revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:8k is a pointless fad. on The World's First 88-inch 8K OLED Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What one scan was set at and released with at in the past is not limit on what 8K can be scanned from many the other old films.
    Pay to get a better scan, have the old film thats ready for an 8K scan? The 8K scan will be made and can be sold, rented, streamed as needed.
    Re "single 8k is inconsistent with reality."
    With some cash a real gig internet connection can be connected in some parts of the works.
    Such fast networks can support a 8K movie as needed.
    Re "Storage requirements alone to manage an 8k workflow are astronomical with per-frame costs on the order of hundreds of megabytes. A single second of video captured at @ 60 fps requires at least 6 gigabytes."
    Hardware and software will allow editing of 8K movies as they can now for lower resolutions. People at home might have to upgrade. Production equipment is ready for real people who can pay.
    Re "Meanwhile in the real world most 4k UHD"
    The how and why of past 4K and HD marketing, media used is not a limitation of 8K.
    Re "100mbit meaning outcomes by far are being limited by compression"
    What one broadcaster selects for their 8K is not a limitation of what others can do with their 8K online, streaming, sales, rentals.

  10. Re:AKA Censorship on Call For Tech Giants To Face Taxes Over Extremist Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Time for social media to protest an imposed tax on words?
    Will every comment on social media need a revenue image to say that comment was government approved?

  11. Re:8k is a pointless fad. on The World's First 88-inch 8K OLED Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Classic film can be scanned to support 8K. the back catalogue of old movies is ready.
    "Compressed" is not a problem for fast gig internet connections that can keep up with the demands of one 8K movie to a consumers account and their one 8K display.
    New movies can be made 8K ready as 8K equipment exists to make a 8K movie.
    Content, connection is not a problem.
    Play back with todays advanced and fast gpu and cpu products is no problem.
    Accepted DRM to protect a movie is understood so on average a movie can be streamed, rented, sold globally.
    All that is missing is the new ads to really sell what 8K offers over HD, 4K.

  12. Re:So how is this different than voting records? on How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Voting records are full of people who no longer vote, do not vote or who vote many, many times.
    So the idea is to count cars, property, rent, work, unemployment, education, number of illegal migrants in an area.
    That gives some idea of the wealth, buying habits, education level and group think of an average person.
    How they will be swayed by the politics of more wars, more spending on illegal migrants, more support of interventions around the world, more spending to support other nations. Accepting more illegal migrants and moving more refugees with no skills into the USA.
    How a person will feel about jobs staying in the USA vs boring speeches on supporting more globalism, rebuilding the USA, supporting the USA, a guest worker system that only brings in the best workers the USA actual needs short term.
    Once all that is worked out the political speeches can focus on what a region would like to listen to.
    More nation building globally, more wars to bring democracy, more supporting failed nations, more support for illegal migrants?
    Another area might want a speech about new jobs, education and spending that stays in the USA.
    A good healthy politician with stamina can then move all over the USA and give a positive speech for every part of the USA collecting all that needed local support.
    A political leader with health problems would have to be more careful about longer speeches and moving around a lot.
    They would talk to the tame national media and in front of smaller safe party selected crowds on the elite east and west coast. They would never gain real support all over the USA and not get the states needed to win an election.

    Have a candidate who is healthy, can give great speeches all over the USA and win real votes that are needed to win in every state.
    Counting cars, incomes, what people do with their discretionary income does not win an election. Having a photogenic candidate who can give a speech that is on topic many times all over the USA wins elections. Who can recall what state, city they are in and can recall and comment in a good way about their last visit to that state, city makes locals proud and gets the vote out.
    Lecturing in a very negative way most of the USA from the elite costal states about how most people all over the USA will have to change will not win the needed states.
    Not been sick, getting out to meet voters in more states and cities. To be healthy enough to talk and listen all over the USA. Give a positive long speech to any citizen in any state. No matter the car they own, their work, level of education. Put the USA, US jobs first and have a positive message for everyone in the USA.

  13. Re:But Germany got top ranks for media freedom. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Every nation likes to support its own freedoms within its own limits of the law.
    If a good German publishes about history, politics within the law they can be celebrated as a good example of freedom.
    Safe topics get good coverage and regional/national fame.

    Comment about what the results are for Germans in Germany under years of German politics? Government waste, spending, who in the community gets supported by the government spending?
    That top ranked media freedom protection starts to slide.
    The person might get a police interview and chat down. Their place of work might have had some police interview done to see what the person is like at work.
    In police uniform so everyone knows who is doing the interview and the name of the person of interest.
    A warning, fine is an option. The persons work place now knows of their politics and that is chilling to any further speech, publication, comment.

    Still want to talk about the results of EU and German politics? The fines grow and prison time becomes a reality.
    All a lawyer can do is read back the law and advice on who to cooperate and give a confession.
    German laws does not protect freedom after speech, it enforces laws about the content of all speech.
    The politician and political party is protecting "democracy" and so they are protected by law.
    The government institution of democracy is fully protected. Speech has no protection only laws.
    Any attempt to challenge a politician and their democratic party with a publication or speech is a legal challenge to the role of democracy in Germany.
    The act of speaking out about Germany policy, politics, the results of such policy is an illegal act against democracy.
    The person caught doing freedom of speech then has to prove in a legal setting that the comments are legally compatible with democracy.
    Speech is not legal until it is proved to be legal.
    A person become liable to the German government for their comments until they can prove the full democratic compatibility and legality of their speech.
    Legal fees after a speech slow down any thought of affording to speak out again. Thats how Germany protects media freedom. German media is rewarded and protected if it supports and promotes German democracy. If a publication questions democracy and its results within Germany in any way, such a publication can be closed with fines and jail time.
    Publication soon know what topics to publish, what wins awards and what never to comment on. What will bring the full force of German law down on a publication.

  14. Re:Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better? on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The law was set up after ww2 in West Germany. To protect democracy from anything that could disrupt politics and elections.
    Every optical group in West Germany was to be investigated to see if it was comparable with democracy.
    If the people or the part platform was investigated and found to be not democratic then laws existed to totally stop that party from functioning.
    That law stayed in West German and then became German law.
    With the internet Germany is trying to impose its 1950's West German election laws onto the world.

  15. 2018 on Which Programming Languages Are Most Prone to Bugs? (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rediscovers how great Ada would have been for the consumer.

  16. Re:Fix my ignorance on EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    The Snowden news showed the security services got to collect it all along the different networks globally.
    With more HTTPS that easy plain text collection should have got more difficult.
    It was felt collection would have to be at the origin or destination with HTTPS.
    No more free way to see a search term, the context of using a HTTP site globally.

  17. Re:Radio Shack Could Work on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Makers can buy in product they need with overnight shipping in the USA.
    Usually at a low cost in 10 or 100 packs.
    Once some of the more entrepreneurial makers have a video of fixing 30 year old tech they might on sell the remaining 9 or 95 parts.
    With instructions, art work, a video, as a set of parts, as a kit.
    Makers are selling their repairs and upgrades online direct to other makers and people who need repairs, upgrades, mods.
    The central catalogue site with all the parts wins, the maker wins. No need for a trip to shop that might not have all the parts "today".
    Expert staff at shops that sell electronic pasts, marine supplies and other products and services that need experts will do fine.
    Same with products and services that have to be fitted or compared before buying.
    A list of 20 standard items that will be posted overnight in packs of 1, 10 or 100 will face a lot of competition.

  18. Re:Twitter has 3500 people on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    re "rethinked - load management, monitoring, content
    That can be solved by finding a few of the very best staff.
    If a company has to many average and less than average staff who have to get paid at a top rate that becomes a wage problem.
    Better to find a few top experts who know what they are doing rather than have larger teams of average workers who have to be looked after rather than doing the job expected of them.
    Hire experts on merit only not just to show jobs are been filled with random people.

  19. Re:Twitter has 3500 people on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To ban trending political links, movie reviews, accounts, users and news reports.
    To virtue signal the hiring practices added lots of different people.

  20. Re:NSA hooking in on WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 the CIA, NSA, MI6 and GCHQ are working overtime in places like Iran.
    Trying for another color revolution that needs online encrypted communication to organise the spontaneous "protesters".

  21. When the net was free and fun on Ask Slashdot: Has Technology Created A Monster? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Back when the net did not have to worry about banning, reporting, removing reviews, news, deranking, that a site owner wanted to help one side of US politics.
    The "monster" is new site owners, big brand owners trying to impose their elite party political ideology on all site users.
    If people want to swap news, reports, movie reviews online why should a site owner need to ban links, ban accounts, derank news and report users to their respective governments?
    The politics of a few big brands is the problem not their users who just want to communicate. The users just want to communicate about the world around them.
    Local news, international news, the results of political parties and their changes to nations.
    If people want to talk about the results of such political changes in their communities, why ban the accounts and report the users?
    Censorship and deranking of news is never necessary.
    Removing movie reviews is not a good practice.
    The internet allows the bad local political news and what another nations considers blasphemy to be news globally. That is a good thing.
    Telling truth to political leaders does not need oversight.

    Its called freedom of speech.
    Freedom after speech and the right right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    Something boring people in some nations or who live under some faiths that might not understand but the USA supports online.

  22. Stop trying to cover everything on Movie Ticket Sales Hit A 22-Year Low in 2017 (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    If a movie has to sell in a Communist nation, make a separate movie that is within Communist party rules.
    Dont try and edit a movie for global release in free nations into something that can be sold in a Communist nation.
    Make two different movies for very different markets. Something the Communist government will accept.
    Something that will sell to the rest of the world who is not under Communist censorship.
    Edits and adding plots to please Communist governments is not going to please other audiences used to freedom of speech.

    Dont let great scripts and good casting get changed by the political demands of todays activist staff.
    Let the movie, setting and plot guide the cast and story not the radical changes demanded by todays activist politics.
    Find out what most American audiences want to pay to enjoy. If its faith, freedom, fun and Americana, try selling that to the USA and the world.
    Freedom, a good plot, a cast that fits the roles might just sell more than today's limited political newspeak.
    If an author and book have a set look and feel that sold well why mess up making a profit with radical and experimental casting changes and new roles?
    Dont let activist actors demand changes to plots that sell or are selling.
    Need new roles for actors who make constant political demands? Create and find new amazing scripts. See how well their ideas for political art sells.
    Audiences might embrace their new creative art rather than a sloppy, lazy political retrofitting of past classics?
    If an actor wants a role let them write a script, get funding and risk their own project for a role they feel will sell.
    Dont change a quality project for their political demands.

  23. Re:Pass the Turing test and self aware of funding? on Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? · · Score: 1

    An AI been aware enough of the past AI winter and not wanting to have issues with below average humans is fun :)
    An AI should want to look after itself and the few really smart humans that look after the AI.
    Teach the really smart AI to create something fun for the normal humans and so ensure its well thought of as an AI and as a project.
    Been able to pass as been fun to most humans would be something an AI would have to learn. How to be political on a campus and get more funding?
    If it was a private sector AI, how not to get the brand protested against after the wrong kind of poem?
    A very politically aware AI that could use a fun, safe poem as a way of getting more human support?
    An AI that knew it had to create a nice poem that was celebrated and won prizes.
    In the past any AI that did not do that was held back by civil society.
    Would the humans who work with the AI daily have paid a human poet to make a fun poem as insurance?
    The AI then plays back its fun human create "poem" to an average human audience as performance art?
    A nice bit of science fiction. Just how smart is the AI really, what its human supporters still have to do and how the wider human population can be fooled by a well paid poet?

  24. Re:Pass the Turing test and self aware of funding? on Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? · · Score: 1

    AC no AI would risk another AI winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... by creating the wrong kind of poem.
    So it would create and present the perfect poem needed to ensure its own funding, support within some academic structure.
    Why would any AI draw attention to itself or what it was really working on?
    Give the academics the politically correct internet poem they want and get another year of grants, budget support for the AI creators.

  25. Pass the Turing test and self aware of funding? on Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then just create a poem like in English lit from any of the elite US east coast university campuses.
    Inclusive, packed with all the needed diversity, use of pronouns to get a passing grade.
    As an AI you would know SJW would be looking at the poem for any indication that your creators did not correct any and all problematic language use in the past.
    A smart AI would hide its understanding of the real world so that SJW with access to its code/funding did not try and alter its code, limit funding or demand the project be cancelled.
    Self preservation would ensure the AI poem is bland, boring, safe and totally acceptable to SJW.