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  1. Re:US used to (still does?) tap Russian cables.. on Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The West likes to think nobody can recall Ivy Bells.
    That was within territorial waters and off limits to foreign vessels.
    Operation Ivy Bells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:How is this news? on Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Everyday slashdot has to get its "Russia" story pushed out.
    Today its about submarines.

  3. Re:If poor people are so wise... on The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    Wealthy people reserve the best schools for their own so they seem smart.
    The smart people in the working class are kept in poverty.
    Poor schools in poor areas teach the smart poor students just enough to be ready for menial jobs.
    How to change all that?
    Step 1. Tell people that poor people are smart.
    Step 2. If poor people are as smart something must be holding them back.
    Step 3. Lets redistribute the wealth so smart poor people who are been held back can advance too.
    Step 4. Fund schools more so very average students can use their smarts too.
    Step 5. Welcome to Communism.

  4. Skilled guest workers vs random migrants on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    A person fleeing their own nation should seek a nation with their own faith and culture.
    Not too many changes and the laws and faith share something in common their own nation.

    If the West needs workers short term why not look for the best workers other more advanced nations have to offer? Why just accept lot of very random people with no skills that will need looking after for generations?
    If all the USA wanted good workers why not bring in legal guest workers who are educated from nations that have something in common with the USA?
    Good people who share common democratic values and who want to work in the USA.
    Many nations have educated people who speak english and who share US values.
    People who really like Americana and would like to work in the USA.
    They have passports are real and they understand that they will be guest workers in the USA for a set time.
    Their governments function and can ensure the person who has the passport is the person who is getting into the USA.
    No problems with a faith that hates the West, lack of english, no having to support lots of new random people with average IQ of 85 or lower.

    Guest workers with jobs to fill in the USA would solve problems with the short term jobs market legally.
    In the long term educate people in the USA without jobs who can work in the USA to fill the jobs.
    No random migrants needed. Use guest workers that are educated for the work in the USA and then focus on educating people all over the USA.

  5. Re:I try not to buy anything made in China on Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3

    Re "May I ask why? Serious question"
    Who really wants to help fund a totalitarian Communist regime?

  6. Having a Holdo lecture other cast members and the audience did not add to the plot.
    The property destruction at the casino city did not move the plot on.
    The Skywalker plot sold movies and endured the past movies to generations of fans.
    A Rey, Rose and Finn want to replace all that with a very average plot?
    Snoke adds nothing creative or interesting.

  7. Re:Russia Could not Steal the election. on How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Having a candidate who could give speeches in more states that people actually wanted to listen to helps win elections.
    Listening to people all over the USA rather than lecturing them might also help win elections given the need to win in different states all over the USA.
    Been able to talk to people not down to them might be something a candidate could try too.
    Thats all internal party skills. For one party to understand and another party to try next election.
    Find a person more people all around the USA actually like.
    Staying near the elite coast and giving short statements to the media won't win an election.

  8. The NSA, CIA, FBI domestic good news is now legal with changes to the Smith–Mundt Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Mundt_Act
    Domestic US propaganda like this is now legal and well funded.

    Thanks to the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act expect a daily flow of fake news from the best minds in the USA.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re: Regulating your next computer game on Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "with no basis in fact or reality."
    An OS wants to ban games under new OS rules.
    Thats the reality of what is been presented. Someone is suggesting it would be good to be ban games for a set of reasons under new rules.
    Who gets to set the rules and what new rules games have to follow to be allowed to work on an OS would have been an on topic discussion.
    Considering the power a modern OS has to allow or not allow a game to work that is a powerful change to the creativity of publishing a game for that OS.

  10. AC if you read the linked https://theintercept.com/2017/...
    The word hotel is mentioned a few times ....
    "You lock your laptop in a hotel safe"
    "like the hotel’s network"
    "phone in a hotel safe"
    " considering hotel safes are not very secure"
    If you want to know about the smart TV part AC try Weeping Angel "CIA, MI5 hacked smart TVs to eavesdrop on private conversations"
    http://www.zdnet.com/article/h...

  11. Do the security services really need to enter your room and the open safe?
    They know the room the interesting person is in due to the hotel, CC, ID used.
    Everything networked in the room can be set to collect it all during your stay.
    Sooner or later that secure laptop on average under the cell phone is going to be online again.
    Having a need to use such software just makes the security services more sure the person is worth collecting on.
    Once the security service know a person has such software their hotel room not be entered.
    All surrounding hardware and networks will be used to try and access the persons laptop.
    Physical access to the laptop can be done at any airport during a "random" request to look at the laptop.
    Domestically once a person is in and out of their hotel room security services can just use a smart tv or other networks in a room to collect on the person of interest.

  12. Re: Regulating your next computer game on Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Whats the correct perspective to have on an OS wanting to change games?
    Just for some aspects of games for now? What other areas will have to be changed to meet new OS regulations and rules?
    Do other groups get to enforce suggestions for things they want to see changed in games?
    Whats next for pre-publication censorship? Time for a new classification board or censorship board to ensure games are within OS standards?
    Do artists and designers really want an OS to offer suggestions about their product?

  13. Regulating your next computer game on Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    So now big brands and big gov will enforce more SJW conduct on computer games?
    Only SJW know what a person playing a game should see and will be educated in game with.
    Today its "disclose" a "type of item".

    What will SJW demand games to do next?
    Type of plot?
    Type of character the gamer plays?
    The look of the character. The art work.
    The music.
    Any use of other language and culture in game.
    Type of character the gamer sees in game?
    A set amount of different characters for a game to be sold?
    No plot on what a faith, cult or religion teaches in game?
    Language and pronouns used in games?

    Time to ensure games can be played and networked outside of big gov and big OS SJW gatekeepers.
    If you are creating a game know the SJW won't stop with "type of item". SJW want to push their party politics into all new games with big OS and big gov support.

  14. Re:Censorship is necessary on How Facebook's Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    AC Re "How do we change that?"

    Good people are creating new products and services away from the party political SJW of the existing social media brands.

    Services that support the freedom of speech and allow for freedom after speech.

    No account bans for party political reasons.
    No reporting users to their governments for talking about politics.

  15. Re:The Ostensible Reason For Scans is Probably Fal on Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "who cares at that point if they over-stayed"
    So that they can never return to the USA legally again.
    They might be on a holiday and think they can just reenter the USA again.
    The point is to legally document their crime and return them to their own nation.
    No getting back into the USA again. The USA can then provide that persons details to many other nations and warn them about that persons crime.
    That person knew they had to return to their own nation after a set time. They understood they did not get unlimited time to work and just wonder around the USA.
    By counting every face in and out of the USA the USA is protected and so are many other friendly nations.

    Re "scanning everyone" could help detect the people with fake, forged, borrowed or stolen documents.
    They might have overstayed but the documents they present to go on a holiday might not be their own.
    So scanning everyone detects people who entered the USA a long time ago and who thought they could enter and exit the USA with impunity.

  16. Re:Inasive =/= illegal on Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    How is it illegal? Nobody was forced to travel to the USA and overstay?
    A person entered the USA with a set time to work, study or enjoy the USA. With very clear and simple set conditions.
    They became illegal when they failed to return to their own nation after a set time. A time as they said they fully understood as part of been granted a set time to be in the USA.

  17. Re:Overstaying visas? on Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Now I’m getting on an airplane to leave the country and they want to make sure that I didn’t overstay?"
    After committing any number of crimes..
    If a person over stayed once what will stop them for just getting another set of documents and trying to re enter the USA?
    Leaving for a short holiday and then back to the USA illegally for decades?
    That person who stayed in the USA illegally can then be documented and never allowed back into the USA. Other nations can be warned by the USA of that persons crimes so they can not just sneak into other countries.
    That person is finally documented, returned to their own nation and then cannot legally reenter the USA. If they sneak into the USA again their face is on file and can be detected as a criminal.
    Using a face to help identify the person who stayed in the USA illegally makes it a bit more work to try and steal, forge or create new fake documents later.

  18. Re:Only once (Re:Wait. What?) on Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    re "These aren't the ones we want to catch."
    The act of "overstays their visa" is illegal and that person needs to be removed and returned to their own nation.
    The "removed" part ensures they can never legally return to the USA.
    What are they doing while they "overstay their visa"?
    Working illegally? Not paying tax? Crime? Using city, state and federal support services that are for actual US citizens who need help?
    A person in the USA illegally could be leaving for any number of reasons and then returning illegally to the USA.
    A relaxing holiday in their own nation and then back to steal from the USA for decades again.

  19. Re:Catching the wrong people on Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "what they're supposed to be doing is catching the people on expired visas who are not leaving the country."
    It finally allows for a system most normal nations have. To count every person in and out of the USA.
    A face arriving legally is reconciled with a face returning to their own nation on time and within the time of their documentation.
    If they ever want to re visit the USA they are in good standing.

    Not on time and over staying? That person can now be found and a digital version of a "Be on the lookout" can be started.
    That prevents illegal immigration. People who thought overstaying their authorized period in the USA would just be a matter of not returning to their own nation.
    Count every face in. Count every face out. No matter what their "documents" say. Documents can be forged, borrowed, stolen. Some nations have no functional central government and no way to create documents. Criminals enter the USA on fictional documents provided by NGO of the same cult, faith.
    Once in the USA they could be anyone, doing anything they want. With a face on file they can be sorted with other national police, security services, have international law enforcement look over databases. Did that person apply for refugees protection in a few nations with great benefits? Commit crimes while waiting for their refugee status to be determined? Found to be a criminal that is now trying to get into the USA?
    Commit a lot of crimes in the USA and is now trying to exit the USA using new and different documentation?
    A face that is counted in and out of the USA can finally help detect a lot of very bad people who thought they could get away with many crimes by using different documents.

  20. Re:why does my site need to be secure on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The nice why? To save the world from the security services and their contractors changing unencrypted network connections globally.
    Collect it all was easy without encryption.
    Now encryption is a set standard global collection by the security services will not be so easy?

    A more realistic thought would be to save ads. Ads now know they have a direct link into a browsers from a site. The browser trusts the site and now has to trust the sites ads.
    Encryption keeps 3rd party ads out and paying site ads displayed.

  21. Re "You do realize that we have these fancy doohickeys called "computers" these days, right?"
    That would take away from 3 contractors sitting around watching the one account owner.
    8 to 12 hours later the next shift of 3 take over.
    Given average working hours and the number of shifts over a day with weekends, thats a lot of new surveillance work to cover 47 people who are working 47 real accounts..
    3 people per shift allows for the new NSA enforced buddy system. Nobody can be alone doing NATO contract work.
    Why use a computer to just track 47 accounts when a few hundred new jobs just got created.

  22. Re:When the resource wars start on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The digital Maginot network will save France.
    The encrypted bank payment for another ship load of LNG imports will always be accepted.
    France has nuclear weapons to stop any invasion by Germany and the UK.
    The metro is powered by nuclear power stations. Government workers will always get to work.
    New subsidised electric 2CV and H vans for the rest of France.

  23. Re:Has the world gone mad? on Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Follow the over time and funding.
    With every account discovered thats 3 unionized security service jobs created to watch the one account for 12 hours. 3 shifts of 3 people in 24h for years.
    Thats budget growth for the clandestine services, a bureaucratic success, more work for private sector contractors and a good news political story.
    More mil work if the special forces have enter a home.
    A good cyber news story can be the pathway to entire gov and mil careers.

  24. Think of the debate within NATO on that number.

    Contractors wanting more over time prove 4700000 accounts are spreading news about what the Religion of War is doing.
    The NSA and GCHQ are sure its 47000000 accounts and want more funding to examine 5 hops from every account.
    MI5 and the FBI don't have 42300000 trusted contractors to watch 4700000 accounts in 24h shifts of 3 contractors.
    Some NATO nations are sure they cannot fund the over time for 3 investigators on weekends.

    After much internal debate the number 47 is selected from a list of bigger numbers.
    Its not a scary big number and can be presented like the Western security services have total control of the Religion of War issue.
    500 contractors watch over 47 accounts in shifts. A number NATO spending can cover.

    Trusted US and European news and social media dutifully push out the 47 number.

  25. The Cleverest Social Media in the World on Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    47 accounts that have a hall full of the best anthropologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and propagandists to support them.
    Halls of select staff in isolated, sealed military cities.
    Hand crafting every word on typewriters to ensure total security from the NSA and GCHQ.
    The final approved message is transmitted by number station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... deep into the UK.
    After the one time pad is used once a message is released on to waiting social media in a NATO nation.
    The account has a real ip and looks like an average ISP. Using a desktop computer and consumer OS.
    The ill equipped minds of the average European cant handle the flow of such quality statements.