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  1. Re:Why go back on Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7 (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Security updates yes for a while.
    Games? That should be time for a new computer.

  2. Re "We can not chose our own path?"
    Why should the UK and USA risk their mil secrets with a Communist German BND?
    Germany is free to go their own path. The US and UK mil are free not to have to support the BND anymore. Freedom is great like that.

    Re "What support?"
    All the support the NSA, GCHQ, CIA gave West Germany and now Germany.
    All that support to keep East Germany, Communism and the Soviet Union out of free West Germany.
    All the advanced mil and security support for Germany.
    Recall the history and origins of the BND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    That was full US support that created the BND.

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  4. Re:Even with all the CPU vulnerabilities? on Intel CPU Shortages To Worsen in Q2 2019: Research (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The part Intel gets right is speed and power for the price.
    Work and game better on Intel.
    People want their frame rates up and have a GPU to support.
    Intel products do that for games and most average computing tasks people expect to do.

  5. Re:I don't see a problem. I see the opposite on Intel CPU Shortages To Worsen in Q2 2019: Research (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is people like to buy Intel and are voting with their spending to enjoy Intel CPU products.

  6. Re:Sounds like a great time... on Intel CPU Shortages To Worsen in Q2 2019: Research (digitimes.com) · · Score: 0

    What ARM? Who has the fully supported desktop motherboard with consumer RAM, storage, power supply ect ready to go?
    ARM that's not a server?
    ARM thats ready for todays powerful gaming GPU?
    Got the OS and computer game code ready too?
    Got all of todays CPU and GPU intensive games ready on ARM?

  7. Should stay with paper on Researchers Find Critical Backdoor In Swiss Online Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Count the paper votes in front of the needed set of witnesses.
    Send the same count from each area to a final vote count.
    Why trust a computer not to flip votes due to the politics of some NGO, think tank, mil, politics, other nation wanting Swiss votes to sway policy globally?
    Return to paper and count every vote.
    Make Swiss voting secure again.

  8. ad support.

  9. Why go back on Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7 (anandtech.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why not bring the games to Windows 10?
    Under Windows 10 everyone gets better service, security and new updates?
    Should a CPU be too old then its time for a new computer.
    Build parts for a new game computer. Buy a game computer.
    Put the effort that went into Windows 7 into making Windows 10 great.

  10. Re:So what happens when... on Debit Card With Built-In Fingerprint Reader Begins Trial In the UK (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea would be like not having the correct pin.
    No cash and a message to contact the bank?
    The bank then asks for a list of approved ID and photo ID to link the account to the card and the finger print secured by the bank when the account was created.
    The next step will be to have the reader as a add on to computers/internet.
    Want to shop online? Use the fingerprint and card together as the final step to approve the secure online payment.
    Interesting for police too. Buy the wrong service/product online and its not a matter of the loss of a set of numbers as it was in the past :)

  11. The US and UK on Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    voted for the politics they wanted and for the UK to exit the EU.
    Humanity enjoys the freedom to vote.

  12. Re:What kind of intelligence did Germans get anywa on US Tells Germany To Stop Using Huawei Equipment Or Lose Some Intelligence Access (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Every kind. West Germany intelligence after WW2 was a creation of the NSA, GCHQ and CIA.
    Trusted West German staff where more connected to their US and UK NSA/GCHQ colleagues than any elected West German government over the decades.
    That total trust and extra support carried over to Germany.
    Germany now wants to go Communist?
    Why should the US and UK support that and give their secrets away in Germany?
    That was support for German freedom and democracy.

  13. Re:Ok, bye bye intelligence access on US Tells Germany To Stop Using Huawei Equipment Or Lose Some Intelligence Access (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "bye bye intelligence access".
    Thats free real time global access to the CIA, NSA for Germany.
    Germany can't get that quality alone globally.
    Who is going to replace the data flows from a NSA, CIA, GCHQ, Canada ect for Germany? Thats 24/7 global spying for free.
    Real time support on any topic of interest or collected mention of Germany.
    The USA and UK will remove that access. Never to be given back to the BND.

  14. re "the way it should be done, using strong end-to-end encryption"
    That never slowed the NSA and GCHQ down in any nation.
    Why would such efforts in Germany slow Communist down now?
    The NSA, CIA, MI6 know the risk of sharing with a Germany that can no longer be trusted.
    Germany now has to select a side.
    Communism again? The free West, the security of the NSA, CIA, GCHQ.
    The CIA, NSA, GCHQ always protected and supported West Germany and now Germany.
    This is how Germany thanks decades of free US and UK mil support?

  15. The BND in Germany is going to have to select between the NSA it has worked for over decades.
    Letting Germany not get daily quality US mil/intelligence support.

    Its the US tax payers who fund the collection it all by the NSA all over the world.
    Thats US mil/cryto product to share with its better friends globally.
    Should Germany not want to work with the NSA and fail to keep its communications networks secure, then the USA can move away from so much sharing/trust with Germany.
    The BND will have to step up and collect it all globally to cover what the USA once offered.
    Find new friends to give mil/spy information to Germany in real time.

  16. Re:tor on Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    FBI is not stopped by anonymous communication attempts.
    Russia can send formal request to FBI about its success when needing to uncover layers of proxy communication.
    FBI can give name of company they use.
    Russia contacts same company and gets same support deal.

  17. Re:that seems dumb on Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Re 'Wtf is the point of that?"
    What can Russia do about encrypted providers well out side any network that can be seen?
    Send over an internationally accepted court request and wait for a real ip to be uncovered and sent back?
    Ask police in another nation to investigate? What other nation?
    Find the nation with that ip range and ask police to investigate?
    The really simple way around this is to make the person change email providers.

  18. What can be done? on Congress Introduces Bill To Improve 'Internet of Things' Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    admin/admin is not to be used as a default factory set name and password?
    Stickers printed with every device showing its own unique name and long, complex and very unique password?

  19. The way the KGB blocked? on Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it still 1991?

  20. Re:Fake need? on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    In terms of one standard NSA data storage facility?

  21. The US is doing what every normal nation should do.

    Count every person entering the USA legally.
    Count every person returning to their own nation after stay in the USA.
    Match the face with every passport presented and every embassy application to enter the USA.
    Try and stay in the USA an an illegal immigrant? Get detected.
    Walk around and near any US airport as an illegal immigrant? Get detected.
    Use bus, rail, car transport to travel around the USA as an illegal immigrant? Get detected.
    Apply for a bank account, rent/buy housing, request any type of gov support, pay tax as an illegal immigrant? Get detected.
    Slowly all the fake, shared and re used photo ID used by illegal immigrants will be found and reported.

    Airports are just the start.
    Expect your bank, CC, landlord, boss, gov to enter public private security partnerships to scan every face they can in real time.
    Fake and junk ID won't work when provided to illegal immigrants by a virtue signalling sanctuary city.
    Every face will be legal. Every illegal immigrant will slowly be detected as more networks are created nationally to scan every face in every US state and city.
    A detailed description of a person's life has to have US citizenship.
    Sanctuary city ID is not going to have that connection with needed US citizenship once its wider use is attempted all over the USA :)

  22. US freedom vs EU laws on EU's Plan To Ban Sale of User-Moddable RF Devices Draws Widespread Condemnation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In the USA you have some freedom to work with science and share your results.
    That person in the USA gets smarter and can even educate people with their results.
    Innovation spreads all over the US and more people build and share results.

    In the EU laws stop science and nobody smart gets to have the freedom to experiment.
    The EU educates people about laws.
    People buy a product in the EU and are told how it will be used under EU laws.

  23. Re:Not foolproof if they use hacked POS teminals on Debit Card With Built-In Fingerprint Reader Begins Trial In the UK (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 for the CC vs debit card AC.

  24. Whats than in terms of on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    NSA and GCHQ spending per year?

  25. Re:There's an easy solution to all that on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Any new UBI will not be given as cash.
    A UBI as a gov assistance program will set all kinds of political, nutritional, welfare limits on spending as its gov money been given to citizens.
    Cash gives freedom.
    A bank, CC, book seller can see what a person was reading, their politics and then take away service.
    Then put that person on a shared watch list to inform other banks and CC brands about why the person had their account removed.
    Where to pay a wage into when a bank removes the ability to have an account and tells other banks/CC not to trust that person?