Clicks, views and ratings.
Gov/mil contacts have free stuff to offer. Govs and mil always have lots of domestic and international stories to share.
Also the money to investigate one story might have to go further and take less time.
So more interviews are done to keep up with blogs, the 24 h news cycle.
Also consider the role of news aggregation websites. Suddenly news is fast, accurate and from all over the USA and the world.
News that was once published for and consumed inside the Beltway is now national or international.
The USA has also changed its Smith–Mundt Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Mundt_Act.
From https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
"worry U.S. national security officials "
"six U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agency chiefs were asked"
"While the U.S. government hasn’t disclosed any evidence of the ties"
"A person familiar with"
"The U.S. government hasn’t identified any evidence connecting"
Just wait for governments.
"Austria wants to spy on messaging apps, Australia not far behind" (July 11, 2017) http://www.zdnet.com/article/a...
"... install monitoring software on computers and mobile devices of suspects using messaging tools with end-to-end encryption.. "
Time to be "illuminated by the law".
AC re "no political experience"
AC the same reason a person who once was a Senator has to consider the politics of a person who once was metal worker.
Or a peanut farmer or a naval aviator or Director of Central Intelligence.
Leaders with very different pasts meet, talk and nations work together on common issues.
Its like a newspaper buying a photo. The photo get printed and the readers are happy.
The readers buy the newspaper again the next day and more images are found to fill the pages.
Does the reader really care what deal was done per image everyday?
Each and every photographer got paid in some way for their work and understands what the image will be used for.
The human body and mind would not have to be fooled by tech near the eye that is not the best.
Look around and everything is projected in real time, waiting for the user to explore.
No lag, no calculations trying to catch up or adjust to the users unexpected movements.
Re "A company that provides you with fuel for your car does not actually produce the emissions, your car produces the emissions, you are the one driving it."
How to fix that?
Have an app that connects workers to some self driving pod that then collects random workers on the way to work every day?
A self driving community van filled with random strangers that finds the best way to each destination on time.
Suggest all workers get rail or bus transport early each morning?
Tax all other cars off the road? Some doctors, lawyers, professionals and essential workers get to keep a work car while on call for work. All tracked by an app to and from work.
A car tax in each city to help keep cars out of the inner city?
Re "profits from companies"
Most have found nations that are totally safe from any such laws or taxation.
The UK had its attempts too
UK Considering Automatic Web Filtering For Adult Content (June 29, 2012) https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
The US goes after gambling online.
US Outlaws Online Gambling (October 03, 2006) https://slashdot.org/story/06/...
Many nations have tried or floated different ideas to enforce their laws online.
But an AC always likes to remind us of Russia:)
Depends on how its counted.
"Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world" (19 October 2011) https://www.newscientist.com/a...
".. revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships"
"..found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network."
Domestic brands in shops that show freedom of choice could just be local marketing by a multi national.
Just try one of the nations that keep all internet data for a few years.
Keeping every site visited and isp accounts linked.
At any time over many months a gov or trusted contractor can go back and find any or all users, their IM's, phone calls, forum use or web sites visited.
The next step will be the file names downloaded, language used in search terms and a demand for a gov crypto key for big brand search sites and telcos.
We can see SJW trying to alter search results just like China too.
Thats the future. A 3d, 360 deg tent.
No eye issues, no sickness, just a totally immersive comfortable environment.
No need for eye issues and illness. Trade some space for comfort and real 3d support.
Tax cars so only the rich and reserved occupations get a work "car".
Turn cars from aspirational working class imports to pure luxury items.
Put most people into bus, streetcar or train networks very early each morning to get to work.
As technology get better, move people around in shared self driving pods that an app requests.
People sit in a revered seat and get taken to work, picking up people on the way while staying on the best routes given the pick up and destinations.
In the short term try and time the traffic lights better.
Re ' It would be as obvious as a hot air balloon landing in Red Square" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"German aviator known for his..... landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987"
As for what can be done by the USA in space?
That is all about selling big ideas for funding in private, secret budget presentations.
More sats or a space plane doing what sats do does not sound special in 2017, so why not present the idea that the US can do things to other nations sats given enough money?
A big "truck" in orbit that can steal the nations orbiting spy platforms every mission and can return to earth with their best secrets? Thats a plan worth selling.
Big fancy new ideas win big budgets.
Re "sneak a satellite out of orbit or physically modify it without the whole world knowing about it?"
Once its funded and built who cares if it gets used or seen by other nations in action? Its all about the overtime, new space jobs in some states and party political mil contracts.
Like a stealth satellite it does not matter if it ever works or if other really low tech nations can see it. The building and contracts was the only important part. It keeps US bespoke hand crafting skills in use and funded every decade.
A plan to capture other nations satellites does sell well with nice bright graphics showing a US space craft getting near some evil nations big, evil spy sat and then totally winning:) Like some movie plot political leaders recall seeing on the big screen in 1967.
Spend big on a good new animation, build the space craft and enjoy the over time.
It will be within the law of not been a weapon in any classic legal way of thinking or discovery. A slight reworking of the satellite thats of interest to the USA so it fails. Locating, tracking, capture and recovery back to the USA of any other nations new spy satellites.
No damage to property, no creation of lots of smaller parts due to impact or anything like that during peace time.
The interesting satellite just fails to ever work and then disappears as a usable system for that nation. Nothing interesting seen from earth or new smaller parts floating off it to show any unexpected changes.
Re "into its own full branch"
More a NSA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NRO, CIA and Air Force in one.
Map the earth, allow US forces to communicate, spy, remove/alter other nations satellites, capture other nations satellites and bring them back to the USA for study.
Find an enemy satellite, alter it without them noticing. At a very critical time it gives false information.
Secure and keep the high ground. Detect tactical or theater systems, a radar that looks down from space 24/7.
Anything the NSA and CIA can do to a modem, server or network on earth they want to try from space too.
A US might not be able to get a human spy into another nation, but the USA will control all the satellites that nation tries to use or launch.
It would depend on who is talking or emailing. Who, why and how could be of great interest to other nations.
What could go wrong?
Someone on a ship sends an email home with the final server been a very average for profit.com in the USA?
Some faith or cult member or dual citizen makes a copy of all.mil related material as they got work deep in the.com and have total trusted access for work?
Another nation slowly builds a database of all in use.mil accounts (via some external agency or cover.com or outsourcing partner) and the trusted to/from/content parts.
Interesting gossip and news might filter out over years given the amount of data collected.
Only needs one person and their hidden server after getting a trusted job for any big telco. No buddy system in the private sector and all that over time working support issues is a cover.
The use of social media or internet use?
Other nations set up psychological warfare accounts to attract the attention of an average mil users online?
Instead of spies been just off base waiting to turn people in bars and clubs they are now online?
Spies on base give lists of sites that all the interesting mil people visit, the gossip about lifestyles and people get chatting with new friends.
The 1950's mil human efforts in a digital world.
Good for funding, over time, a new budget and working with the private sector.
New private sector jobs and an expanded bureaucracy protecting nations from all that new spam and unexpected malware in 2017.
Great for that digital resume social media site and becoming a contractor or finding more gov work.
In the past some dial up modem would be used to look over lists of interesting phone numbers.
A connection to a company modem would be made and commands attempted. More details about the OS, file system, wider network would requested after a connection would be made. Sometimes just to use that networks speed to move a lot of data around from other more interesting networks and get some data stored to work on later given dial up speeds.
A list of all extension phone numbers would be tried until a modem got a connected.
Too many email and other social media, job sites now exist with internal detail on the open internet.
So malware follows the email or contact details back to any and every network.
Workers open an email at work or use a work computer to open emails.
The issue is reported and some malware has to be a big event as its nuclear.
Its just internet malware following any link it finds and presenting itself in the most readable way to get more details from any and every account it can.
The only part to think about is why and how so much detail about nuclear work is on social media or the internet to be found and for such spam attempts to even find any working contacts.
The new issue is social media and employment sites having too much network detail on the open internet. Spam is been sent with malware to accounts found.
An air gap and a no internet, social media policy would help with that.
Think of it as finding information online and sending malware emails and links that get deeper into any network detected or accessed.
Does the malware care if its nuclear or what the social media or site was used to find the way in?
Its just like spam efforts that got a new list of emails that worked.
The malware wants to get deeper into any network that they get activated in.
Too much information is on the internet and too many random people are finding details online.
Malware follows social media or the wide open "internet" back up into other networks.
Its France. Some person in the gov will grant or revoke the ability to access any transport.
Electric transport will not be freedom of movement.
To own, register and be allowed to drive will become a lengthy process. Is it a classic car that can be taken to a show? That might get some special paperwork to drive around on private land for a day.
Want a battery car? Start saving, get ready to pay new taxes. Have a real reason why ready and wait to be approved.
Select professions like doctors, politicians, veterinarians, people in reserved occupations and lawyers are allowed their own electric sedans as they are on call all the time.
Some type of self driving pod will open a door and the person sits down and is taken to the destination. Set speeds, set directions to save energy. Short breaks are allowed but time is limited to get to the destination as the next stranger is waiting to join the same pod.
Random strangers will enter on the route to get the most out of every battery charge. A camera and microphone in the pod will ensure security.
People will be pushed onto shared automatic community pods, trains, bus, taxi or rental services. Want a holiday? Rent a nice big electric sedan or SUV a few times a year.
Got a holiday home? The train network will get you to the area and regional electric transport will be reserved for any transport.
Want to visit the next town? Wait for a train, electric community van or bus if the daily pod credits are too low.
Live in a town, village or more remote farm and really need a truck for farm work? The community will grant access to a special list of trucks to buy or rent.
Upset the local political system? That app to requested transport as normal will be locked out for a while.
Pay a fine or tax and the app that unlocks the truck, car, automatic pod will work again.
All freedom to own, select, import, drive and enjoy any car as an individual will slowly be revoked.
That 1950's American freedom of been able to buy any car and drive anywhere for any reason will be lost.
In France driving will be regulated and a smaller set of cars designed for local conditions will be allowed on the roads.
The ability to request an electric 2CV or electric XM for the day.
Its like 1950's East Germany but without actually having any car of your own decades later. An electric scooter will be allowed.
France will decide on all moments and what quality of transport will be offered.
Cars are off the road and share a pod to work, home and for the shopping. A way of returning to metro, boulot, dodo after that American individualism and freedom of actually wanting to own a car.
Slashdot Mirror
To hide content thats DRM. A huge image or movie thats displayed but only a low res version will save with the web page.
To find the data. That big image or media file that is displayed but might not always save.
Clicks, views and ratings.
Gov/mil contacts have free stuff to offer. Govs and mil always have lots of domestic and international stories to share.
Also the money to investigate one story might have to go further and take less time.
So more interviews are done to keep up with blogs, the 24 h news cycle.
Also consider the role of news aggregation websites. Suddenly news is fast, accurate and from all over the USA and the world.
News that was once published for and consumed inside the Beltway is now national or international.
The USA has also changed its Smith–Mundt Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Mundt_Act.
From https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
"worry U.S. national security officials "
"six U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agency chiefs were asked"
"While the U.S. government hasn’t disclosed any evidence of the ties"
"A person familiar with"
"The U.S. government hasn’t identified any evidence connecting"
Consider all the good work thats been done over the years.
Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Work to publish on Gauss, Regin, Flame, Red October, Duqu, Silverlight and Mask
Just wait for governments.
"Austria wants to spy on messaging apps, Australia not far behind" (July 11, 2017)
http://www.zdnet.com/article/a...
"... install monitoring software on computers and mobile devices of suspects using messaging tools with end-to-end encryption.. "
Time to be "illuminated by the law".
AC re "no political experience"
AC the same reason a person who once was a Senator has to consider the politics of a person who once was metal worker.
Or a peanut farmer or a naval aviator or Director of Central Intelligence.
Leaders with very different pasts meet, talk and nations work together on common issues.
Its like a newspaper buying a photo. The photo get printed and the readers are happy.
The readers buy the newspaper again the next day and more images are found to fill the pages.
Does the reader really care what deal was done per image everyday?
Each and every photographer got paid in some way for their work and understands what the image will be used for.
The US and the Soviet Union and now Russia have worked together on a few things.
Moscow–Washington hotline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Washington_hotline
Environmental Modification Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Soyuz_Test_Project
Treaty on Open Skies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Chemical Weapons Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Kennedy-Khruschev Exchanges http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20t...
RD-180 engine imports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As for cyber security? Why not? Might stop some spam and other evil-doers.
The human body and mind would not have to be fooled by tech near the eye that is not the best.
Look around and everything is projected in real time, waiting for the user to explore.
No lag, no calculations trying to catch up or adjust to the users unexpected movements.
Re "A company that provides you with fuel for your car does not actually produce the emissions, your car produces the emissions, you are the one driving it."
How to fix that?
Have an app that connects workers to some self driving pod that then collects random workers on the way to work every day?
A self driving community van filled with random strangers that finds the best way to each destination on time.
Suggest all workers get rail or bus transport early each morning?
Tax all other cars off the road? Some doctors, lawyers, professionals and essential workers get to keep a work car while on call for work. All tracked by an app to and from work.
A car tax in each city to help keep cars out of the inner city?
Re "profits from companies"
Most have found nations that are totally safe from any such laws or taxation.
The UK had its attempts too :)
UK Considering Automatic Web Filtering For Adult Content (June 29, 2012)
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
The US goes after gambling online.
US Outlaws Online Gambling (October 03, 2006)
https://slashdot.org/story/06/...
Many nations have tried or floated different ideas to enforce their laws online.
But an AC always likes to remind us of Russia
Depends on how its counted.
"Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world" (19 October 2011)
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
".. revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships"
"..found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network."
Domestic brands in shops that show freedom of choice could just be local marketing by a multi national.
Just try one of the nations that keep all internet data for a few years.
Keeping every site visited and isp accounts linked.
At any time over many months a gov or trusted contractor can go back and find any or all users, their IM's, phone calls, forum use or web sites visited.
The next step will be the file names downloaded, language used in search terms and a demand for a gov crypto key for big brand search sites and telcos.
We can see SJW trying to alter search results just like China too.
Thats the future. A 3d, 360 deg tent. No eye issues, no sickness, just a totally immersive comfortable environment. No need for eye issues and illness. Trade some space for comfort and real 3d support.
Re "People still don't want to pay $400 for a gimmicky motion sickness simulator"
Then get tracked and used on the open market while feeling sick?
Tax cars so only the rich and reserved occupations get a work "car".
Turn cars from aspirational working class imports to pure luxury items.
Put most people into bus, streetcar or train networks very early each morning to get to work.
As technology get better, move people around in shared self driving pods that an app requests.
People sit in a revered seat and get taken to work, picking up people on the way while staying on the best routes given the pick up and destinations.
In the short term try and time the traffic lights better.
Re ' It would be as obvious as a hot air balloon landing in Red Square" ..... landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987"
:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"German aviator known for his
As for what can be done by the USA in space?
That is all about selling big ideas for funding in private, secret budget presentations.
More sats or a space plane doing what sats do does not sound special in 2017, so why not present the idea that the US can do things to other nations sats given enough money?
A big "truck" in orbit that can steal the nations orbiting spy platforms every mission and can return to earth with their best secrets? Thats a plan worth selling.
Big fancy new ideas win big budgets.
Re "sneak a satellite out of orbit or physically modify it without the whole world knowing about it?"
Once its funded and built who cares if it gets used or seen by other nations in action? Its all about the overtime, new space jobs in some states and party political mil contracts.
Like a stealth satellite it does not matter if it ever works or if other really low tech nations can see it. The building and contracts was the only important part. It keeps US bespoke hand crafting skills in use and funded every decade.
A plan to capture other nations satellites does sell well with nice bright graphics showing a US space craft getting near some evil nations big, evil spy sat and then totally winning
Like some movie plot political leaders recall seeing on the big screen in 1967.
Spend big on a good new animation, build the space craft and enjoy the over time.
It will be within the law of not been a weapon in any classic legal way of thinking or discovery. A slight reworking of the satellite thats of interest to the USA so it fails.
Locating, tracking, capture and recovery back to the USA of any other nations new spy satellites.
No damage to property, no creation of lots of smaller parts due to impact or anything like that during peace time.
The interesting satellite just fails to ever work and then disappears as a usable system for that nation. Nothing interesting seen from earth or new smaller parts floating off it to show any unexpected changes.
Re "into its own full branch"
More a NSA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NRO, CIA and Air Force in one.
Map the earth, allow US forces to communicate, spy, remove/alter other nations satellites, capture other nations satellites and bring them back to the USA for study.
Find an enemy satellite, alter it without them noticing. At a very critical time it gives false information.
Secure and keep the high ground. Detect tactical or theater systems, a radar that looks down from space 24/7.
Anything the NSA and CIA can do to a modem, server or network on earth they want to try from space too.
A US might not be able to get a human spy into another nation, but the USA will control all the satellites that nation tries to use or launch.
It would depend on who is talking or emailing. Who, why and how could be of great interest to other nations. .com in the USA? .mil related material as they got work deep in the .com and have total trusted access for work? .mil accounts (via some external agency or cover .com or outsourcing partner) and the trusted to/from/content parts.
What could go wrong?
Someone on a ship sends an email home with the final server been a very average for profit
Some faith or cult member or dual citizen makes a copy of all
Another nation slowly builds a database of all in use
Interesting gossip and news might filter out over years given the amount of data collected.
Only needs one person and their hidden server after getting a trusted job for any big telco. No buddy system in the private sector and all that over time working support issues is a cover.
The use of social media or internet use?
Other nations set up psychological warfare accounts to attract the attention of an average mil users online?
Instead of spies been just off base waiting to turn people in bars and clubs they are now online?
Spies on base give lists of sites that all the interesting mil people visit, the gossip about lifestyles and people get chatting with new friends.
The 1950's mil human efforts in a digital world.
Good for funding, over time, a new budget and working with the private sector.
New private sector jobs and an expanded bureaucracy protecting nations from all that new spam and unexpected malware in 2017.
Great for that digital resume social media site and becoming a contractor or finding more gov work.
In the past some dial up modem would be used to look over lists of interesting phone numbers.
A connection to a company modem would be made and commands attempted. More details about the OS, file system, wider network would requested after a connection would be made. Sometimes just to use that networks speed to move a lot of data around from other more interesting networks and get some data stored to work on later given dial up speeds.
A list of all extension phone numbers would be tried until a modem got a connected.
Too many email and other social media, job sites now exist with internal detail on the open internet.
So malware follows the email or contact details back to any and every network.
Workers open an email at work or use a work computer to open emails.
The issue is reported and some malware has to be a big event as its nuclear.
Its just internet malware following any link it finds and presenting itself in the most readable way to get more details from any and every account it can.
The only part to think about is why and how so much detail about nuclear work is on social media or the internet to be found and for such spam attempts to even find any working contacts.
The new issue is social media and employment sites having too much network detail on the open internet. Spam is been sent with malware to accounts found.
An air gap and a no internet, social media policy would help with that.
Think of it as finding information online and sending malware emails and links that get deeper into any network detected or accessed.
Does the malware care if its nuclear or what the social media or site was used to find the way in?
Its just like spam efforts that got a new list of emails that worked.
The malware wants to get deeper into any network that they get activated in.
Too much information is on the internet and too many random people are finding details online.
Malware follows social media or the wide open "internet" back up into other networks.
Its complex. ""$8 million per year would've kept the power station operational," (29 Mar 2017)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
Its France. Some person in the gov will grant or revoke the ability to access any transport.
Electric transport will not be freedom of movement.
To own, register and be allowed to drive will become a lengthy process. Is it a classic car that can be taken to a show? That might get some special paperwork to drive around on private land for a day.
Want a battery car? Start saving, get ready to pay new taxes. Have a real reason why ready and wait to be approved.
Select professions like doctors, politicians, veterinarians, people in reserved occupations and lawyers are allowed their own electric sedans as they are on call all the time.
Some type of self driving pod will open a door and the person sits down and is taken to the destination. Set speeds, set directions to save energy. Short breaks are allowed but time is limited to get to the destination as the next stranger is waiting to join the same pod.
Random strangers will enter on the route to get the most out of every battery charge. A camera and microphone in the pod will ensure security.
People will be pushed onto shared automatic community pods, trains, bus, taxi or rental services. Want a holiday? Rent a nice big electric sedan or SUV a few times a year.
Got a holiday home? The train network will get you to the area and regional electric transport will be reserved for any transport.
Want to visit the next town? Wait for a train, electric community van or bus if the daily pod credits are too low.
Live in a town, village or more remote farm and really need a truck for farm work? The community will grant access to a special list of trucks to buy or rent.
Upset the local political system? That app to requested transport as normal will be locked out for a while.
Pay a fine or tax and the app that unlocks the truck, car, automatic pod will work again.
All freedom to own, select, import, drive and enjoy any car as an individual will slowly be revoked.
That 1950's American freedom of been able to buy any car and drive anywhere for any reason will be lost.
In France driving will be regulated and a smaller set of cars designed for local conditions will be allowed on the roads.
The ability to request an electric 2CV or electric XM for the day.
Its like 1950's East Germany but without actually having any car of your own decades later. An electric scooter will be allowed.
France will decide on all moments and what quality of transport will be offered.
Cars are off the road and share a pod to work, home and for the shopping. A way of returning to metro, boulot, dodo after that American individualism and freedom of actually wanting to own a car.