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  1. Re "This is not and never will be an effective deterrent".
    It does not need to be a deterrent, just enough to induce an interesting person to tell one lie. Then their paperwork can be stopped before they ever enter the USA.

  2. Re "Also: How is this information verified? And if the USA has means for independent verification.."
    A person with a normal working life or educational history would have no issues.
    People with a more complex social media past can attempt:
    Lie and hope the US has no record of their past online support of banned groups.
    Submit a totally different clean past and hope the USA never finds their real past.
    Buy or use a totally clean set of papers and accounts. Too many images of people at protests, under flags, chanting in support of banned groups now exist.
    The US has a record of all past social media use as in interesting images, account names. So tracking back for a few years is not difficult.
    Removing information in 2017 does not clean up images posted years ago. The US has kept a copy of every interesting face and the facial recognition software is fast.
    The "why do they need to ask for information they already have?" part justs allow a person to lie, tell any lie and then the interview stops and they stay in their own nation or are returned to their own nation.
    The "independent verification" is not needed. A person online supports a banned group, likes, shares, supports, gives funds to, attended events... that uploaded photo a few years ago is the verification.
    Hope their face and complex travel history was not kept by any nation friendly to the USA. Most nations will look after the privacy of their own citizens. A random person moving around a lot will get noticed and details shared. Verification is an public, private, gov, mil, another nations database away.
    Normal people with bank accounts, a job, educational history, their own nations documents ready will not need to worry.

  3. Re "really drank the authoritarian kool-aid didn't you?"
    Why would any nation allow in people belonging to, supporting or funding banned groups?
    Re ' tourism is collapsing currently."
    People can select from many nations or even stay in their own nation for a holiday.
    With the correct travel documents any US embassy will be happy to help anyone wanting to visit the USA.
    People can also select to be educated in the USA or may have other reasons to travel to the USA short or long term.
    All that is needed is the correct documents and not belonging to or supporting a banned group.

  4. Its in the http://www.reuters.com/article... as linked.

    "..request all prior passport numbers, five years' worth of social media handles, email addresses and phone numbers and 15 years of biographical information including addresses, employment and travel history.."

  5. Supporting or funding a banned group and then wanting to enter the another nation is not something that should go undetected.

  6. Re 'social media activity on a different account. Or delete everything that could be incriminating. Or just lie and say they don't have one. "
    The US has the ability to note any and all changes to social media over time. Upload an interesting image a few years ago, removing it in 2017 will just attract attention.
    To "delete" anything would just remove that image from the public in 2017 on the internet.
    If the image has been up for years, the US gov/mil has that funding event or supporting image and facial recognition of everyone at the event.

    Re 'Or just lie and say they don't have one." That is the risk a lot will try and then lie to the USA about. One lie and their not getting into the USA.
    Is the person feeling lucky that the USA has not found that other account? The one with the flags, funding, support, political messages?
    Re "not everyone has an address ". Person does not need social media apply to get into the USA.
    If they have the wealth to get to the USA, study or work in the USA or visit the USA they can afford a new ISP account with email to work on their documents the US embassy needs.
    Re "not everyone has old passports". People do not need old passports to enter the USA, they need a real passport. Some people use fake documents, some people use other peoples real papers, some people try their dual citizenship, some people lie and say that their new passport is the only one they have ever been issued. If a person has their first passport thats fine. Just don't hide past travel history.

    Re "wouldn't be able to validate 90% of what people are telling you anyways" One lie, one omission, some funding, some support for a banned group, one image, one account is all that is needed to show a person is trying to cover their past and present a totally fake story to sneak into the USA.
    Normal people with their first real passport will be fine, their first email account will be fine. Trying to hide a complex online past from the USA will be detected.

  7. The past passport numbers would fill in most of a normal persons past world travel.
    Having an interesting person on file in another nation when they should have been in their own nation or moving around some other nation would show:
    Dual citizen with a passport they did not mention. Thats a lie.
    Another travel document they did not mention.
    Sharing or the use of fake documents.
    People made mistakes in the 1960-90's thinking no database would ever reconnect be created and show their past support or movements to interesting nations.
    That the only passport they had to consider is the one they use now.
    Most normal nations have taken a lot of time and effort on every document they allowed in and out of their nation over the decades.
    Every passport number, every face, all the details stayed on file. Now the databases are linked for all other nations, past decades and not just people who are wanted or passports that have been revoked.
    All details are now shared, not just who is wanted or who has no passport.
    No spelling errors, no issues with fonts, languages, translation. Every name can be fully considered rather than just trying to match a few names of interest.

  8. People with normal passports don't create 'turnaround time" in most normal nations.
    The flights land, take off, depart, connect, people make their flights just fine.
    Domestic and international travel has worked well for most normal people in most other normal nations that have valid travel documents over many decades.
    Wealthy and poor nations have counted every person, in and out, and looked at every issued travel document.
    A normal person entering the USA for a visit, education, to stay, for work is expected given US embassy work and can be moved around as needed without slowing down all other scheduled flights.
    US embassy workers in other nations have done their work, passengers then arrive into the USA with correct paperwork.
    They don't have 'turnaround time" issues as they have allowed time to looked at all the documents in an out of their nations.
    Ports, airports, rail, most nations don't have 'turnaround time" problems, as they have allowed time to look at all documents.

  9. Re 'What if you don't have .... account" thats fine. Why would not using a service be an issue? People just have to not lie about supporting or funding banned groups online under different accounts.
    Re 'All prior passport numbers?" Most normal nations will be able to give that to their own citizens. Most normal nations keep their passports and passport numbers very secure. So that passport list would be an enquiry a person can be expected to make in their own nation given they have a passport in 2017.
    If a person can now get a passport they can get any past passport details too.
    Most governments are really helpful with questions surrounding the complex documents they issue and hold details like that for a long time.
    The "address" question is to see if a person worked or lived in a nation they claimed, got educated in or retired to.
    Years or a decade missing by some person in some third nation is interesting to the USA if the past passports do not have such details.
    Did the interesting person have another passport? Did the person use another persons identity for a while? Is the person a dual citizen and moving around on another passport?

  10. Re 'but not everyone has internet or the time to set up social media accounts. "
    Applications will need email in most normal nations to get, send and track their paperwork to enter the USA in 2017.
    If a person can afford to travel, study, move to, live in or visit the USA, they can afford some ISP in their own nation for the needed documents.
    Entering the USA will just need a set of documents anyone can get in their own nation.
    Having a few "social media accounts" over the years is not needed to enter the USA. Telling the USA that the social media accounts never existed is the issue.

  11. The "airplane" will arrive with people having the correct paperwork to enter the USA as expected as every other normal nation expects.
    No paperwork for the USA, no entering the "airplane" and getting to the USA. Flying people around with fake or no paperwork is not a good policy and most airlines try not to do that. Governments tend to notice on a lack of documents on both ends of the flight.
    Further questions might be asked if a person is interesting or lies but most nations have worked out how to guide people from the airplane, to the area to present valid documents and then out of the airport.

  12. A person will need some email to submit documents or be told of the results or if more documents needed. So that type of online account is often needed by a lot of normal nations.
    If a person creates a new email account or joins a new ISP just to visit the USA with a clean history?
    Most normal people who can afford to enter the USA and support themselves in the USA for their holiday, work or education could be expected have an existing email account or ISP in 2017.
    The question is simple.
    Give an account that has been used for years or create a new account if needed.
    Lie about years online, years on social media supporting banned groups and the USA gets very interested after a person creates a new account just for requesting US travel.
    The question is fine for normal people who might not have email, just create one but then trying to lie about old accounts or not having other accounts will be detected.
    Not been "online" is not the issue. The lie of a person having to hide an interesting online past by creating a series of new clean accounts is the issue.

  13. re "impact of traffic volume on a system?"
    That will all be done before a person is accepted for travel into the USA. A person will apply to be allowed to enter the USA. After all that work is done, they will have documents that will allow a person to travel to the USA.
    Further questions might be asked if new information has been found or if a person tries to lie about anything as they enter the USA.
    If anything is found to be wrong they will not be allowed to enter the USA.
    Dont lie, don't support or fund banned groups and a persons holiday, visit, stay, further education or work in the USA will be as normal.
    Other nations can do this without any issues and most nations did this very well over many decades.
    The volume problem is spread back over the applicants different nations and they have to wait a while.
    Once their documents are found to be valid the US will keep working on granting access to the USA for some reason.
    The "delays cost millions of dollars very quickly" won't be an issue for people who are not trying to lie as they will be waiting in their own nations until the needed travel documents are ready.

  14. Down the list on Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "request all prior passport numbers"
    That is great for people who have laundered their past by getting some new state to become their only "travel" document after a few years of entry and telling a good story.
    A new passport granted by some easy third party nation will not be able to cover for past issues on another travel document.

    "five years' worth of social media handles"
    That will allow for a deeper understanding of a persons politics, who they fund, support, like and who their friends are.
    Lots of images in a nation few people can get into? Why is that person in that nation over the years?
    Posing under a banned groups banner, flag? A photo with a banned group?
    No bringing a banned groups supporters into the USA.
    "biographical information including addresses, employment and travel history"
    That shows a person has a job, can support themselves while they are in the USA, what study they did. What they present is a real not a fictional story to get travel paperwork from their own nation or created to be given new paperwork from a third nation.

    Lie to the USA and no visa application. Why should a person of interest be able to lie, omit, hide support for groups of interest or friends who support groups of interest to the USA?
    Real people with any education, a normal work history and a normal life should have no issues with any of the questions.

  15. People with normal, valid paperwork wanting to enter the USA for any normal reason should have no issues.

  16. Travel and entering another nation is something another nation grants. Any nation can control who enters, why and how long they stay for.

  17. Few nations want to fund or do the real epidemiology. It usually shows pollution, issues with mil/gov or private sector production lines, maintenance, substances once passed as been safe, lack of filters, lack of expected gov inspections going back decades.
    No government wants heavy metal issues talked about in public and tracked back to some weapon production line or that aircraft repair issues resulted in sick workers.
    Unions and employers did nothing as workers got sick. Governments wanted jobs and a person in work getting sick was still a person in work and not adding to unemployment numbers.
    The average labs and doctors don't like decades of average work been peer reviewed by real experts. Private hospitals don't like mistakes been made public.
    Mil and gov officials don't like people talking about metals and substances they used in the 1950-90's that might have made generations of once very secret workers very sick.
    Ship, railway maintenance, aircraft work, mining, chemical production all add to issues most governments over decades would like to forget.
    The why is simple. Nations don't fund or hire or educate enough really smart experts and then give them all the data and access they need.
    Once doctors start requesting tests, suggesting tests, more public health spending is needed.
    Dont fund epidemiology, pathology and nothing is found that needs funding or new spending.
    So skills are lost, doctors just work within the system they have and know only a limited amount of experts will ever look at a nations health care system.
    Private hospitals don't want peer reviews, lots of expensive tests, slides been shared with outside experts.
    Bureaucrats that sit between the health care system and private insurance want to find fraud but not open up all kinds of new spending on public health issues.
    Private insurance wants to know if a doctor did something very wrong or if a hospital has bad conditions that needed more spending but thats not help looking at a nations wider public health for free.
    Some nations also import a lot of 'experts" to help with medical jobs in their nation. Due to a lack of university education in the nation or party policy, some nations have a health experts from other nations with average results. Getting peer reviews on such "experts" would expose the accreditation as been useless and the policy of using other nations doctors as been flawed. So a lot of people in power have a lot of reasons to hide the "why".
    All computers show is a lack of experts. Want to fix issues? Fund the best doctors and experts in the best teaching hospitals and let them do their work.
    Some nations just don't want the lack of spending to be found. Why have rescue helicopters, ambulances, expert staff at the front end and peer review of every result?
    No peer review and less spending is needed as everything is within a national average.
    All computers do is show a nation has issues and should spend a lot more on their own experts over generations.

  18. Depends on a nations skills at producing experts who can read results and the people they educate over the decades.
    If a nation has poor quality staff and poor tracking of results per doctor, lacks tracking and peer review, a system will sell as been better.
    A human who writes the books, book chapters and teaches decades of new staff will have the skills with their colleagues.
    Teaching hospital vs a lab that has limits and finds staff that can do the job to some standard.

  19. "hospitals backup power to be reviewed" (Oct 11, 2016)
    "... failed in the blackout because of a fuel pump issue"
    http://www.news.com.au/nationa...

  20. If the US uses gov workers thats more union workers and tax money needed to support them.
    If the US gov offers bids to contractors thats full employment in the private sector been paid for by the US tax payer.
    The costs allow US political leadership can cling to its "private" sector policy.
    With private sector workers all looking at the same US product and US data sets, everything is kept in plain text too. So all the contractors can bid and work with gov/mil data.
    If the US gov encrypts its own data then the private sector would have less ability to work with the gov data or bid for work.
    So its all kept open, in plain text and contractor friendly so politicians can say they fully support the private sector.

  21. Re:There go the mods on Man Fined $4,000 For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts on Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA has freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
    The EU and nations in the EU area have lawyers and reports sent to governments when free speech is attempted.
    Wait for other nations to try out their blasphemy laws.

  22. Re:The judge should have thrown out evidence... on EFF Sues FBI For Records About Paid Best Buy Geek Squad Informants (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Make me think back to
    "FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (February 5, 2004)
    "... given a list of local businesses ... with the idea of establishing a working relationship with all of them."
    http://the.honoluluadvertiser....

  23. So the tube is then empty. How many tubes or missiles per silo site? Say 40?

  24. Computer games are been listed as i7, 16 gigs of RAM as recommended.
    Add in a good GPU thats needs to be supported for a low cost 4K or 8K display and or VR support.
    People who play games, make video clips, do photography work will be happy with all the software and hardware support with new CPU, RAM and GPU options they can get.

  25. Some reflection back on "This offers no way to bypass that LED." issue on the Apple side over the years.
    "OverSight: Exposing Spies on macOS"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    11 mins in for the led cam issues over the years.