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  1. Re:Let the mansplaining begin! on In Tech, Wage Gender Gap Worsens For Women Over Time, and It's Worst For Black Women (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If woman are so low cost to hire, every company would hire many more woman to keep wage costs lower.
    Save 4-20% or more per wage and ensure only woman make it past the interviews.
    Every company would be top heavy with woman due to the executive wage scale savings.

  2. Different names, mil grade. The US and UK have had devices like that since the creation of cell phone networks.
    Its just the cost got low for national police forces to buy on the one market.
    Also telco law had to catch up to allow the comment on such devices in open court. The US and UK did not want any open court discussion of such methods in the 1980-90's.

  3. Re:Worthless on Phony VPN Services Are Cashing In On America's War On Privacy (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    A VPN offers a nice encryption layer that hides all plain text from local police, local gov, lawyers, health services, your ISP.
    That is great given how much is now been collected in many nations over months and can be searched and requested by a gov, local gov, public private partnership contractors or a lawyer for a civil matter in some nations.
    In the UK "As the Investigatory Powers Bill passes into law, internet providers will be required to keep a full record of every site that each of its customers have visited" (24 November 2016)
    http://www.independent.co.uk/l...
    In Australia "Here's Every Australian Government Agency That Wants Your Data" (Jan 18, 2016)
    https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201...
    In the USA? Some legal changes that have been suggested over the years https://www.eff.org/issues/man...

  4. Re:Can you daisy chain VPNs? on Phony VPN Services Are Cashing In On America's War On Privacy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Re " it seems like things would be pretty untraceable, if not in theory then in reality."
    The police or security services who detected a criminal matter would track the first VPN.
    International paperwork would be requested for the VPN owners/host nation showing a real crime in that nation.
    A local court in the VPN's own nation would see that evidence and then the VPN would be contacted.
    The VPN would have no logs but the user of interest has a pattern of access. So every packet in and out is looked for a time on that VPN.
    The details of one user are recovered. The VPN did not log users, the police have an IP of the user of interest.
    If its a second VPN, the same request is made. The user is seen using the service in real time and ISP packets collected.
    The ISP is contacted in the user of interests own nation. Takes twice as long but the results are the same. A VPN gives a user some privacy.
    Using an ISP at home is still easy to track back once the police get interested and have court support in different nations.

  5. Re:Option missing on Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Really Collects (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Install different applications to read data.
    Some sort of wireshark like tool over time?
    Add a lot of very different file types and alter the way MS works with the files.
    Video files, images, documents, music, text.
    Will creating data or just having a file on a usb device do anything? Opening a file, saving a file, exporting?
    Do file extensions matter?

  6. Re:How is this currently legal? on Bill Would Stop Warrantless Border Device Searches of US Citizens (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The data part is often to look at the digital images. Did the person go to a different nation but claim (lie) about any other nation (locations seen in image and any gps data kept in file).
    Faces get run past recognition software and public/private/mil/police/public-private partnership/international/US state databases. Are people in an image, are any of interest to the USA or any other nation that requests the US look for a person of interest?
    Do the images show support for or funding of groups of interest to the USA?
    Contacts with people or groups of interest to the USA?
    To see cloud content, social media and scan for contacts, images, faces, names.
    Any encryption detected? Consumer grade junk or vast amounts of data thats encrypted that can be detected but not accessed?
    Health or financial details that have been hidden or a direct lie told?
    The US then has a few options, remove a person from the USA, keep asking questions or allow the person to walk away but been tracked.
    It can be fun to watch how person reacts after questioning. Do they stop using all accounts and stop using the hardware fearing gov malware got added?
    Do they connect the device to a home computer one last time and then stop using the device?

  7. Buy some bulk ISP traffic and just search for device updates. If the IP is the same weeks or months later that device might still be online.

  8. Re:Almost all the Constitution applies to all on Bill Would Stop Warrantless Border Device Searches of US Citizens (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "All of the US Constitution applies to citizens, resident non-citizens, and visiting non-resident non-citizens"
    Once in the USA.
    At a crossing a person can still be searched and asked a lot of questions. About what is found during a search. Support for or funding of groups of interest to the USA?

  9. Re:How is this currently legal? on Bill Would Stop Warrantless Border Device Searches of US Citizens (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Non non-Americans do not have a US "right" to enter the USA. They can present the correct paper work, get searched, get asked questions. On the first lie, its back to their own nation.

  10. Re:How is this currently legal? on Bill Would Stop Warrantless Border Device Searches of US Citizens (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    A US citizen gets to be asked questions and searched. That is part of moving out of the USA and returning to the USA.
    If every US person then gets to lawyer up for every simple bag search, the flow of people into the USA would stop working.
    So it is legal to ask for a search and the person does not have the "right" to say stop that search or demand a lawyer.
    When something is found they face a normal US court with all the lawyers as normal.
    A few people have tried the lawyer issue or demand "rights" on entering the USA over many years.
    Courts have sided with the idea of been able to search a person without having to wait for their legal team to be called out to the airport, port.
    A person has rights when entering the USA and after a search. A person cannot be held for a long time until they are let go or if needed passed onto US law enforcement. So protections do exist.
    They get any lawyer they want before a court and with law enforcement if something is found.
    Just been from the USA is not like diplomatic immunity to say no to any search.
    Been from the USA allows a person to enter the USA, get searched, be free to go or face a US court if anything interesting is found.

  11. Re:What about lost accounts? on 'Extreme Vetting' Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Facial recognition will cover most private, public, mil and gov databases.
    The main account will be the one used on any application. For most people that might be the normal email account they use every day.
    So for most people that will not be an issue.
    A person with an almost empty, new email account, name and pw on paper just for such a question?
    The only emails been with the US gov?
    If its special just for entering the USA, why did a person create it just for their US paperwork?
    Did they track or submit their paperwork on an ISP in their own nation? Got an email account on that ISP?...
    It won't be about what a person is forgetting. It will be about what they lie about, what they thought the USA never would find or ask about.
    Their funding for, support of interesting groups. Links to other interesting people. One lie and its back to the nation of origin.

  12. The US has often asked questions about party membership and a persons role in war.
    People don't get to lie on entry to the USA.

  13. Border officials have absolute power in most normal nations.

  14. Re:Will have zero effect on bad guys on 'Extreme Vetting' Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    re 'The cost to personal liberty, the flagrant unconstitutionality"
    A person not from the USA does not have "constitutionality" protections when entering the USA. They have some rights, protections but have to tell the truth or they get returned to their own nation.
    Re 'If you are a bad guy, why would you bring a phone loaded with contacts?
    No phone in 2017 stands out. A clean new smart phone stands out just for entering the USA. A phone with normal contacts and some account history allows links to be made. Support for interesting groups, funding of interesting groups in social media.
    Bank accounts and support for an interesting charity?
    Photo or social media images get facial recognition for interesting faces.
    Friends of friends of friends. All that can now be more considered. At the first lie, the person is told to return to they own nation.
    Re "It doesn't currently happen at the border" Thats the idea, to keep people guessing. Normal people are well funded, have a clear idea of what they are doing in the USA, why, for how long and at what locations. Interesting people might have had a simple cover story they get very confused about during the unexpected interview. One lie and they return to their own nations. The more data that can be looked at the more an interesting persons story fails and the lies start.

  15. re "Just ... what are they expecting with this? HONESTY?"
    People will arrive and get asked different questions.
    They have to be truthful.
    So as the questions get more complex, the lies start to add up.
    A person who could have once expected to lie or hide their past and sneak their way into the USA will find it harder.
    Social media and other accounts might give insight into support for or funding of groups the USA finds interesting. In the past a person might have been able to hide their funding or support role. New questions give the ability to detect more lies and stop that person from entering the USA.

  16. Re:Exisiting Service? on FCC Limits Order On Charter Extending Broadband Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Re Why has choice has become as taboo word in our society
    Generational share holder wealth that is extracted from captive consumers.
    Consumers on average won't move just to change an ISP, so why allow another ISP into the area for free?
    Thats your network, your consumer, your network to upgrade on your own terms, your profit to enjoy.
    Competition is a sin.

  17. Understand your boss on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With a Terrible Tech Manager? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If your wealthy and smart start you own company.
    If your not wealthy or smart?
    Your stuck with having to understand your boss and have to try and reason with them.
    Try and understand your boss and their origins.
    Overeducated for the role and wanted to be promoted in the past but failed?
    Had some connection with others in management that secured their role but they are not a productive boss?
    Someone who once had good ideas but has less to offer every year?
    They use their own boss as a method of advancement and just keep staff around to fill in the role of been a boss? Their own advancement is the project not anything that needs to be done.
    The boss has issues from university, never went to a good "university" in the traditional way, was too poor to enjoy university, did not fit into any social setting at university. Was smart but did not have the correct level of wealth to fit in? All that can shape the mind and issues a boss projects. Poverty made them have many, many issues decades later.
    Social acceptance issues? Even been a "boss" just does not wash away that feeling of not been accepted by management.
    Lack of ability to learn new skills. The boss is using past success to just stay in place for a few more years. They don't want to lean new methods. They have staff for that.
    They have the wrong education. It was ok years ago and got them the job but they feel different from their better educated peers.
    They had a good memory that as able to fake their way past university exams, the interview and the social skills to become a boss.
    Even average staff know they have a lack of ability needed in their role. So the boss takes steps to hide that issue.
    Most people have traits they bring up from university and as they enter the work force. What was your boss like? Could they even study on their own or did they always need help? Could they work on a project or did they always need a lot of support?
    Once you understand your boss aviod the things that make them unhappy.
    If your wealthy and happy don't remind your boos of their own poverty filled past.
    If your boss is smart, learn from them.
    If your boss is lacking in skills, don't be the person that knows too much about their past.
    Other traits are the boss who has to talk about their new found wealth and what they are doing socially. The charities, social events, music, art, a new car.
    If you are wealthy and enjoyed all that as a given, it becomes almost comical to sit and listen to your boss trying to buy their way into society. Try to be positive and just be happy for your boss. If you boss finally has the wage to enjoy opera or some other social event just smile and ask them all about their experience.
    A normal boss will work hard, bring new ideas, have the educational background to study and keep learning new things, want the best for the company and all staff. They will want to share their own skills and learn.
    If not something is wrong, just take the time to find out what. Poverty, educational issues, a well hidden lack of talent.
    Good interviews and hiring on merit with background investigations will usually detect any of the bad traits. Always interview, hire on merit and look into pasts, then a company can avoid staff issues.

  18. But the music and graphics support was often a bit different :)

  19. Well AC how far up a different network can an attachment be looked at without the infection spreading?
    Perhaps consider any attachments on a safer computer and see whats in the file before it gets to a computer/network thats vital?
    Lots of strange OS exist, lots of different file systems. Some of them should be able to network and display an attachment.

  20. Re:Develop a MOBILE GPU, yes? on Apple To Develop Its Own GPU, UK Chip Designer Imagination Reveals In 'Bombshell' PR (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    Its not the desktop PC issue. Apple has the surrounding hardware, OS, cpu, the developers, a way to pay developers for their software. The GPU is the last part that still has outside considerations. Control over the OS, developer tools, battery usage, resolution and the CPU tasks can allow for an interesting new internal GPU concept.

  21. When every brand had their own GPU ideas, CPU ideas and music chip support.
    A tight new GPU design could see the kind of advancements some of the most creative game designers made with gpu support in the 1980's
    Real freedom to be creative on one platform again. Not having to worry about the port, Windows, other devices.
    A better in house GPU to keep developers happy. Been less tempted by easy porting and more productive on one OS.
    The users then have to buy a hardware product range to play the must have game.

  22. Re:Welcome to the newspaper decade on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "They don't just hand a script draft to a director"
    Why not? Why should the job even be offered at a lower wage to someone from Australia, or New Zealand? An author from the UK, Ireland? Canada?
    Why not make it that simple in the USA. Select people in the USA, they have the skills they sell. Get the movie or series accepted and write as needed, with the help that is later needed.
    The problem for the professional US writer is wage pressure from other english speaking nations and new media owners seeking ever cheaper ideas and staff outside the USA.
    Broadcasters and streaming brands taking low cost books and scripts from other nations and making a cheaper product for the USA.
    So the US writers have to come up with some method to avoid going the way of US newspapers.
    Just accept much low wages that covers paying the rent in most nice areas or counter the flow of cheap new international scripts.
    Do global viewers want the US presented by someone educated in the UK as lower cost fiction?
    US authors and writers have to show they have decades of life in the US to draw from. A few years in a UK university and a decade of been published in the UK is not going to ever cover the complexity of the USA.
    It might help with a plot about someone moving to the US from the UK or a US plot in the UK.
    People have to get smarter about protecting their jobs in the USA, not just giving away decades of inside contacts and production access to other nations.

  23. Re:Welcome to the newspaper decade on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Good enough to sell a project.
    Random staff can be found to do clean up any issues so a committee is finally happy. The main aim is to ensure only select people even have access to offer a project and only from a limited pool of existing talent.

  24. The budget per US federal case on Tor Browser Will Feature More Rust Code (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    is able discover the origins of onion routing users. A change in code is nice but does not change the ability to track and find.

  25. Welcome to the newspaper decade on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Now anyone can write a script and submit it to any new streaming company.
    The once needed access to a select few staff in TV stations or broadcasters is over.
    Creative pay at a broadcaster will slip down to that of an editorial assistant and stay low.
    Make a fuss and a lot of very skilled people are waiting for that job for even lower wages.

    Writers should have done more to protect their profession during the good decades.
    Ensured that only US universities can offer the needed academic standing for the creative professions.
    Some sort of accreditation to ensure only people in the profession now can be allowed to write for broadcasters.
    That would have reduced the competition of writers allowed to interact with the wider public. Wages stay up and good existing jobs are protected.
    Ensure only a qualified writer can offer work, sign a contract and a have a script accepted. Make "arts" and "english" a profession again.
    Consider how aspiring talent is entering the profession. They are competing to lower wages and take jobs.
    Dont go the way of newspapers in the online world. Learn from past errors in other areas of the arts and secure a profession as a professional writer.

    Study who else is submitting scripts to streaming and broadcasting companies.
    If the work submitted is not from the USA, suggest a strong Russian influence in their past work or education or friends?
    Use existing contacts to ensure only existing authors are considered.
    Also use the US government, big US brands and mil to further your own work. Plots have always been friendly, supportive or never mentioned complex issues.
    Consider the new owners of broadcasters. Tiananmen square an issue? A theocracy? Monarchy? Human rights issues and weapons sales? A cult or faith wants some good fiction about their past?
    Why risk a new writer with ideals and ideas? Listen to the people who are now in control of the streaming brand and broadcasters, work within the owners branding needs. Once the owners know who can be trusted and will write what they consider quality, become a no bid contractor.
    Never be afraid to report new gifted authors to the correct authorities if they have equal skills or better talent.
    They present a good rural script? Thats hidden nationalism and a Russian topic of influence.
    An inner city story? Thats Russia trying to get poor consumers to lose faith in US brands and the US mil.
    Any enviromental aspects to the plot? Thats an ag gag issue trying to sneak around local laws. Report that author to their home state and the feds
    Given the vast amount of work submitted is junk with poor grammer and spelling, a professional work can quickly move to the top once some other authors have lost their professional standing.