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  1. Re:Do they need Infrastructure People? on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    200Mbps products are the result of good telco policy. Select a plan in some areas on fibre optic and enjoy.

  2. Re:Do they need Infrastructure People? on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    Its more a jobs fair with free travel. The skills needed have to be better than anyone in NZ can be educated with or that NZ can fly in from Australia.
    Australia and NZ have a few of gov agreements making a few aspects of working in each others nations less hard.
    Given NZ can produce staff with the skill sets to work with the NSA over decades, the NZ education system has able to graduate above average students over generations.
    Australia also produces a lot of good graduates so they can be offered jobs NZ if needed and the wage covers moving to and living in NZ.
    Projects like this are just about putting NZ on the map and getting a lot of people on social media considering NZ vs any other nation.
    If the job is nice someone in NZ will get it. If the job cannot be covered, someone from Australia can be paid a lot more to fly in.
    Imports from China cover the lower end of the market as ready to use products and services.
    Internet in NZ is optical in areas with plans been offered like a 200Mbps standard network profile.

  3. It depends on the skill and funding for a lot of "expensive" testing by a city or state government.
    Or some contractor showing up to do a test and add more chlorine (or other method) been used in time and on time.
    Wait for the related heath issues and risk some member of the local press do their own testing..

  4. Re 'By all means protect your borders but please do it in a sensible, effective manner."
    That is hard to do when the visa might be given by one part of the gov for some reason and another part of the US has to later ensure the US is protected.
    The US is taking steps to secure every step part of its visa, passport and later interview process.
    A passport and visa is just the start.
    Most nations will ask about health, bank accounts, ability to fund a stay in they nation, reason for entry, social media use, email accounts, education, a persons past.
    Any and all such questions can be reviewed in any way on entry after a visa has been issued.

  5. Re:Australia on UK: New Drivers Caught Using a Phone Will Lose Their License (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A good sat nav will have a warning about setting up while driving.

  6. The future on White House Supports Renewal of Spy Law Without Reforms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    UK political leaders are pushing for diversity in the security services.
    "Why GCHQ needs to fix its diversity problem" (22 November 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-379...
    The GCHQ will have to become culturally enriched with lots of new staff.
    Questions of security, merit and skill will no longer hold any applicant back from getting a job in or been rapidly promoted within the UK security services.
    Once staff who are loyal to a cult or only their faith advance up in the UK security services the US will have to rethink any and all sharing with the UK.
    If Canada, Australia and NZ keep on sharing US material with the UK questions about the role of Canada, Australia and NZ will have to be considered by the USA. NATO could see the same staffing issues as the UK. Translators, experts hired with few questions in the EU would rise up the EU ranks, reporting on any US material they find.
    The UK/NATO/EU security services will be as useful and trust worthy to the USA as the UK was in the 1940-60's.
    The only way around this politically motivated hiring policy by the UK security services is for the US to look inward and expand the domestic role of the FBI and NSA. Digital collection will be expanded as it is the only method generations of US officials understand.
    Expect ever more internet tracking as the security services in the US have to protect their own gov staff from the UK gov and its lack of security due to changes in UK staffing policy.
    The staff issues can be seen in the UK for the need to collect everything. The UK cannot trust its own staff so it has to collect on the entire UK population by default to try and find any self/radicalization.

    Such hiring issues might not have reached the more secure parts of the US mil/gov but the US gov had relaxed the legal conditions to apply for entry into the US bureaucracy.
    Issues surrounding criminal records, a criminal past, security issues might not always remove an applicant from consideration for working in some enter level role in the US gov.
    People with no past, no papers, just been made US citizens for some reason, might also be be granted access to some US gov work.
    More cult members, people loyal to their own faith and not the USA will attempt to enter and move up in the US gov over the decades.
    Ever more domestic raw material will have to be gathered in the USA for domestic court use as more people trying to infiltrate the US gov and mil are discovered.
    The lack of any background information been considered normal will allow a lot of interesting people to enter the US gov, UK security services.
    The only reaction to that by the US security services will be more digital collection. The methods perfected by the Soviet Union to place human spies in the UK, and US mil/gov over decades is now been attempted by faith groups and cults.
    Unlike Soviet spies the need to meet a Soviet diplomat or easy to track hander is not an issue.
    Their faith or local community is the only contact needed. A full generational support network within the US or UK. Digital methods will not uncover any issues due to human contacts been used.
    The long term role of the FBI, CIA will have to be expanded to track a lot of new gov workers in the US and UK.
    That might take funding, political access away from the now expanded role of the NSA. Expect more leaking as party political operatives talk to the political motivated press. Operatives from one US agency enter another US agency to leak information to the press to ensure political access is reduced or funding removed.

  7. Re:Time for a new search engine? on Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of what the net would have been if SJW would have been able to shape it from the early 1990's on :)

  8. Re:Just like the last Administration on White House Supports Renewal of Spy Law Without Reforms (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The paper files on every interesting person are the same, East or West. All the audio tapes, paper files found in East in the early 1990's got presented to the media. The reports back to the Soviet Union.
    Often the same East German workers are now working for Germany as policy advisors. The German press even knows they worked in the East German security bureaucracy and have now found roles in German politics and government.
    Germany now has better computers, the help of the NSA, GCHQ for the BND. The need to protect German democracy at any cost is just a new job for former East German staff. Zersetzung to protect German democracy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re: USA! USA! USA! on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Most nations are smart and know that just having one part of a gov giving out a visa in another nation is not really that secure.
    So a second line of questions are in place to ensure the visa and person are correct when entering the USA.
    The next step will be biometric. Biometrics matches the visa application, the person at the embassy and that person entering the USA are the same.
    The person then returning home from the USA is the person who entered. The US will soon do what every normal nation has been doing, count and reconcile every visa in and out.

  10. Re:iChat? on AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Will iChat be keeping its support given its long history with AOL?

  11. Just fund The Rods from God (Jun 07, 2005 ) AC, The rod launcher.
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/...
    "tandem satellites"
    "number of tungsten rods, each up to 20 feet in length and 1 foot in diameter."
    "dropped on a target with as little as 15 minutes notice, would enter the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 36,000 feet per second"
    i.e. what was the Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) or Hypervelocity Rod Bundles.

  12. AC to make that work for wireless the hardware needs to be upgraded.
    Each user of the service has to have enough of the network to the tower for 24/7 use at a set speed.
    So the network to the tower might need some work.
    If one tower was used to offer voice and some data to many users, more towers might be needed so all users can enjoy a 24/7 service per device.
    Towers that got designed to share voice and very limited data plans will need work.
    After the towers get upgraded, a new network can be offered.
    How much free cash is floating around to upgrade all the US wide networks, upgrade towers and build a lot of new towers that are ready for 24/7 use?

  13. Re:Can't sue cops *personally* for requesting ID on Appeals Court: You Have the Right To Film the Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just been on public land is not a crime in most areas.
    In some nations you don't get to take pictures of gov/mil buildings or police.
    But such laws are very well understood by locals. Signs, advice, chat downs to tourists soon inform them that they don't get to photograph "that" building.
    If a site in the US does not want to be photographed? Buy a fence, use a fence as a sally port or find more open land with a big fence and work in a distant hanger like building.
    Find a tall building with very well designed windows in the city.
    Photographers can then wonder the streets, hide in bushes, walk around the entrances on public land and will see nothing more that what is on internet mapping apps. CCTV will get facial recognition and is kept for many months.

    Or a "worker" will walk out of the building and take a photo of the interesting person. No ID is shown. Could be federal gov staff, mil out of uniform, a contractor, private security, no attempt to talk is made, the worker returns to the building with a very good quality image of the interesting person for facial recognition. No handcuffs to allow a lawyer to start discovery later, no FOIA to the local police to see who responded to what and why, no ID so no working out who is in the building, no telling the interesting person who or what is in that gov/private sector building.
    If that fails a person will walk up to the interesting person outside and stand in their space until local police attend. The interesting person will then show ID due to the issues that got induced.
    Been allowed to rush out to handcuff random people on public land is legally risky and very interesting for any legal team.
    It also shows response time and who is in the building and who quickly they feel they need to rush out with handcuffs.
    Most gov/mil/contractors are more aware never to give that kind of information away just for a person on public land in a bush..
    Most attempts like that happen near the edge of a mil base by local law enforcement or near very sensitive sites.
    The ability to make up some law to handcuff a person on public land is often lacking as the person never crossed onto gov/mil/private land.
    The chat down attempts to be so loud, direct that the person just gives photo ID.
    Handcuffs are often not needed as it allows for discovery, FOIA, other officials to get officially called in, paperwork that opens FOIA requests at a city, state level.
    i.e. the story is been handcuffed on public land with the 'laws' been quoted and most police forces have finally worked that out and try not to provide that kind of result on public land due to the video clips been on the internet hours later.
    Not good for local elections if the first video found is local police handcuffs person in public quoting fake laws. Anyone searching that town, city or state for the next decade finds a series of videos about been handcuffed on public land and city/state "laws" been quoted.

  14. Yes but funding per movie on Can Streaming Companies Replace Hollywood Studios? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    For a big movie with complex effects?
    To make a really big US movie you need to get your actors and script to a low cost "Canada" to really enjoy the tax issues.
    Then move the product back to the US to have more expensive US staff work on the project with really expensive US private sector super computers.
    The script is easy to find. Actors exist in every state in the US with great talent and skills.
    The super computers are still too expensive per frame per artist in the USA.
    The ability to transport an entire crew to an international "Canada" like location to enjoy complex tax considerations is also a cost with the risk of local currency changes over the duration of the project.
    The risks for the USA are:
    Other nations with good support, gov "funded" private sector super computer services and lower all taxes on new movies.
    If other nations can get that per frame art work cost down, parts of the trendy, creative USA could face real cost issues per project.
    Ireland, England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada could just make that low cost happen by funding local artists, experts with the projection that long term tourism covers the digital "students" art costs.

    How to win:
    Anyone can find US actors, a new script. That US only super computer network that makes nice art still per movie is still too expensive.
    So make movies that don't need a lot of fantasy, avoid the advanced computer work on every frame or get other nations to pay for the complex art.
    Thats limiting. Find other ways to cover computer costs.
    Invest in nations that welcome artists making complex movies and have the gov assistance to really prove their support of the arts. Nations that will do anything to create new hi tech local jobs.
    Don't hire any actors from such nations but use all their services and see what gov support is on offer. A US company has more control over US actors who get strange ideas about wages, conditions, work place safety, the later "sharing" of profits... Local actors might have too many legal rights or even access to expert lawyers, unions in their own nations.
    Enough US actors to pass as a US movie. Enough of an international crew to get international tax rates and art support in nations desperate to tax payer fund their own computer and art students.
    Return to the USA with a product that will sell domestically and enjoy the international tax rate and low cost "educational" support other nations give away.
    Its not gov funded art in some other wealthy nation. The project helped poor computer students in a poor nation with their first big "special effects" movie. It just needed free super computer time the gov had on offer for their poor students for a few months, years ...
    In a historical perspective why stay in the USA and pay for a Video Toaster team when another nation will totally fund a complete 3D animation and rendering package?
    No more US artist/engineers needed per frame, the costs are lower, the product can sell in the USA and globally.

  15. Re:Time for a new search engine? on Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments? (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    AC why try and filter the vast internet with all the comments about illegal migrants, blasphemy, news results about Tiananmen square and 1989?
    Why not just create a safe space with an internet list? All the Hero Brigades SJW teams could add the few news sites they think are politically and culturally appropriate.

    Focus on the ability to build a new internet. Why try and hold back all the sites that are not inclusive in real time?
    Think of looking up authors or composers.
    With a SJW list of approved arts sites the users would be only ever be presented with inclusive diversity.

  16. Re:Why cant these companies on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The big fear is second hand desktop PC game sales.
    If a user can repair a networked PC game account and then sell the game after a year. The boxed serial number that works after a second hand sale would endanger a direct sale of the same game.

  17. Re:So it wasn't the Russians, for once? on UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks On Deutsche Telekom (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    The BND works with the NSA. The BND really don't want too many people in the EU or Germany or German gov working out their skill set or what they do with/for the NSA.
    http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-te... (16.02.2017)
    So the constant political talking point of the "Russian" ip range, timezone, code litter is politically better to have in the international and local tech media.
    If not Germans might ask about the quality of data protection and network security in Germany.
    Talking about Russia keep Germany asking about new German data protection laws, German funding to counter all advanced private sector crypto, networks, security funding, domestic politics, jobs, domestic telco security issues.
    Then reality finally emerges and the tech media talking points are exposed.

  18. The US mil faced the same issues after ww2 in 1945 Germany.
    What to do with all the people wondering around/captured by the US mil in 1945 Germany with skills that the French, UK, Soviet Union, nations in South America showed great interest in.
    The US had the option in 1945 to walk away from all German science, to convict a lot of evil people in Germany for what they did during ww2 or fund what was Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
    The thinking in the US gov/mil on open source and its integration with US gov contractors is complex.
    The US mil has a few options:
    Ban open source at a gov/mil level as it is of no use to contractors and their sale of services to the US gov/mil. Fully support US contractors and their efforts to find US staff to work on any US gov/mil project.
    Ignore open source and risk other nations attracting some US developers for unexpected dual use projects. The risk of an open source gap. A brain drain to nations that support open source and make it trendy, safe, fun.... and offer full funding.
    The suggestion that a full security clearance to keep working on a dual use project in the USA might be needed?
    A smart person in the USA is then lured to another nation that does not demand a security clearance and is very happy to see the complex "open source" project funded?
    Attract open source code talent into the US gov/mil and have some oversight and say in the direction dual use projects.
    The total funding of developers and staff can sway an open source project or even slow or halt a dual use project in interesting ways.
    Or just have US mil/gov funding hidden by a charity or foundation with lots of grants. Staff can then be fully funded without direct links to decades of US gov/mil funding.
    For that open source has to be accepted within the US mil/gov.
    A bit like the way the US gov funded and always looks after US crypto studies :)
    Efforts by the GCHQ with Linux could allow the UK to be less dependant on the NSA long term.
    Better to have the GCHQ asking for NSA help with any and all "open source" efforts rather than a US gov ban on open source allowing the UK to fund its own projects without NSA advice, help and guidance.

  19. Time for a new search engine? on Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A search engine that still searches the internet?
    Less effort on creating Hero Brigades and more effort on been a search engine?
    If a US search engine wants to be a safe SJW protected service with lots of ads, what would the results look like?
    The rest of the internet can create a real search engine that finds results. Not having SJW approval to show results would make for some fun marketing.
    The internet is not a problem. SJW filtering of the internet is showing less results and users expect a working search engine.
    The news is good, as one global search engine becomes more of a safe space, better search brands are been developed and funded.
    All a search engine has to do is search. If people want safe party political results why not set up a "safe" space list site?
    Everyone can then be happy. The SJW teams get their reporting and banning projects funded. SJW approved political and culturally safe link lists.
    Back to the early 1990's with the entire safe internet presented as a link list in 2017.
    Just list the very best in safe sites? No filtering, no questions, no comments. Just safe news and party political talking points.
    No blasphemy, no faith related cartoon sites, no mention of Tiananmen square and 1989. Think of how safe that limited list of sites could be.
    No links to any news sites that allow comments about illegal migrants?

  20. Re:No you dont on Appeals Court: You Have the Right To Film the Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    AC look for youtube video clips with terms like: Silent, first amendment audit

  21. Re:Can't sue cops *personally* for requesting ID on Appeals Court: You Have the Right To Film the Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If the person is not on police property?
    How far back is that "in bushes" or "across" zone? A street, a few streets? One block? Given a zoom on a better quality video camera?
    Does a person need to be in the bushes? What if they are smart and are not really hiding? Standing next to a tree? Walking near a tree that they could hide behind later? Member of the press looking for the bush where the person got handcuffed? A tourist? A member of the public? Another First Amendment audit near the bushes after what happened to the last person with a camera in that area?
    Is the bush on public or private land? Is everyone near that bush stopped? Just some people? Or only people with a camera?
    Most police just follow a person back to their car or home and get their ID that way :)
    If the police don't want cameras then do want police have always done. Have a drive in area with two gates. The gate opens to a closed in area, drive in, gate closes. Any camera can only capture what any one walking by can see. A very low cost sally port.

    After the city keeps on going to court, the supervisor will have to have a meeting about how people can still wonder around in public with a camera.
    The cheap option for the city is to send out a person to talk to and photograph interesting person hiding/in the bushes. Use the facial recognition and see how the person hiding responds to been talked, confronted to and been photographed.
    No uniform, no police ID, no handcuffing. Just a talking and standing in front of the persons camera.
    Just two random people with cameras.
    The First Amendment audit person, tourist will soon request police help after such an unexpected and very direct interaction with a total stranger.
    The resulting need for police interaction will be a very easy way to ID the interesting person.
    No expensive rights issues, no handcuffs needed.

  22. Re:No you dont on Appeals Court: You Have the Right To Film the Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A persons rights cannot be taken.
    But if the chat down results in photo ID voluntarily been shown or the dslr/camera been handed over?
    If the chat down is loud, direct, friendly, helpful the person on public land might just show ID, stop filming or even hand over their camera.
    Been surrounded by mil in uniform, private security and/or local police on public land all suggesting it might be a good time to show ID and to turn off the camera?
    That police would like to or want to or need to know who a person with a camera is for their paperwork as they got called out..
    The ability to suggest that its now very normal, helpful, good to stop filming and hand over photo ID? Or just give up the media/storage to be a helpful as an investigation could be started..
    That line between under arrest, conducting an investigation, talking, been free to go, is having a dslr in public on public land reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime?
    Another attempt is to suggest press ID, local police press ID gives permission to film in that area or city... that all land in the state is state property and not really public land :)
    That very special permission is always needed to film "on" a mil base. "In" a court building due to informants or people in jail... or due to under cover officers..
    Anything to keep the conversation going and the person speaking about their rights...
    The hope is the person will then show photo ID just to have the ability to walk away after such creative talking points.

  23. Re:How is FILMING "speech"? on Appeals Court: You Have the Right To Film the Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be rather chilling and funny if a camera crew or person with a dslr camera on public land needed to talk loudly about their rights at set intervals :)

  24. Re:No you dont on Appeals Court: You Have the Right To Film the Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You have the right to film from public land.
    Police will try a few mind tricks at the more interesting sites. Courts, mil base, vital infrastructure, jails, prisons will usually create a chat down event.
    A demand, request for photo ID and the reason for walking on public and, having a camera on public land.. .
    Anything from a friendly request to "help" with the paperwork, a request to give a name, to a direct almost legal sounding demand for photo id.
    Other chat down methods are Who are you working for, Will this be on the net, under what account... Do you have police press ID?
    Mil, contractors and private security will often try the same with "chat downs" about been near their site. Still on public land but they have some "power" to ask who a person is well beyond their fence line...
    That the jail, base, court "extends" out onto public land past any fence, sign and that the ability to film from public land is not allowed is often attempted.
    The other trick is to let the person have their "rights" and follow them back to their car and get the plate and id..
    Other more direct methods is the undercover talking point. Not to show faces.
    Or a federal official with no ID or uniform might grab a camera to induce local police to be called. To report the crime a name will have to be given.
    The crime will be reported but later FOIA will never ID the person who reached out for the camera.
    A lot of chat down ways around a lack of clear Stop and identify statutes.

  25. Re:How is FILMING "speech"? on Appeals Court: You Have the Right To Film the Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The US protects the right to collect information from public land and then talk about it.
    Freedom of speech, freedom after speech, freedom of the press to gather information for a story.
    Also a person does not have to invoke their rights by "speaking" a word or requesting their rights every time they are out in public.
    The police can attempt a chat down to request/demand/induce photo ID depending on the state.