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  1. Re:Let's not hallucinate on AMD Set To Launch Ryzen Before March 3rd (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    It just has to be as good as an i7 and not cost as much.
    Games like a few cores, as long as each can keep up with the best AMD and NVIDIA gpu's.
    The ability to add a huge cpu cooler and let the CPU ramp up will be interesting.
    As long as one or more GPU's get the CPU support they need for the most demanding 4K ready games vs an i7/i5 it will be fine.

  2. Re:How about a simple "fact checked" icon? on Facebook's 'Journalism Project' Seeks To Strengthen Online News (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A team of SJW will ban what they don't like politically and what the majority shareholders request them to ban. Then add in different nations ban requests?
    US politics vs a SJW that can ban links?
    Blasphemy? No funny cartoons that upset any faith.
    Germany? No questioning open boarders and illegal migrants.
    A monarchies or kingdoms human rights record? No linking.
    A kingdom at war? No links.
    Selling weapons to a kingdom at war? ...
    No jokes about a long list of topics thanks to a few powerful SJW teams?
    A very boring Hollywood movie? No linking to any bad reviews or very funny comments about a poor quality script?
    What is "pure garbage" can be very different to each SJW with a political agenda. Other nations or topics suggested by new shareholders can also demand action.
    Thats why freedom supporting US sites will protect any speech before and after a comment. Other more international sites seeking global funding just hire teams of SJW to ban users and links to keep funding flowing and other nations happy.
    No cartoons, no blasphemy, no local news stories about crime, no politics, no questioning small wars ...
    Teams of SJW will be happy to ban it all.

  3. 1. Secure your router or other network device with a new strong password thats not the default password or admin or user.
    2. Run something like Avast Home Network Security https://www.avast.com/f-home-n... to see if any device still has issues.
    Get OS makers in the US to scan the networks they are on to test if networked devices have default password and warn users to change them.
    Most users will click past such warnings but its a simple step given the AV work the larger US OS brands now ship with their OS.
    3. If you have some CCTV like device that has a network alert, use a dedicated cell network to send that image out to your cell phone.
    Lots of cheap devices don't need to be internet facing and have the ability to connect.
    4. Don't connect your "tv" display, refrigerator, dishwasher, lights, heater, AC to the internet. Use a cell phone network or think back to a next gen pager that only has one secure link to that user for devices that have to alert a user.
    5. Use ethernet if possible so other users cant try and access your wifi network.
    6. Empower the FCC to secure US networked communications consumer products. Not just interference but basic password security as sold too.
    You buy a router in the USA, it ships with its own random strong password and username unique to that device not "password" for entire generations of devices...

  4. Re:This: on Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? · · Score: 1

    +1 AC. Always go for the nixie tube wristwatch.
    With all the "smart" watch hype and fashion, only the nixie tube is a classic.

  5. Re:In the beginning.... on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Needs a no systemd winner in that list :)

  6. Could have, would have, should have on Apple's Share of PC Users Drops To A Five-Year Low (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Focus on the Mac Pro. Make a deal with intel, AMD or Nvidia.
    Roll out a new version every year with a bump in cpu, gpu. Even if a few get sold, the software will be ready for 5K, 8K.
    That mind share, market share, developer glow will attract creative people who want to show how trendy and arty they are.
    That will build a base up from iMac and mini users who are aspirational.
    The blogs, social media filled with hype about the last Mac Pro and the new Mac Pro is what makes a brand have value.
    Get a better Mac Mini out to offer a nice entry level to pull new users in. The iMac is fine. Push the new Mac Pros as pure branding.
    For that to work a new generation of Mac Pro has to be expensive and offer great software results equal to any video or photo editing task on the desktop Windows/Linux side.

  7. Re:Marsh gas on Chile's Goverment Announces Unexplainable 'UFO' Footage (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 for DEA/CIA doing their normal things or unexpected local helicopter having issues.

  8. Security implications on Google CEO Says Next Wave Of Affordable Smartphones Should Cost $30 (phandroid.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why should India or any other advanced nation trust a US based firm with links to 5 eye spy networks?
    Any data captured from "ads" will be sold onto groups that could build a vast digital picture of India.
    What areas, buildings, bases, sites have normal cell signals, what don't allow cell signals? That swarm of "cheap" US cell phones with "ads"could help map some of the most sensitive and secure sites.
    Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the US and UK would get to buy into the results that build up a vast digital map of India.
    Remember the West missed the India nuclear tests as India kept Western spies out and understood the paths of most of the US spy satellites.
    Now vast numbers of engineers, technicians and other staff with sensitive jobs in India will be walking around with US linked cell phones...
    What the US did not see looking down with infra-red sensors or with human spies it will uncover with a nations own workers with cell phones.
    What the US missed with satellite constellations it hopes to make up for with swarms of cheap cell phones.

  9. The same old lists. Time zones, ip ranges, code litter found that points to code thats been out for years and lots of groups use... and thats well understood by the private sector.
    All that got "reported" by the press.
    The early media reports with easy access then get repeated by the US gov.
    The tech media then reflects the US gov repeating their stories as adding new details....
    Finally the world gets to read a guide to old malware terms and words like "high confidence" the NSA having moderate confidence?
    The "not involved in vote tallying" is lost in pages of talk of some "Influence Effort".
    Deeper in words like "probably began cyber operations" start to stand out.
    But then the cyber magic of "exfiltrated large volumes of data" is mentioned? From "probably" to "exfiltrated"??

  10. The FBI trusted contractors :)
    FBI Says the Democratic Party Wouldn’t Let Agents See the Hacked Email Servers (01.05.17)
    https://www.wired.com/2017/01/...
    "... that neither the FBI nor any other intelligence agency ever did an independent assessment of the organization’s breached servers. Instead, they alleged, the FBI relied exclusively on information from private digital forensics company... "'

  11. Re:What IS a recommended secure wifi router? on Norton Announces Core, a Smart Router To Protect Domestic IoT Devices (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Make sure the passwords are not on some support forum or default pass, user, password.
    Buy CCTV or some other vital IoT that will talk to your cell phone without needing the internet when altered.
    Remove all the things from the network that need the "internet" when not at home. Be able to chart, log, respond to changing network conditions when at home.
    Get away from wifi and upgrade to ethernet to connect only important devices.
    Get some AV to test your network. Something like https://www.avast.com/f-home-n... to see if any issues need fixing.
    Get a good secure router. Don't keep it internet connected when it is unattended. If a very important device needs to call out e.g. CCTV, try a cell network.
    The router attacks are looking for a device thats got default login name/password for now.
    Until device makers care about security, do users really need an IoT thats junk and can swarm the net to always be connected?

  12. The single GPU can just get to 4K without SLI. The next 4K GPU generation for games will need a bit more CPU power.
    Until 4K at the very best setting is one GPU ready and needs a new CPU, the CPU profit taking will fill in the release gap.
    Solutions exist for the very best in art, photography, move, broadcast media.
    So the games are pushing for 4K but thats a gpu and lcd generation away from been perfect at the max quality settings and top frame rates.

  13. Re:Can someone please explain? on AMD Debuts Radeon FreeSync 2 For Gaming Displays With Stunning Image Quality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of it as what the better photography and movie production hardware and software have had for years.
    The OS, software, driver, GPU knows about the LCD and its factory settings.
    In the past user would have to buy a supported brand of display with a supporting display card and software.
    i.e. the hardware and software would be "broadcast" ready without needing a user to worry about creating new settings for every project.
    Now games and consumer gpu's are getting the same ability to detect each other and the design limits of a lcd.
    It will look as good as a game developer wanted as they will have settings for every brand and color space of lcd supported.

  14. The rush for DirectX 12? on Windows 10 Gains 14% Desktop Market Share in 2016, Edge Continues to Struggle (petri.com) · · Score: 2

    Now that people have their OS with games and hardware for DirectX 12 support?
    As for browsers, support for blocking all ads and related malware is a trending feature.

  15. It might cost a few thousand US$ or much more but for that sites play the game and include your own art work as supplied.
    Its all in who that first trusted email or link for the game press.
    Step 1. Make a good game with graphics, sound, art, plot.
    Step 2. Write you life story, games concept, issues the developers faced and worked out, the completed result.
    Step 3. Hire a consultant, team or company to create you press release for review sites to use.
    The length and structure of the paragraphs will read well, the many images are ready, videos will be ready for a web site, magazine, blog. Contact details for a radio interview or other emerging or other media.
    Color separation, dpi, resolution, web ready, video, developer photos and their stories. Does it still matter? Your press pack has it all ready for publication. Its all ready for the press, blogs, internet.
    All contact information for later interviews will be correct and cover everything from phone, fax, social media, email.
    Old media is new again, social media is 24/7. Bloggers and online reviewers may have huge audiences. Even political, historical or social aspects can get coverage from talk back radio or very different blogs or sites. Be ready and open to respond to anyone and everyone wanting an interview at any time.
    Make sure such emails, calls and other contact information is been tracked and can be respond to 24/7 after the release. Don't expect the media to fit in with your time zone. Different media in different time zones have to be considered.
    All images, art will have the correct legal wording to allow for instant publication.
    Step 4. Read your review reworded with play testing and see your included great art over a lot of trusted review sites.
    Some effort is needed to be print or web ready. Be ready to talk, chat or for a more formal interview.
    Been interview ready to fit in with any time and different formats (voice only, video) also helps.
    Translation services with some local aspect to the game can help spread packaged coverage globally.

  16. Re "Why is infrastructure on the public Internet ?"
    Generational share holders like their profit over maintenance. Owners like to show they can make profits. Reducing expert staff shows managerial skills.
    Removing staff who are in a union is great too.
    The US was happy to see costs in local staff go to profits and not keep staff working on secure separate networks.
    No expert local teams watching over their state or city or towns grid.
    A few lower cost engineers trusted by the state/feds could watch it all from a big set of networked computers. Lower staff costs, no unions. The networks could find a fault and contractors could be sent to fix or upgrade the grid. No paying staff wages for decades for a few events per year.
    This removed the need to have a huge on site workforce 24/7 watching equipment and systems, getting pensions and been in a union.
    The network used to track issues did not get designed to be facing the "internet" later so any concept of security is now totally lacking.
    Later efforts used the "internet" to remove even more staff and expend the work of fewer staff with skills over wider areas.
    That effort to save costs and use less staff connected some very old and complex networks to the internet. As other nations, users and interesting people move over the many different US internet connections they discover such networks.
    The US won't admit to their own lack of security or need to upgrade internet facing security so they have contractors and the press plant wild stories about "Russia".
    Nice cover for when things fail and very expensive teams have to fix complex issues. It was super smart "Russia" sounds better than a lack of design, doing maintenance or having enough on site staff.

  17. Re:When automation is cheaper than people in China on Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    When you can move the robots to low tax, even more friendly govs?
    Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam might offer even cheaper workers, better tax conditions, even better trade deals with more nations, cheaper new factory sites, expanded airports, lower energy prices, housing for the few workers still needed.
    Once robots can do more, any cheaper nation can offer a special factory zone and fill it with robots and staff.
    What China offered was cheap workers and less tax for a decade with export transport to move products globally.
    A lot of much cheaper nations can now offer better conditions for robots. Their power supplies are ready. Their tax code is ready to support exports and local jobs. Their ports and airports have been expanded. No unions, no staffing issues.

  18. People can add new art work, music, plot and allow for todays most advanced OS, cpu and gpu support.
    It also allows creative communities to gather around the code and try their own projects.
    No need to rent an engine. Support to the new developers who then add features to the released now open code is often an IRC chat or forum post away.
    In a few years optimised, reviewed code is been supported for creative new ideas.

  19. Re:Don't be afraid of the NSA, be afriad of Facebo on Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The real fun is the private contractor or private detective like services who kept all the images and material from early social media in near real time.
    An image removed/hidden within 12 hours a few years ago might still exist.
    That material is then packaged to Fortune 500 brands to look back over the top resumes that get considered. Did a person party? Drink? Drugs? Are they political on the left or right? Any links to undercover journalism? Any interesting people in group photos years ago?
    Other nations are buying the same data within the US private sector on US gov staff as resume services.
    The CIA and State department can never really be sure what their newer staff did at university years ago and what got kept by a third party and is now for sale and indexed.
    University images that got saved by a third party and can be recovered for a fee and can undo any classic CIA or State Department digital cover story expected to hold up to a normal background searches.
    Even criminal groups are using commercial detective services to see who a stranger is and if their cover story is real at city and state levels.

  20. Singapore got into digital networks years ago. e.g. Land Data Hub project.
    The main idea is to attract wealth and keep it safe. Few nations can offer that. That safe feeling covers every aspect of life.
    No strangers just get to walk around like in the EU or USA.
    re the "no power outages or other things."
    The GCHQ has poured decades of hardware into local sites and even Australia gets to help. The power was always secure over decades or collection on China and Indonesia would have slowed :)

  21. Smarter nations don't store their gov documents in plain text facing the internet.

  22. Yes AC thats what most nations do, they count everyone in and out.
    If you are allowed to stay you have to be studying, on holiday, working or have some other really good reason for been in any normal nation.
    The same is followed up for work, education, health care and tourists in most normal nations. When your work or study or holiday is over you go back to your own nation again.
    As for scans, it makes it easy to see who entered, why and for how long they can stay. If they over stay they can be tracked at work, if in study.
    Fake or shared papers produced on demand are then totally useless unless gov files can be altered.
    Australia tried the 100 point check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but that has its limits as layers of not difficult to fake/obtain documents build up the needed profile.
    Considering the ability to keep documents safe at the gov level the iris scan adds another level of much needed security.

  23. Re:Russia exposes political corruption in the US.. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The other fun part is that the US is not even trying to find out who walked out the the actual material.
    "Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections"
    http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
    ""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are,"
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... 15 December 2016
    "The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks'"
    The US faced another Pentagon papers event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and tried to make some code litter thats floating around the "net" look like it was not a very internal, domestic issue.

  24. Re:Retaliatory measures based on no evidence. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    IP range? Time zones? Well understood ode litter that got "found" on site? Code litter that a lot of other groups often got found with as it had been well understood by security officials in the private sector for years?
    The security contractors telling the press it was Russian? The US gov then repeating they saw it was reported as Russian in the press? The press then reporting that the US gov confirmed seeing the press reports about code litter in the press?
    The pages of the report?
    Years of random RATS entering networks? Some graphics showing more definitions?
    Malware? Code litter that was in the wild for years that anyone could use?
    Mitigation suggestions to bulk up a few pages on report on what was done?
    Definitions of malware to add a few more pages?

  25. Re:No the NSA did not blame Russia for death on Snowden Doc Shows NSA Blamed Russia For Hack of Murdered Journalist (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Once people read theintercept and get away from all the US suggestive comments and news, what remains?
    More code not seen in the wild and the NSA telling other 5 eye nations that it knows the code has not been seen in the wild.. with the word probably.