AC most nations have universities graduating a lot of people every year with some computer science, math, engineering skills.
In some of that count of students a good few will have had great computer game, art and code exposure.
Define what your company or brand needs, interview locally then nationally and find the staff with merit, skills and talent.
Interview them, ask them questions, read their resumes, ask more questions. Sooner of later in the submitted applications and after a lot of interviews a really smart, talented person with a background in games, art and music will be found.
Your brand or company knows what they need, don't let big gov or a SJW alter interview or hiring practices.
The written application with no real ability outside some trendy programming language that was the educational tool a decade ago is not the only factor to consider.
Some student who could fake their way past tests and exams on paper or was given easy grades not based on merit is not going to bring any usable skills to your brand.
Consider who to hire, what they really bring, what they did for a decade or more with the internet, art, music, math, history, sport, languages. Was their school and university able to provide access to other topics beyond a few hours learning to pass exams in "computer" class?
If a brand or company keeps on taking in average staff they will make average products as the staff have to be supported and cared for while they should be "working".
Profits will suffer, new hardware and software will have to wait while the average staff take up ever more funds and time.
Meetings about products and design will then be about staff issues and their inability to do what they should be able to do and are not.
Useless staff are a problem in any company that needs the best to take on the world. Other nations test and only allow the best to get university places. They don't have that *statistics* issue because their students are all good as only the very best got considered for university.
Other nations might not have the start up funding or freedom to build like in the USA or create but they know their graduates are work ready and are all passed on merit.
Stop trying to rent in very expensive areas.
If the rent is too high don't stay in that part of the USA. As a few people have suggested move to a cheaper part of the USA.
If your offering a service or help make a product expect to bus or car in for hours from a lower cost area.
A service job will not cover the cost of a home, daily travel, school, food, medical... in a wealthy area.
People with good jobs in a wealthy area can cover their costs, save and enjoy holidays and ensure really good educational standards.
Get a better education or trade to apply for a better job that can cover local costs or move to another part of the USA with much lower rent.
Most normal nations have gov workers who see that homes are not crowded and that all is within set standards. That addresses and student lists match other local employment or unemployment paperwork, tax records or support payments per home.
With any level of advanced city, state and federal bureaucracy such issues should never exist in any advanced nation. A home in the name of its owner, or a renter should have the funds to cover their rent, payments and still have an income to cover related costs.
If not what are they doing? An illegal income? An income thats too low and they have help with the rent from unlisted people or something? How many unlisted people?
Who are they and what are they doing in that home?
Why would any city, state or federal gov allow that people who cant cover their rent to sign for a home and cover the payments with unknown payments? Just create a database of all home owners, renters and their average taxation, costs and declared incomes.
Start looking for averages and cross reference with state, city and federal statistics. Have a local bureaucracy walk the streets and note homes that don't add up as one or two incomes and average rents or bank repayments. Do they have an extra job they have not been taxed on? Or is the home full of random extra people not paying tax who help with the rent? Who are they and what does the state and federal gov know about them?
If a home cant cover an average rent on their declared wage, who else is in the home and why?
Once each home gets renters or owners who can afford to live in an area quality of life returns to normal for that area.
Normal city and nation building issues like traffic congestion, internet speeds, quality education, road repair, sports, parks can then be considered.
Sort out the population so people can afford the local lifestyle or get the long term support they need in nice lower rent areas of a city.
In the past the quality of programmer was better. Hardware and software was really understood by a select few.
The Renaissance Man, polymath who could code, create and follow software design from start to support phases.
Quality education and merit advancement saw the very best with varied talents in code, music, arts able to offer complete amazing projects.
On time, on budget and within hardware limits with nice visuals, music and good stories.
Graphics, CPU, RAM limits, music, software design and game flow had to be tight.
Now the average system has enough RAM, network bandwidth, a powerful CPU, a great GPU. Everything is ready for really great designers and brands.
What is lacking a smaller teams of really great, creative people with the creative and artistic US/EU freedom of the 1980's, 1990's.
A really good plot, using the gpu, cpu to its best. Not play testing a release on paying customers.
The problems seemed to add up with OS teams split between desktop and console projects.
GPU brands not racing each other to be 4K ready well before 4K displays and games.
Other creative OS developers not keeping up with the music and art game design apps teams needed.
The meddling in brands by outside SJW wanting ever more control over plot and demands for ever more cultural enrichment in the branding and game visual.
SJW demands take away from testing, design and creativity.
OS makers need to support their tools and document their code tools so more developers can be ready for any changes.
Don't let a great game get stuck in some SJW committee, spend that time and funding on getting the game ready.
Stop hiring useless, average staff to work on complex projects based on submitted "paperwork".
Start hiring the very best and ensure they have some musical or artistic talent along with the best coding skills for their generation.
Ask applicants about their computer usage, computer systems they had over years.
The bandwidth they had at home, the early computer systems, the fun games and consoles. The OS's and code they worked with over the years. The hours they put into music, sport and art. The english, arts, languages their teachers supported.
See how they recall the fun of good games and recalling past music, game art. Make sure the person got a long exposure to game art, music, OS's, reading, fiction. Did their education allow for lots of different extra curricular reading, art, provide access to a few very different computer systems?
Average at code is not good enough on some paper resume from a university. Not having a lot of background in early computer games makes the person useless. Thats a decade of insight a much better qualified person will bring as they enjoyed the game culture on desktops, the net, consoles.
Conduct much better interviews and only hire the best who can talk about their access to hardware, software, music, arts and games.
Good education and access to a lot of expensive hardware, software, past games brings a creativity that can really make future projects great.
Stay away from the average, mediocre and set up a corporate structure of small teams that can avoid big gov hiring regulations or SJW pressure.
A company kept very small with a few of the best consultants might be better than a vast team of really below average staff.
Only hire the best staff. If gov hiring regulations or SJW pressure is great in a city or state, move your brand. Don't get stuck with very average full time workers.
But if the system is air gapped it won't need so much support over the years. It the system just keeps on working as designed think of the contractors who have lost overtime repairing and upgrading networks and systems.
Think of the hours of support lost when a US system gets air gapped. Thats years of good paying high tech contractor jobs lost to one hardware fix.
The US is just doing what every other normal nation does. Have a boarder and making sure the documents and reasons for been in the USA are correct.
Most nations ask people on holiday how long they will stay, where their hotel is or if they are staying with friends, family when requesting entry.
Do they have enough cash to cover their stay? Do their "friends" or "family" actually exist? Does the hotel, resort exist?
If on "business" does their brand or company exist? If a "student" does their stated study plan exist and for how long will they stay? How many hours of study?
Do they have the funds not to need to work in the USA over the time they will be allowed into the USA for "study"?
If not who is covering their living costs? Can they show funding to cover not needing to work in the USA if allowed in for a holiday or study?
Given the lax passport and citizenship standards in many once trusted EU nations, the USA has to ensure the passports, documents and reasons for entering the USA is correct. As the EU failed at that and now gives usable international travel documents out to anyone who arrives and asks for EU citizenship, the US has to be very aware of who might seek entry into the USA from the EU. EU travel documents are now totally useless in determining a persons real origins or past on entry to the USA. So the US has to request more information to try and work out who wants to enter the USA and why.
Such very normal methods keep out illegal immigrants, people who over stay or who work in the USA when lying about entry for a holiday or pretending to study.
The US has a lot of legal, easy ways to enter and enjoy a great holiday or work or get an education.
A bad person just has to tell the EU that are fleeing "war" and they get a new EU citizenship and legal EU papers.
The issue for the USA is that so many once trusted EU nations are now flooded with illegal migrants from very high risk third party nations the US gov tracks.
What was once the National Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... could be circumvented by an interesting person getting new documents from a nation the US once considered safe.
Getting new documents under that safe nations past reputation with the USA can allow all kinds of interesting people to try and sneak into the USA with new, clean documents.
That is why the US has to track every nations workers, people on holiday or students. The other nations passports so trusted in the 1980's are now junk and get handed out to anyone who can tell a good story on walking into EU.
You would be asked for your ISP email account. The one that might have got used for US travel documents?
If that showed any social media account creation or use then that would be detected.
The questions would get more detailed, the interviews would move to small rooms smaller with more formal warnings.
The option to be allowed into the USA would be under review with each hour of questioning.
If a person requesting entry into the USA used a clean formal email account, a question could be asked if any other ISP email accounts existed...
A request to log into the main ISP account would show if any other email accounts got created.
Or was the ISP account just to request US documents and contact with the US gov with no other history or even years or months of normal use?
If the account was old but showed no other history or all of the past had had been wiped i.e. just contact with the US gov for travel documents was kept?
That would not be normal and a request would be made for other accounts. If names, past history already mentioned don't track the email logs?
Different global travel, ip ranges, names, slang, jargon would soon be detected. Even facial recognition on all and any attachments over years of email use...
It will help sort out illegal migrants with a cover story about been on a holiday or who faked some reason to "study" in the USA. People who have devices with guides and support material known to law enforcement to help illegal migrants to try and stay hidden in the USA.
Guides that show sanctuary cities and how illegal migrants can get state and city documents or access US tax payer funded state or city support services.
Scanning for such material or a past history of looking at support sites would be useful in finding people who want to over stay or work in the USA.
It also might provide some hints at illegal migrant workers supporters, networks, movements and who uses them as workers i.e. an unexpected destination or new areas of interest to law enforcement.
US law enforcement can the build a digital map of movements, supporters, work and areas in the USA providing services, papers, work.
Its time to look a browser logs, digital files, reading material not just luggage. Illegal migrants who thought they could fool the USA on entry with a good "holiday" or "educational" cover story might still slip up with their online reading material.
Too many hero teams and SJW are banning the fun and news and culture and history and art and.... politics and... blasphemy and...
Once people hesitate to upload or have to consider every word they will more to more fun US sites that offer freedom from teams of SJW.
Freedom of speech was the only thing that the USA offered a site. With a more global outlook and SJW, hero teams trying to remove all fun, any creative sites brand will slip.
Sites that offer freedom of speech and the freedom to comment will get the users. News, politics, art, faith, fun does not need some SJW to remove content and ban users.
Creative fun users don't just stop using a site, they find a competing site that offers freedom and take their fans with them.
The more SJW hero teams try to make a site into a global safe space, the more fun and creativity really great sites attract.
Yes that extra bell step will make users move other networks. Why make users click again? They will just click over to better services that can track their accounts, interests and clips without needing to remember click a "bell" all the time.
It's more about branding and sales.
Who would by a US crypto or networking product with the NSA, GCHQ, Australia, Canada, NZ, the FBI, city, state police, their workers, ex staff and former staff having the once secret NSA only keys?
Then any US ex staff and former gov/mil staff could sell access or give access to... their faith, cult, the media, other nations, competing corporations, any monarchy or theocracy who can pay for information on dissidents or people suspected of blasphemous acts?
The other cost is the price of passing on two production lines. Once secure for the rest of the world and a new USA only junk crypto production line.
A new US only production line with hardware trapdoors and backdoors would have to be designed in far up the production line. Who would consider Made in the USA when buying any product or service knowing the product or service to be designed to fail all the time?
Any US crypto product or service would be the first to be dropped from consideration as junk. That would open lucrative markets to any nation with crypto experts who can code.
It works for overtime, contractors, US contractors installing more hardware and software. Trips for UK staff to the USA to learn about advances in US, NSA and contractor hardware and software.
The ability to show political leaders in the UK how the world is more digital and how the GCHQ can collect it all if only they had more staff and got more budget growth.
Overtime in installing new US hardware. Overtime to test new US hardware. Overtime in keeping new US hardware running. Language skills and translators needed for the bulk collection. All needs staff and funding.
That funding could have been given to MI6, MI5, SAS and expert police/mil teams actually watching very bad people who are smart enough never to have phones or computers.
The UK went for the NSA contractor push that every bad person has to have a cell phone, use wifi or desktop computer or phone or have a voice print file.
Or at some point in the UK speak on any phone like device/VOIP in a "foreign" language that will auto create a voice print for the security services.
AC that should have been the result of the Church Committee in the mid 1970's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... who had to look into the domestic spying role of the NSA and CIA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was the fix to allow the NSA to spy globally and to totally stop any new domestic spying issues.
Now US agencies are again looking into all email use to see if they can find some trace of a code or part of a code with no domestic oversight or protections.
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution should protect the USA domestically from any such color of law, acts, findings, security letters or any other not "legal" attempts at domestic spying.
Considering the crypto the US tried to hold back as "munitions" decades ago?
The demand for back doors and trap doors in US crypto?
Now other gov are not to get 'intrusion software" for their own police, mil and security services?
The good news is many other smarter nations will just go on exporting their own really great software.
The really interesting market will be in the safe export of counter surveillance software.
What did the NSA fear? That nations domestically will buy in from their own experts rather than flying in US NSA contractors with "legal" export grade software?
Good security globally protects everyone. Holding good crypto, tools and methods back from the free market just allows more trapdoors and backdoors to stay in place and not be fixed.
The more academics and exports that are free to look at crypto and tools and share results the better. Things that fail can then be reported and fixed. The US suggesting limits on software, methods, academic free speech does not make for secure software, networks. People with skills will just move to free nations and sell their really good, secure products. US untested, export grade software will then be questioned as it will be NSA, FBI, GCHQ backdoor "ready" as a gov approved product.
What nation likes to be told that their exports just have to use US products and have to change their own laws so that US products and severs get a free pass to be imported?
As people have mentioned, inner city ares have a lot of criminals. Don't work from any such areas.
So find a nice area of the city that has fast internet and is still low crime. If new people moving into the area bring crime with them, move to another safer area well away from the areas of crime.
Lots of people have listed really great physical security ideas.
Find a big desktop, a really modern looking tower PC and fill it with old hard drives and a working PSU. Make sure it lights up, has a working fan. Have a fancy, big, display connected with a Windows 10 Professional login. Thats your huge decoy work from home computer packed with junk files but it looks so expensive.
Have a big router, modem, network, Windows file system in another computer or laptop. Thats your digital honey pot. Great to know who is looking at your work, searching for your brand, has followed your brands network down to your computer. Lots of fake bait files to find and a tricky way in should keep any intruder busy.
Any guests, workers wondering around your home get shown the fancy office room with the computers, big displays.
Do your real work on the most secure computer and network your company will allow and hope the support staff know what they are doing. Do that in a different room that does not look like an office but is usable as an office every day. An office desk that hides into something different in a room that is not an office. Enjoy the nice chair from the decoy office. Be productive and hope a few honeypot Windows computer with its massive encrypted junk files keep any digital intruders happy.
Its more the tasking and vast changes to the US domestic data collection. From all the classic crimes over state lines, to total control of onion routing, computer crimes to old Soviet agents, cults, faiths, massive criminal illegal immigrant communities been given party political cover and gov access.
Its hard to collect data and use informants in faith groups that have US party political cover demanding a policy of inclusion. The risks of a faith or cult based fifth column or Quisling been allowed to work within US gov structures protecting or reporting on US law enfacement efforts is a huge risk.
To hire staff who will never be loyal to the USA due to their faith, based on some party political fantasy of "inclusion" or demanding unskilled, never vetted migrants or released criminals get into federal gov jobs?
Then the US faces the real threat of friendly and allied nations collecting data or operating within the USA. The UK had to get very active in the USA to stop the IRA getting US mil grade hardware and funding support in the 1980's. Did the FBI know or stop the UK gov/mil from hunting down Irish funding and logistical support in the USA? Did the USA even have the domestic skill sets to detect, observe and counter expert UK gov/mil operations deep in the USA?
Or did too many in the US support the Irish cause to make any such investigations a staffing and security challenge for the FBI?
So between watching over any crime that crosses state lines, the internet, cults, faiths, party political demands to be inclusive, the FBI is swamped with party political requests and epic staff trust issues. Every other nation and their cults, faiths are trying to pack the FBI with their second and third generation deep penetration agents to climb the ranks for the FBI over decades.
Just securing its own files and case loads is a huge effort from classic spies and the rest of the world's spies/cult members posing as FBI staff with needed language or computer skills.
The funding mix the US is also tight given all the other agencies and US mil/for profit contractor groups that want the FBI's domestic role, case loads and budgets.
Not many other nations are so top heavy with other agencies, think tanks, contractors, ex mil and other private sector staff all trying to profit from domestic law enforcement.
Re "In fact, if there were a Stingray or other Fake Cell Phone then the protestors' batteries would last longer than usual because it would be closer."
What the reporters and press need is a computer lab with a testing centre.
A protected location that can create a cell tower in a lab setting and then examine the cell phones connections, data requests and telco connections.
Then take the phone to a real tower and see what data moves and to what ip ranges.
Test for telco/mil/clandestine telco level alterations.
Then test to see if any new software is connecting.
If anyone has such a lab and skills in the USA, send a few modern low end, mid range and top quality consumer cell phone (and laptop with wifi) brands to the protest area and see what returns as infected a few days later.
That kind of data captor days later would be a real story. Why do so few in the US have such cell hardware skills or the skills to even try a simple bait and log? A known site that could get your phone gov altered for free would be an idea area to sample gov/mil/contractor device interference. Create a few accounts on the phones, update any software, have a few older OS versions. Use the phone in that area for a few hours and any of the main roads in the area. Note any changes to battery usage beyond needed expected signal strength issues and hope its updated with gov code. Return to the lab with a collection of phones to test and write about. That would be a really great story. What brands if any got infected. What level of code? OS level? A layer below any ability of the OS or user to recover from or wipe? Or some easy OS gov access thats floating around that hopes the user never resets their devices?
Some maps, gps, charts, distances to telco cell towers? Any new or fake towers, vans, planes? Rapid spikes in signal quality to the cell phones on site? Log it all
Capture of data flow out as gov/mil/contrator code tries to make contact days later. What cell/telco brand collected what data for the gov?
That would ale a good story, a bit like the Equation Group or Stuxnet code capture and discussion if found in the wild.
In 2016 is it that hard to find someone in the USA who can extract a few phones data and telco connections for the press and tell them yes or no to gov device interference.
Think of all the US job that could be created in making CCTV, toasters, ovens, refrigerators, cars, outdoor and sports equipment that needs to connect to the a cloud, local subscription services or needs ongoing support fees.
Thats trendy new inner city "internet" jobs in the USA supporting US device and products.
Its not the fault of the small US start ups teams trying to get their products and rental services online.
To fix the IoT networks just get the vast majority of AV brands to test local networks and every device on it, modem and everything behind it.
If the device responds to admin, pass or password or some other weak junk US consumer grade crypto then the AV software should tell the user every scan.
The user can then alter the default password to something stronger or ask the brand for support or an upgrade.
AV brands could then keep lists of devices and good brands that are secure or that will always report back weak junk settings.
West Germany now Germany had some very powerful new laws created for it to ensure "democracy" would be the only way to set laws after 1945.
Fascists, Communists, faiths and cults that endangered democracy got hunted down and banned in the name of protecting West German and now German democracy.
For example fascists might have used black, red and white party colours to set up a new political party in the 1950's to use democracy to take West Germany back to a per 1945 gov. The new West German laws would allow a very quick and total removal of such a party, its publications, staff, funds and to track all its supporters. No support for, funding of or comment from the far right or left was going to get legal free speech cover in the new West Germany.
That worked well into the 1980's with really great industrial growth in West Germany, charming tourism and real guest worker controls, the need for passports and a legal reason to be in West Germany.
Now that Germany is flooded will unskilled illegal immigrants and faces all the issues that open boarders bring the policy of legal control of social media comments is now been used to stop comment on the wide open boarder policy.
SJW teams try to track and report any person daring to describe local conditions given the massive influx of illegal immigrants.
US brands that should allow freedom of speech and freedom after speech are now facing German gov pressure to report social media users accounts and keep linked German news to positive stories only.
Very powerful post 1945 laws enshrined to stop communists and fascists are now been turned on social media using Germans who just want to show the world what Germany is now like.
A former British ambassador to Uzbekistan has some news on that too
"WikiLeaks figure says ‘disgusted’ Democrat leaked Clinton campaign emails" ( December 14, 2016) http://www.washingtontimes.com...
"“The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.”" (15 December 2016)
"EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide Clinton emails - they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
All that fits in well with the "Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" July 27, 2016 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."
AC its interesting.
The amount of crypto that the gov can just 'read' or OS that get gov/mil malware loggers installed by the "owner" totally bypassing any 3rd party security.
Its telling that security services globally are happy to see a computer boot up a few times rather than request a user log in.
The user walks away feeling that their existing long password is still ok.
Would the average user change their password?
Are people confident that all wireless systems became active well after log in on all consumer OS on all hardware?
No way wireless or infrared would offer the same result going back many years?
Is it a total impossibility that this could work with wireless given power on sequences within all generations of laptops?
Think of having an Apple device taken by the security services at an airport. The laptop is turned on behind a secure counter with an extra hidden device plugged in.
The top of the laptop can be seen, the rest is partial hidden. The user hears a boot sequence twice but is not asked to log in.
A power on test with boot screen is all that is asked for.
Your devices password, MAC and other details are now known to the security services on entry to a nation.
The hotel is listed. Could the password be the same at work or home, back in the users own nation?
The cost of getting into an Apple device is now very low and can be done while powering up a laptop and keeping a user distracted for a short time by a second person.
On return the user is sure they never had the laptop out of their sight and it was never accessed by office staff, hotel staff or any strangers. They keep on using the same laptop, OS and password.
Wait for the fun when the SJW hero teams get tasked with reporting blasphemy, cartoons that are a gateway to atheism, deformation of a monarchy or anything that is not part of a US university safe space.
Speech that counters a Communist party who have a funded western social media via investors and front companies?
A theocracy or Kingdom that as a part of a Western social media company wants their faith based or cult's teachings to be fully protected.
As part owners don't they get a say too? The role of the Communist party or countering blasphemy is of national impotence to them.
Will the SJW teams be happy to take down Tank Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and report terms surrounding Tiananmen Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., or any mention of 1989 every year?
Remove, ban and report cartoons that are profane, sacrilegious and report anyone who looked at them?
Images of humans? What about the way US university safe spaces issues are trending? Some authors and their books are not allowed to be mentioned due to religious or historical sensitivities?
Freedom supporting sites will be fun and attract users from around the world as they support freedom after speech.
Sites that allow SJW to ban news, art, culture, history, authors, books, movies, cartoons will become boring government and celebrity media release portals.
I think they saw the past and understood what would happen. The brand would become a term that allowed two or more people to chat without and need for the brand.
The mention of the brand would then be to pass on details to allow for a chat/cam/mic protocol to work.
No user base, no public comment, no trends, no marketing. Just two or more people using the brand's tools and bandwidth to chat and then quit.
Better to keep the herd of users commenting in public to attract and keep users than just letting them chat in private.
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AC most nations have universities graduating a lot of people every year with some computer science, math, engineering skills.
In some of that count of students a good few will have had great computer game, art and code exposure.
Define what your company or brand needs, interview locally then nationally and find the staff with merit, skills and talent.
Interview them, ask them questions, read their resumes, ask more questions. Sooner of later in the submitted applications and after a lot of interviews a really smart, talented person with a background in games, art and music will be found.
Your brand or company knows what they need, don't let big gov or a SJW alter interview or hiring practices.
The written application with no real ability outside some trendy programming language that was the educational tool a decade ago is not the only factor to consider.
Some student who could fake their way past tests and exams on paper or was given easy grades not based on merit is not going to bring any usable skills to your brand.
Consider who to hire, what they really bring, what they did for a decade or more with the internet, art, music, math, history, sport, languages. Was their school and university able to provide access to other topics beyond a few hours learning to pass exams in "computer" class?
If a brand or company keeps on taking in average staff they will make average products as the staff have to be supported and cared for while they should be "working".
Profits will suffer, new hardware and software will have to wait while the average staff take up ever more funds and time.
Meetings about products and design will then be about staff issues and their inability to do what they should be able to do and are not.
Useless staff are a problem in any company that needs the best to take on the world. Other nations test and only allow the best to get university places. They don't have that *statistics* issue because their students are all good as only the very best got considered for university.
Other nations might not have the start up funding or freedom to build like in the USA or create but they know their graduates are work ready and are all passed on merit.
Stop trying to rent in very expensive areas. ... in a wealthy area.
If the rent is too high don't stay in that part of the USA. As a few people have suggested move to a cheaper part of the USA.
If your offering a service or help make a product expect to bus or car in for hours from a lower cost area.
A service job will not cover the cost of a home, daily travel, school, food, medical
People with good jobs in a wealthy area can cover their costs, save and enjoy holidays and ensure really good educational standards.
Get a better education or trade to apply for a better job that can cover local costs or move to another part of the USA with much lower rent.
Most normal nations have gov workers who see that homes are not crowded and that all is within set standards. That addresses and student lists match other local employment or unemployment paperwork, tax records or support payments per home.
With any level of advanced city, state and federal bureaucracy such issues should never exist in any advanced nation. A home in the name of its owner, or a renter should have the funds to cover their rent, payments and still have an income to cover related costs.
If not what are they doing? An illegal income? An income thats too low and they have help with the rent from unlisted people or something? How many unlisted people?
Who are they and what are they doing in that home?
Why would any city, state or federal gov allow that people who cant cover their rent to sign for a home and cover the payments with unknown payments? Just create a database of all home owners, renters and their average taxation, costs and declared incomes.
Start looking for averages and cross reference with state, city and federal statistics. Have a local bureaucracy walk the streets and note homes that don't add up as one or two incomes and average rents or bank repayments. Do they have an extra job they have not been taxed on? Or is the home full of random extra people not paying tax who help with the rent? Who are they and what does the state and federal gov know about them?
If a home cant cover an average rent on their declared wage, who else is in the home and why?
Once each home gets renters or owners who can afford to live in an area quality of life returns to normal for that area.
Normal city and nation building issues like traffic congestion, internet speeds, quality education, road repair, sports, parks can then be considered.
Sort out the population so people can afford the local lifestyle or get the long term support they need in nice lower rent areas of a city.
In the past the quality of programmer was better. Hardware and software was really understood by a select few.
The Renaissance Man, polymath who could code, create and follow software design from start to support phases.
Quality education and merit advancement saw the very best with varied talents in code, music, arts able to offer complete amazing projects.
On time, on budget and within hardware limits with nice visuals, music and good stories.
Graphics, CPU, RAM limits, music, software design and game flow had to be tight.
Now the average system has enough RAM, network bandwidth, a powerful CPU, a great GPU. Everything is ready for really great designers and brands.
What is lacking a smaller teams of really great, creative people with the creative and artistic US/EU freedom of the 1980's, 1990's.
A really good plot, using the gpu, cpu to its best. Not play testing a release on paying customers.
The problems seemed to add up with OS teams split between desktop and console projects.
GPU brands not racing each other to be 4K ready well before 4K displays and games.
Other creative OS developers not keeping up with the music and art game design apps teams needed.
The meddling in brands by outside SJW wanting ever more control over plot and demands for ever more cultural enrichment in the branding and game visual.
SJW demands take away from testing, design and creativity.
OS makers need to support their tools and document their code tools so more developers can be ready for any changes.
Don't let a great game get stuck in some SJW committee, spend that time and funding on getting the game ready.
Stop hiring useless, average staff to work on complex projects based on submitted "paperwork".
Start hiring the very best and ensure they have some musical or artistic talent along with the best coding skills for their generation.
Ask applicants about their computer usage, computer systems they had over years.
The bandwidth they had at home, the early computer systems, the fun games and consoles. The OS's and code they worked with over the years. The hours they put into music, sport and art. The english, arts, languages their teachers supported.
See how they recall the fun of good games and recalling past music, game art. Make sure the person got a long exposure to game art, music, OS's, reading, fiction. Did their education allow for lots of different extra curricular reading, art, provide access to a few very different computer systems?
Average at code is not good enough on some paper resume from a university. Not having a lot of background in early computer games makes the person useless. Thats a decade of insight a much better qualified person will bring as they enjoyed the game culture on desktops, the net, consoles.
Conduct much better interviews and only hire the best who can talk about their access to hardware, software, music, arts and games.
Good education and access to a lot of expensive hardware, software, past games brings a creativity that can really make future projects great.
Stay away from the average, mediocre and set up a corporate structure of small teams that can avoid big gov hiring regulations or SJW pressure.
A company kept very small with a few of the best consultants might be better than a vast team of really below average staff.
Only hire the best staff. If gov hiring regulations or SJW pressure is great in a city or state, move your brand. Don't get stuck with very average full time workers.
But if the system is air gapped it won't need so much support over the years. It the system just keeps on working as designed think of the contractors who have lost overtime repairing and upgrading networks and systems.
Think of the hours of support lost when a US system gets air gapped. Thats years of good paying high tech contractor jobs lost to one hardware fix.
The US is just doing what every other normal nation does. Have a boarder and making sure the documents and reasons for been in the USA are correct.
Most nations ask people on holiday how long they will stay, where their hotel is or if they are staying with friends, family when requesting entry.
Do they have enough cash to cover their stay? Do their "friends" or "family" actually exist? Does the hotel, resort exist?
If on "business" does their brand or company exist? If a "student" does their stated study plan exist and for how long will they stay? How many hours of study?
Do they have the funds not to need to work in the USA over the time they will be allowed into the USA for "study"?
If not who is covering their living costs? Can they show funding to cover not needing to work in the USA if allowed in for a holiday or study?
Given the lax passport and citizenship standards in many once trusted EU nations, the USA has to ensure the passports, documents and reasons for entering the USA is correct.
As the EU failed at that and now gives usable international travel documents out to anyone who arrives and asks for EU citizenship, the US has to be very aware of who might seek entry into the USA from the EU. EU travel documents are now totally useless in determining a persons real origins or past on entry to the USA. So the US has to request more information to try and work out who wants to enter the USA and why.
Such very normal methods keep out illegal immigrants, people who over stay or who work in the USA when lying about entry for a holiday or pretending to study.
The US has a lot of legal, easy ways to enter and enjoy a great holiday or work or get an education.
A bad person just has to tell the EU that are fleeing "war" and they get a new EU citizenship and legal EU papers.
The issue for the USA is that so many once trusted EU nations are now flooded with illegal migrants from very high risk third party nations the US gov tracks.
What was once the National Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... could be circumvented by an interesting person getting new documents from a nation the US once considered safe.
Getting new documents under that safe nations past reputation with the USA can allow all kinds of interesting people to try and sneak into the USA with new, clean documents.
That is why the US has to track every nations workers, people on holiday or students. The other nations passports so trusted in the 1980's are now junk and get handed out to anyone who can tell a good story on walking into EU.
You would be asked for your ISP email account. The one that might have got used for US travel documents?
If that showed any social media account creation or use then that would be detected.
The questions would get more detailed, the interviews would move to small rooms smaller with more formal warnings.
The option to be allowed into the USA would be under review with each hour of questioning.
If a person requesting entry into the USA used a clean formal email account, a question could be asked if any other ISP email accounts existed...
A request to log into the main ISP account would show if any other email accounts got created.
Or was the ISP account just to request US documents and contact with the US gov with no other history or even years or months of normal use?
If the account was old but showed no other history or all of the past had had been wiped i.e. just contact with the US gov for travel documents was kept? That would not be normal and a request would be made for other accounts. If names, past history already mentioned don't track the email logs?
Different global travel, ip ranges, names, slang, jargon would soon be detected. Even facial recognition on all and any attachments over years of email use...
It will help sort out illegal migrants with a cover story about been on a holiday or who faked some reason to "study" in the USA. People who have devices with guides and support material known to law enforcement to help illegal migrants to try and stay hidden in the USA.
Guides that show sanctuary cities and how illegal migrants can get state and city documents or access US tax payer funded state or city support services.
Scanning for such material or a past history of looking at support sites would be useful in finding people who want to over stay or work in the USA.
It also might provide some hints at illegal migrant workers supporters, networks, movements and who uses them as workers i.e. an unexpected destination or new areas of interest to law enforcement.
US law enforcement can the build a digital map of movements, supporters, work and areas in the USA providing services, papers, work.
Its time to look a browser logs, digital files, reading material not just luggage. Illegal migrants who thought they could fool the USA on entry with a good "holiday" or "educational" cover story might still slip up with their online reading material.
Too many hero teams and SJW are banning the fun and news and culture and history and art and .... politics and ... blasphemy and ...
Once people hesitate to upload or have to consider every word they will more to more fun US sites that offer freedom from teams of SJW.
Freedom of speech was the only thing that the USA offered a site. With a more global outlook and SJW, hero teams trying to remove all fun, any creative sites brand will slip.
Sites that offer freedom of speech and the freedom to comment will get the users. News, politics, art, faith, fun does not need some SJW to remove content and ban users.
Creative fun users don't just stop using a site, they find a competing site that offers freedom and take their fans with them.
The more SJW hero teams try to make a site into a global safe space, the more fun and creativity really great sites attract.
Yes that extra bell step will make users move other networks. Why make users click again? They will just click over to better services that can track their accounts, interests and clips without needing to remember click a "bell" all the time.
It's more about branding and sales.
Who would by a US crypto or networking product with the NSA, GCHQ, Australia, Canada, NZ, the FBI, city, state police, their workers, ex staff and former staff having the once secret NSA only keys?
Then any US ex staff and former gov/mil staff could sell access or give access to... their faith, cult, the media, other nations, competing corporations, any monarchy or theocracy who can pay for information on dissidents or people suspected of blasphemous acts?
The other cost is the price of passing on two production lines. Once secure for the rest of the world and a new USA only junk crypto production line.
A new US only production line with hardware trapdoors and backdoors would have to be designed in far up the production line. Who would consider Made in the USA when buying any product or service knowing the product or service to be designed to fail all the time?
Any US crypto product or service would be the first to be dropped from consideration as junk. That would open lucrative markets to any nation with crypto experts who can code.
It works for overtime, contractors, US contractors installing more hardware and software. Trips for UK staff to the USA to learn about advances in US, NSA and contractor hardware and software.
The ability to show political leaders in the UK how the world is more digital and how the GCHQ can collect it all if only they had more staff and got more budget growth.
Overtime in installing new US hardware. Overtime to test new US hardware. Overtime in keeping new US hardware running. Language skills and translators needed for the bulk collection. All needs staff and funding.
That funding could have been given to MI6, MI5, SAS and expert police/mil teams actually watching very bad people who are smart enough never to have phones or computers.
The UK went for the NSA contractor push that every bad person has to have a cell phone, use wifi or desktop computer or phone or have a voice print file.
Or at some point in the UK speak on any phone like device/VOIP in a "foreign" language that will auto create a voice print for the security services.
AC that should have been the result of the Church Committee in the mid 1970's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... who had to look into the domestic spying role of the NSA and CIA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was the fix to allow the NSA to spy globally and to totally stop any new domestic spying issues.
Now US agencies are again looking into all email use to see if they can find some trace of a code or part of a code with no domestic oversight or protections.
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution should protect the USA domestically from any such color of law, acts, findings, security letters or any other not "legal" attempts at domestic spying.
The SJW staff, theocracies and monarchies will all then push for their blasphemy and version of history too.
Considering the crypto the US tried to hold back as "munitions" decades ago?
The demand for back doors and trap doors in US crypto?
Now other gov are not to get 'intrusion software" for their own police, mil and security services?
The good news is many other smarter nations will just go on exporting their own really great software.
The really interesting market will be in the safe export of counter surveillance software.
What did the NSA fear? That nations domestically will buy in from their own experts rather than flying in US NSA contractors with "legal" export grade software?
Good security globally protects everyone. Holding good crypto, tools and methods back from the free market just allows more trapdoors and backdoors to stay in place and not be fixed.
The more academics and exports that are free to look at crypto and tools and share results the better. Things that fail can then be reported and fixed. The US suggesting limits on software, methods, academic free speech does not make for secure software, networks. People with skills will just move to free nations and sell their really good, secure products. US untested, export grade software will then be questioned as it will be NSA, FBI, GCHQ backdoor "ready" as a gov approved product. What nation likes to be told that their exports just have to use US products and have to change their own laws so that US products and severs get a free pass to be imported?
As people have mentioned, inner city ares have a lot of criminals. Don't work from any such areas.
So find a nice area of the city that has fast internet and is still low crime. If new people moving into the area bring crime with them, move to another safer area well away from the areas of crime.
Lots of people have listed really great physical security ideas.
Find a big desktop, a really modern looking tower PC and fill it with old hard drives and a working PSU. Make sure it lights up, has a working fan. Have a fancy, big, display connected with a Windows 10 Professional login. Thats your huge decoy work from home computer packed with junk files but it looks so expensive.
Have a big router, modem, network, Windows file system in another computer or laptop. Thats your digital honey pot. Great to know who is looking at your work, searching for your brand, has followed your brands network down to your computer. Lots of fake bait files to find and a tricky way in should keep any intruder busy.
Any guests, workers wondering around your home get shown the fancy office room with the computers, big displays.
Do your real work on the most secure computer and network your company will allow and hope the support staff know what they are doing. Do that in a different room that does not look like an office but is usable as an office every day. An office desk that hides into something different in a room that is not an office. Enjoy the nice chair from the decoy office. Be productive and hope a few honeypot Windows computer with its massive encrypted junk files keep any digital intruders happy.
Its more the tasking and vast changes to the US domestic data collection. From all the classic crimes over state lines, to total control of onion routing, computer crimes to old Soviet agents, cults, faiths, massive criminal illegal immigrant communities been given party political cover and gov access.
Its hard to collect data and use informants in faith groups that have US party political cover demanding a policy of inclusion. The risks of a faith or cult based fifth column or Quisling been allowed to work within US gov structures protecting or reporting on US law enfacement efforts is a huge risk.
To hire staff who will never be loyal to the USA due to their faith, based on some party political fantasy of "inclusion" or demanding unskilled, never vetted migrants or released criminals get into federal gov jobs?
Then the US faces the real threat of friendly and allied nations collecting data or operating within the USA. The UK had to get very active in the USA to stop the IRA getting US mil grade hardware and funding support in the 1980's. Did the FBI know or stop the UK gov/mil from hunting down Irish funding and logistical support in the USA? Did the USA even have the domestic skill sets to detect, observe and counter expert UK gov/mil operations deep in the USA?
Or did too many in the US support the Irish cause to make any such investigations a staffing and security challenge for the FBI?
So between watching over any crime that crosses state lines, the internet, cults, faiths, party political demands to be inclusive, the FBI is swamped with party political requests and epic staff trust issues. Every other nation and their cults, faiths are trying to pack the FBI with their second and third generation deep penetration agents to climb the ranks for the FBI over decades.
Just securing its own files and case loads is a huge effort from classic spies and the rest of the world's spies/cult members posing as FBI staff with needed language or computer skills.
The funding mix the US is also tight given all the other agencies and US mil/for profit contractor groups that want the FBI's domestic role, case loads and budgets.
Not many other nations are so top heavy with other agencies, think tanks, contractors, ex mil and other private sector staff all trying to profit from domestic law enforcement.
Re "In fact, if there were a Stingray or other Fake Cell Phone then the protestors' batteries would last longer than usual because it would be closer."
What the reporters and press need is a computer lab with a testing centre.
A protected location that can create a cell tower in a lab setting and then examine the cell phones connections, data requests and telco connections.
Then take the phone to a real tower and see what data moves and to what ip ranges.
Test for telco/mil/clandestine telco level alterations.
Then test to see if any new software is connecting.
If anyone has such a lab and skills in the USA, send a few modern low end, mid range and top quality consumer cell phone (and laptop with wifi) brands to the protest area and see what returns as infected a few days later.
That kind of data captor days later would be a real story. Why do so few in the US have such cell hardware skills or the skills to even try a simple bait and log?
A known site that could get your phone gov altered for free would be an idea area to sample gov/mil/contractor device interference.
Create a few accounts on the phones, update any software, have a few older OS versions. Use the phone in that area for a few hours and any of the main roads in the area. Note any changes to battery usage beyond needed expected signal strength issues and hope its updated with gov code. Return to the lab with a collection of phones to test and write about.
That would be a really great story. What brands if any got infected. What level of code? OS level? A layer below any ability of the OS or user to recover from or wipe? Or some easy OS gov access thats floating around that hopes the user never resets their devices?
Some maps, gps, charts, distances to telco cell towers? Any new or fake towers, vans, planes? Rapid spikes in signal quality to the cell phones on site? Log it all
Capture of data flow out as gov/mil/contrator code tries to make contact days later. What cell/telco brand collected what data for the gov?
That would ale a good story, a bit like the Equation Group or Stuxnet code capture and discussion if found in the wild.
In 2016 is it that hard to find someone in the USA who can extract a few phones data and telco connections for the press and tell them yes or no to gov device interference.
Think of all the US job that could be created in making CCTV, toasters, ovens, refrigerators, cars, outdoor and sports equipment that needs to connect to the a cloud, local subscription services or needs ongoing support fees.
Thats trendy new inner city "internet" jobs in the USA supporting US device and products.
Its not the fault of the small US start ups teams trying to get their products and rental services online.
To fix the IoT networks just get the vast majority of AV brands to test local networks and every device on it, modem and everything behind it.
If the device responds to admin, pass or password or some other weak junk US consumer grade crypto then the AV software should tell the user every scan.
The user can then alter the default password to something stronger or ask the brand for support or an upgrade.
AV brands could then keep lists of devices and good brands that are secure or that will always report back weak junk settings.
West Germany now Germany had some very powerful new laws created for it to ensure "democracy" would be the only way to set laws after 1945.
Fascists, Communists, faiths and cults that endangered democracy got hunted down and banned in the name of protecting West German and now German democracy.
For example fascists might have used black, red and white party colours to set up a new political party in the 1950's to use democracy to take West Germany back to a per 1945 gov. The new West German laws would allow a very quick and total removal of such a party, its publications, staff, funds and to track all its supporters. No support for, funding of or comment from the far right or left was going to get legal free speech cover in the new West Germany.
That worked well into the 1980's with really great industrial growth in West Germany, charming tourism and real guest worker controls, the need for passports and a legal reason to be in West Germany.
Now that Germany is flooded will unskilled illegal immigrants and faces all the issues that open boarders bring the policy of legal control of social media comments is now been used to stop comment on the wide open boarder policy.
SJW teams try to track and report any person daring to describe local conditions given the massive influx of illegal immigrants.
US brands that should allow freedom of speech and freedom after speech are now facing German gov pressure to report social media users accounts and keep linked German news to positive stories only.
Very powerful post 1945 laws enshrined to stop communists and fascists are now been turned on social media using Germans who just want to show the world what Germany is now like.
A former British ambassador to Uzbekistan has some news on that too
"WikiLeaks figure says ‘disgusted’ Democrat leaked Clinton campaign emails" ( December 14, 2016)
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
"“The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.”" (15 December 2016)
"EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide Clinton emails - they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
All that fits in well with the "Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" July 27, 2016
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."
The US is just seeing another domestic political Pentagon Papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
AC its interesting.
The amount of crypto that the gov can just 'read' or OS that get gov/mil malware loggers installed by the "owner" totally bypassing any 3rd party security.
Its telling that security services globally are happy to see a computer boot up a few times rather than request a user log in.
The user walks away feeling that their existing long password is still ok.
Would the average user change their password?
Are people confident that all wireless systems became active well after log in on all consumer OS on all hardware?
No way wireless or infrared would offer the same result going back many years?
Is it a total impossibility that this could work with wireless given power on sequences within all generations of laptops?
Think of having an Apple device taken by the security services at an airport. The laptop is turned on behind a secure counter with an extra hidden device plugged in.
The top of the laptop can be seen, the rest is partial hidden. The user hears a boot sequence twice but is not asked to log in.
A power on test with boot screen is all that is asked for.
Your devices password, MAC and other details are now known to the security services on entry to a nation.
The hotel is listed. Could the password be the same at work or home, back in the users own nation?
The cost of getting into an Apple device is now very low and can be done while powering up a laptop and keeping a user distracted for a short time by a second person.
On return the user is sure they never had the laptop out of their sight and it was never accessed by office staff, hotel staff or any strangers. They keep on using the same laptop, OS and password.
Wait for the fun when the SJW hero teams get tasked with reporting blasphemy, cartoons that are a gateway to atheism, deformation of a monarchy or anything that is not part of a US university safe space.
Speech that counters a Communist party who have a funded western social media via investors and front companies?
A theocracy or Kingdom that as a part of a Western social media company wants their faith based or cult's teachings to be fully protected.
As part owners don't they get a say too? The role of the Communist party or countering blasphemy is of national impotence to them.
Will the SJW teams be happy to take down Tank Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and report terms surrounding Tiananmen Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., or any mention of 1989 every year?
Remove, ban and report cartoons that are profane, sacrilegious and report anyone who looked at them?
Images of humans? What about the way US university safe spaces issues are trending? Some authors and their books are not allowed to be mentioned due to religious or historical sensitivities?
Freedom supporting sites will be fun and attract users from around the world as they support freedom after speech.
Sites that allow SJW to ban news, art, culture, history, authors, books, movies, cartoons will become boring government and celebrity media release portals.
I think they saw the past and understood what would happen. The brand would become a term that allowed two or more people to chat without and need for the brand.
The mention of the brand would then be to pass on details to allow for a chat/cam/mic protocol to work.
No user base, no public comment, no trends, no marketing. Just two or more people using the brand's tools and bandwidth to chat and then quit.
Better to keep the herd of users commenting in public to attract and keep users than just letting them chat in private.