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  1. Re:One itsy-bitsy flaw in this plan on Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Where would that tax base come from? The global tax shelters hide all the profits out of the USA would magically flow back into the nice CA gov?
    Would CA invite all that profit back in a state to new nation tax holiday? Then more realistic a tax rate up to cover reality a month or year later?
    The CA state pensions still have to be covered. The US would only cover its federal staff. If the existing users want monthly payments or some wish to walk out with a lump sum?
    Once the US federal soft support for the movie and hi tech sector stops, the brands will be free find new homes globally.
    Canada can offer to make nice movies, any nation can lower taxes way down for their own hi tech campuses. Even other states in the US can attract movies and tv series. Energy is cheap, fewer local laws, parts of the USA start looking better for profit.
    A lot of other nations have nice weather, airports and some even have fast internet. They will all be putting in offers to big brands to get them away from a risky, isolated CA.
    CA is unique in its support it gets from the US taxpayers to keep skills and education supported, not unique in anything it offers the world as CA.

  2. Re:One itsy-bitsy flaw in this plan on Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The metric win of expected US military bases within its borders will turn into cleared out sites with foot thick walls, empty bunkers and old optical taps but they will just be empty cold war structures. All the skills, jobs, smarts will be back safe and happy in the USA. CA will be left with museum sites, big doors, big filter slots, empty racks, lots of ports and really, really long runways. No electronics, no pumps, no NSA, no CIA, no spare parts, no labs, no funds, no clearances. Just like the US sites returned in any nation that requests the USA to go. Clean, safe, empty, useless, ready for a new nations occupants. Safe for movies and TV series, nature walks... or imports from China.
    If a free CA wants to buy US systems, they can line up with the rest of the world and put in a payment plan and export grade systems. About 1960's to 1970's standards and very expensive. Will CA like to pay with cash or with a big new US loan? California's defensive capabilities would be zero on the day of its exit from the USA. California would be presented with plans to buy new capabilities from the USA from a long list of export cleared systems.

  3. Re:One itsy-bitsy flaw in this plan on Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of the pensions. When CA runs out of other peoples money to bail out their own funds.
    Designed in CA, made in China will not be the dream most think it is. The few top design jobs once thought unique to CA can be outsourced back into the USA :)
    Great for the US shareholders and owners who can hide their profits globally. Not many would risk an emerging CA in need of any hard currency and all the new taxes.
    So CA will be stuck with massive water, energy, pension and population issues without a federal gov to help.
    Time to look for a new federal gov?
    Help from China to rebuild CA? Light rail, built and designed in China, constructed in CA by China so the project is on time and works.
    Every platform a reminder of how friendly China helped emerging CA in a time of need. The companies from China get to stay as part of a new fair and equal trade deal :)
    China will offer much needed soft loans and turn CA into one big campus and think tank.
    That new debt will need to be serviced, but the rates will be so friendly for decades.
    CA will become the made in China showcase to the rest of the USA. Open for business and now with working fast rail, new fully paved roads and brand new airports.
    Designed in China, Made in China, sold in CA.

  4. Re:I think the actual root of the problem is on Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    They had the skill to vote past more wars, more debt, loss of jobs, bad trade deals, open boarders and vast illegal immigration.
    The root of the issue was the poor quality polls. The left leaning media, contractors, neocons and the elite owners selected poll numbers to fit in with what they wanted.
    Great for the few million who consumer the media, but the wider public then voted in reality.

  5. Re:Im confused how Republicans could win so much on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The term is the Silent majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The rest was just wishful thinking by leftist media, their owners and political supporters.
    Vast numbers of illegal migrants around the US would have had to have been allowed to vote to make any real difference.
    The rest was just an echo chamber of neocons, contractors, dems and big media all pushing a wish for dems.
    They did not make up or understand the rest of the USA. The lack of jobs, education not going to merit, ever more wars, the call for even more wars, bad global trade deals, more debt is not a winning policy.

  6. Re:Who fact checks the fact checkers? on Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? · · Score: 1

    The safe words are set by who pays the SJW group. Usually NGO's, charity, monarchy, theocracy, foundation fronts with a deep pockets and a cult, party or political agenda to push or enforce.

  7. Re:What means this 'trustworthy'? on Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? · · Score: 1

    A huge SJW database to correct all terms and typed text before its ever on the net.

  8. Re:Explain to me on DDoS Attack Halts Heating in Finland Amidst Winter (metropolitan.fi) · · Score: 1

    Because contractors, branding, profit, shareholders.
    Or:
    Why send out a repair crew when the user can be helped with a phone call?
    So the energy producers know what load to expect every year.
    It's more sensitive and better for the earth?
    Think of the local IT networking jobs for design, support and upgrades.
    It makes the design look more modern and stand out from other brands.

  9. Re:Real IP address? on Unsealed Court Docs Show FBI Used Malware Like 'A Grenade' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people would whitelist the site they wanted. A fake ad running would be enough to get a ip. Then its back down the network with malware.

  10. Re:Why is the government using malware at all? on Unsealed Court Docs Show FBI Used Malware Like 'A Grenade' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Its hard work getting and ip and MAC back from at lot of different computer networks. The court documents, papers work to get logs.
    Malware reports it back for you from the users computer often getting around browsers with ip altering networks.
    Its also court friendly as telling lawyers their client clicked something and they got discovered is a lot more easy that a sealed court to protect methods.

  11. Access is the key on Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The top US universities produced the best students for decades. The US gov and mil looked after the best with funding.
    The US private sector enjoyed contracts.
    The US gov pushed for the world to accept US standards and tech as part of free trade deals.
    So all that creating for a global economy, funding and skill kept other nations locked out and US products as the only option.
    Other nations never had that free flowing cash for science, students, the mil. To them it was limited hard currency, a loan or US charity to only buy a US product.
    Their best had to be careful with funds or could only get so much out of education, the private sector or their mil.
    The US also enjoyed freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to study, read. Its students had a well funded creative and smart side other nations lacked due to wars, poverty, faith, cults or type of gov.
    That all worked well for decades. The changes now are a global workforce and a lack of visa tests.
    US universities are no longer getting the best wealthy students, giving loans to the best middle class and testing for free access to the gifted poor.
    With ever more university students with average ability taking up limited places or been granted limited places for non academic reasons a change will result.
    The few really bright and gifted graduates will command the ability to select work they want. With the rest of their fellow students been well below average they have some option in who to work for and will accept a great offer.
    The secret is:
    The very best US graduates come with security clearances, trust and the ability to attract gov and mil funding. They have been the best in the world for decades.
    But with changes to education, a flood of average students been passed now seeking the same granted access to work only the best will command good wages.

  12. What will work and will fail on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Browse the Web Anonymously? · · Score: 1

    Onion routing is owned by the US by federal police level at a per case budget. Your ip will be tracked federally as a given just for using such services.
    VPN can be tracked at a clandestine service level with no extra effort under collect it all.
    Your MAC or any other unique computer number or browser details can be requested or stored.
    So find a new computer, paid for with cash, wait a few months for any CCTV to clear.
    When using this clean computer never do any of the things done on your normal account and never at the same time or in the same area or the same tools, OS, software..
    Different OS, short bust encrypted messages only, become a numbers station.
    Anything with text gives patterns, linguistics.
    For an average user a VPN with router support and shut out on connect fail is good. Every connection is then via a router. Anything done to the OS should be under that VPN ip.
    VPN payment is the tracking option for a federal case.
    The problem with browsing is so much data is requested, collected and patterns build up.
    Most people then fall back into habits and visit that one old site again, or post in a very unique style.

  13. Should have made dx12 ready on Windows 7 and 8.1 Are Gaining More New Users Than Windows 10 (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    MS should have made dx12 great. Ready with the gpu makers. Worked with game makers to ensure they knew what to expect and how to make great games with MS products.
    Then released a ready product that worked with gpu's and made games better.
    That would have driven upgrades, great new features that would have been ready at release, full supported by games and been gpu ready.

  14. Re:Instead of Geoblocking ... on UK Government Wants Prisons Geoblocked By Drone Manufacturers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    How many years until site to site over distance is possible on a calm, still day? What range would be needed in a city area without a huge patrolled outer zone?
    How much land can a nation buy to out pace steady directional flight without weather been a huge factor? A very simple flight path of up, fly in one direction, drop?
    With altered consumer or prosumer electronics. Build your own unexpected frequency network that only has to last the flight to guide the drone? :) Follow a tight unique radio beam in that won't spread all over the site? Drop is on a timer? Or have an unseen optical device or beacon on the inside as a guide? Reinvent the aerospace physics of the 1960's :)

  15. Re:Instead of Geoblocking ... on UK Government Wants Prisons Geoblocked By Drone Manufacturers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats the only way. The nets, mesh and new secure sites. If a drone can drop a package, its kept well above or away from easy population access.
    Keep the outdoor areas under mesh and only once a sentence is very near a release date could off site low security like sites be offered.
    If not, next gen drones will just fly in on maps and distance, not needing active guidance that can be detected.
    Once a very good map of a site is created and a launch location created good computer skills can do the rest.
    The big open yard has no contact back to the wider population. Small groups get small very secure yards under mesh daily.
    New design and a lot more staff but thats a great nation building project :)
    The other aspect is to make contact with every person in the area. Report and CCTV every van, car, truck. Facial recognition. Chat downs for every person walking in the area. A search policy for every new face over an area wider than any drone range :)
    If not the UK sites will be flooded with drugs, banned reading material, quality movies, tv shows and escapes will have a better chance of been successful.

  16. Re:You got Russia and the US backwards. on Why America Needs India's Rockets (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the role of the German way of thinking on the US production lines.
    Operation Paperclip
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The rush to use very advanced German skills altered the existing US production lines and way contracts got offered.
    The Germans not only designed and ensured the US finally understood the basics of quality control but also made sure the US got to enjoy big political projects and that huge big gov funding.
    Dynamic US capitalism was lost to very German ideas of party political patronage, the mil and select contractors.
    The German method works if the university and schooling is kept to the best standards to feed ongoing well funded rocket design and production with the very best students.
    The US did not understand that vital German education and funding mix and only supported its mil projects with contractors. No bid contractors make good secret projects but keep funding in house all gov/public skills are lost. Great for protecting 'no bid' but not much use in keeping a nations science projects funded.
    US metallurgy was lost as all it needed to do was park spy sats. Other nations with better education systems are now ready to offer their products and services as their skill sets got all the support needed.

  17. Re:It depends on what is more important on Why America Needs India's Rockets (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For the US its political. The location of the skilled production lines per state. The mil and gov funding mix flowing to party political aware contractors.
    The types of hi tech jobs and what state gets them. The political leadership who control the funding, not based on merit. The stop start of budgets and lack of long term projects over generations and decades.
    By not keeping skills, having to spend to contract for lost skills, budgets are lost to private sector profit. US metallurgy once the best is now in the hands of a select few contractors who will only work on no bid projects for the mil. The gov and public project skills gap is back and even huge mil budgets cant hide it.
    The only way out of this is for the US to fund science again and only ever hire on merit for a few new generations to ensure really great staff again.
    That would restore quality, competition and bring back the skills lost to other nations or just lost due to a lack of funding and access to non mil projects over decades.
    Secret spy payloads do not look after a nations rocket production line, just ensure contractor profits. Been secret any skills are not shared and are lost to wider US science. The results are the US has to buy on a global market for some missions and keep funding no bid mil contracts. The skills are lost.

  18. Re:I'm not surprised they're cheaper on Why America Needs India's Rockets (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Rocket design is the same as rocket design the world over. The exotic metal work, skill sets and learning. Ensuring the payload is safe and kept ready to function.
    It has nothing to do with "underclass" or "environmental laws" just generations of skill and really hard work.
    India just ensured its very best students got to work on rockets every year with the needed funding. Thats work, not theory.
    Indian Space Research Organisation
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The goal was to ensure self-reliance and to have all the needed staff able to work on projects without needed outside help.
    After a few decades it starts to all work out and the production lines are ready. To other nations who face political budget cuts, loss of staff every decade, loss of skills every generation. India hires based on merit and skill, only the best. The result are in better and cheaper products every decade and generation.
    Once a nation has rocket design worked out it gets to be a skill passed down. The metallurgy is understood and can be produced locally. The maths in theory and practice is ready and does not have to be contracted in per mission.

  19. Re:What the media can learn on Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    People wonder why so few informants get information out or can help the press. The first meeting is tracked from one or both phones.
    The GPS part could be more easy to understand for readers or part of internal malware logging. Always telco logs to fall back on :)

  20. Whats a power grid owner to do? on Why Tesla's New Solar Roof Tiles and Home Battery Are Such a Big Deal (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The days of making solar grid connected and paying a few token cents or offering a credit did not slow solar.
    The online astroturfing about payback, weather, sun needed, costs and many other state issues did not slow solar.
    Make solar have a small output and not legal to grid connect unless its from a few really, really expensive tested brands to "protect" the grid?
    An expensive hobby that will never alter grid profits.
    Ensure every solar buy is registered and grid connected in the state.
    Create a huge must pay grid connection fee for any type of powered residence in that state?
    If you don't pay, its not a habitual residence anymore and fines can be collected.
    Got to keep that grid cash flowing.

  21. Re:What the media can learn on Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Re "Giving it to a friend all the time beats the purpose of having one in the first place." Just when meeting contacts.
    Fill the telco logs with everyday random junk walks and shopping all the time to make it look used and the data of use.
    The really fun part is that phone is now an active informant. So surround it with bureaucrats, technocrats everyday for a few mins.
    Anyone of them could be an informant or whistleblower given a few mins contact with the press phone of mischief.
    Cascades of secret internal security reports about unreported press contact from been detected near a journalists phone of interest.
    Fill the phone with notes and hints about whistleblowers at the same locations :)

  22. Re:What the media can learn on Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    A telco log will give you time, a street like resolution and advanced software will do the rest.
    Too long near another phone with a fancy map overlay will show two people sitting or in contact.
    Back in 2003 it was more a security forces export product globally, government to government on request for special trusted and cleared mil/police units. Software like that is now very common now and very low cost for any local police.

  23. Re:Time to brick the IoT on New, More-Powerful IoT Botnet Infects 3,500 Devices In 5 Days (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Using admin, admin or admin, password is a feature not a flaw.
    What is an insecure IoT to an isp? A user looking at their CCTV at work or in another country?
    "This would make many OEMs pay attention to security," is the key, get them at the app level. Get their brands off the phones, desktops and tablets.
    Get all AV brands to scan all devices on a network and report the junk by default. Not some hidden scan setting for "network".

  24. The US gov is happy on Google Security Engineer Claims Android Is Now As Secure As the iPhone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Two of its biggest and most patriotic brands can now collect it all.
    NSA Can Access More Phone Data Than Ever (Oct 20, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/nsa-p...
    "...the percentage of available records has shot up from 30 percent to virtually 100. Rather than one internal, incomplete database, the NSA can now query any of several complete ones."

  25. Proof reading, experts to look over the work, an index and publication all transmute that raw gov funded data into pure private sector profit.