One chip was designed to be very powerful and work well.
Another chip was designed to be new, better, cheaper. The option is to have other closed hardware do graphics, sound and other tasks.
Years later the different design ideas are back on the desktop again.
Do applications want one good chip that is well understood or a cheap chip that locks in a generation to other deeper hardware to get the same performance.
Nice if you have a closed OS, online shop, can alter app code standards and can command developers to accept for profit changes.
The problem is that sites now detect the lack of ads been allowed to run and lock up content and comments with a static demand to whitelist.
To keep on using a site the user has to open their computer to infection.
Look back over the history of computer education. Communist nations poured wealth into early education, university access. It produced a professional class of academics, teachers, engineers and doctors. The graduates then had to fit into ever more jobs the gov had to create for them.
The hard currency to buy imported hardware was wasted and hope for new advanced production lines for export never happened.
In the West it was more dynamic and based on testing. Merit and wealthy parents or skills and savings or scholarship. Academia was only open to people who could pass actual tests and get top grades over all their years of their education. Test well and go for a scholarship, use the GI Bill or have parents who attended to pay for further education. A smaller pool but the Western employment market was ready for that expert set of smart people every decade.
The private sector got the best quality staff and the graduates had a real degree and enjoyed seeking the kind of work they wanted.
The change was easy loans and national virtue signalling by a generations of admission experts who got to shape intake.
The other change in the West was a fear of communist education and the need for more science graduates at any cost. More students got offered "any" further education in "anything" science.
Merit was lost over generations and every consideration given to all aspects of entry but the needed ability to pass the course.
Nations become top heavy with paper graduates who then need and demand work but the few expert positions are taken by people with real skills or people found globally with skills.
Re "Is it really worth it?"
Yes to the people working on admissions and the branding of the institutions get to show they have installed excellence and replaced merit on entry.
The teams selling education hardware and software to try and help educate huge generations of students to try and pass over many years.
Long term advanced nations now have vast pools of generations of graduates with degrees and no job prospects.
When governments/mil or admissions staff have a go at shaping further education vast amounts of graduates usually result.
The actual private sector creating jobs never gets consulted and the jobs are not waiting next decade. Real skills needed have to then be found globally to keep design, production and other vital skills in place.
Its worth it to offer loans, big brands/gov/mil get to be seen on campus, who attract ever more people to university to promote that university, their brand and get more cash, gov/mil funding.
The diploma mill always wins. The graduate is then left with loans to pay back and has few real skills expecting the economy to be like it was a decade ago when their computer course was created and that easy loan was offered.
The fix is to lure that vast pool of new students who really want to be students for a few years away from science and back into much cheaper traditional academic options they actually really enjoy.
The students get a low cost degree, are happy and can enjoy a few years of academic enrichment with their peers. Science departments can then select from the very best every year and can get on with education.
AC freedom of assembly, freedom of association is protected, even to enjoy yet another constitutionally protected activity.
Talking about plate readers and long term databases, reporting it is then freedom of the press and freedom of speech and after speech.
The US has so many really good protections against gov overreach and tyranny thanks to its past with direct rule.
Re "What exactly will the government prevent?"
The idea is to stop what happened in France with networking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"... in 1986, French university students coordinated a national strike using Minitel, demonstrating an early use of digital communication devices for participatory technopolitical ends."
Re 'It's difficult to stop mobs although the police can arrive in force before the mob swells in size and commitment."
The US view is to find and stop the charismatic or photogenic leadership before any mob can ever form.
Re "We've seen that sort of policing before, in Ireland."
The UK had total mastery of all communication within Ireland and a good overview of all political/funding/hardware support from the USA. https://cryptome.org/jya/gchq-...
Once into any nations phone networks, prediction becomes easy.
The tracking of individuals would break into any cell structure and allow then protected informants to rise up the ranks.
The idea was to induce events.
CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup (20 August 2013) https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
The chance of uprising starting is then 100%.
The US can save its freedom fighters, king, general, theocracy from grass roots democracy from civil society.
With a few days warning any form of US friendly gov can be fully protected from its own people.
Efforts by the working class or patriotic right can be discovered, tacked and removed before any international media finds out about domestic calls for change.
No calls for democracy gain traction, no international media, no counter coup.
With the right dictionary list and voice to text hardware that would have been easy with a more limited set of leadership phone numbers in any nation.
Tap all the political leaders, mil, gov, industrial leaders, media, banking elite, celebrities and one productive hop beyond them.
As reports of industrial action, protests, riots, cost of living spread fast amount the left or right political base so a few days warning in most nations would have been possible given actual local events.
Most nations do have vast informant networks and people who have been to jail or made an offer been released as informants. All that domestic information flows to the top and then spreads as gossip among the ruling elite or even as basic insider trading.
The CIA would not have allowed the NSA/GCHQ to be the only gatekeeper over any decade able to get raw data of value out of any nation.
With a smaller, smarter take and limited hops of collected phone numbers per nation, the NSA collect it all, translation, per nation slang and jargon issue would be avoided.
The CIA take would be accurate, focused, on time and realistic for US political consideration.
The other issue with a social uprising is just to create one. US backed Colour revolution at the right time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... can seem like local issues but have been induced and well funded.
Consider Project SHAMROCK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... on a global scale for decades over all emerging communications networks but only for very interesting people.
"Speech Recognition is NSA’s Best-Kept Open Secret" (May 11 2015)
"..speech recognition technology has been heavily — and openly — funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) since the early 1970s."
https://theintercept.com/2015/...
COINS, Community On-line Intelligence System was mid 1960.
A single gpu for usable 4k gaming exists in consumer product lines today than is within the price range of savings on an average working wage.
With the next gen 4k games will be fully supported on any game quality setting. 8k playback, sound and gui support would not be that much of an issue later.
An 8K video and sound codec is a set standard that can be coded for on hardware and software.
Fast optical connection do exist in many nations and are cheap per month with different free data caps for media content.
Get the 8K data down at the provider server level with no data caps in a nation and its good.
No need to stream from the US to the world. Each service provider gets a new secure 8K content server and optical back to only a set of their locally networked consumers.
If a provider is really good they could even offer a faster optical speed just for encrypted content over an optical streaming network.
The internet neutrality speed stays the same but the 8K stream always gets fast, perfect network conditions.
Like TV and internet down the same pipe is protected now.
This would be the reason. A francophone cover to get search terms back to plain text, readable form on French servers. Accept all requests from a more inquisitorial legal system rather than having to see what another nation would think of a French legal finding and then take time to consider or not accept.
France does not want another event like Pierre-sur-Haute article deletion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... surrounding gov, mil, collection, so just add more French content to ensure French servers get used by most people more often.
Publicity, relevance will then alter user habits back to French products ensuring total legal access.
how is secrecy a good plan?
Think of the command center sized GUI on the wall. Rent on or no bid heat maps, wifi tracking, voice print upgrades, p2p tracking, onion routing ip finder.
What once the clandestine services had is now within the budget of a city or state task force.
Re "no harm in this." The United States Constitution is clear on what needs to be done to get a search warrant for domestic access.
Once that color of law sets in to set aside constitutional protections from mil and gov tasking over generations, all other protections are lost.
AC with sharing this goes to a city and state level. State task forces push requests up, other agencies push data down to the city and state level.
A lot of local eyes are now getting to see, requesting or getting the product of such domestic tasking.
AC, because your gov/mil reading your email is prevented by the Constitution.
Bulk domestic collection is not legal. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act even has the word "Foreign" in it so courts, the wider public and staff can more easily understand what is legal.
The Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... went all over that the last time vast domestic spying was discovered.
At best all the US has is:
ip range, easy to produce by other actors or a staging server.
Time zone, stay up late or early.
Very easy to find code litter of method understood by private security contractors left all after server after event.
No detection on entry, no detection during gathering of data, no detection on data movement.
After event, easy to find logs, trail and well understood method by private sector experts.
Experts who then talk to waiting media about what was found...
If this was another nation with secret and unexpected methods, why allow such easy media national access?
Recall the operations around another nations entry into a friendly nations telco system.
The reaction? No real media and to call in "military intelligence services" to halt further public understanding.
Operation Socialist The Inside Story Of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco (Dec. 13 2014) https://theintercept.com/2014/...
'they dismissed media reports about the attack, and declined to discuss anything about the perpetrator"
Hard to find, no trace, not expected and hard to work out what was used, few media comments. Very different from running to the media by contractors.
The slurp is 100% in realtime, collect it all and storage cheaper than intensive sorting on collection at all the collection site.
A splitter room stays undetected and gets all data. Room 641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That was only to cover the CIA and NSA in other nations. Or the GCHQ helping the NSA in the USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Fully US domestic protections should have been fully court protected.
The legal community, NSA, other agencies all understood what the Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... found and did.
Domestic protections never went away under color of law, findings or secret courts.
All domestic protections have total supremacy over any color of law collection efforts.
What can the wider public do when they are been spied on domestically under color of law by gov, mil and brand?
Feed the collection system junk. Just keep using the internet in amazing ways that fill the US collection systems with so much data that any collection is a joke.
Create accounts with diametrically opposed habits and shopping. Searches and terms, funny to very boring and then back to very interesting.
If big brands want to collect for big gov, create amazing fictional emails. Long paragraphs, flowing about the next whistleblower, going to the press, meeting contacts to collect data. Make it geographically and account holder believable. i.e. science or crypto or party political to fit the account holders wider fictional searchers and online persona.
Log into your own drafts from a really unexpected ip range. Read and alter. Close the account. Start a new one later.
If a big brand and big gov like content, enjoy the protected freedom of speech to create some marketing fiction with your own free account.
AC the part your missing is "Foreign". You don't get a color of law rubber stamp to look at all US domestic content as that is fully protected from the US gov by the US Constitution. To look at any US content a court order per account or some other court document for a connected group of account users under active US investigation is the law.
Just using the internet does not remove all US protections and make all content "Foreign" and a free for all to the NSA and other agencies.
Color of law 4+ hops of looking at all domestic accounts is not a US "Foreign" court order.
A standalone version of its Messenger app is going to more hardware and OS.
So no matter the OS, device or location, a locked in consumer never has to exit the Zuckernet.
Facebook “Messenger Day” is the chat app’s new Snapchat Stories clone (Sep 30, 2016) https://techcrunch.com/2016/09...
Facebook launches pared back Android chat app to keep growing its messaging empire (Oct 3, 2016) https://techcrunch.com/2016/10...
Bring in some capitalism and test global streaming on the day of release.
Get rid of the fake 90 day monopoly and national regional lock in sales.
Go to your local theatre for digital projection or stream to your big screen at home.
The this sounds like some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first company to do that will take all the risk and cost. Then they will have to share. A wise competitor will just sit back, demand the gov give them total access and have a new network to sell services on.
Why build a brand new US wide network to just give away access to your competitors just after completion?
The other part is monopoly and cartel networks peering to keep out new entrants.
A new network might have new equal access laws. Better to keep the old laws on old networks for a few more decades.
In the past it was the contact for vital staff on call. Power always flowed, the phone line was always free and would be picked up.
With small battery packs, lack of remote site generators, lack of generator testing, lack of generator service, remote site damage, todays telco networks are not the best over hours without power.
The way around that is just to support a user who really needs POTS e.g. medial device. Help sign over all other users to wireless voice.
If you really need your phone line, you can keep it...
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One chip was designed to be very powerful and work well.
Another chip was designed to be new, better, cheaper. The option is to have other closed hardware do graphics, sound and other tasks.
Years later the different design ideas are back on the desktop again.
Do applications want one good chip that is well understood or a cheap chip that locks in a generation to other deeper hardware to get the same performance.
Nice if you have a closed OS, online shop, can alter app code standards and can command developers to accept for profit changes.
The problem is that sites now detect the lack of ads been allowed to run and lock up content and comments with a static demand to whitelist.
To keep on using a site the user has to open their computer to infection.
Look back over the history of computer education. Communist nations poured wealth into early education, university access. It produced a professional class of academics, teachers, engineers and doctors. The graduates then had to fit into ever more jobs the gov had to create for them.
The hard currency to buy imported hardware was wasted and hope for new advanced production lines for export never happened.
In the West it was more dynamic and based on testing. Merit and wealthy parents or skills and savings or scholarship. Academia was only open to people who could pass actual tests and get top grades over all their years of their education. Test well and go for a scholarship, use the GI Bill or have parents who attended to pay for further education. A smaller pool but the Western employment market was ready for that expert set of smart people every decade.
The private sector got the best quality staff and the graduates had a real degree and enjoyed seeking the kind of work they wanted.
The change was easy loans and national virtue signalling by a generations of admission experts who got to shape intake.
The other change in the West was a fear of communist education and the need for more science graduates at any cost. More students got offered "any" further education in "anything" science.
Merit was lost over generations and every consideration given to all aspects of entry but the needed ability to pass the course.
Nations become top heavy with paper graduates who then need and demand work but the few expert positions are taken by people with real skills or people found globally with skills.
Re "Is it really worth it?" Yes to the people working on admissions and the branding of the institutions get to show they have installed excellence and replaced merit on entry.
The teams selling education hardware and software to try and help educate huge generations of students to try and pass over many years.
Long term advanced nations now have vast pools of generations of graduates with degrees and no job prospects.
When governments/mil or admissions staff have a go at shaping further education vast amounts of graduates usually result.
The actual private sector creating jobs never gets consulted and the jobs are not waiting next decade. Real skills needed have to then be found globally to keep design, production and other vital skills in place.
Its worth it to offer loans, big brands/gov/mil get to be seen on campus, who attract ever more people to university to promote that university, their brand and get more cash, gov/mil funding.
The diploma mill always wins. The graduate is then left with loans to pay back and has few real skills expecting the economy to be like it was a decade ago when their computer course was created and that easy loan was offered.
The fix is to lure that vast pool of new students who really want to be students for a few years away from science and back into much cheaper traditional academic options they actually really enjoy.
The students get a low cost degree, are happy and can enjoy a few years of academic enrichment with their peers. Science departments can then select from the very best every year and can get on with education.
AC freedom of assembly, freedom of association is protected, even to enjoy yet another constitutionally protected activity.
Talking about plate readers and long term databases, reporting it is then freedom of the press and freedom of speech and after speech.
The US has so many really good protections against gov overreach and tyranny thanks to its past with direct rule.
16 bit support and layers with a nice GUI?
Photoshop version history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re "What exactly will the government prevent?"
The idea is to stop what happened in France with networking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"... in 1986, French university students coordinated a national strike using Minitel, demonstrating an early use of digital communication devices for participatory technopolitical ends."
Re 'It's difficult to stop mobs although the police can arrive in force before the mob swells in size and commitment."
The US view is to find and stop the charismatic or photogenic leadership before any mob can ever form.
Re "We've seen that sort of policing before, in Ireland."
The UK had total mastery of all communication within Ireland and a good overview of all political/funding/hardware support from the USA.
https://cryptome.org/jya/gchq-...
Once into any nations phone networks, prediction becomes easy.
The tracking of individuals would break into any cell structure and allow then protected informants to rise up the ranks.
The idea was to induce events.
CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup (20 August 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
The chance of uprising starting is then 100%.
The US can save its freedom fighters, king, general, theocracy from grass roots democracy from civil society.
With a few days warning any form of US friendly gov can be fully protected from its own people.
Efforts by the working class or patriotic right can be discovered, tacked and removed before any international media finds out about domestic calls for change. No calls for democracy gain traction, no international media, no counter coup.
With the right dictionary list and voice to text hardware that would have been easy with a more limited set of leadership phone numbers in any nation.
Tap all the political leaders, mil, gov, industrial leaders, media, banking elite, celebrities and one productive hop beyond them.
As reports of industrial action, protests, riots, cost of living spread fast amount the left or right political base so a few days warning in most nations would have been possible given actual local events.
Most nations do have vast informant networks and people who have been to jail or made an offer been released as informants. All that domestic information flows to the top and then spreads as gossip among the ruling elite or even as basic insider trading.
The CIA would not have allowed the NSA/GCHQ to be the only gatekeeper over any decade able to get raw data of value out of any nation.
With a smaller, smarter take and limited hops of collected phone numbers per nation, the NSA collect it all, translation, per nation slang and jargon issue would be avoided.
The CIA take would be accurate, focused, on time and realistic for US political consideration.
The other issue with a social uprising is just to create one. US backed Colour revolution at the right time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... can seem like local issues but have been induced and well funded.
Consider Project SHAMROCK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... on a global scale for decades over all emerging communications networks but only for very interesting people.
"Speech Recognition is NSA’s Best-Kept Open Secret" (May 11 2015)
"..speech recognition technology has been heavily — and openly — funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) since the early 1970s." https://theintercept.com/2015/...
COINS, Community On-line Intelligence System was mid 1960.
A single gpu for usable 4k gaming exists in consumer product lines today than is within the price range of savings on an average working wage.
With the next gen 4k games will be fully supported on any game quality setting. 8k playback, sound and gui support would not be that much of an issue later.
An 8K video and sound codec is a set standard that can be coded for on hardware and software.
Fast optical connection do exist in many nations and are cheap per month with different free data caps for media content.
Get the 8K data down at the provider server level with no data caps in a nation and its good.
No need to stream from the US to the world. Each service provider gets a new secure 8K content server and optical back to only a set of their locally networked consumers.
If a provider is really good they could even offer a faster optical speed just for encrypted content over an optical streaming network.
The internet neutrality speed stays the same but the 8K stream always gets fast, perfect network conditions.
Like TV and internet down the same pipe is protected now.
This would be the reason. A francophone cover to get search terms back to plain text, readable form on French servers. Accept all requests from a more inquisitorial legal system rather than having to see what another nation would think of a French legal finding and then take time to consider or not accept.
France does not want another event like Pierre-sur-Haute article deletion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... surrounding gov, mil, collection, so just add more French content to ensure French servers get used by most people more often.
Publicity, relevance will then alter user habits back to French products ensuring total legal access.
how is secrecy a good plan?
Think of the command center sized GUI on the wall. Rent on or no bid heat maps, wifi tracking, voice print upgrades, p2p tracking, onion routing ip finder.
What once the clandestine services had is now within the budget of a city or state task force.
Re "no harm in this."
The United States Constitution is clear on what needs to be done to get a search warrant for domestic access.
Once that color of law sets in to set aside constitutional protections from mil and gov tasking over generations, all other protections are lost.
AC with sharing this goes to a city and state level. State task forces push requests up, other agencies push data down to the city and state level.
A lot of local eyes are now getting to see, requesting or getting the product of such domestic tasking.
AC, because your gov/mil reading your email is prevented by the Constitution.
Bulk domestic collection is not legal. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act even has the word "Foreign" in it so courts, the wider public and staff can more easily understand what is legal.
The Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... went all over that the last time vast domestic spying was discovered.
At best all the US has is:
ip range, easy to produce by other actors or a staging server.
Time zone, stay up late or early.
Very easy to find code litter of method understood by private security contractors left all after server after event.
No detection on entry, no detection during gathering of data, no detection on data movement.
After event, easy to find logs, trail and well understood method by private sector experts.
Experts who then talk to waiting media about what was found...
If this was another nation with secret and unexpected methods, why allow such easy media national access?
Recall the operations around another nations entry into a friendly nations telco system.
The reaction? No real media and to call in "military intelligence services" to halt further public understanding.
Operation Socialist The Inside Story Of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco (Dec. 13 2014)
https://theintercept.com/2014/...
'they dismissed media reports about the attack, and declined to discuss anything about the perpetrator"
Hard to find, no trace, not expected and hard to work out what was used, few media comments. Very different from running to the media by contractors.
The "government" can just be an offer of new funding. Once accepted or offered.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The slurp is 100% in realtime, collect it all and storage cheaper than intensive sorting on collection at all the collection site.
A splitter room stays undetected and gets all data. Room 641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That was only to cover the CIA and NSA in other nations. Or the GCHQ helping the NSA in the USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Fully US domestic protections should have been fully court protected.
The legal community, NSA, other agencies all understood what the Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... found and did.
Domestic protections never went away under color of law, findings or secret courts.
All domestic protections have total supremacy over any color of law collection efforts.
What can the wider public do when they are been spied on domestically under color of law by gov, mil and brand?
Feed the collection system junk. Just keep using the internet in amazing ways that fill the US collection systems with so much data that any collection is a joke.
Create accounts with diametrically opposed habits and shopping. Searches and terms, funny to very boring and then back to very interesting.
If big brands want to collect for big gov, create amazing fictional emails. Long paragraphs, flowing about the next whistleblower, going to the press, meeting contacts to collect data. Make it geographically and account holder believable. i.e. science or crypto or party political to fit the account holders wider fictional searchers and online persona.
Log into your own drafts from a really unexpected ip range. Read and alter. Close the account. Start a new one later.
If a big brand and big gov like content, enjoy the protected freedom of speech to create some marketing fiction with your own free account.
AC the part your missing is "Foreign". You don't get a color of law rubber stamp to look at all US domestic content as that is fully protected from the US gov by the US Constitution.
To look at any US content a court order per account or some other court document for a connected group of account users under active US investigation is the law.
Just using the internet does not remove all US protections and make all content "Foreign" and a free for all to the NSA and other agencies.
Color of law 4+ hops of looking at all domestic accounts is not a US "Foreign" court order.
A standalone version of its Messenger app is going to more hardware and OS.
So no matter the OS, device or location, a locked in consumer never has to exit the Zuckernet.
Facebook “Messenger Day” is the chat app’s new Snapchat Stories clone (Sep 30, 2016)
https://techcrunch.com/2016/09... Facebook launches pared back Android chat app to keep growing its messaging empire (Oct 3, 2016)
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10...
The sales part reminds me of the Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battles of History (headphones if at work)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bring in some capitalism and test global streaming on the day of release.
Get rid of the fake 90 day monopoly and national regional lock in sales.
Go to your local theatre for digital projection or stream to your big screen at home.
The this sounds like some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first company to do that will take all the risk and cost. Then they will have to share. A wise competitor will just sit back, demand the gov give them total access and have a new network to sell services on.
Why build a brand new US wide network to just give away access to your competitors just after completion?
The other part is monopoly and cartel networks peering to keep out new entrants.
A new network might have new equal access laws. Better to keep the old laws on old networks for a few more decades.
In the past it was the contact for vital staff on call. Power always flowed, the phone line was always free and would be picked up.
With small battery packs, lack of remote site generators, lack of generator testing, lack of generator service, remote site damage, todays telco networks are not the best over hours without power.
The way around that is just to support a user who really needs POTS e.g. medial device. Help sign over all other users to wireless voice.
If you really need your phone line, you can keep it...