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  1. Re:We still need to fight against Chrome on Google Backtracks on Chrome Modifications That Would Have Crippled Ad Blockers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows still lets a users browser run extensions that block ads, scripts and tracking.
    Ad supporting crypto is crypto that gets an ad past any attempts to block an ad at the browser level.
    The ad is full protected by the OS, browser and the user will find it hard work to block, removed, not display.
    Windows still gives the user control over a users selected browser to block ads.
    Other OS give the users even more control over their own OS to block ads, tracking.
    Freedom and control over a real OS is great like that.
    Not having to accept ads pushed down by an ad company.

  2. Re:A ban on ban employee cafeterias and now? on Why Some US Cities are Fighting 'Dollar Stores' (eastbaytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    When a gov places demands on what is "healthier" and who can trade, when and where that's "big gov".
    Let the people select what they want to buy, when, where and at what cost.
    Poor people do not have extra hours to shop.
    They do not have extra money to spend on gov laws demanding they eat more expensive "healthier" food.
    Its their wage, their food and their time.
    They have the freedom to spend that wage on any product and services they want at any part of the city they want.
    A big gov should not set shopping times, new more distant locations, type of food and the cost of food.
    Once a gov places demands on what is high-quality merchandise, they will place other demands on what be be sold and why.
    People who are poor will then have to spend more time and money travelling further to try and find lower cost food.
    Time they may not have as they work long hours for low wages.
    Now they have to pay more and give up more hours to buy food as the gov has changed their food prices?

  3. German had great infrastructure on Germany Sees Big Rise in Security Problems Affecting Infrastructure (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The thing with West and later German infrastructure was to keep investing in infrastructure.
    Stop spending due to spending on welfare and infrastructure starts to not work as well as it once did.
    West Germany could spend a lot of the best infrastructure to show it was better than anything Communism could offer.
    Germany could spend on infrastructure as its still had a lot of money to invest in large projects.
    Now that money has to look after generations of people rather that the best infrastructure.
    Stop investing and spending and that once great infrastructure starts to need more maintenance and more investment.
    Giving alway new welfare payments to many random people will not provide the needed investment in infrastructure every year.

  4. Organized labor and having to hire public housing residents.

    Who wants to become full union and have to get told who to hire by a gov?
    Hire on merit and grow as a brand.
    Find a state and city that welcomes innovation and jobs.
    Not a state that places demands on needing a union and who to hire.

    Once a gov says who to hire, the next part is how many to hire.

  5. Re:We still need to fight against Chrome on Google Backtracks on Chrome Modifications That Would Have Crippled Ad Blockers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    An ad company making the ad ready OS and the ad supporting crypto.
    Its in the OS, crypto, browser. Extensions cant keep protecting at that level of support for ads.

  6. Social media in the next decades on 1,100 Schools Now Scan Social Media For Violent Students - and Alcohol Use (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop using all social media that can be tracked.
    Don't get your image uploaded to any social media service.
    Dont use names, words, jargon, locations that will induce tracking online.
    Have an online computer for work, study, education. Have a VPN computer for computer games, searching.
    Need social media for some project? Set up an account with the min information just for that. Never use it again.
    Enjoy your freedoms like past generations did.

    Be aware of how many jobs, other nations, gov, mil, services will "demand" social media accounts in later decades.
    Show them the account that has nothing on it as needed.

  7. has to ad.
    The ads still get in.

  8. A ban on ban employee cafeterias and now? on Why Some US Cities are Fighting 'Dollar Stores' (eastbaytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What is it with controlling people and their food?
    People want a nice safe, clean employee cafeteria and the big gov says no.
    People have the freedom to shop for food they can afford and big gov says no.
    To protect a system that has more expensive food people can afford?
    People have a sent income, let them find the food they can afford, enjoy and want to eat.
    Freedom to buy products and services that are near them and at a price they can use everyday.
    Should big gov tell a person how to shop, where to shop and that they have to support more expensive "grocery stores"?

    Will the gov say what can be sold? What the lowest cost fresh produce, meats, fruit will be in a community?
    Food shopping is now gov tracked, gov approved and with gov set prices for set food quality?
    Who sets the price, food quality and what an approved grocery stores is?
    Will the cost of all that gov approval be passed on with a new fresh produce, meats and fruit tax?
    Let the free market set food prices, store locations and what to sell.
    No gov regulation needed.

  9. Re:This is all fine and dandy on Relative's DNA Solves A 1993 Murder Cold Case (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    All the lost state and city crimes getting looked over by US wide investigations for new DNA.
    The other fun is all the people who worked as "informants" for the police/gov/mil and who expected to keep their cover.
    All the undercover work going back decades.

  10. Re:maybe some day on NASA's Plans To Build A Human Settlement on The Moon (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 for India. They really understand the education side of the production space of tech.
    India will study the problems, work the math and get the best production lines ready.

  11. More censorship on the way? on Facebook Becomes 'A Haven For the Anti-Vaccination Movement' (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    In the past a person could link and publish their own comments.
    That would connect to people with the same views and interests.
    The site would be a utility to pass on the content.
    Now a site wants to be the publisher of users content and links?

    To curate comments and users own speech?
    To decide what speech is sinful?

    What topics are next for some powerful social media curation?
    History? Art? Politics? Comedy? Faith? DRM? Crypto? Unauthorized repair shop using imported parts? Catalonia?
    Taiwan as the real China?

  12. Re:How is this any different from car repair? on Lobbyists Demonize 'Right To Repair' Legislation (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    A person can still pay for car parts without risking having to face legal questions of counterfeiting by a big car brand.

  13. What can the web do now? on Free Software Foundation: Dating Is a Free Software Issue (fsf.org) · · Score: 1

    Some sort of code for a site that can:
    Allow a users to create an account, accepting an email and encrypted password. Keeping all that encrypted.
    To ensure the CoC was displayed and some way having the CoC accepted.
    To accept an image uploaded for the user computer. To size, rotate and crop.
    To allow the user to see their account and enter data about their interests eg if they like Ada, Lisp, Assembler, C, Python, Forth, html, LabVIEW?
    To then search for users with the same interests.
    Chat rooms under a list of interests?
    To send an encrypted message to people with the same interests.
    To support text, mic and webcam chat? Fully encrypted.
    What computer power, OS and code would be needed to do all that?
    Code that works well with slow networks global and that can support different OS, web browsers?
    Thats great crypto, images, text, accounts, video, voice, chat, a database of interests, searching.

  14. The FBI has been collecting great amounts of data on different crime all over the USA for many years.
    The locations, distance calculations at a crime with the use of weapons, type of crime, who did the crime and their connection to that area.
    The data exists for any part of the USA.
    City and state police can now do the same "math" as the FBI did looking g back over years of complex collected crime data sets.
    Place more police where crime and criminals are and the wider city is kept much more safe.
    Crime and criminals are contained to set areas of a city where more police can respond.
    Allowing more crime to spread out over a nice city is not a good idea given the years of data that shows where crime is.
    When people call for the police the time needed is less.
    When police need support more police are in the area to reduce the time needed to get support.
    A city can only pay for so many police, their transport, their pensions, the hours they can work, over time.
    Every use of police has to be considered for an area filled with crime and criminals.
    No city can have the added cost of extra police driving around very low crime areas.
    When 911 is called, people expect police to arrive soon.
    Having extra police in another nice part of a city, in a low crime area is not going to get police that are needed to that crime quickly.

  15. Re:ISSUE IS NOT REPORTING or "noticing crimes" on Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm Is Fundamentally Flawed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "- with actual number of crimes on the increase city-wide."
    That would be detected and added in.
    Low crime, nice parts of a city would not suddenly become filled with crime.
    Crime stays in parts of a city filled with criminals. Thats why the ability to track time works so well.

  16. A big long card with a few CPU's and sell it as a new way of thinking about a GPU.
    Existing CPU design trying to sell ray tracing as a new powerful GPU design.
    Can all todays GPU math be made extra fast by using a lot more CPU math?
    Fast CPU math will make an amazing GPU card for a set of ray tracing math.
    CPU math that computer games will have to understand and work to support as graphics.
    Just keep adding another CPU onto the GPU card until the rays work at 60 fps in 4K?
    All games crave adding that extra open source Intel ray tracing math...

  17. Re:I always thought it would be interesting on Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code For Discrete GPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    That memory was too slow for advanced new computer games.
    Some software likes lots of RAM when the math is well understood and the software can make use of the GPU and RAM.
    It depends on the task, math, skill and time put into the OS, GPU, of the software code.

  18. Re:The Imaginary Mediterranean Diet ... on What Can We Learn From The Retraction of the Mediterranean Diet Study? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The 1940s and 1950s for that part of Europe was not a good place for food.
    With war, poverty, the Greek Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    What oil was used for cooking, was it heated?
    Cardiovascular disease, cancer, life expectancy vs northern Europe and North America?
    What food was for export, what was imported, what did the US Marshall Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... do to food?
    Rationing in the United Kingdom after WW2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Note when sugar and confectionery rationing ended in the UK.
    Was it a good time to do a food study?

  19. AC "management" will just look around the world and find a nation with people who can code.
    Governments that will lower the tax rate and who will welcome investment.
    No "management" would sit around and pay more for the same product with the risk of union activity.
    Management of digital brands have the wealth and ability to move away from union activity in a city and state .

  20. Re:A city on Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm Is Fundamentally Flawed (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Re "self-reinforcing observation"
    No city has the extra police numbers to over police low crime areas and still have enough police for parts of the city filled with criminals.
    Crime fills parts of US cities and over time its rather easy to map out, put up on a GUI map.
    Every 911 call has to be responded to on time.
    No city can just say that many of its police are kept on patrol in a very low crime area that day and the response time in a high crime area will take time.
    Police do not want to see that their police support is kept far away from them in areas of a city with a constant crime problem.
    The numbers of police, police patrols is not a large number.
    Why would any city waste its limited numbers of police in low crime areas?
    Thats real people in an area of the city with real crime that have to wait longer? Why do that?
    he system exists to map and predict crime given past crime.
    Fill that area with police and try and contain all the crime and criminals.

    Re "areas aren't going to get enough police".
    That would show on the reported maps and the system would report a need to place more police in that area as crime and criminals move into an area.
    Insurance reports, reported crime, calls to 911, types of crime, arrests and resulting convictions would show a rising and changing crime rate.
    Its not "questionably criminal" when lots of people go to court and then to prison from one area of a city a lot more than another.
    Police could put on more patrols and try and get their ability time needed to get to a crime down.

  21. Only has so many police to send to any neighborhood.
    Have all the skilled police waiting around a low crime neighborhood is going to add to support times in crime filled neighborhoods.
    The ability to pack a lot of police into the "neighborhood" that is full of criminals allows a rapid response to crime and criminals.
    Call for help get paid police action.
    More police are in the area to support the number of calls.
    Don't have skilled police waiting around in the better low crime neighborhoods.
    The "system" quickly works out what neighborhoods have the crime.
    To map out the better neighborhoods with normal people who don't do crime all day and night.
    The system is working perfectly and allows a city to place police jwre needed, in the most crime filled neighborhoods.

  22. How to roll back a color revolution on Venezuela's Government Appears To be Trying To Hack Activists With Phishing Pages (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The part governments never understood was that the NSA, GCHQ, CIA and MI6 had the top mil/gov commanders communications networks.
    Calls got made and the CIA made offers.
    Freedom, no war crime investigation, cash to stand down.
    Counter intelligence never seemed to get a recording, never stopped such calls.
    The military and police command stood down. The color revolution using protesters could move on.

    What the more skilled counter intelligence services have finally worked out after decades is just how active the CIA and NSA are on their now nations secure mil/gov networks.
    The new way around such attempts is to flood networks with calls in accents offering inside information and a way out to mil/gov command level staff.
    The staff then have to state an instant yes/no to a CIA offer. Freedom/cash or stay working for the gov?
    The ability to turn an entire nations command staff has now gotten more difficult as counter intelligence is now making the same offers on the same secure and private networks.
    Add to that social media push back countering think tank, NGO and professional protest movements.
    Color revolutions only work if the police and mil stand down and for protesters to take over a gov during the US news cycle.
    Every police and mil officer now has to wonder if they said Yes to standing down and who the call was really from.
    Do a full Tiananmen square?
    Go full East Germany and the Stasi after getting direct reassurance from another nation?
    Counter intelligence is finally not waiting for NGO, think tanks to hand out the protest stickers, banners, to fund protesters. Not allowing global social media to arrange protest locations.
    No on location TV to get the optics of a "large" protest and police commanders doing nothing.
    The mil in the side streets will not react the same way East German troops did.
    Communications is now a counter intelligence trap. Every phone call, every social media message to protest is a trap.
    A very different approach from the 1980's Stasi long term undercover investigative approach that allowed large protests to build and take place.
    For the import and spread of campaigning banners, stickers, slogans, the free use of social media to pre position protesters.

  23. The GCHQ and UK mil has been tracking people globally for decades using the phone network...
    Location, voice prints.
    A lot of early digital phone networks allowed a lot of interesting people to be found. Along with anyone they stayed in contact with.

  24. Re: Not all are created equal on Huge Study Finds Professors' Attitudes Affect Students' Grades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    AC the fry cook still has to show they are smart and can pass the needed exams to show they can study at a degree and college level.
    Thats why the USA did all that decades of academic and IQ testing.
    To ensure every fry cook with academic ability could get a full academic scholarship on merit.
    Lots of great smart people did part time and night work to pay for college.
    They showed they could study and kept on doing great when at college.
    Their professional US qualifications reflected real academic ability for decades.

    Now that will be replaced with attendance and a list of non academic consideration?

  25. When looking over people who have "graduated" and what level of actual education was offered?
    Want a person who can code?
    Who was able to learn to code?
    Who entered college with the skills to study and who has the ability to study?
    Could pass real exams under exam conditions and show they had real academic ability over years of education?
    Who will enter the workforce ready with new skills and the ability to learn new skills?
    With a real degree and the ability to code as their professional qualifications show.
    Who can be given a new task and do the task given without constant support and help?

    vs

    A student who entered on non academic considerations?
    Who did not have the ability to study.
    Who only just passed their "exams" and who needed further consideration over years of study?
    What do they bring to your brand? The full wage of an average person with few academic skills?
    Cant code? Cant do math? Cant study? Wont study? Wants a huge wage due to their given "education"?
    A very average person who will need the full support of your skilled workers everyday?
    Skilled workers who get taken away from profit making work to further fully support new average workers?

    Education, merit and a professional education was to allow a brand to elect form the best workers.
    Not have to wonder if a new person is below average and will need constant supervisions and support at "work".