Re "the real question is are the filters doing their jobs??"
Consider the math of 99.65% over a set or longer time. A clear path for some amount material given time gets past a filter.
Thats the nature of filter science. If the more exotic material floating around could be broken down that would be interesting for long term missions.
Health vs size, weight mission issues:)
Think about the long term issues with a traditional desktop telco plan or wifi user at home not just todays cellphone plans.
Will an upload peer-to-peer networking protocol be looked at by many providers and be legally shaped over time?
The users UDP and TCP use is an issue that only a new expensive plan can help with could become the new option for providers looking to profit in new ways.
Tourists in the EU get a better deal. The EU telcos get a better deal in their Asian, African and South American markets/former colonies.
Better to keep the markets captive than than have nations explore other cheaper telco methods or build their own networks.
The real local test will be p2p use and new expensive upload plans. Download is fine on the slow lanes, dare to upload and a new expensive plan is suggested and needed.
The "zero rating" agreements will push users to a select list of walled social media sites. Comments and votes can then be shaped, removed, reported, logged, tracked by govs/mil. On average a nations images, vids, text, comments be directed to a few easy to track social media sites due to zero rating freedoms:) Free speech on any news topic results in account issues and a visit by local government officials for a chat down.
Also very difficult for new brands to get that now needed zero rating to attract users.
Think of trying to sell US based cloud products to the wider world after this legal "collect it all" public/private relationship..
Over time the leadership of the US based cloud provider might, have to, did, would, was asked to share all data with the US gov as a default request.
Legally and fully protected your data is collected.
5 eye nations get a look. Other 3rd party nations the US really likes get a free look too. Some might be competitors.
Most nations are going to be very aware of who gets their big data contracts.
Welcome to a big digital Berlin wall. Every user is going to be legally tracked anywhere near the 'internet' by the enthusiastic US brands and their pro gov/mil friendly logging.
Your in a 5 eye nation. They get all the advanced US "collect it all" methods shared from the US over the decades.
A VPN if installed correctly and of a good quality will save you from your everyday internet providers daily logging or apps/malware collecting your ip.
If a person is of note or interest to the security services or seen as using a VPN on a tracked site or detected?
"NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs" (Aug 2, 2013) http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Read up of methods surrounding X-Keyscore, TAO, VPN and bulk traffic.
A lot of nations try ideas like the UK's Government Secure Intranet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and some network operations centre.
"Email traffic in and out of the network is filtered by an external provider."
Testing and first contact is often done via an external agency to see if the person even has the skills listed to any level expected.
Standard tests any private sector provider might offer via another private sector contractor.
If passed then an interview with a private sector contractor is offered.
Expect any public facing web site to be the same. A list of contact details, social media, history and a web 2.0 look.
A quick search found "SHA-1 hashing algorithm could succumb to $75K attack, researchers say" (08 Oct 15) http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...
"... US$75,000 and $120,000 to mount a viable attack using freely available cloud-computing services"
"... someone can create two different files that have the same hash, it's possible to digitally sign one"
Try searching for 75K or $75,000 by date and see what other public news can be found:)
Given the pages are mostly a picture, logos, public mission statements, employment/recruiting details, domestic and global propaganda images.
The only thing thats going to be "discovered" is a log or trace of anyone looking at the site.
Its all just bait. If the person looking is found domestically, they might get the recruited by indictment offer.
Re 'tried and true solar panels" work during the day. The idea is to try and work around that night time traditional big battery storage issue with a 'heat tank containing molten sands that can store heat energy for three hours, allowing the plant to power homes into the night."
The main issues seems to be to try and get away from the "We import 94% of our energy as fossil fuels from abroad and that has big consequences for our state budget".
The cost of another fossil fuel project, the related imports and hard currency exchange should be interesting to see over the project.
The cost of batteries might have to still be reduced to become viable for big grid storage in different parts of the world.
Another option is "demand response" and discounted tariffs to try and ensure people use energy during the day vs traditional demand peaks.
ie reshape midday power prices.
AC a "medium-sized natural gas power plant." needs gas. Most nations like to export their own "natural gas" like products for value added hard currency rather than just burning it up locally.
Nations are finally waking up to the decades of petrodollar loans and exchange rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Long term domestic math on projects might reflect past issues with huge loans, crushing hard currency interest payments and needed support for a "medium-sized natural gas power plant".
Yes it a very old story. Germany in WW2 had to select from two options. Let the UK communicate or cut the UK undersea communications. The idea was that the flow of information was breakable given months a few years. German staff and technology was ready so Germany let the UK information flow (US A-3 connection broken by German machine 5B efforts). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was late in actually been used rather than just been installed.
Germany was able to break some early low level UK codes and US State Department codes (M-138-A strip cipher) that gave insights into allied methods.
The only risk the US mil/gov faces is that its mass use, fast crypto codes are junk and the US has no real way of really understanding that aspect of modern mil/gov communications without a total recall and refit globally. Did Russia or the Soviet Union have deep academic staff insights into the gems of US mil code creation methods over decades?
The US can always use space, sat and all its many advanced bases around the world to keep its most needed links working.
If the US is trusting commercial hardware with its bulk mil/gov communications using fast older codes why risk a Russian split box been found on commercial ocean optical for the worlds press to see?
Front companies set up over decades can tap in at any point in any nation for 'free'. Lots more upgrade space and branding than a box set on the sea floor:)
Russia does not need to play and fund the optical tap game the US and UK has been for totally dependant on for decades of collect it all:)
Who knows that the US and UK are creating and pumping down the optical between nations, it could be pure encoded fiction to keep Russia guessing and wasting effort. The funding to find and optics of a propaganda aspect is interesting to see.
Test on a pure optical account at random times if it exists. That would show if the path to the internet is slow as a total connection for all users.
If a pure optical path works every time its not a larger issue.
Coaxial, copper has to connect back to something local and that can often have too many people and have to make some very simple sharing calculations so everyone on different networks can get the internet.
The solution is pure optical to every account or really add short distances of old networks to new fast networking hardware very locally.
Rebuild the network or almost rebuild the network. Allow real capitalism in to build new networks or do nation building and let capitalism in on shared optical to every account:)
Re "spy on criminal communications"
Thats fine in other distant nations where a US agency with in-house intelligence collection can work in both the intelligence and enforcement roles.
If another nation has few laws and allows US technical methods to be used over vast areas 24/7 thats international cooperation.
The main issue for US public courts is unsafe convictions been reexamined given collect it all parallel construction at a city, state, parish level with devices and federal support.
Are the officials just getting a number and location and removing all other collected id related call data in the area or keeping vast databases?
The devices and upgrades that get mentioned in the press as a simple id only/location IMSI-catcher is often generations old technology.
Have the devices used now got the tracking, voice (remote on live mic), voice print, or the ability to map/track any people seen interacting with with the person of interest by default?
Domestic legal teams have to understand the wealth of information that created the case surrounding their client in an open court setting.
Products sold to spy on all communications in other nations might need some basic court oversight when used the US.
Re "make the people who will be buying the energy it produces pay more in the long run, for no good reason."
Thats just the cost of any private sector nuclear power site. The build cost has to factor in all the experts and nuclear only energy sub systems. The ongoing costs of buying bespoke nuclear parts adds to costs. Inspections then find expensive faults and complex parts need to be replaced. Finally the radioactive decommissioning costs have to be fully covered. Then the ongoing cooling ponds or other waste costs can be added in.
Thats why the "energy it produces pay more" adds up over the years when the real nuclear power costs are listed.
So private insurance should be left to pay up and clean any site for any reason in the US based on some clause any US court can extend over any human induced event?
Not many insurance companies would stay in profit or interested in the US oil sector for long if that human related site coverage was allowed to stand as the default legal finding.
Sites that fail due to well understood human activity will have to resort in some way to the "tax payers or the government". Think of it as a geological induced superfund site:)
Buy new insurance to cover human related changes to the local well understood geology or hope the US government covers the site costs long term?
Its great for US central planning at a federal level.
The basic military question is how many or fit or now even smart enough to draft or to consider for complex US gov work. Kind of hard to guess at that if every State claims more rights over its data only giving back a broad look at the most positive educational results federally every year.
The next questing is how many per generation are smart enough to fear a draft and aware of the right to protest in public. The long term anti Vietnam war protests and images of draft cards been rejected was chilling to the wider US military industrial complex.
The "wring our hands over how poor the results are" could be seen from the NSA, DIA, NRO side too. Where are the good results and best future efforts to fund math, computer graduates into US gov/mil departments
Federal data sets covering every aspect of a nation often eluded past generations of the US military and gov planners.
It is very hard for any nation to make smart or fit a wider malnourished, unfit or undereducated population during a draft over weeks or months.
Its also good for security documentation. No driving down to some poorer state with scattered local paper records anymore. The officials can see an entire academic life story from their own federal databases at a desk.
So for the US it has been a vital effort to get useful information out of local leaders trying to claim States rights over academic data that is so vital to US gov long term planning.
Re "insurance and diversification can sort it out"
The US supply network is basically a for profit just in time network that moves in cheap raw material, has it passed into a limited number complex plants and the resulting products move around the nation at a nice profit.
No good buying in expensive raw product, refining it and waiting for prices to go up again "soon". Better to pass on the production costs with a just in time production and final product transport method.
With news of wars, peace, other international pressure on oil prices and pressure on new loans funding domestic production efforts, sitting on insane amounts of "oil" is just a small part of a very complex for profit US supply chain.
Not much for profit or cash is wasted on "diversification" beyond raw "strategic petroleum reserves" going back decades for a short term fix.
That "insane amounts of oil" would keep the US gov/mil going and cover basic food, heating or medical needs as planned and rationed.
As for "insurance"? The court friendly private sector experts will just take one look at the US gov data and suggest not paying if the data showed risk that the site was aware of. Why should the private sector "insurance" just pay up for well understood human changes in site geology? Thats not fair on the "insurance" sector that has generational investors too that need a good return on their brands.
The local natural disasters can be factored in given decades of risk and generations of expert US data. Risking or allowing new "human activity" near a site is a risk that insurance plans will have to fully pass on in new costs or ensure they do not cover under new plans:)
Re "The plant has several electric pumps capable of transferring water from the bulk tanks"
That worked so well in Japan. New designs should have a full understanding of the location of back up power, the needs of back up power and ability to cool after damage.
All the best ideas present well for paper regulation. Every part of the complex backup system on a site has to switch over and keep working.
re "connected to portable generators in a serious emergency"
Japan had some new thinking on that quick local fix too. If the power need and inter connections dont work anymore due to unexpected or events always considered too expensive to consider or find funds for?
Re "emergency response teams were trying to use pumps to inject water into the reactors at dozens of atmospheres of pressure."
One aspect of a long line of emergency sub systems might be presented as been 'more easy in the USA' but every system has to be tested, working, in place and well funded to work for a set time at a moments notice when needed.
Thats a lot of shareholder profit lost over the yeas to powering up, inspecting and servicing a lot of extra complex equipment.
How is that long term extra cost reduced? Less gov required complex planning, less full testing less often, less regulation, less gov suggestions of new mandated redundancy.
Yes the "trust but verify nature of the programs" should have been done.
It could have all been fixed with a 100 point check like system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bring in any mix of a birth certificate, passport like paperwork to show citizenship, refugee docs, licence or permit, local government docs, utility bill, rent agreement.
If a person has problems finding or updating the paperwork, help them get some of the above sorted out. The REAL ID Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... will be the next big change for many.
The flow of Overrated, Interesting, Flamebait was interesting to see. Very positive support was early on was removed by a flow of -1's much later.
Quoting the advanced German skill sets, Germany keeping a science project well funded and getting support for the project did not seem to of much interest to some people with mod points:)
The reminder over "stop/start political funding in other nations." part could have been an issue for some readers.
Yes the 960 is good for the price, games at supported resolutions.
Some of the video encode, decode support is interesting too if needed or supported.
Nvidia PureVideo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
AC look up terms like activity security manager, information assurance, site security, "appropriate authorities", preserve evidence, sanitization, physical removal when "Classified Information Spillage" occurs:)
Just presenting public, open academic crypto information is getting interesting in an educational setting.
The well funded sheltered workshop and bespoke cottage industry buying from multinationals as nation building funding that keeps national engineering skills over decades.
Generations of German staff learn smart stuff they can then sell to the rest of the world in the open, in bulk.
The next generation of staff can then share, talk about and build on the projects. Very different from the stop/start political funding in other nations.
Locals who can work down to millimeter precision, with cold materials, understand supercomputers in the open, public sector.
That plays great in international export publications under the brand Germany. Other nations hide that kind of skill for their military only or give up, cant fund, fail with science and engineering on the public stage. Germany gets on with building, sharing, showing ie winning.
Germany can then boast about, sell, educate, share, invite and earn from the related public projects.
Slashdot Mirror
Re "the real question is are the filters doing their jobs??" :)
Consider the math of 99.65% over a set or longer time. A clear path for some amount material given time gets past a filter.
Thats the nature of filter science. If the more exotic material floating around could be broken down that would be interesting for long term missions.
Health vs size, weight mission issues
Think about the long term issues with a traditional desktop telco plan or wifi user at home not just todays cellphone plans.
Will an upload peer-to-peer networking protocol be looked at by many providers and be legally shaped over time?
The users UDP and TCP use is an issue that only a new expensive plan can help with could become the new option for providers looking to profit in new ways.
Tourists in the EU get a better deal. The EU telcos get a better deal in their Asian, African and South American markets/former colonies. :) Free speech on any news topic results in account issues and a visit by local government officials for a chat down.
Better to keep the markets captive than than have nations explore other cheaper telco methods or build their own networks.
The real local test will be p2p use and new expensive upload plans. Download is fine on the slow lanes, dare to upload and a new expensive plan is suggested and needed.
The "zero rating" agreements will push users to a select list of walled social media sites. Comments and votes can then be shaped, removed, reported, logged, tracked by govs/mil. On average a nations images, vids, text, comments be directed to a few easy to track social media sites due to zero rating freedoms
Also very difficult for new brands to get that now needed zero rating to attract users.
Think of trying to sell US based cloud products to the wider world after this legal "collect it all" public/private relationship..
Over time the leadership of the US based cloud provider might, have to, did, would, was asked to share all data with the US gov as a default request.
Legally and fully protected your data is collected.
5 eye nations get a look. Other 3rd party nations the US really likes get a free look too. Some might be competitors.
Most nations are going to be very aware of who gets their big data contracts.
Welcome to a big digital Berlin wall. Every user is going to be legally tracked anywhere near the 'internet' by the enthusiastic US brands and their pro gov/mil friendly logging.
Your in a 5 eye nation. They get all the advanced US "collect it all" methods shared from the US over the decades.
A VPN if installed correctly and of a good quality will save you from your everyday internet providers daily logging or apps/malware collecting your ip.
If a person is of note or interest to the security services or seen as using a VPN on a tracked site or detected?
"NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs" (Aug 2, 2013)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... Read up of methods surrounding X-Keyscore, TAO, VPN and bulk traffic.
A lot of nations try ideas like the UK's Government Secure Intranet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and some network operations centre.
"Email traffic in and out of the network is filtered by an external provider."
Testing and first contact is often done via an external agency to see if the person even has the skills listed to any level expected.
Standard tests any private sector provider might offer via another private sector contractor.
If passed then an interview with a private sector contractor is offered.
Expect any public facing web site to be the same. A list of contact details, social media, history and a web 2.0 look.
A quick search found "SHA-1 hashing algorithm could succumb to $75K attack, researchers say" (08 Oct 15) :)
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...
"... US$75,000 and $120,000 to mount a viable attack using freely available cloud-computing services"
"... someone can create two different files that have the same hash, it's possible to digitally sign one" Try searching for 75K or $75,000 by date and see what other public news can be found
Given the pages are mostly a picture, logos, public mission statements, employment/recruiting details, domestic and global propaganda images.
The only thing thats going to be "discovered" is a log or trace of anyone looking at the site.
Its all just bait. If the person looking is found domestically, they might get the recruited by indictment offer.
Re 'tried and true solar panels" work during the day. The idea is to try and work around that night time traditional big battery storage issue with a 'heat tank containing molten sands that can store heat energy for three hours, allowing the plant to power homes into the night."
The main issues seems to be to try and get away from the "We import 94% of our energy as fossil fuels from abroad and that has big consequences for our state budget".
The cost of another fossil fuel project, the related imports and hard currency exchange should be interesting to see over the project.
The cost of batteries might have to still be reduced to become viable for big grid storage in different parts of the world. Another option is "demand response" and discounted tariffs to try and ensure people use energy during the day vs traditional demand peaks.
ie reshape midday power prices.
The http://www.theguardian.com/env... has a link to
"Morocco: Works on World’s Largest Solar Plant Financed by AfDB Go Underway"
http://www.afdb.org/en/news-an...
breaking down the different phase funding AC.
AC a "medium-sized natural gas power plant." needs gas. Most nations like to export their own "natural gas" like products for value added hard currency rather than just burning it up locally.
Nations are finally waking up to the decades of petrodollar loans and exchange rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Long term domestic math on projects might reflect past issues with huge loans, crushing hard currency interest payments and needed support for a "medium-sized natural gas power plant".
Yes it a very old story. Germany in WW2 had to select from two options. Let the UK communicate or cut the UK undersea communications. The idea was that the flow of information was breakable given months a few years. German staff and technology was ready so Germany let the UK information flow (US A-3 connection broken by German machine 5B efforts). :) :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was late in actually been used rather than just been installed.
Germany was able to break some early low level UK codes and US State Department codes (M-138-A strip cipher) that gave insights into allied methods.
The only risk the US mil/gov faces is that its mass use, fast crypto codes are junk and the US has no real way of really understanding that aspect of modern mil/gov communications without a total recall and refit globally. Did Russia or the Soviet Union have deep academic staff insights into the gems of US mil code creation methods over decades?
The US can always use space, sat and all its many advanced bases around the world to keep its most needed links working.
If the US is trusting commercial hardware with its bulk mil/gov communications using fast older codes why risk a Russian split box been found on commercial ocean optical for the worlds press to see?
Front companies set up over decades can tap in at any point in any nation for 'free'. Lots more upgrade space and branding than a box set on the sea floor
Russia does not need to play and fund the optical tap game the US and UK has been for totally dependant on for decades of collect it all
Who knows that the US and UK are creating and pumping down the optical between nations, it could be pure encoded fiction to keep Russia guessing and wasting effort.
The funding to find and optics of a propaganda aspect is interesting to see.
Test on a pure optical account at random times if it exists. That would show if the path to the internet is slow as a total connection for all users. :)
If a pure optical path works every time its not a larger issue.
Coaxial, copper has to connect back to something local and that can often have too many people and have to make some very simple sharing calculations so everyone on different networks can get the internet.
The solution is pure optical to every account or really add short distances of old networks to new fast networking hardware very locally.
Rebuild the network or almost rebuild the network. Allow real capitalism in to build new networks or do nation building and let capitalism in on shared optical to every account
Re "spy on criminal communications"
Thats fine in other distant nations where a US agency with in-house intelligence collection can work in both the intelligence and enforcement roles.
If another nation has few laws and allows US technical methods to be used over vast areas 24/7 thats international cooperation.
The main issue for US public courts is unsafe convictions been reexamined given collect it all parallel construction at a city, state, parish level with devices and federal support.
Are the officials just getting a number and location and removing all other collected id related call data in the area or keeping vast databases?
The devices and upgrades that get mentioned in the press as a simple id only/location IMSI-catcher is often generations old technology.
Have the devices used now got the tracking, voice (remote on live mic), voice print, or the ability to map/track any people seen interacting with with the person of interest by default?
Domestic legal teams have to understand the wealth of information that created the case surrounding their client in an open court setting.
Products sold to spy on all communications in other nations might need some basic court oversight when used the US.
Re "make the people who will be buying the energy it produces pay more in the long run, for no good reason."
Thats just the cost of any private sector nuclear power site. The build cost has to factor in all the experts and nuclear only energy sub systems. The ongoing costs of buying bespoke nuclear parts adds to costs. Inspections then find expensive faults and complex parts need to be replaced. Finally the radioactive decommissioning costs have to be fully covered. Then the ongoing cooling ponds or other waste costs can be added in.
Thats why the "energy it produces pay more" adds up over the years when the real nuclear power costs are listed.
So private insurance should be left to pay up and clean any site for any reason in the US based on some clause any US court can extend over any human induced event? :)
Not many insurance companies would stay in profit or interested in the US oil sector for long if that human related site coverage was allowed to stand as the default legal finding.
Sites that fail due to well understood human activity will have to resort in some way to the "tax payers or the government". Think of it as a geological induced superfund site
Buy new insurance to cover human related changes to the local well understood geology or hope the US government covers the site costs long term?
Its great for US central planning at a federal level.
The basic military question is how many or fit or now even smart enough to draft or to consider for complex US gov work. Kind of hard to guess at that if every State claims more rights over its data only giving back a broad look at the most positive educational results federally every year.
The next questing is how many per generation are smart enough to fear a draft and aware of the right to protest in public. The long term anti Vietnam war protests and images of draft cards been rejected was chilling to the wider US military industrial complex.
The "wring our hands over how poor the results are" could be seen from the NSA, DIA, NRO side too. Where are the good results and best future efforts to fund math, computer graduates into US gov/mil departments
Federal data sets covering every aspect of a nation often eluded past generations of the US military and gov planners.
It is very hard for any nation to make smart or fit a wider malnourished, unfit or undereducated population during a draft over weeks or months.
Its also good for security documentation. No driving down to some poorer state with scattered local paper records anymore. The officials can see an entire academic life story from their own federal databases at a desk.
So for the US it has been a vital effort to get useful information out of local leaders trying to claim States rights over academic data that is so vital to US gov long term planning.
Re "insurance and diversification can sort it out" :)
The US supply network is basically a for profit just in time network that moves in cheap raw material, has it passed into a limited number complex plants and the resulting products move around the nation at a nice profit.
No good buying in expensive raw product, refining it and waiting for prices to go up again "soon". Better to pass on the production costs with a just in time production and final product transport method.
With news of wars, peace, other international pressure on oil prices and pressure on new loans funding domestic production efforts, sitting on insane amounts of "oil" is just a small part of a very complex for profit US supply chain.
Not much for profit or cash is wasted on "diversification" beyond raw "strategic petroleum reserves" going back decades for a short term fix.
That "insane amounts of oil" would keep the US gov/mil going and cover basic food, heating or medical needs as planned and rationed.
As for "insurance"? The court friendly private sector experts will just take one look at the US gov data and suggest not paying if the data showed risk that the site was aware of. Why should the private sector "insurance" just pay up for well understood human changes in site geology? Thats not fair on the "insurance" sector that has generational investors too that need a good return on their brands.
The local natural disasters can be factored in given decades of risk and generations of expert US data. Risking or allowing new "human activity" near a site is a risk that insurance plans will have to fully pass on in new costs or ensure they do not cover under new plans
Re "The plant has several electric pumps capable of transferring water from the bulk tanks"
That worked so well in Japan. New designs should have a full understanding of the location of back up power, the needs of back up power and ability to cool after damage.
All the best ideas present well for paper regulation. Every part of the complex backup system on a site has to switch over and keep working.
re "connected to portable generators in a serious emergency"
Japan had some new thinking on that quick local fix too. If the power need and inter connections dont work anymore due to unexpected or events always considered too expensive to consider or find funds for?
Re "emergency response teams were trying to use pumps to inject water into the reactors at dozens of atmospheres of pressure."
One aspect of a long line of emergency sub systems might be presented as been 'more easy in the USA' but every system has to be tested, working, in place and well funded to work for a set time at a moments notice when needed.
Thats a lot of shareholder profit lost over the yeas to powering up, inspecting and servicing a lot of extra complex equipment.
How is that long term extra cost reduced? Less gov required complex planning, less full testing less often, less regulation, less gov suggestions of new mandated redundancy.
Yes the "trust but verify nature of the programs" should have been done.
It could have all been fixed with a 100 point check like system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bring in any mix of a birth certificate, passport like paperwork to show citizenship, refugee docs, licence or permit, local government docs, utility bill, rent agreement.
If a person has problems finding or updating the paperwork, help them get some of the above sorted out. The REAL ID Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... will be the next big change for many.
The flow of Overrated, Interesting, Flamebait was interesting to see. Very positive support was early on was removed by a flow of -1's much later. :)
Quoting the advanced German skill sets, Germany keeping a science project well funded and getting support for the project did not seem to of much interest to some people with mod points
The reminder over "stop/start political funding in other nations." part could have been an issue for some readers.
Yes the 960 is good for the price, games at supported resolutions.
Some of the video encode, decode support is interesting too if needed or supported.
Nvidia PureVideo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
AC look up terms like activity security manager, information assurance, site security, "appropriate authorities", preserve evidence, sanitization, physical removal when "Classified Information Spillage" occurs :)
Just presenting public, open academic crypto information is getting interesting in an educational setting.
The well funded sheltered workshop and bespoke cottage industry buying from multinationals as nation building funding that keeps national engineering skills over decades.
Generations of German staff learn smart stuff they can then sell to the rest of the world in the open, in bulk.
The next generation of staff can then share, talk about and build on the projects. Very different from the stop/start political funding in other nations.
Locals who can work down to millimeter precision, with cold materials, understand supercomputers in the open, public sector.
That plays great in international export publications under the brand Germany. Other nations hide that kind of skill for their military only or give up, cant fund, fail with science and engineering on the public stage. Germany gets on with building, sharing, showing ie winning.
Germany can then boast about, sell, educate, share, invite and earn from the related public projects.