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  1. Re:These are videos of crimes ... on PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips · · Score: 1

    Try it.
    1. Line your home with a few cameras and mics.
    2. Take up some cause on Web 2.0 with a visible local press/police stance.
    3. Wait till your ip is reported and you get a 'visit' at home.
    4. Speak loudly for the mic ;)

  2. Re:Excellent on PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips · · Score: 1

    Your country does not block Facebook, Facebook unblocks your country. Time for expensive NGO work and a bit of color revolution. The locals get the web 2.0 message http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution.
    Meet your new opposition politicians.

  3. Re:Or you find a nation not signatory to that trea on Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program · · Score: 1

    I was thinking former Soviet Union, ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera_Test_Range in Australia

  4. Re:Who. Fucking. Cares. on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    The only aspect I can think of is France runs a huge "domestic" digital network that spans the globe due to many Francophone interests. They would get their 'local calls' as been part of France. The US has designed its way in to become part of that wider more complex French network? Or France for the sake of cheap connectivity bought massive amounts of "US" back door telco kit and is now paying the real price. The problem for me is still the massive areas of regional France. How is the US getting into the internal domestic networks 24/7. For that you would need a Vichy "tech" Milice to actively help and collaborate to hide foreign telco tech within France.
    Australia, the UK, Italy, Japan, Germany, NZ one can understand the how of the telco deal ... France is not a total client state or a defeated nation.

  5. Re:Why? on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1, Informative

    The posting is for war propaganda. You have the US backed freedom fighters showing what they do in liberated areas.
    You have other groups showing what happens when the US backed freedom fighters take an area over and start cleaning up.
    It also helps the sockpuppets offer a why the Anglosphere has to stay in parts of the world diatribe.
    Basically a lot of CIA backed NGO's and freedom fighters offering both sides of their fav dirty wars.
    Web 2.0 is seen as part of that effort. You also have the USA telco/NSA aspect - better to have it on a US friendly network :)

  6. Re:Or you find a nation not signatory to that trea on Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program · · Score: 1

    A few countries would have post ww2 US/UK/Soviet rocket test site. Vast open spaces that can still be offered as safe debris collection zones :) Jobs for local staff, tracking by universities and all the supporting entrepreneurs with legal mil/aviation laws still in place :)

  7. Re:One Gbps over copper wire? on BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 1

    The problem for any modern telco is the cooling, power use, limited optical to node to optical home upgrade options while passing on the very expensive copper up keep costs.
    Once this tech is installed its limited to the copper quality, length, cross talk and only a few people can request limited optical back to the node upgrades.
    For all the talk of a wonderful future network over existing copper, thats the service level thats a broadband min? 20? 25Mbps?
    http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/03/why-fibre-based-broadband-is-not-always-superfast.html welcome to the world of copper and a "promised download speeds of at least 2Mbps (Universal Service Commitment)"

  8. Re:Who. Fucking. Cares. on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    The fun fact is how the NSA and French based telcos would have to work together on this. How is this been done internally? Thats a lot of sites in France that would need US splitting. Optical loops out to a safe US/UK sites in Spain, UK, Italy or Germany? Are French telcos looping all their domestic calls via other EU countries to save domestic interconnect fees?
    The "shocking" question for France is how :)

  9. Re:Playing devil's advocate... on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 1

    Re side of dictatorships and other anti-freedom nations?
    http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-10-17/apologist-assassination-americans-be-named-new-homeland-security-chief
    Guess your may find out that the terms "pro-democracy", "dissident" and "internet security" means legally speaking soon :)

  10. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
    Think how this could have all not made the press and the NSA could be optically "above such things".
    RE "Most people don't care about the NSA reading their data." so your rights dont protect as much until your a member of the press or a political leader asking questions :)

  11. Re:One Gbps over copper wire? on BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 1

    The UK might have a larger diameter copper wire too. 24 AWG (0.5 mm)??
    But the distance is very short. This might be good for optical in the basement? At 250m thats a lot of powered, cooled, powerful cpu nodes needed in cabinets out in suburbia. Might as well just run optical all the way in many areas as cross talk/noise will add up fast?

  12. Re:Zero Percent Chance? on Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files To Russia · · Score: 1

    Russia and China have a long history of reflecting on MI6 and CIA altered documents. It usually ends with having to not trust an entire staff, factory, project, regional political structure. Years later they work out the truth and are a bit more careful now.

  13. Re:Trust on Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files To Russia · · Score: 1

    The US constitution is sort of the top law of the land. No other orders, laws, letters, findings, color of laws, the allies asked us, a thinktank said it was ok, the bad guys.... just obeying orders.. can escape the US constitution.
    The US constitution does not like the gov looking into domestic papers without a real US court been involved. One gov letter to make it legal for the entire nation is good enough. All staff know this.
    The press around http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake was really the first good hint: Trailblazer, ThinThread in 2000.

  14. Re:Only moose and squirrel have them on Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files To Russia · · Score: 2

    Cold a quick data dump form the US NSA is of little use to the Russians or China. Now Snowden has left, the NSA can work back over what given free to the press.
    Russia would have wanted him to stay on as they tried to do with their long term gov assets in the GCHQ or NSA. Get the real gov job and move up to planning and policy, the gems of the NSA, well beyond basic contracting admin work. That would take years of effort and more education, clearances. Russia could have seen great results in 10-20 years.
    China has a lot of students in the US - they learn as US academics discover - what the US knows, China knows by default.
    Long term "Intelligence analysis, or to fill in missing pieces" is gifted/sold via people on much higher pay grades than a walk in admin: the Russians actually build trust with their spies.
    A big dump of data for "free" might be a CIA/MI6 trap ....
    As for releases of Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Iranian, North Korean - MI6 and the CIA often get huge amounts of data for the gift of cash and a new life.
    With Russia they know not to allow too many people to have to much real data anymore.
    China hides its data from its own people and fills in with stats that looks great to any reader - all junk.
    Cuba Iran and NK have learned from Russia after years of CIA and MI6 attempts - keep it all hidden, mixed up and in small parts.
    Sort of what the NSA did for many years but then forgot when it hired contractors ~ 10 years ago :)
    The final aspect is just understanding docs from Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Iran or North Korean - is it a person seeking a new life, a trap, junk or real.
    A person telling the CIA or MI6 all about bunkers, factories, generals, exports, imports and then waits for a new house, car and identity.

  15. Re:More signs of strain on NHS on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    Just a bureaucratic name change IMHO. That UK solution is slowly creeping around the world as various options.

  16. Re:More signs of strain on NHS on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    The reality of dehydration and starvation took the UK press a long time to finally report on :(

  17. Re:Rising Costs on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    Re Or ask to people die early
    The usually tame UK press started to find out about the Liverpool Care Pathway. So the term Liverpool Care Pathway is no longer used.
    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jul/15/liverpool-care-pathway-independent-review
    The UK will have to work with what it has: a cheap pharmaceutical list, citizens only care, hospice early and often.
    Redefine old age health care back to the point of handing out free canes for knees/hips or dark glasses for cataracts?
    Blood transfusions and cancer treatments just dont work so well with older retired people "new" studies show....say over 50?
    You will get good cancer surgery but unless you make an effort to enquire about more treatment options you will be sent home.
    If you dont have family or friends in the health care sector to help with treatment questions your surgery and pain meds will be only burden on limited tax payers funds... till the hospice.
    Tax "breaks" for "selecting" private life long health insurance. You still get free care but you might opt to use your private care.
    Another top tip: - much fewer pathologists or epidemiologists. They tend to find things and tell the world.

  18. Re:Not to worry on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Re" "globalization armour will have the opportunity to save us all from terrible governmental mis-management"
    Think of the optics:
    UN doctors treating US patients in huge deteriorating teaching hospitals for free.
    UN teachers educating US students in deteriorating sandstone universities for free.
    UN food aid bringing measured organic diets to US civilians in huge deteriorating cities for free.
    UN engineers remapping the US coastline with protected nature sanctuaries to ensure none of the local population is flooded out ever again.
    UN scientists remapping the US with protected nature sanctuaries. No more of that damaging walking, fishing, hunting ever again.
    UN experts fixing roads, utilities been fully funded, building power stations and having real filtered water again via community collection points.
    UN troops retraining US police with free AK weapons systems and fashionable light blue uniforms.
    No more heavy belts, just an AK, torch, zip ties and radio to carry. The radio calls in the pretty white Hind helicopter when law enforcement support is needed.
    Examining magistrates to help with the reformed legal system. Did the US gov have a file on you? Friendly UN archivists and historians will help you find and decipher yours..
    Mexican and Canadian companies been lured back into the US with the assurances of a new stable UN backed currency, a more wage friendly and well reeducated local population.
    Fast low cost optical internet of all as a human right and for job creation. Free for education and telemedicine needs.

  19. Re:Why is "monetizing" OS still = "clamping down"? on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    At this time you are exposing your daily movements, shopping, keywords, friends, pics, video and location data to a wide set of apps, telco layers, your isp, telco and US brand.
    Everybody sees a win in tracking you. What if the telco can offer to keep all that data sealed off in 'their' branded phone while letting users just use Google maps, email, chat via a browser with a huge user base of free existing apps and pay software too?
    All telco/isp branded, less cash flow out to the USA?
    The teclo could on sell the location data and all the other unique traits direct. Google would be left with an ip to a Berlin or Soul or Sydney or Vancouver exchange and a few keywords in an email.
    Close off the hardware/software layer and Google keeps it all under the cover of privacy, https.
    Close off the hardware/software layer and the telco keeps it all under the cover of privacy, NSA and regional nationalism.
    The apps are "PC compatible" but the "clamping down" is the tracking prize.

  20. Post NSA, recall the desktop on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    The smart people know they are been watched and are just using the service as a free tool.
    That reduces the userbase to a vast trendy herd. As many other telco makers have found, that vast trendy herd is cheap and fickle.
    The other aspect is code been 'open' 'free' and i.e. 'not MS, Apple'. That has helped a lot with the branding propaganda.
    With MS and Apple you knew what kind of walled garden you where buying into. To alter aspects of the open usersbase experience mid generation is a hard sell.
    To alter the hardware side would just see firms take the open aspects and early 1980's desktop reverse-engineer hardware again.
    Google would be left with holding a layer of software between open software and cheap whitebox hardware.

  21. Re: The State is cannibalizing its mandate. on NSA Director Keith Alexander Is Reportedly Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    It is interesting times. You have the two reports from the US nuclear side too:
    http://rt.com/usa/us-nuclear-general-suspended-495/
    and then:
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/11/air-force-general-in-charge-nuclear-missiles-to-be-fired-officials-say/
    Was an item transferred from a US base without the correct paperwork?
    Was an item not transferred from a US base without the correct paperwork?
    Now 2 top people from the NSA too (civilian deputy will step down too).
    Someone is replacing staff around the nuke command and the domestic surveillance system. What does history tell about the politics of such changes?

  22. Re:AMD on Intel's 14nm Broadwell Delayed Because of Low Yield · · Score: 1

    You want a good "cpu" not using too much power, not creating too much heat and fair price.
    At this point in time Intel on the desktop covers more of the first three aspects.
    If Intel goes for a more mobile offering for a few generations, AMD will be back in consideration.

  23. Re:The cold hard fact is the NSA reads them all on Researchers Show Apple Can Read iMessages · · Score: 1

    Thanks to Snowden we now know the US brands are helpers too :)

  24. Re:Remember this in the 2014 elections on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    Consider any person who is not a Democrat or Republican :)

  25. Re:Wine or ReactOS Opportunity on Google To Support Windows XP Longer Than Microsoft · · Score: 1

    SP2, Avast?