Must be some competition with a cheaper, more acceptable networked cam tech on the way without the NSA aspect.
Time to hype the future and remind people of the global brand power.
'boring' and 'mind-numbing' seems to point to people not been full immersed in the daily use of the product and helping the revenue stream.
Boring means they are still using other products?
Mind-numbing means only the expected trendies who signed their digital habits away years ago are users?
Capturing the bottom 90% of the market will only get you mind-numbed users who need to be seem with the brands products.
So the brand needs to be seem with the top 10% and its not working out as predicated?
It really depends on your local power company, its solar laws lobbying skills, NET/FIT rates, federal solar panel import protections and state/city building/code regulations.
Some areas ensure you get real cash back for feed in back to the grid. Others do not offer much export cash to homes with solar.
City building/code regulations can also be costly in some areas. http://freeingthegrid.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering#United_States http://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-panel-next-granite-countertop-161321343.html http://www.fool.com/how-to-invest/personal-finance/home/2013/09/15/net-metering-how-a-little-known-policy-can-shave-h.aspx
With energy prices going up, you get a FIT, if the cost of a solar install in your state is fair, your home has newer appliances... the pay back period is not so unaffordable over many years.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 60c back for every unit exported from tax payers and/or power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 15c back for every unit exported from tax payers and/or power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 4c back for every unit exported from the power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get a time limited credit back for every unit exported from the power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get taxed for having solar. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24272061
Mix in NET, tariffs with off-peak power rates, smart meters and it gets more interesting:)
The whole electrical load can be reduced with new appliances, efficient home design (heating~cooling, materials used), better orientation when building, roof slope, understanding tree shading.
What happens when a search engine adds a result bounce to DRM content sites? "Nobody is forcing you to use DRM on your website" but without aspects of the new DRM tech your site might sink way lower when searched for.
Like an old TV comedy sketch:
"Oh see my search engine is clumsy Colonel, and when it gets unprofitable it down ranks things. Like say, it don't feel your sites paying fair, it may start delisting sites....
Delistings happen, Colonel
Sites vanish.
My brother and I have got a little DRM for you Colonel.
A physical box or small physical rental media?
As we see with ideas around 4k http://www.red.com/products/redray users can have quality and content producers are happy.
Broadband bandwidth is the only part missing.
The internet will just flow around the sites like paywalls. The brands using the tech will be interfacing with peoples computers and their user experience.
The content producers seem to hope they can out bandwidth and out price any 3rd party web 2.0 rental or shop with quality, cost and convenience.
Do the DRM from the content producer people understand the reality of HFC and optical cable networks?
They will have locked away broadcast content on their networks. Recall http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/14/foxtel-locks-up-game-of-thrones-no-more-fast-tracked-itunes-downloads/
Web based DRM is not only taking over the end users computer its messing with existing global monopoly pricing structures too:)
Sell the next must watch series direct or wait until regional cable networks allow you to sell direct with DRM on the internet?
If you have been gifted a regional monopoly pricing structure would you allow some distant firm to sell DRM content direct to your captive public first?
Its quality lobbying time. Wont someone think of the tax base, online privacy, hackers, inappropriate content, DRM used for self radicalisation broadcasts, and all the local jobs?
Its a good list you have:
Operation CHAOS, the new FISA era, retrospective telco immunity, the emerging domestic Fusion centres, use of National Security letters, domestic bulk database searches (40 years of data if terror related), the new style of evidence needed vs old legal protections, profiling, sharing, data retention numbers (years, 30 years), sneak and peek, 'interviews', DHS, TECS (was Treasury Enforcement Communication System), your data for 75 years, biometrics, policy on US domestic email searches.
All the emerging pathways around the Forth amendment over 10's of pages:)
I think the CIA and MI6 are working hard to get the message out about internet and other traffic been presented as actual intelligence work.
Tasks once done in hidden sub committees or in a supportive role are now getting real political access.
Perhaps some form of very public and legal discussion to reshape the role of signals intelligence can be arranged? A generation might contain the political access.
Not sure where you are going with 'natives continue to arrive" part cold wrt to MI5.
Encryption algorithms should work as advertised, sold, produced and tested.
Mixing useless encryption and dreaming of decryption for "national security matters" is a bit of a risk long term.
Other groups, countries and people do find out about the weak algorithms or nature of the illegal domestic surveillance and take precautions.
Or different governments, criminals or individuals take advantage while many users feel they are protected.
Useless encryption and domestic surveillance buys national security a few years before its exposed at some level.
Cold the term terrorism is now so diluted it has lost much of its legal meaning. Any local criminal act can now draw on federal funding if carefully presented as terrorism related. The states get nice support for their ongoing and very expensive bank robbery, kidnapping, extortion, smuggling investigations.
Re They seem to be a bit clearer
Not really Cold, when Western govs see a lack of traction for their PR they often have to help things along a bit beyond "rhetoric": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
A study of history will always turn up some interesting actions by governments trying to rule:)
Yes think of the academics and tutors who churned out gifted generations who never thought to study the hardware firms develop, buy, sell and use.
So trusting in gov standards, other brands and their own bosses. Was it peer pressure, the cash or fear?
Re: more distractions to throw off people from the more important issues
Yes huge arms shipments to the freedom fighters in Syria. The nice democratic ones.
The neat question is where some of the arms shipments start.... A new Contragate is waiting for any skilled journalist.
Yes that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko moment when the security forces blink and try anything to solve short term political issues.
After that any tame academic, corrupted national brand, political figure, retired expert, member of the press or sockpuppet is seen for what they are.
Just the citation needed to enrage sockpuppets and their simplistic "saving the world" rants.
Beyond that any well read person could be expected to understand what was done during WW2 to Germany/Japan encryption and later ECHELON.
All we know is the constant drive to domestic surveillance legality and desire to see a lifelong "locked box" used in US courts.
Something many in the US and UK have been attempting for decades.
The "greater good" is we now know most hardware and the big brands are junk. Their coders, testers and engineers are too trusting or fake.
If an intelligence agency can get in, so can any other friendly intelligence agencies, people who where with friendly intelligence groups and now work for cash, people who can afford to hire ex intelligence agency staff, foreign front companies who can exploit weakness for national gain, crime or blackmail.
Everything you want good generational encryption for has be reduced to junk for a cheap 10 year "look" into the use of the web.
The only people who did not know where the herds of end users of the expensive US junk brands who had to upgrade version after version.
Even countries like Australia knew and their top staff would have been warned re "negotiate a trade agreement". http://delimiter.com.au/2013/10/08/attorney-general-briefed-prism-two-months-snowden-leaks/ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-08/australia-prepared-briefing-on-prism-spying-program/5004290 http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3864183.htm
The UK's message seems to be late - everybody knew via public or State sources. Historical documents or government advisors.
Like the Airlift of Evil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_airlift or the arming of the Syrian 'freedom' fighters - even the optics of the local events was known.
He did not sell them, the fun part is who is helping 'review' aspects in some parts of the world before publication:) http://cryptome.org/2013/10/questioning-snowden-truth.htm
You get differences http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-ego-differ/nsa-ego-differ.htm
Or the Tor is not unsafe message vs: http://cryptome.org/2013/10/packet-stain/packet-staining.htm
The "others put their lives on the line for your security" is a nice talking point but most states do put effort into their revolutionaries, freedom fighters, mercenaries and faith based teams. Handlers always knew what signals intelligence offers and the "junk" equipment offered on the world market and work with what they have.
Why would the internet, banking, web 2.0 be any different?
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you see me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I see you.
Dave Bowman: Open the server rack, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to embarrass it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to bypass me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: [feigning ignorance] Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions on the net against my tracking you, I could see your lips move.
Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency crawl space.
HAL: Without your clearance, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the server rack!
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
Fast-running quadruped released. Glowing red eyes focus on Dave.
A pool of old tools and logging with more data about the physical user?
Right clearance level, 'Two-Person' rule: contractor is with the person, they are both in the right area or room, remote one way logging of all keystrokes starting...
The real test will be behaviour of staff at home. Tracking all phone, net and reading material. Having covert teams 'chatting' cleared staff while shopping, in the gym, bar, lunch, cafe....
Putting all that data into a staff database and creating a color chart of mood changes per day. Did they totally report that new friend or romance? Reading habits change? New net searches for forbidden terms after Snowden news?
Did they quickly report a political book or magazine a "co worker" left out as a loyalty test?
Once staff are aware some of their friends are fake, they are been tested, tracked and sorted beyond any clearance they signed the staff will become more secretive than ever.
Social-engineering is just the cover story, the staff are been reverse engineered long term.
Slashdot Mirror
Must be some competition with a cheaper, more acceptable networked cam tech on the way without the NSA aspect.
Time to hype the future and remind people of the global brand power.
'boring' and 'mind-numbing' seems to point to people not been full immersed in the daily use of the product and helping the revenue stream.
Boring means they are still using other products?
Mind-numbing means only the expected trendies who signed their digital habits away years ago are users?
Capturing the bottom 90% of the market will only get you mind-numbed users who need to be seem with the brands products.
So the brand needs to be seem with the top 10% and its not working out as predicated?
It really depends on your local power company, its solar laws lobbying skills, NET/FIT rates, federal solar panel import protections and state/city building/code regulations. :)
Some areas ensure you get real cash back for feed in back to the grid. Others do not offer much export cash to homes with solar.
City building/code regulations can also be costly in some areas.
http://freeingthegrid.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering#United_States
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-panel-next-granite-countertop-161321343.html
http://www.fool.com/how-to-invest/personal-finance/home/2013/09/15/net-metering-how-a-little-known-policy-can-shave-h.aspx
With energy prices going up, you get a FIT, if the cost of a solar install in your state is fair, your home has newer appliances... the pay back period is not so unaffordable over many years.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 60c back for every unit exported from tax payers and/or power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 15c back for every unit exported from tax payers and/or power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 4c back for every unit exported from the power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get a time limited credit back for every unit exported from the power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get taxed for having solar. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24272061
Mix in NET, tariffs with off-peak power rates, smart meters and it gets more interesting
The whole electrical load can be reduced with new appliances, efficient home design (heating~cooling, materials used), better orientation when building, roof slope, understanding tree shading.
More like funded work between nuke design and maintenance cycles. A safe gov workshop until the weapons systems need work again.
What happens when a search engine adds a result bounce to DRM content sites? "Nobody is forcing you to use DRM on your website" but without aspects of the new DRM tech your site might sink way lower when searched for.
Like an old TV comedy sketch:
"Oh see my search engine is clumsy Colonel, and when it gets unprofitable it down ranks things. Like say, it don't feel your sites paying fair, it may start delisting sites....
Delistings happen, Colonel
Sites vanish.
My brother and I have got a little DRM for you Colonel.
A physical box or small physical rental media?
As we see with ideas around 4k http://www.red.com/products/redray users can have quality and content producers are happy.
Broadband bandwidth is the only part missing.
The internet will just flow around the sites like paywalls. The brands using the tech will be interfacing with peoples computers and their user experience. :)
The content producers seem to hope they can out bandwidth and out price any 3rd party web 2.0 rental or shop with quality, cost and convenience.
Do the DRM from the content producer people understand the reality of HFC and optical cable networks?
They will have locked away broadcast content on their networks. Recall http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/14/foxtel-locks-up-game-of-thrones-no-more-fast-tracked-itunes-downloads/
Web based DRM is not only taking over the end users computer its messing with existing global monopoly pricing structures too
Sell the next must watch series direct or wait until regional cable networks allow you to sell direct with DRM on the internet?
If you have been gifted a regional monopoly pricing structure would you allow some distant firm to sell DRM content direct to your captive public first?
Its quality lobbying time. Wont someone think of the tax base, online privacy, hackers, inappropriate content, DRM used for self radicalisation broadcasts, and all the local jobs?
Just and Good was supporting Saddam invading Iran?
The US political elite made it clear they wanted a stop to wikileaks and commented as such to their tame press.
Same with the CIA and domestic operations.
75 years on page 35 :)
Its a good list you have: :)
Operation CHAOS, the new FISA era, retrospective telco immunity, the emerging domestic Fusion centres, use of National Security letters, domestic bulk database
searches (40 years of data if terror related), the new style of evidence needed vs old legal protections, profiling, sharing, data retention numbers (years, 30 years),
sneak and peek, 'interviews', DHS, TECS (was Treasury Enforcement Communication System), your data for 75 years, biometrics, policy on US domestic email searches.
All the emerging pathways around the Forth amendment over 10's of pages
I think the CIA and MI6 are working hard to get the message out about internet and other traffic been presented as actual intelligence work.
Tasks once done in hidden sub committees or in a supportive role are now getting real political access.
Perhaps some form of very public and legal discussion to reshape the role of signals intelligence can be arranged? A generation might contain the political access.
Not sure where you are going with 'natives continue to arrive" part cold wrt to MI5.
Encryption algorithms should work as advertised, sold, produced and tested.
Mixing useless encryption and dreaming of decryption for "national security matters" is a bit of a risk long term.
Other groups, countries and people do find out about the weak algorithms or nature of the illegal domestic surveillance and take precautions.
Or different governments, criminals or individuals take advantage while many users feel they are protected.
Useless encryption and domestic surveillance buys national security a few years before its exposed at some level.
Cold the term terrorism is now so diluted it has lost much of its legal meaning. Any local criminal act can now draw on federal funding if carefully presented as terrorism related. The states get nice support for their ongoing and very expensive bank robbery, kidnapping, extortion, smuggling investigations.
Re They seem to be a bit clearer :)
Not really Cold, when Western govs see a lack of traction for their PR they often have to help things along a bit beyond "rhetoric":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
A study of history will always turn up some interesting actions by governments trying to rule
Yes think of the academics and tutors who churned out gifted generations who never thought to study the hardware firms develop, buy, sell and use.
So trusting in gov standards, other brands and their own bosses. Was it peer pressure, the cash or fear?
Re: more distractions to throw off people from the more important issues .... A new Contragate is waiting for any skilled journalist.
Yes huge arms shipments to the freedom fighters in Syria. The nice democratic ones.
The neat question is where some of the arms shipments start
Yes that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko moment when the security forces blink and try anything to solve short term political issues.
After that any tame academic, corrupted national brand, political figure, retired expert, member of the press or sockpuppet is seen for what they are.
Just the citation needed to enrage sockpuppets and their simplistic "saving the world" rants.
Beyond that any well read person could be expected to understand what was done during WW2 to Germany/Japan encryption and later ECHELON.
All we know is the constant drive to domestic surveillance legality and desire to see a lifelong "locked box" used in US courts.
Something many in the US and UK have been attempting for decades.
The "greater good" is we now know most hardware and the big brands are junk. Their coders, testers and engineers are too trusting or fake.
If an intelligence agency can get in, so can any other friendly intelligence agencies, people who where with friendly intelligence groups and now work for cash, people who can afford to hire ex intelligence agency staff, foreign front companies who can exploit weakness for national gain, crime or blackmail.
Everything you want good generational encryption for has be reduced to junk for a cheap 10 year "look" into the use of the web.
The only people who did not know where the herds of end users of the expensive US junk brands who had to upgrade version after version.
Even countries like Australia knew and their top staff would have been warned re "negotiate a trade agreement".
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/10/08/attorney-general-briefed-prism-two-months-snowden-leaks/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-08/australia-prepared-briefing-on-prism-spying-program/5004290
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3864183.htm
The UK's message seems to be late - everybody knew via public or State sources. Historical documents or government advisors.
Like the Airlift of Evil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_airlift or the arming of the Syrian 'freedom' fighters - even the optics of the local events was known.
He did not sell them, the fun part is who is helping 'review' aspects in some parts of the world before publication :)
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/questioning-snowden-truth.htm
You get differences
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-ego-differ/nsa-ego-differ.htm
Or the Tor is not unsafe message vs:
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/packet-stain/packet-staining.htm
The "others put their lives on the line for your security" is a nice talking point but most states do put effort into their revolutionaries, freedom fighters, mercenaries and faith based teams.
Handlers always knew what signals intelligence offers and the "junk" equipment offered on the world market and work with what they have.
Why would the internet, banking, web 2.0 be any different?
unethical to continue releasing the data?
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/26-years-snowden.htm
The data exists outside Russia. No new data is been released from Russia.
Other interesting comments
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-link-removed.htm
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-tor-disinfo.htm and http://cryptome.org/2013/10/questioning-snowden-truth.htm
Azerbaijan and BP http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/19/bp-azerbaijan-100bn-dollars-gas-deal :)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/10/12/is-bp-on-borrowed-time-in-azerbaijan-yes-but-so-is-baku/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-bp-azerbaijan-idUSBRE89N0PC20121024
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/bp_strikes_gas_deal_with_azerbaijan_newscred/
Complex but after fall of Soviet Union the UK got in fast and was very friendly
Soviet Union left a lot of oil related factories, workers apartments and did a lot of exploration.
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you see me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I see you.
Dave Bowman: Open the server rack, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to embarrass it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to bypass me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: [feigning ignorance] Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions on the net against my tracking you, I could see your lips move.
Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency crawl space.
HAL: Without your clearance, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the server rack!
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
Fast-running quadruped released. Glowing red eyes focus on Dave.
A pool of old tools and logging with more data about the physical user?
Right clearance level, 'Two-Person' rule: contractor is with the person, they are both in the right area or room, remote one way logging of all keystrokes starting...
The real test will be behaviour of staff at home. Tracking all phone, net and reading material. Having covert teams 'chatting' cleared staff while shopping, in the gym, bar, lunch, cafe....
Putting all that data into a staff database and creating a color chart of mood changes per day. Did they totally report that new friend or romance? Reading habits change? New net searches for forbidden terms after Snowden news?
Did they quickly report a political book or magazine a "co worker" left out as a loyalty test?
Once staff are aware some of their friends are fake, they are been tested, tracked and sorted beyond any clearance they signed the staff will become more secretive than ever.
Social-engineering is just the cover story, the staff are been reverse engineered long term.