Brazil was always very helpful to the US with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
Brazil did talk with the US about its nuclear, space and aerospace needs and both sides seemed happy.
As for what the US will do about Snowden, the Brazilian connection and UK press?
Use a lot more sockpuppets for tech sites like this? Try and rework UK press laws?
Work to undo any regional data protection laws with more understanding local political groups? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/brazil_data_protection/
The region is used to the term America's Backyard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/us/uut-and-uup-add-their-atomic-mass-to-periodic-table.html?src=pm hinted at
''It's just incredibly exciting. It seems to open up the possibility of synthesizing more elements beyond this.'' and
''Scientifically, just for the pure science of it, wouldn't you like to know just how many chemical elements there are?''
As with other research we might get better nuclear weapons and something like household smoke detectors or win big with the next elements?
So the CIA can magically pick the good volunteering freedom fighters from the random evil doers who are also volunteering? That worked so well in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Iraq....and a US photo op in the region.
All that cash and small arms just for the nice, US friendly freedom fighters... so when the US backed volunteers win and Syria is free of minority groups all say Mission Accomplished again?
Shareholder value could drop if people work out the next Enron too early?
National security could be pulled for the power or cooling water needs of new regional NSA sites?
The US grid seems to be well maintained, well thought out for the big power needs for large scale cold war production and now select tourist sites.
Long term what was build generations ago and patched up with a view on shareholder return will have to be thought about as populations shift and energy needs change again.
Smart meters and per device shut off for discounts could be interesting at a local level.
Solar FIT or NET payments could be reduced with the need for costly home engineering reports or state energy laws.
So yes expect some data to go dark just due to the pure embarrassment factor.
The NSA like role will be to help identify the private phones of the military leadership in Syria.
The senior staff will get a few calls about standing down their better performing/more complex Russian weapons. The UK/CIA backed 'freedom' fighters can then advance and there will be a pure flowers and candy victory.
After the US backed freedom fighters/mercs win if the staff did as they where told, clean identity papers/cash will be offered.
If the defence networks light up or any real defensive role is taken, the senior staff will face cleansing during the fog of war/trials.
ie the NSA is very busy:)
So when its the good 'freedom fighters' they are just volunteers? Same flags, same funding, same tactics, same world views but in Syria they are just volunteers vs their actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, spreading into Africa and other regions?
Its a very interesting and telling difference in styles:
That productive, capitalist person at a conference table involved in product development for a growing small business is just what the USA needs more of.
Apple may push the aspiration that using their products will allow any user to enjoy a projected lifestyle option.
The dancer could face a costly diploma mill like existence with new and past students willing to do 'anything' to get ahead.
Academics would be international, bringing fame to the institution blocking any chance of internal institutional advancement.
The worker relaxing might face a bleak reality of wage vs rent vs healthcare vs transportation costs vs food vs savings calculations every few weeks. A sinking feeling their job will be outsourced, made redundant or suffer a loss of any discretionary spending power due to cuts or new contracts?
MS goes for the monotony of workaday life been made a bit more easy and colourful with every version sold.
Apple may project the fantasy of trust fund fun or winning a scholarship lottery in form and function.
Exactly, Windows 8 starts up fast on a SSD, the productivity and games run well with new the fast new gpu and cpus, the computer shuts down fast too.
8.1 will bring back the look and feel older people where missing and everybody will be happy.
Expensive popular games will run or be patched very quickly. MS productivity products will be updated or just keep working.
DirectX 11.2 is on the way too and developers can enjoy thinking about that support.
If you bought into the MS way, 'write and test their apps against Windows 8.1 Preview" seems to be the method.
Well some past very public outages have made people understand what some cloud products can do at a set price point.
They stop working and the person setting the site up is blamed for not spending every more cash and not understanding that cloud can be just one site with extra bandwidth in the fine print. Costumers could have talked to any traditional provider and got some real options with more than one "location" been on offer at a price point but where thinking the 'cloud' was that product by default.
Your buying into a physical site with the ability to push a lot of data if needed vs real regional or vast national networking support.
Power back up, extra working optical from regional areas that should stay working would be a given? A provider ensuring your data was in a digital network rather than a physical site cut off from the world was expected at any price point under the new 'cloud' term.
Now you have several Linux like products to spread/spend your hosting needs around with.
The site building is yours (centrally), the cash you saved goes into their "data centers" offering greater flexibility.
Will your next host with a better "cloud" avoid the "impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods"?
Too many journalists work in the private sector and have never been "part" of the UK gov.
Been invited to be embedded might make let the UK gov offer a final edit clause but you still have too many journalists/bloggers free and actively writing.
Once the document or data is out, its fair game world wide. The UK gov can demand its staff never read it or never allow cleared "academics/students" to quote the material.
That news leaks out too and looks even more Soviet.
They still have internal drone staff to get ready and lists of dissidents to finalise. The press still feels a bit 'free' and dont seem to fully understand their new role yet. Give it a few more years.
The GCHQ and some US gov groups did just that in the 1970-90's. Great pay, constant 'free' academic advancement, clear legal and professional boundaries.
The best staff felt part of a team, could see their work saving lives of spies/mil/informants and their nation.
The need for junta support, death squads and a degree of deniability over assassinations/coups still had to be factored in.
The trick seems to be to off load any "issues" to other groups/departments/mil/contractors and keep the crypto side 'clean' for people who felt accountability, oversight where important.
Govs got the best of both worlds, they could attract the best staff, keep them and not fear crisis of conscience/low pay leaks.
Re The unfettered access in the USA seems to be your basic private contractor getting ever more legal status in the past 10 years or so.
The US gov needed languages and computer experts fast, you had a super aggressive, politically connected contractor lobby and a lot of new mil/gov financing waiting.
Access controls and auditing would slow down real world cloud efforts (read profits). The US gov did not want to block new firms with say a cleared boss and staff waiting for "final" clearance not been able to offer their real world, life saving skills 'now'.
In the past you would get a real world look at your schooling, family, extended family, political connections, lovers, faith, any connections to that "old" country, cash flow, sports, subscriptions, web use.... blackmail issues.
Now some fancy private contractor runs your name on a few federal and some state database and your 'in' based on past work.
East Germany had a great way to deal with "why the data is needed" - split the data up and go in person/writting to each boss as to why you needed to put the parts together. Slow but no more walk outs. The UK and USA are sold on the private Cloud and any hints from the MI6/CIA as to real examples as to why its great fun for "foreign spies" seems to have been long lost a generation ago. Now we have the court fix for local press and a dream for any embassy staff hunting the gov workers with unfettered access:)
Yes the other option is to get a cleared lawyer and work your way up the system.
Your put (exposed) on special pay, protected from any retaliation and your boss has to listen for "real" with your lawyer and outside departments "helping".
Even if you win, you have lost your next job/advancment, are at the mercy of ex staff or contractors.
Any anything found to be naughty is just laundered via another section/department/base/contractor. The public knows nothing and all internal errors might get clean up and staff promoted.
You have to be "in" on it cold... not really good for the random press or the new fad of citizen journalism. Then your back to Nixon, the press and the Pentagon papers questions for the UK courts.... every time on each cases merits
Seal the court for a lazy blogger linking to the documents? Seal the court for some paid worker doing real "journalism" quoting the documents? Seal the court for an author collecting 20-30 years of open/historic/released gov paper but putting it together in a coherent way that the UK gov thought was lost to the back pages years ago....also quoting the documents....
The Official Secrets Act is a one way legal invite into the establishment for cleared staff not a catch all for the press, its just way too public. It always was too messy to use in reality after leaking even during the cold war.
Lost pensions, finding other crimes or a person no longer working on a story are much more permanent and have great historic legal standing in the UK.
So now you have the legal race to find a South American/East European legal tool to shut down both ends of the whistleblowing equation. No legal disclosure or embarrassment or expert witnesses ever been called, no press, no public and no rights.
The NSA likes the US copper and and hybrid fiber-coaxial last gen slow. Too fast and they have to upgrade their local backhaul too.
Everybody is happy, the shareholders get to keep generational wealth flowing from 'rent' rather than a wasting their profits on constant upgrades (just looking after and expand existing networks).
The cities and local govs have deals with existing providers. The NSA has its "legal" ways in with existing infrastructure. Marketing can sell you on how lucky you are to have hybrid fiber-coaxial/copper/optical areas while keeping business plans safe from their consumer grade offerings. The only hard part is to keep the US public in the past about existing telco infrastructure. The words magic words distance and socialism still seem to have their hold on the minds of many.
Would make a good site, a historic long term heat map of server outages. A lot of tech press to search back into, thankfully you can buy into digital press databases:)
Middle management in their luxury SUV/sedans sit in daily commutes behind buses with descriptive 'cloud' ads. The upgrade message filters back to their bosses over time?
Re you need to pay for resources in each additional region.
Why the lack of power and real optical links that where regional, power distinct.
Is this like the idea of linking to a site/city/state/regional 'ring' many times? Very safe from any local cut/drop, cheap, but still very dependant on one geographic provider?
You also have a submarine communications cable (France to the USA) on the way for that State??...the regional services should be good?
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Brazil was always very helpful to the US with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
Brazil did talk with the US about its nuclear, space and aerospace needs and both sides seemed happy.
As for what the US will do about Snowden, the Brazilian connection and UK press?
Use a lot more sockpuppets for tech sites like this? Try and rework UK press laws?
Work to undo any regional data protection laws with more understanding local political groups? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/brazil_data_protection/
The region is used to the term America's Backyard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/us/uut-and-uup-add-their-atomic-mass-to-periodic-table.html?src=pm hinted at
''It's just incredibly exciting. It seems to open up the possibility of synthesizing more elements beyond this.'' and
''Scientifically, just for the pure science of it, wouldn't you like to know just how many chemical elements there are?''
As with other research we might get better nuclear weapons and something like household smoke detectors or win big with the next elements?
So the CIA can magically pick the good volunteering freedom fighters from the random evil doers who are also volunteering? That worked so well in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Iraq....and a US photo op in the region. ... so when the US backed volunteers win and Syria is free of minority groups all say Mission Accomplished again?
All that cash and small arms just for the nice, US friendly freedom fighters
http://fairewinds.org/media/in-the-news/engineer-says-state-could-face-expensive-clean-up-if-vermont-yankee-closes
"$200 million bill to replace its condenser"
http://fairewinds.org/media/in-the-news/report-says-vermont-yankee-not-generating-enough-cash
"a quarter of billion dollars in repairs" ~ post-Fukishima modifications and condenser..
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130302/DEFREG02/303020009/Brazil-Get-Its-First-Nuclear-Subs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Space_Agency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil
Brazil has some great academics. Journals in many parts of the world seem to have issues going back years.
Shareholder value could drop if people work out the next Enron too early?
National security could be pulled for the power or cooling water needs of new regional NSA sites?
The US grid seems to be well maintained, well thought out for the big power needs for large scale cold war production and now select tourist sites.
Long term what was build generations ago and patched up with a view on shareholder return will have to be thought about as populations shift and energy needs change again.
Smart meters and per device shut off for discounts could be interesting at a local level.
Solar FIT or NET payments could be reduced with the need for costly home engineering reports or state energy laws.
So yes expect some data to go dark just due to the pure embarrassment factor.
The NSA like role will be to help identify the private phones of the military leadership in Syria. :)
The senior staff will get a few calls about standing down their better performing/more complex Russian weapons. The UK/CIA backed 'freedom' fighters can then advance and there will be a pure flowers and candy victory.
After the US backed freedom fighters/mercs win if the staff did as they where told, clean identity papers/cash will be offered.
If the defence networks light up or any real defensive role is taken, the senior staff will face cleansing during the fog of war/trials.
ie the NSA is very busy
So when its the good 'freedom fighters' they are just volunteers? Same flags, same funding, same tactics, same world views but in Syria they are just volunteers vs their actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, spreading into Africa and other regions?
Its a very interesting and telling difference in styles:
That productive, capitalist person at a conference table involved in product development for a growing small business is just what the USA needs more of.
Apple may push the aspiration that using their products will allow any user to enjoy a projected lifestyle option.
The dancer could face a costly diploma mill like existence with new and past students willing to do 'anything' to get ahead.
Academics would be international, bringing fame to the institution blocking any chance of internal institutional advancement.
The worker relaxing might face a bleak reality of wage vs rent vs healthcare vs transportation costs vs food vs savings calculations every few weeks.
A sinking feeling their job will be outsourced, made redundant or suffer a loss of any discretionary spending power due to cuts or new contracts?
MS goes for the monotony of workaday life been made a bit more easy and colourful with every version sold.
Apple may project the fantasy of trust fund fun or winning a scholarship lottery in form and function.
Recall http://blogs.msdn.com/b/olivnie/archive/2012/12/14/windows-8-fast-boot.aspx
Startup and shut down speed was something MS was talking about wrt Windows 8 vs older MS products.
Exactly, Windows 8 starts up fast on a SSD, the productivity and games run well with new the fast new gpu and cpus, the computer shuts down fast too.
8.1 will bring back the look and feel older people where missing and everybody will be happy.
Re like castles?
A US castle would offer great views, be built on time, have the newest in military thinking and great comforts.
Overtime royalty would find that every opulent room has hidden passageways allowing observation and eavesdropping.
Yet people are not moving away from the US based clouds?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130815/10310724188/no-there-hasnt-been-big-shift-away-us-datacenters-yet.shtml
Expensive popular games will run or be patched very quickly. MS productivity products will be updated or just keep working.
DirectX 11.2 is on the way too and developers can enjoy thinking about that support.
If you bought into the MS way, 'write and test their apps against Windows 8.1 Preview" seems to be the method.
Well some past very public outages have made people understand what some cloud products can do at a set price point.
They stop working and the person setting the site up is blamed for not spending every more cash and not understanding that cloud can be just one site with extra bandwidth in the fine print.
Costumers could have talked to any traditional provider and got some real options with more than one "location" been on offer at a price point but where thinking the 'cloud' was that product by default.
Your buying into a physical site with the ability to push a lot of data if needed vs real regional or vast national networking support.
Power back up, extra working optical from regional areas that should stay working would be a given? A provider ensuring your data was in a digital network rather than a physical site cut off from the world was expected at any price point under the new 'cloud' term.
Now you have several Linux like products to spread/spend your hosting needs around with.
The site building is yours (centrally), the cash you saved goes into their "data centers" offering greater flexibility.
Will your next host with a better "cloud" avoid the "impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods"?
Too many journalists work in the private sector and have never been "part" of the UK gov.
Been invited to be embedded might make let the UK gov offer a final edit clause but you still have too many journalists/bloggers free and actively writing.
Once the document or data is out, its fair game world wide. The UK gov can demand its staff never read it or never allow cleared "academics/students" to quote the material.
That news leaks out too and looks even more Soviet.
They still have internal drone staff to get ready and lists of dissidents to finalise. The press still feels a bit 'free' and dont seem to fully understand their new role yet.
Give it a few more years.
Yes you still need the staff/gov to clear 'double-tap' drone strikes and the press to say nothing much. With laws like this, even less.
The GCHQ and some US gov groups did just that in the 1970-90's. Great pay, constant 'free' academic advancement, clear legal and professional boundaries.
The best staff felt part of a team, could see their work saving lives of spies/mil/informants and their nation.
The need for junta support, death squads and a degree of deniability over assassinations/coups still had to be factored in.
The trick seems to be to off load any "issues" to other groups/departments/mil/contractors and keep the crypto side 'clean' for people who felt accountability, oversight where important.
Govs got the best of both worlds, they could attract the best staff, keep them and not fear crisis of conscience/low pay leaks.
Re The unfettered access in the USA seems to be your basic private contractor getting ever more legal status in the past 10 years or so. :)
The US gov needed languages and computer experts fast, you had a super aggressive, politically connected contractor lobby and a lot of new mil/gov financing waiting.
Access controls and auditing would slow down real world cloud efforts (read profits).
The US gov did not want to block new firms with say a cleared boss and staff waiting for "final" clearance not been able to offer their real world, life saving skills 'now'.
In the past you would get a real world look at your schooling, family, extended family, political connections, lovers, faith, any connections to that "old" country, cash flow, sports, subscriptions, web use.... blackmail issues.
Now some fancy private contractor runs your name on a few federal and some state database and your 'in' based on past work.
East Germany had a great way to deal with "why the data is needed" - split the data up and go in person/writting to each boss as to why you needed to put the parts together. Slow but no more walk outs.
The UK and USA are sold on the private Cloud and any hints from the MI6/CIA as to real examples as to why its great fun for "foreign spies" seems to have been long lost a generation ago.
Now we have the court fix for local press and a dream for any embassy staff hunting the gov workers with unfettered access
Yes the other option is to get a cleared lawyer and work your way up the system.
Your put (exposed) on special pay, protected from any retaliation and your boss has to listen for "real" with your lawyer and outside departments "helping".
Even if you win, you have lost your next job/advancment, are at the mercy of ex staff or contractors.
Any anything found to be naughty is just laundered via another section/department/base/contractor. The public knows nothing and all internal errors might get clean up and staff promoted.
You have to be "in" on it cold... not really good for the random press or the new fad of citizen journalism. Then your back to Nixon, the press and the Pentagon papers questions for the UK courts.... every time on each cases merits
Seal the court for a lazy blogger linking to the documents? Seal the court for some paid worker doing real "journalism" quoting the documents? Seal the court for an author collecting 20-30 years of open/historic/released gov paper but putting it together in a coherent way that the UK gov thought was lost to the back pages years ago....also quoting the documents....
The Official Secrets Act is a one way legal invite into the establishment for cleared staff not a catch all for the press, its just way too public.
It always was too messy to use in reality after leaking even during the cold war.
Lost pensions, finding other crimes or a person no longer working on a story are much more permanent and have great historic legal standing in the UK.
So now you have the legal race to find a South American/East European legal tool to shut down both ends of the whistleblowing equation.
No legal disclosure or embarrassment or expert witnesses ever been called, no press, no public and no rights.
The NSA likes the US copper and and hybrid fiber-coaxial last gen slow. Too fast and they have to upgrade their local backhaul too.
Everybody is happy, the shareholders get to keep generational wealth flowing from 'rent' rather than a wasting their profits on constant upgrades (just looking after and expand existing networks).
The cities and local govs have deals with existing providers. The NSA has its "legal" ways in with existing infrastructure. Marketing can sell you on how lucky you are to have hybrid fiber-coaxial/copper/optical areas while keeping business plans safe from their consumer grade offerings. The only hard part is to keep the US public in the past about existing telco infrastructure. The words magic words distance and socialism still seem to have their hold on the minds of many.
Would make a good site, a historic long term heat map of server outages. A lot of tech press to search back into, thankfully you can buy into digital press databases :)
Middle management in their luxury SUV/sedans sit in daily commutes behind buses with descriptive 'cloud' ads. The upgrade message filters back to their bosses over time?
Re you need to pay for resources in each additional region. ...the regional services should be good?
Why the lack of power and real optical links that where regional, power distinct.
Is this like the idea of linking to a site/city/state/regional 'ring' many times? Very safe from any local cut/drop, cheap, but still very dependant on one geographic provider?
You also have a submarine communications cable (France to the USA) on the way for that State??