Come to Australia for a few months optical splicing work.
The locals need help with that.
Depending on the election outcome years of corroded copper maintenance work could open up if your skilled.
Cable slides out, cable slides in.... cable slides out, cable slides in... crushed duct.
If your grandparents or parents or senior staff where published in print and can be found in top university libraries...
Pay your fee, publish with us and you too can enjoy true academic bliss.
Yes MS really messed up with its xbox "low end cards deliver nice graphics and performance on 1080p monitors" ports are good enough.
They could have ramped up the resolution and game world detail every year, forcing upgrades - it would have worked too.
Now the lazy developers just port games to the PC with a few hi res textures and wonder why sales are not what they once where.
MS and developers would push once work hard with GPU and CPU demands, ensuring a constant trade up and profit taking.
Do you really want to walk around with a brown slab in your hand or enjoy been given the 'right' to squirt a song ?
Pay $1K for a tablet that makes an Apple device look like a fair priced product?
Play games on a slow 2004 computer at ~1080p in 2013?
If you have coding skills, been told that aspect of the hardware are off limits unless your a multinational halfway into the dev cycle?
What can you do? Every message you send if you phone is flagged is logged, every phone connecting to a flagged phone is logged.
When a clean phone connects it is tracked, when a known phone rings out to a clean phone your logged.
So both sides have to swap clean phones details and change phones quickly without infiltration or plea deal along the sim supply line- dealer, courier, contact...
Then you had the "performance monitoring and diagnostic tools" layer added by helpful third parties to hardware that just seemed to log data input as a user keystrokes once enabled that make anything like https useless.
This was 2008 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html flying 12,000ft and 15,000ft over a few cities trying to find known voice prints.
Phone tracking was a result of the troubles in Ireland and the NATO/US need for Red trouble makers in 1980's Europe.
Think of an early Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) hardwired into every generation of phone by default.
Then came GPS, web 2.0, maps and cloud... your phone is sucking up details about your life as you walk around with/use it. Stop using your phone other than for family to say hi and ask for help/shopping.
Meet your people/tribe/business associates without a phone and talk face to face or in some other hi tech/no tech way.
Soon a working phone with CCTV (camera pod), facial recognition, 24/7 city wide look down drones, covert LEO in-car cameras will be filling in even more details.
Dont forget the private sector is also doing its part to link all their cameras in too:)
No warrants are needed. Deep extended boarder search, gang area 'random' searches, drink driving tests will all have rows of plate reading cameras, passenger face capture, driver logging, train station federal task forces, anti war mil protest watching... all add up to very deep efforts if you make a list.
All the tech used in 1950's Soviet watching, Vietnam, Iraq is now so cheap, tiny and sold to even the smallest, struggling police forces as federal 'gifts' to help with 'drugs', 'terror' or just as free 'surplus' with never ending private maintenance contracts.
The next big thing will be state level voice print records- no longer the play thing of GCHQ, NSA - expect a fake cell towers in a region of interest to do more than just log calls, numbers and record flagged people - your voice will soon be all that local law enforcement needs on any network.
Swap the phone sim all you want, better stay off the voice too.
That worked well in the Cold War. The NSA, GCHQ produced as needed via a short list of trusted front companies or their own domestic "world leaders".
This was all good and neat - until the end of the cold war and start of the public war on terror.
US air and space needs where also well served and lots of cash flowed into domestic producers. Add in the export market to 2nd/3rd world friends and NATO - US profits where good
The US was still spending but how could your average multi national get limited US spending without a made in the USA/secure/political link to the needed paper work?
Find a US state in need, local political leaders in need and a small trusted firm in need with all the local security issues filled in and buy in.
Pump out a lot of paper work at the US gov for any local mil bidding - as a multi national you have the skills - but to the US tax payer your a small 100% US firm getting 'domestic' support in very hard times.
Now some smart group at the Air Force has finally tracked the huge supply lines - secure US hardware needs are been contracted around the world like car parts.
So can a gov in South Korea, Brazil, France, Gemany, Spain, the UK, Japan... work out what the US is doing by watching their top tech exports?
What the USA do with 99% of an advanced drone/sat/space 'thing' while waiting for news about riots/looting/flooding/banking issues at some distant industrial estate?
So the US can hope the software is safe at local producers but how much of the "spacecraft as a platform" is now arriving in the US as a box, getting unpacked and been repacked as 100% made in the USA? Joined with a few other imported products and having software loaded might just pass "Made in the USA" laws on a fancy new box to be shipped to a US base/fort/camp?
Australian ABC TV looked into the history of US private space contracting: "The High Frontier"
Shows the historic example to the "requirements" and selling question. http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1358430.htm
In the past you saw US contractors getting into the right place at the right time with the right contacts ending up as:
"makes $100,000,000 a year, buying and selling airtime on communication satellites. And in a post-September 11 world, with a new focus on national security, that business is highly competitive."
From "A former beauty queen and mother at 15, she now knows more about satellite communications than most people on the planet."
In the USA it seems bringing teams together, a security clearance and been able to fill in the gov contracts can ensure 'winning' by private groups.
A multi national might own the dam~ think of the paperwork to a long term loan.
Better just to short out/ the city/national grid as its for the war effort - tell the press its for local radar, SAM sites.
Make good PR with the optics of a non lethal graphite bomb ie the "Blackout Bomb".
You can get 70%+ of that country's power grid anytime you want.
The US and UK have learned from :
The French in Vietnam/Algeria,
The UK in Malaysia, Ireland
Russia in Afghanistan
Russia in Chechnya
South Africa and it long boarder wars
The death squads of Latin/South America.
To actually fight and win a war you end up with Iraq and NATO in Afghanistan - the body count, body bags, drone wars in Africa, Pakistan...
You have to hold the country, change the country and get a lot of locals to betray their country long term.
Better to use local/regional youth as "freedom fighters" as MI6/CIA/SAS are doing to Syria, Iran, Africa and fund them/help them long term.
Constant tension is way more fun for job security, contractors, mercenaries, political leaders and military academies.
As for cyber war - the West gave the world Stuxnet, NATO bombed the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters, NATO went after Serbia's power grid, the Grdelica train bombing, Chinese embassy in Belgrade-
So a train, some "embassy", a television station are all "mistakes" under international law..
A power grid, Stuxnet seems to be fair game... We seem to be doing just fine with getting "utter capitulation and compliance".
All civilians can look forward to is cyber war offering power cuts, no local tv and the idea to avoid any embassy districts?
That will connect with peoples insulin, chemotherapy, water purification, sewerage pumping/treatment, food distribution...
That was the last war - the next war comes with drones- turn on that generator in suburbia - you could be powering a cell tower/helping block a drone's signal, helping with "passive radar"- no more generator for you. Cyber war is way beyond just computer networks - its about turning off anything electrical via a network or a drone:)
It depends on how you look at the ongoing data situation.
Can you get physical access to the site - just once?. Laptops, computers, code, admins change all the time and are getting smarter with more security options/work loads.
Spy-Pi using a Raspberry Pi Model B would allow for a secure way out for any data obtained via a network that can be updated remotely.
This might be better long term as the main OS, any thin clients, boxes, web 2.0, cloud devices, printers, laptops might be kept ~100% clean over time. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/27/darpa-funded-hackers-tiny-50-spy-computer-hides-in-offices-drops-from-drones/
is a more easy to understand idea - you "drop" a small computer in to hack from vs trying to "own" an onsite computer over time.
In this paper the " Raspberry Pi " is used vs say a PogoPlug mini-computer.
The other neat part about a Pi is you have less info on who planted it if its found. A quality custom made PCB points to a more expensive hackers, state funding, other commercial interests.
A Raspberry Pi with average code keeps the target guessing for a just a while longer.
Think of a person doing work in another part of the world with security clearance back home.
They use encryption for work, are very secure in all their data handling at home and clean when travelling.
That person becomes a target of the CIA, FSB, MI6...
Personal calls might give insight into life outside marriage/work...that extra person sharing deepest desires and needs/wants/weaknesses/faith/cult.
Drugs, debt, stress, parties, music, hobbies, lifestyle failures/happiness, addictions to a type of adult material..
Over time the person of interest makes a "new" amazing friend, when alone they get a deal - sell out and stay safe or be exposed.
prison-like environment, remote areas of the city.
Sounds like the growing pains of the 1950-60's GCHQ and NSA stations around the "Commonwealth" land for signal bases swap.
The conditions in the UK bases where cash strapped - any money raised was going to exotic expensive new equipment and keeping the USA very happy.
The Russians where fast to pick up on the gifted young men and woman in distant lands with very low wages, mounting lifestyle costs and young families.
Add in a cold command structure left over from past wars and many where open to waiting Russian offers.
What has China (and other spook agencies) learned?
Young people with dreams might walk out - dont hire skilled people with any strange imaginations.
Keep tourists, business types, diplomates in other parts of the country/city. If the foreigners venture out they are easy to note.
Hire gifted locals, from trusted families with deep village backgrounds. If you walk out the pain will be massive - up and down the family tree,
If China wants more from its staff they should follow the GCHQ reforms of the 1970-90's (excluding the union issues) - wage and basic working condition improvements.
Drop the military feel - even something as simple as the endless tight "dress" uniforms can make a huge difference to the quality of everyday life to a young officer.
Cash the staff up and offer massive extra rewards for extra long term study (NSA is great at that;) ).
If China lets the "anguished person" thing fester they will suffer.
The UK and USA where able to profile and wage up their staff to fix that issue. Long term China will have to make some huge cash investments in domestic tech.
The internet in the USA always was and will be a NSA play thing - totally open to 'cyber command' and will soon go on the offence.
"not elite uber-hackers" seems to show China is just learning like the UK did in the 1950-70's with US tech.
What can China do? Face down the NSA on the "internet" - that did not work well for the Russians.
Go for soft US personal with issues and buy them to sell out the USA? The NSA keeps its staff and exstaff close.
Or just keep chipping away with a broad front of masses of staff hoping a few get into some US box thats open to scripts?
The only problem for the USA is its own staff pushing for cloud and networking - somehow "all" the data been shared will give them insights.
Many spy agencies have lost generations of work due to massive data loss in one go due to a person and in the future a script/hack.
Russia will aim for the person or site, China is going for everything and will see what drops out:)
All the NSA can do is keep its gems off the network - but the demands of contracts with political/mil friends with cloud tools for sale will be fun to watch.
German technical staff, scientists and engineers worked hard on problems like this in the 1950-60's for their masters in Russia and the USA.
Dreaming of clean papers without the war history or just papers home, they solved it all:)
Now we can buy it all back at market prices from US commercial space interests at todays prices:)
They had to recompile the android kernel, get Ubuntu on, they compiled tools form source to get the newest versions - for ARM.
So all the person has to do is plug the wireless usb device in, click the icon and then see what the surrounding wireless/wired network is like.
The other point is the battery, quad core cpu and work done on usb hardware to inject into wireless.
Its all open source too:) The news is its public for Android.
Optical works in the snow, ice, storms and other UK conditions.
Placing a good antenna on a roof and then getting the aim to the next site is not cheap.
Placing a good antenna on a perfectly positioned roof may not be allowed due to historic building listing.
Placing a good antenna on a tower might need gov approval and the costs can then go up with expert advice and paperwork.
The new expensive tower might not even allow good 24/7 connections.
A wireless box in a field or wood might attract 'easy' theft, property damage or free data use.
Optical is the neat generational fix. You can always blow in new cable if needed.
I would guess freedom over the range of cheap to mid to expensive phones - hardware and software.
With Firefox you have an easy to write for interface and more open hardware.
Add in voice, video and text chat via a browser with the same look and feel over the hardware range - Firefox looks interesting on every device.
Who wants to be trapped in a unique hardware software upgrade cycle per phone, per revision over years of the device been in use?
Having to do battle with some US OS devision telling you the cheap camera is off limits to 3rd party software in the low end phone unless you use their OS... or pay up big time?
Firefox will just sit on hardware vs the hardware reaching up into a per phone 'crafted' OS.
Think about the "2 million euro per alleged job":
France has to 'make' the optical cable, test it, deploy the mobile test equipment, the existing ducts have to be cleaned out, new larger pits may have to be created/expanded, vans, trucks have to be used to move trained teams around France.
For all the unique telco skill sets you have a few extra jobs that add up and spend in small communities and big cities as they move around France and upgrade.
Add in backhaul needs, the exchange upgrades, back up power, suburban roll out, isolated communities, mountains...
As for providing "free" broadband nationwide - existing and new telcos will provide their cheap/expensive plans on the new network, like in S Korea or Australia - you have optical to your home, you "pay" for any telco at any speed/data/package you or your business needs.
As for "want to set up shop in that place or not" - Who cares, France will have optical in place for generations of users, what France uses it for is for France to decide.
If people are happy with online gaming, VOIP, telemedicine, telecommuting or just HD renting movies - France has the upgrade in place and anyone with a need or vision can run with it.
Other parts of the world will have rust belt coaxial, optical to the node, ADSL upgrades and city wide non compete clauses to 'fix' up over time.
France will be moving on in the digital age just like it did with heavy engineering, aerospace and now networking.
The world is moving beyond the basics of gas, electricity, water, rail, ports, bridges and paved roads...
How does the "2 million euro per alleged job " look with the 'private' sector spending?... you think the average existing private big national telco is all lean and modern?
"So you think the NBN is expensive?" http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2013/02/14/3690222.htm
That ~$20 billion Australian telcos spend keeping their network running for property, plant and equipment" (PPE) over 10 years.
ie most countries are already paying out billions to the keep basic copper and optical working every year making a national optical rollout look not so expensive:)
Re: scale up so they can feed 100 tons/hr through the plant cycle?
Sure they can, South Africa did it http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/gasification/gasifipedia/6-apps/6-3-5-1_sasol.html
Everything old is new again- 'green' is paying out to the private sector like a state under sanctions:)
The US has had local tech to clean coal releasing only CO2 and water at a fair market price but does seem committed to replacing its old generation capacity:(
What is left on the grid will be very costly:) Expect cuts to supply too as regions are dropped for areas that can pay more:)
Think of the new bandwidth and cpu power needed in the past and whats projected.
30 million drivers would get a name, DOB look up at a state, city, federal level and get added to over time.
Now every federal agency, state, city LEO and connected private detective is going to be making more and more facial recognition requests.
From background requests, bloated cyber budgets needing to show growth, protester watching to random Web 2.0 picture face finds.
Facial recognition math is not that CPU intensive - but there are a lot of new agencies, contractors with the clearance to make the requests.
CA seems to have wanted to clear a clean legal pathway to the data at a local level.
Slashdot Mirror
Come to Australia for a few months optical splicing work. .... cable slides out, cable slides in... crushed duct.
The locals need help with that.
Depending on the election outcome years of corroded copper maintenance work could open up if your skilled.
Cable slides out, cable slides in
If your grandparents or parents or senior staff where published in print and can be found in top university libraries...
Pay your fee, publish with us and you too can enjoy true academic bliss.
Yes MS really messed up with its xbox "low end cards deliver nice graphics and performance on 1080p monitors" ports are good enough.
They could have ramped up the resolution and game world detail every year, forcing upgrades - it would have worked too.
Now the lazy developers just port games to the PC with a few hi res textures and wonder why sales are not what they once where.
MS and developers would push once work hard with GPU and CPU demands, ensuring a constant trade up and profit taking.
Do you really want to walk around with a brown slab in your hand or enjoy been given the 'right' to squirt a song ?
Pay $1K for a tablet that makes an Apple device look like a fair priced product?
Play games on a slow 2004 computer at ~1080p in 2013?
If you have coding skills, been told that aspect of the hardware are off limits unless your a multinational halfway into the dev cycle?
Re much as 10 miles.
With logs, a good security system in place and pro police level tech skills - you can get that down to streets, cars.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2006/07/italys_watergate.html showed in open court what good team can do with cell information.
What can you do? Every message you send if you phone is flagged is logged, every phone connecting to a flagged phone is logged.
When a clean phone connects it is tracked, when a known phone rings out to a clean phone your logged.
So both sides have to swap clean phones details and change phones quickly without infiltration or plea deal along the sim supply line- dealer, courier, contact...
Then you had the "performance monitoring and diagnostic tools" layer added by helpful third parties to hardware that just seemed to log data input as a user keystrokes once enabled that make anything like https useless.
This was 2008 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html flying 12,000ft and 15,000ft over a few cities trying to find known voice prints.
Phone tracking was a result of the troubles in Ireland and the NATO/US need for Red trouble makers in 1980's Europe. ... your phone is sucking up details about your life as you walk around with/use it. :)
Think of an early Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) hardwired into every generation of phone by default.
Then came GPS, web 2.0, maps and cloud
Stop using your phone other than for family to say hi and ask for help/shopping.
Meet your people/tribe/business associates without a phone and talk face to face or in some other hi tech/no tech way.
Soon a working phone with CCTV (camera pod), facial recognition, 24/7 city wide look down drones, covert LEO in-car cameras will be filling in even more details.
Dont forget the private sector is also doing its part to link all their cameras in too
No warrants are needed. Deep extended boarder search, gang area 'random' searches, drink driving tests will all have rows of plate reading cameras, passenger face capture, driver logging, train station federal task forces, anti war mil protest watching... all add up to very deep efforts if you make a list.
All the tech used in 1950's Soviet watching, Vietnam, Iraq is now so cheap, tiny and sold to even the smallest, struggling police forces as federal 'gifts' to help with 'drugs', 'terror' or just as free 'surplus' with never ending private maintenance contracts.
The next big thing will be state level voice print records- no longer the play thing of GCHQ, NSA - expect a fake cell towers in a region of interest to do more than just log calls, numbers and record flagged people - your voice will soon be all that local law enforcement needs on any network.
Swap the phone sim all you want, better stay off the voice too.
That worked well in the Cold War. The NSA, GCHQ produced as needed via a short list of trusted front companies or their own domestic "world leaders". ... work out what the US is doing by watching their top tech exports?
This was all good and neat - until the end of the cold war and start of the public war on terror.
US air and space needs where also well served and lots of cash flowed into domestic producers. Add in the export market to 2nd/3rd world friends and NATO - US profits where good
The US was still spending but how could your average multi national get limited US spending without a made in the USA/secure/political link to the needed paper work?
Find a US state in need, local political leaders in need and a small trusted firm in need with all the local security issues filled in and buy in.
Pump out a lot of paper work at the US gov for any local mil bidding - as a multi national you have the skills - but to the US tax payer your a small 100% US firm getting 'domestic' support in very hard times.
Now some smart group at the Air Force has finally tracked the huge supply lines - secure US hardware needs are been contracted around the world like car parts.
So can a gov in South Korea, Brazil, France, Gemany, Spain, the UK, Japan
What the USA do with 99% of an advanced drone/sat/space 'thing' while waiting for news about riots/looting/flooding/banking issues at some distant industrial estate?
So the US can hope the software is safe at local producers but how much of the "spacecraft as a platform" is now arriving in the US as a box, getting unpacked and been repacked as 100% made in the USA? Joined with a few other imported products and having software loaded might just pass "Made in the USA" laws on a fancy new box to be shipped to a US base/fort/camp?
This project http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ but for gTalk/gMail as your browser opens? :)
That would be very neat
Australian ABC TV looked into the history of US private space contracting: "The High Frontier"
Shows the historic example to the "requirements" and selling question.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1358430.htm
In the past you saw US contractors getting into the right place at the right time with the right contacts ending up as:
"makes $100,000,000 a year, buying and selling airtime on communication satellites. And in a post-September 11 world, with a new focus on national security, that business is highly competitive."
From "A former beauty queen and mother at 15, she now knows more about satellite communications than most people on the planet."
In the USA it seems bringing teams together, a security clearance and been able to fill in the gov contracts can ensure 'winning' by private groups.
A multi national might own the dam~ think of the paperwork to a long term loan.
Better just to short out/ the city/national grid as its for the war effort - tell the press its for local radar, SAM sites.
Make good PR with the optics of a non lethal graphite bomb ie the "Blackout Bomb".
You can get 70%+ of that country's power grid anytime you want.
The US and UK have learned from : The French in Vietnam/Algeria, :)
The UK in Malaysia, Ireland
Russia in Afghanistan
Russia in Chechnya
South Africa and it long boarder wars
The death squads of Latin/South America.
To actually fight and win a war you end up with Iraq and NATO in Afghanistan - the body count, body bags, drone wars in Africa, Pakistan...
You have to hold the country, change the country and get a lot of locals to betray their country long term.
Better to use local/regional youth as "freedom fighters" as MI6/CIA/SAS are doing to Syria, Iran, Africa and fund them/help them long term.
Constant tension is way more fun for job security, contractors, mercenaries, political leaders and military academies.
As for cyber war - the West gave the world Stuxnet, NATO bombed the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters, NATO went after Serbia's power grid, the Grdelica train bombing, Chinese embassy in Belgrade-
So a train, some "embassy", a television station are all "mistakes" under international law..
A power grid, Stuxnet seems to be fair game... We seem to be doing just fine with getting "utter capitulation and compliance".
All civilians can look forward to is cyber war offering power cuts, no local tv and the idea to avoid any embassy districts?
That will connect with peoples insulin, chemotherapy, water purification, sewerage pumping/treatment, food distribution...
That was the last war - the next war comes with drones- turn on that generator in suburbia - you could be powering a cell tower/helping block a drone's signal, helping with "passive radar"- no more generator for you.
Cyber war is way beyond just computer networks - its about turning off anything electrical via a network or a drone
It depends on how you look at the ongoing data situation.
Can you get physical access to the site - just once?. Laptops, computers, code, admins change all the time and are getting smarter with more security options/work loads.
Spy-Pi using a Raspberry Pi Model B would allow for a secure way out for any data obtained via a network that can be updated remotely.
This might be better long term as the main OS, any thin clients, boxes, web 2.0, cloud devices, printers, laptops might be kept ~100% clean over time.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/27/darpa-funded-hackers-tiny-50-spy-computer-hides-in-offices-drops-from-drones/
is a more easy to understand idea - you "drop" a small computer in to hack from vs trying to "own" an onsite computer over time.
In this paper the " Raspberry Pi " is used vs say a PogoPlug mini-computer.
The other neat part about a Pi is you have less info on who planted it if its found. A quality custom made PCB points to a more expensive hackers, state funding, other commercial interests.
A Raspberry Pi with average code keeps the target guessing for a just a while longer.
Think of a person doing work in another part of the world with security clearance back home. ...that extra person sharing deepest desires and needs/wants/weaknesses/faith/cult.
They use encryption for work, are very secure in all their data handling at home and clean when travelling.
That person becomes a target of the CIA, FSB, MI6...
Personal calls might give insight into life outside marriage/work
Drugs, debt, stress, parties, music, hobbies, lifestyle failures/happiness, addictions to a type of adult material..
Over time the person of interest makes a "new" amazing friend, when alone they get a deal - sell out and stay safe or be exposed.
prison-like environment, remote areas of the city. ;) ). :)
Sounds like the growing pains of the 1950-60's GCHQ and NSA stations around the "Commonwealth" land for signal bases swap.
The conditions in the UK bases where cash strapped - any money raised was going to exotic expensive new equipment and keeping the USA very happy.
The Russians where fast to pick up on the gifted young men and woman in distant lands with very low wages, mounting lifestyle costs and young families.
Add in a cold command structure left over from past wars and many where open to waiting Russian offers.
What has China (and other spook agencies) learned?
Young people with dreams might walk out - dont hire skilled people with any strange imaginations.
Keep tourists, business types, diplomates in other parts of the country/city. If the foreigners venture out they are easy to note.
Hire gifted locals, from trusted families with deep village backgrounds. If you walk out the pain will be massive - up and down the family tree,
If China wants more from its staff they should follow the GCHQ reforms of the 1970-90's (excluding the union issues) - wage and basic working condition improvements.
Drop the military feel - even something as simple as the endless tight "dress" uniforms can make a huge difference to the quality of everyday life to a young officer.
Cash the staff up and offer massive extra rewards for extra long term study (NSA is great at that
If China lets the "anguished person" thing fester they will suffer.
The UK and USA where able to profile and wage up their staff to fix that issue. Long term China will have to make some huge cash investments in domestic tech.
The internet in the USA always was and will be a NSA play thing - totally open to 'cyber command' and will soon go on the offence.
"not elite uber-hackers" seems to show China is just learning like the UK did in the 1950-70's with US tech.
What can China do? Face down the NSA on the "internet" - that did not work well for the Russians.
Go for soft US personal with issues and buy them to sell out the USA? The NSA keeps its staff and exstaff close.
Or just keep chipping away with a broad front of masses of staff hoping a few get into some US box thats open to scripts?
The only problem for the USA is its own staff pushing for cloud and networking - somehow "all" the data been shared will give them insights.
Many spy agencies have lost generations of work due to massive data loss in one go due to a person and in the future a script/hack.
Russia will aim for the person or site, China is going for everything and will see what drops out
All the NSA can do is keep its gems off the network - but the demands of contracts with political/mil friends with cloud tools for sale will be fun to watch.
Nazi's Always Save the Adventure
The men and woman mentored in the German way are always ready to help.
German technical staff, scientists and engineers worked hard on problems like this in the 1950-60's for their masters in Russia and the USA. :) :)
Dreaming of clean papers without the war history or just papers home, they solved it all
Now we can buy it all back at market prices from US commercial space interests at todays prices
They had to recompile the android kernel, get Ubuntu on, they compiled tools form source to get the newest versions - for ARM. :) The news is its public for Android.
So all the person has to do is plug the wireless usb device in, click the icon and then see what the surrounding wireless/wired network is like.
The other point is the battery, quad core cpu and work done on usb hardware to inject into wireless.
Its all open source too
Optical works in the snow, ice, storms and other UK conditions.
Placing a good antenna on a roof and then getting the aim to the next site is not cheap.
Placing a good antenna on a perfectly positioned roof may not be allowed due to historic building listing.
Placing a good antenna on a tower might need gov approval and the costs can then go up with expert advice and paperwork.
The new expensive tower might not even allow good 24/7 connections.
A wireless box in a field or wood might attract 'easy' theft, property damage or free data use.
Optical is the neat generational fix. You can always blow in new cable if needed.
When your VICE, American Excess and MasterRace cards wont pass on a payment...
It's every freedom fighter you want to be.
I would guess freedom over the range of cheap to mid to expensive phones - hardware and software.
With Firefox you have an easy to write for interface and more open hardware.
Add in voice, video and text chat via a browser with the same look and feel over the hardware range - Firefox looks interesting on every device.
Who wants to be trapped in a unique hardware software upgrade cycle per phone, per revision over years of the device been in use?
Having to do battle with some US OS devision telling you the cheap camera is off limits to 3rd party software in the low end phone unless you use their OS... or pay up big time?
Firefox will just sit on hardware vs the hardware reaching up into a per phone 'crafted' OS.
Think about the "2 million euro per alleged job": ... :)
France has to 'make' the optical cable, test it, deploy the mobile test equipment, the existing ducts have to be cleaned out, new larger pits may have to be created/expanded, vans, trucks have to be used to move trained teams around France.
For all the unique telco skill sets you have a few extra jobs that add up and spend in small communities and big cities as they move around France and upgrade.
Add in backhaul needs, the exchange upgrades, back up power, suburban roll out, isolated communities, mountains...
As for providing "free" broadband nationwide - existing and new telcos will provide their cheap/expensive plans on the new network, like in S Korea or Australia - you have optical to your home, you "pay" for any telco at any speed/data/package you or your business needs.
As for "want to set up shop in that place or not" - Who cares, France will have optical in place for generations of users, what France uses it for is for France to decide.
If people are happy with online gaming, VOIP, telemedicine, telecommuting or just HD renting movies - France has the upgrade in place and anyone with a need or vision can run with it.
Other parts of the world will have rust belt coaxial, optical to the node, ADSL upgrades and city wide non compete clauses to 'fix' up over time.
France will be moving on in the digital age just like it did with heavy engineering, aerospace and now networking.
The world is moving beyond the basics of gas, electricity, water, rail, ports, bridges and paved roads
How does the "2 million euro per alleged job " look with the 'private' sector spending?... you think the average existing private big national telco is all lean and modern?
"So you think the NBN is expensive?"
http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2013/02/14/3690222.htm
That ~$20 billion Australian telcos spend keeping their network running for property, plant and equipment" (PPE) over 10 years.
ie most countries are already paying out billions to the keep basic copper and optical working every year making a national optical rollout look not so expensive
Re: scale up so they can feed 100 tons/hr through the plant cycle? :) :( :) Expect cuts to supply too as regions are dropped for areas that can pay more :)
Sure they can, South Africa did it http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/gasification/gasifipedia/6-apps/6-3-5-1_sasol.html
Everything old is new again- 'green' is paying out to the private sector like a state under sanctions
The US has had local tech to clean coal releasing only CO2 and water at a fair market price but does seem committed to replacing its old generation capacity
What is left on the grid will be very costly
Most police forces do very cheap DNA tests. You can be matched up by mistake now - the databases are that big and test results that limited.
Think of the new bandwidth and cpu power needed in the past and whats projected.
30 million drivers would get a name, DOB look up at a state, city, federal level and get added to over time.
Now every federal agency, state, city LEO and connected private detective is going to be making more and more facial recognition requests.
From background requests, bloated cyber budgets needing to show growth, protester watching to random Web 2.0 picture face finds.
Facial recognition math is not that CPU intensive - but there are a lot of new agencies, contractors with the clearance to make the requests.
CA seems to have wanted to clear a clean legal pathway to the data at a local level.