Re "bring back?"
Starts a few mins - The Vectrex is a vector 9 × 11 inches display-based video game console that was developed by Western Technologies/Smith Engineering. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEY7SHVm9KI
I wonder if this would help with on-screen keyboard users?
A bit like the telco software that sits on a phone and tracked every key press when enabled.
That depends. East German top officials saw their country as a product of post ww2 Russia - as in a Russian 'prize', something to be protected and cared for at any cost by Russia. I recall reading some top staff members made a long glowing toast about the unique relationship. The Russians in the room changed the wording just a bit - the more wise in the relaxed room setting understood the meaning - they where not special.
China likes China and what was part of China. NK is more a pool of intel, cheap export/import options and a real pain if the northern boarders ever flood open.
As for this launch it puts NK in a unique club of nations- nukes, guidance and range - all good for arms deals of basic rocket systems.
Basic US infrastructure is crumbling. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/decaying-infrastructure-costing-us-billions-report-says/2011/07/27/gIQAAI0zcI_story.html
Water, distance can really mess non voice copper data efforts. Old copper down old ducts, shared lines, digital subscriber loops that are long and where fine for adsl1 and voice been pushed to the limit.
Shared best effort coaxial been shared too wide, lack of good new equipment in near monopoly states... more users...
The telcos will upgrade but on their terms. Its back to the old telco dream - why get paid for packets when they could rent a game or hollywood gold plated packet.
Yes thats the usual plan. A long cheap 'beta' trial where its all open, fun and fast.
Then the production houses are tooled up, renting the software per seat/core.
The end user walks around staring at the MS logo as they smile over the 'deal' they got.
The boss gets addicted to seeing and making changes on the go.
Slowly the system gets bloated, more expensive and more closed.
The CIA has a few good plans for that:) Recall ST Circus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Tibetan_uprising
If people are wondering what real docs like this read like try the old classic from the mid 1970's
National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interest http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/memo%20200.htm
What was the view that: poor regions are breeding up, their young will be smart and wont just export raw materials for cents in the US$.
Their gov are now trading outside the US$.
As your part of p2p you are in on larger crimes by default.
The need for you to make cash by selling a burned copy was removed. Release date does not matter. The Canadian legal system is now more understanding when it comes to issues surrounding US national security.
People with big guns, illegal drugs, digital movie duplication equipment, adult movies and links to active US warzones are also found with p2p movies.
Your act of p2p is providing funding, rest and recuperation to the enemy in a time of war - welcome to the US digital battlefront.
Depends on the part of the world. Many legal systems have some 1980's vision of voice and retro dual-tone multi-frequency signaling/Touch-Tone with a 2012 CPU doing voice to commands if a skilled person can get to a phone. Any phone 'gifted' or 'loaned' for a few mins could be used to do amazing things to computer networks still online and not yet found.
Or another country offered paperwork - from a national security or just chilling point of view to see it was done.
The gov, public/private and private groups have mapped Australia rather well. From mining rights, water rights,.mil, roads - usable digital maps do not seem to be lacking over the past few years.
Re weapons If your a farmer or aiming for a sporting event, you may apply for a permit. At best you will get some low ammo count semi-automatic unit.
As for the dangers of Australia - roads can be long and once committed past the 1/2 tank point your lost. Its not a road network i.e. no 'farms', no park rangers, no gas stations, no cafes near UFO hot spots, trendy communities of cabins just over the hill. Just an endless road and a slow death if you make a mistake. Telco networks are good in the city, in rural towns and some roads. Beyond that its sat phone or beacon.
As for why Australia is so hard for Apple to 'buy' a gps map system for is just strange.
Yes you had the Mirage 5 history with the plans and parts been in the right place at the right time.
You have the history of the Phalcon advanced airborne early-warning (AEW at 250 miles?) radar system and China.
Small arms drift off bases around the world every year, getting out with an engine with the surrounding safe transport container/sled structure- not so easy.
Yes US is stuck and has been for many years. When was the last good public investment that moved the USA up?
The early 1940's? Post ww2? The 1960's? Beyond that you see massive capital flight to Asia to build factories and sell back to the USA.
The stock market melted with savings, banking and loans into some huge casino with bailouts for any traditional risk.
You have a few unique production lines for tanks, aircraft, subs, arms, space, heavy equipment - but thats all closed and life long with security that would keep growth out.
The low end work is done by union free 'guests'. The service sector is eating its own and creating nothing useful long term.
A few over educated geeks and nerds with unique skills will design run and upgrade a robotic production line - just like they would for Asia or did for Apple in the past in the US or EU.
What can save the USA? A really good big war? A massive of exports of lots of small wars and 'friends' needing huge new stockpiles?
If you are Australian and use an Australian cloud- you fall under Australian law and whatever the NSA can find.
If you are Australian and use a cloud with links to the USA - you fall under Australian law and whatever any US state or federal agency in the USA feels like looking for.
Your "strong encryption" lasts the links but in the cloud at some point its like plain text again.
Welcome to CALEA and many other laws, letters:)
Re use the information?
Could be as simple as a commercial deal lost. Your EU firm is blacklisted for illegal gov support after some tax records are recovered/shared.
A request is made to move more work/data to the USA under a 'free trade' deal - yes or no? If "no" your even more suspect.
Your trade with countries around the world is sorted into areas of interest to the US gov.
Depends on your links to 2nd and third parties. Cuba? Middle East? Africa? Asia? South America? Stepping on an area the US sees as it 'zone' gets you deeper.
The 'net' is cast wide and if anyone of interest shows up...
Your next work related trip to the US results in ever smaller interview rooms at the airport over many hours with your laptop been cloned.
No embassy staff, no legal team -moving form uniformed staff who just want to clear things up so you can be on your way... to suits without badges and very personal questions:)
If you dont enter the USA, a unique, time limited deal could be introduced to get your boss very interested in sending "you". The locals are asked to interview you on some deep legal issue as a few law enforcement 'guests' sit in with a list of their own questions:)
Failing that and the data found points to something darker, a free flight to the USA can be arranged for you when you go on holiday to a third country.
Same for entry into the USA or any country. The software needed on brand new storage media, replace when returning home.
The option to inspect any laptop that enters a country is getting to be a reality rather than having to be a 'suspect'.
When a state views your laptop as a "container" - you have no legal protection.
Diplomats and travellers to the Soviet Union knew what they faced at any hotel - why would Communist China be any different?
Switzerland had a walk in who (gave/sold?) the Soviets the bunker locations and moblization timetables. He was caught.
Switzerland is very small at the planning level of its structure. Very few make it up the chain of command with the correct trust and the huge number of days training needed vs having a day job.
They can profile the family structure and training of their top people over many years but "IT maintenance guy" are what treated as just "technician" staff? vs the quality of life that the officer class enjoy?
The other fun aspect is the amount of training top Swiss officers did with the top US war colleges:) Got to wonder how much 'gossip' they bring back home and write up for internal Swiss use:)
Q: What is the difference between the US and UN controlled internet? Both guarantee freedom of speech.
A: Yes, but the USA also guarantees freedom after the speech.
ie Open, accessible, affordable - sounds like a trap to get you online.
The secure sounds like easy tracking at any point along the network.
A folder is handed to political leaders and they get to ask questions. That becomes very addictive. First it was radio and all telegram messages.
WW2 german orders, movements, political power. Then Soviet arms testing, Soviet politics, local communist groups, unions, green movment, political groups in the USA, EU, huge commercial deals been backed by the other govs..
In the past they had to search data in near real time for 'words' and keep only terms of interest.
So you have had generations of political leaders who 'know' before many other people, thats not an easy thing to give up.
In the UK it was a matter of funding just to keep the information flowing without US help.
In the USA its more an agency power, funding, size and control thing - the NSA lost a lot of power and funding post cold war and before 2001.
The part the NSA was always warning against is now happening. The "who accesses it and why?" is now a push of data up from local police, state and federal groups. The problem is so many eyes now have clearance, from political, to mil to contractors in raw form... Why - they are doing the collecting and sorting.
The NSA is seeing its "prize" outsourced for technical, legal and political reasons. Some political groups feel the private sector made up of well connected, cleared contractors have the skills, code and new machine 'power' to view things in different ways and... later recall who gave them the contracts.
The NSA now faces a lot of new political thinktanks, contractors and other agency groups all offering unique language, crypto and insight.
All demanding the "need to know".
Re: Russia's commitment to the free flow of information?
We all know about the press in Russia, the raids, the deaths, the Soviet times, the 1990's...tax problems, Chechnya, the 100's of pictures of staff that where lost...
Russia has learned from the optics of the 1980's via West Germany. TV news from the West got amazing footage of masses of people confronting the state.
Russia now has its young, English speaking, friendly reporters with their press cards walking the streets of the USA been filmed by police as they conduct direct interviews.
Better that Assange gets to talk on topics he wants on a good server, then put on youtube thats got some ability to keep the video accessible.
Also understand the game "freedom of the press" is in the West. Never question the talking points, dont talk to people who have seen things and if given the privilege of access never spoil the event. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression
Who gets access to the data?
The NSA, CIA, DIA bulk collection is cleaned up and indexed very quickly and well. The US had a vision of an electronic file system back in the 1960's. It was well funded while other agencies around the world where still working with paper and dreaming about data entry into realtime file systems.
The NSA, DIA is not some federal police building with an old database and top contractors trying their best over many years.
Historically your "access to the data" might have been a good question. Now its any contractor, new agency or cleared staff member can have a look.
The tight cleared for "hierarchical" internal NSA structures are been replaced with a more open "cloud". You have 100000's for new 'cleared' staff in new buildings with new encrypted lines getting bulk data, adding their 'thoughts' for top wages.
Re 'It is wrong to keep people in fear." We dont really know what the US likes to do the "West" when they get interested.
Can we project from COINTELPRO and wonder about what parts of the world that keep "company" with the US do:
If your political at the low end of the scale get noticed you might face something like decades of undercover officers?: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236811/Ten-women-sue-Scotland-Yard-tricked-sexual-relationships-officers-including-activist-spy-Mark-Kennedy.html
Slashdot Mirror
Re "bring back?" Starts a few mins - The Vectrex is a vector 9 × 11 inches display-based video game console that was developed by Western Technologies/Smith Engineering.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEY7SHVm9KI
I wonder if this would help with on-screen keyboard users?
A bit like the telco software that sits on a phone and tracked every key press when enabled.
Re: Who would be checking to see to see if you play by the rules?
Microsoft for one, would like to know how many people are watching.
Their patent would count the number of people watching and turn your tv off if your above the viewer limit.
"Microsoft’s plan could mean that the film you’re watching suddenly stops playing if it detects that you’ve got more people squashed on to the sofa than the licence allows." http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/micwright/100008237/big-brother-alert-microsoft-wants-to-know-how-many-friends-youve-got-in-your-living-room/
In Capitalist Russia Samsung helps surveillance of embassy staff with you. http://rt.com/news/british-diplomat-flees-russia-after-sex-scandal/
Is this site a better read AC
"Military Medicine Embraces Disney’s Customer-Focus"
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60615
That depends. East German top officials saw their country as a product of post ww2 Russia - as in a Russian 'prize', something to be protected and cared for at any cost by Russia. I recall reading some top staff members made a long glowing toast about the unique relationship. The Russians in the room changed the wording just a bit - the more wise in the relaxed room setting understood the meaning - they where not special.
China likes China and what was part of China. NK is more a pool of intel, cheap export/import options and a real pain if the northern boarders ever flood open.
As for this launch it puts NK in a unique club of nations- nukes, guidance and range - all good for arms deals of basic rocket systems.
Basic US infrastructure is crumbling.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/decaying-infrastructure-costing-us-billions-report-says/2011/07/27/gIQAAI0zcI_story.html
Water, distance can really mess non voice copper data efforts. Old copper down old ducts, shared lines, digital subscriber loops that are long and where fine for adsl1 and voice been pushed to the limit.
Shared best effort coaxial been shared too wide, lack of good new equipment in near monopoly states... more users...
The telcos will upgrade but on their terms. Its back to the old telco dream - why get paid for packets when they could rent a game or hollywood gold plated packet.
Yes thats the usual plan. A long cheap 'beta' trial where its all open, fun and fast.
Then the production houses are tooled up, renting the software per seat/core.
The end user walks around staring at the MS logo as they smile over the 'deal' they got.
The boss gets addicted to seeing and making changes on the go.
Slowly the system gets bloated, more expensive and more closed.
The CIA has a few good plans for that :) Recall ST Circus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Tibetan_uprising
If people are wondering what real docs like this read like try the old classic from the mid 1970's
National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interest
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/memo%20200.htm
What was the view that: poor regions are breeding up, their young will be smart and wont just export raw materials for cents in the US$.
Their gov are now trading outside the US$.
As your part of p2p you are in on larger crimes by default.
The need for you to make cash by selling a burned copy was removed. Release date does not matter. The Canadian legal system is now more understanding when it comes to issues surrounding US national security.
People with big guns, illegal drugs, digital movie duplication equipment, adult movies and links to active US warzones are also found with p2p movies.
Your act of p2p is providing funding, rest and recuperation to the enemy in a time of war - welcome to the US digital battlefront.
Depends on the part of the world. Many legal systems have some 1980's vision of voice and retro dual-tone multi-frequency signaling/Touch-Tone with a 2012 CPU doing voice to commands if a skilled person can get to a phone. Any phone 'gifted' or 'loaned' for a few mins could be used to do amazing things to computer networks still online and not yet found.
Or another country offered paperwork - from a national security or just chilling point of view to see it was done.
The gov, public/private and private groups have mapped Australia rather well. From mining rights, water rights, .mil, roads - usable digital maps do not seem to be lacking over the past few years.
Re weapons If your a farmer or aiming for a sporting event, you may apply for a permit. At best you will get some low ammo count semi-automatic unit.
As for the dangers of Australia - roads can be long and once committed past the 1/2 tank point your lost. Its not a road network i.e. no 'farms', no park rangers, no gas stations, no cafes near UFO hot spots, trendy communities of cabins just over the hill. Just an endless road and a slow death if you make a mistake. Telco networks are good in the city, in rural towns and some roads. Beyond that its sat phone or beacon.
As for why Australia is so hard for Apple to 'buy' a gps map system for is just strange.
Yes you had the Mirage 5 history with the plans and parts been in the right place at the right time.
You have the history of the Phalcon advanced airborne early-warning (AEW at 250 miles?) radar system and China.
Small arms drift off bases around the world every year, getting out with an engine with the surrounding safe transport container/sled structure- not so easy.
Yes US is stuck and has been for many years. When was the last good public investment that moved the USA up?
The early 1940's? Post ww2? The 1960's? Beyond that you see massive capital flight to Asia to build factories and sell back to the USA.
The stock market melted with savings, banking and loans into some huge casino with bailouts for any traditional risk.
You have a few unique production lines for tanks, aircraft, subs, arms, space, heavy equipment - but thats all closed and life long with security that would keep growth out.
The low end work is done by union free 'guests'. The service sector is eating its own and creating nothing useful long term.
A few over educated geeks and nerds with unique skills will design run and upgrade a robotic production line - just like they would for Asia or did for Apple in the past in the US or EU.
What can save the USA? A really good big war? A massive of exports of lots of small wars and 'friends' needing huge new stockpiles?
If you are Australian and use an Australian cloud- you fall under Australian law and whatever the NSA can find. :)
If you are Australian and use a cloud with links to the USA - you fall under Australian law and whatever any US state or federal agency in the USA feels like looking for.
Your "strong encryption" lasts the links but in the cloud at some point its like plain text again.
Welcome to CALEA and many other laws, letters
Re use the information? ... ... to suits without badges and very personal questions :) :)
Could be as simple as a commercial deal lost. Your EU firm is blacklisted for illegal gov support after some tax records are recovered/shared.
A request is made to move more work/data to the USA under a 'free trade' deal - yes or no? If "no" your even more suspect.
Your trade with countries around the world is sorted into areas of interest to the US gov.
Depends on your links to 2nd and third parties. Cuba? Middle East? Africa? Asia? South America? Stepping on an area the US sees as it 'zone' gets you deeper.
The 'net' is cast wide and if anyone of interest shows up
Your next work related trip to the US results in ever smaller interview rooms at the airport over many hours with your laptop been cloned.
No embassy staff, no legal team -moving form uniformed staff who just want to clear things up so you can be on your way
If you dont enter the USA, a unique, time limited deal could be introduced to get your boss very interested in sending "you". The locals are asked to interview you on some deep legal issue as a few law enforcement 'guests' sit in with a list of their own questions
Failing that and the data found points to something darker, a free flight to the USA can be arranged for you when you go on holiday to a third country.
Same for entry into the USA or any country. The software needed on brand new storage media, replace when returning home.
The option to inspect any laptop that enters a country is getting to be a reality rather than having to be a 'suspect'.
When a state views your laptop as a "container" - you have no legal protection.
Diplomats and travellers to the Soviet Union knew what they faced at any hotel - why would Communist China be any different?
Switzerland had a walk in who (gave/sold?) the Soviets the bunker locations and moblization timetables. He was caught. :) Got to wonder how much 'gossip' they bring back home and write up for internal Swiss use :)
Switzerland is very small at the planning level of its structure. Very few make it up the chain of command with the correct trust and the huge number of days training needed vs having a day job.
They can profile the family structure and training of their top people over many years but "IT maintenance guy" are what treated as just "technician" staff? vs the quality of life that the officer class enjoy?
The other fun aspect is the amount of training top Swiss officers did with the top US war colleges
Q: What is the difference between the US and UN controlled internet? Both guarantee freedom of speech.
A: Yes, but the USA also guarantees freedom after the speech.
ie Open, accessible, affordable - sounds like a trap to get you online.
The secure sounds like easy tracking at any point along the network.
A folder is handed to political leaders and they get to ask questions. That becomes very addictive. First it was radio and all telegram messages. ... later recall who gave them the contracts.
WW2 german orders, movements, political power. Then Soviet arms testing, Soviet politics, local communist groups, unions, green movment, political groups in the USA, EU, huge commercial deals been backed by the other govs..
In the past they had to search data in near real time for 'words' and keep only terms of interest.
So you have had generations of political leaders who 'know' before many other people, thats not an easy thing to give up.
In the UK it was a matter of funding just to keep the information flowing without US help.
In the USA its more an agency power, funding, size and control thing - the NSA lost a lot of power and funding post cold war and before 2001.
The part the NSA was always warning against is now happening. The "who accesses it and why?" is now a push of data up from local police, state and federal
groups. The problem is so many eyes now have clearance, from political, to mil to contractors in raw form... Why - they are doing the collecting and sorting.
The NSA is seeing its "prize" outsourced for technical, legal and political reasons. Some political groups feel the private sector made up of well connected, cleared contractors have the skills, code and new machine 'power' to view things in different ways and
The NSA now faces a lot of new political thinktanks, contractors and other agency groups all offering unique language, crypto and insight.
All demanding the "need to know".
Try http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/%3F-older-posts-militarization-american-police-–-and-shredding-our-constitutional-rights-– :)
has a few links, the background. Most of the reports are local like http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/11/20/2354376/ada-county-sheriffs-office-one.html
They soon drift off Google news. The main aspect is a lot of ex mil tanks, apc, water ready 'rescue' apc's are been offered to small towns, cities, regional areas.
If you get the paper work in you get a tank or much more
Re: Russia's commitment to the free flow of information?
We all know about the press in Russia, the raids, the deaths, the Soviet times, the 1990's...tax problems, Chechnya, the 100's of pictures of staff that where lost...
Russia has learned from the optics of the 1980's via West Germany. TV news from the West got amazing footage of masses of people confronting the state.
Russia now has its young, English speaking, friendly reporters with their press cards walking the streets of the USA been filmed by police as they conduct direct interviews.
Better that Assange gets to talk on topics he wants on a good server, then put on youtube thats got some ability to keep the video accessible.
Also understand the game "freedom of the press" is in the West. Never question the talking points, dont talk to people who have seen things and if given the privilege of access never spoil the event.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression
Who gets access to the data?
The NSA, CIA, DIA bulk collection is cleaned up and indexed very quickly and well. The US had a vision of an electronic file system back in the 1960's. It was well funded while other agencies around the world where still working with paper and dreaming about data entry into realtime file systems.
The NSA, DIA is not some federal police building with an old database and top contractors trying their best over many years.
Historically your "access to the data" might have been a good question. Now its any contractor, new agency or cleared staff member can have a look.
The tight cleared for "hierarchical" internal NSA structures are been replaced with a more open "cloud". You have 100000's for new 'cleared' staff in new buildings with new encrypted lines getting bulk data, adding their 'thoughts' for top wages.
Re 'It is wrong to keep people in fear." We dont really know what the US likes to do the "West" when they get interested.
Can we project from COINTELPRO and wonder about what parts of the world that keep "company" with the US do:
If your political at the low end of the scale get noticed you might face something like decades of undercover officers?:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236811/Ten-women-sue-Scotland-Yard-tricked-sexual-relationships-officers-including-activist-spy-Mark-Kennedy.html
Like there was ever "sincerity" in the West? Recall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia
"CIA's role in pumping the film-makers with information about the Bin Laden raid"