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  1. Re:Wrong company name! on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 1

    Owned by MS since 2011, Skype ~ the new Windows Live Messenger service.

  2. Re:Microsoft on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 1

    The all new Relationship Management Team 2.0
    "Law Enforcement Relationship Management Team" got lost in the move?

  3. Re:The security and surveillance craze continues on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 1

    Welcome to our Brave New World where IM products run in the background "out of the box" after your next software update- just waiting for a call ....
    Enjoy crystal clear HD cam fun with sneak and peek for any interested 3rd party.

  4. Re:I don't mind, somehow on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 2

    Police usually like to take the long view, track as many people as they can, turn the useful ones into traps or bait, get great PR and future funding.
    Why go to court early? A wealthy family might get caught up, hire a better than average legal team thats will expose poor quality evidence.
    Most parts of the world have very strict privacy laws and no company is free to decide anything about users data without a *real* court like document or some real time sensitive issue- again police/courts/govs can act very fast if needed.
    No court wants to face the reality of an unsafe conviction or be part of some early collapse of any multi national investigation due to a tip or gift of "information".

  5. Re:Basement Are Better for Isolation on Thousands of Lab Mice Lost In Sandy Flooding · · Score: 1

    http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/21/politics/bio-germ-investigation/index.html
    You have to wonder how many labs, private labs within larger complexes got federal grant cash for exploring 'dirty' bits.
    Lets hope a wave of fuel and human waste kept everything 'clean'
    Bio-safety level 2 for all that extra funding :)

  6. Re:They don't pay. on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 1

    That feeling of knowing of 1000's doing math, crypto, mapping, science - all over the USA every year:
    a team of agents talked to your grandparents, parents, friends, other extended family, teachers all over the USA and you passed...
    That feeling of knowing your in for life and your clearance might help your kids get a good job?
    That feeling of knowing your clearance is good for the public and private sector or an effortless mix of both.
    That feeling of knowing all private companies in the USA use your network.

  7. Re:You know I've been wondering about this.... on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 2

    Depends on the competitive edge they want.
    The USA usually finds just the people they need for any role.
    NSA, CIA, DIA know where to find people, get them into crypto, make life more easy as they move up the advanced math ranks.... or trade tracer fire during peace time in distant lands.
    The TSA found its people in other parts of the US and even the tame US press seems to have to report on the lack of basic background reports on staff, missing items... but they had the 'hands' on skills needed...
    So what does the DHS really want? The UK seems to offer a hint http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/xbox-geeks-to-become-cyber-spies-8217352.html
    Security forces around the world want youth, the slang, the lifestyle and the look of 'average'.
    Its no good dropping a 6ft, battleground tanned, fit, healthy 'agent' in an "irc" room full of overweight coders with skin problems, rich parents, top computer games and their own view on the world forged by 6 years of free French at a top US university.
    The ability to guide the press by day and do a night raid (death squad) is of no use back on the home front.
    The ability to "man flirt" about rich parents, life at a top US university, seeking out distilleries, unique local beer...for 6 months and some day guide cyber protests ....
    This is just another Counterintelligence Program - welcome to the world of minority rights, animal rights, save the earth.... all your chatrooms, forums, blogs, web 2.0 are about to get some quality infiltration by people who can sit back and be one of "you" for 1 or 25 years.

  8. Re:i don't get this on Building Babbage's Analytical Engine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Their time and skills are free but the dongles, wow do they add up???

  9. Re:Just saying... on 17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable · · Score: 3, Informative

    You would think with all the cash, tech, skill and as a pure PR stunt...
    Place some black card behind the pages and get on scan per page, not a semi transparent mess.

  10. Re:He thinks $100 for an OS is expensive? on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Windows Laptop, For the Windows Newbie? · · Score: 1

    The same in Australia for Windows 7 Home Premium DVD the full version. ~US$250

  11. Re:At least it's not in the US... on Facebook Won't Take Down Undercover Cop Page In Australia · · Score: 1

    Yes you have to be careful using web 2.0 in the USA
    They might get you under a "retaliation" law
    http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-felony-police-facebook-508/

  12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
    Will get him ready for the computer skills needed to learn the ideas that keep many big US companies old apps running.

  13. Re: on Spy Gadgets: A Visit With the Real-Life Q · · Score: 1

    Not sure, did a quick search on amazon. Many of the better rated smaller 'spy' cam devices run into $50's+.

  14. Down the list on US Looks For Input On "The Next Big Things" · · Score: 2

    1. Lack of safe drinking water. - a solar panel, 2 filters, a UV filter - can make water for 100's.
    Beyond that you need to build it right.
    2. Continuously monitors an individual's personal health-related data - big blood test at a clinic - chip system once problem area is found.
    3. Generates off-grid water and energy for a small village derived from human and organic waste. NGOs have had this for years and years...
    Small and large scale, gas, solar in a box, wind, led....
    4. Autonomous underwater vehicle - NSA and US nuclear subs/mini subs have done that many times...
    5. At risk foster children - read the stats on state abuse and care, spend cash on better care.
    6. Invasive and brain sounds like infection and risks low moral - better to surround the head and fit a super computer near the "pilot".
    7. Distances greater than 200 miles - sounds like an isolated fire base is running low on juice? Air to air can get close, if you have distances greater than 200 miles that are not yours, you have a mini Stalingrad and are losing ... energy is then a small issue.
    The bad guys can usually work out where the juice is going too.. not the best idea.
    8. Point-to-point passenger travel system - give cash to France and the UK - they did Concorde right vs the flying tourist bus and sr71...
    9. Optical networks - if the US let basic blue sky optical research slip to need to ask that question - game over. Buy from South Korea, China, Brazil, South Africa, Ireland when they have a product to sell...
    10. A mainstream platform for low-cost fabrication and packaging of systems on a chip for communications, sensing, medical, energy, and defense applications? You have the internet '2' - thats fast- communications, sensing, medical, energy, and defense applications your Universities can pump that out with funding any day of the week... US telco/medical 'brains' are one area that the US has covered many times over.
    "low-cost fabrication" is the Soviet Union in the 1980's question - pay more+++++ for sealed local labs or let Australia, UK, Canada, NZ bid for trusted sealed labs - If your "defense applications" need "mainstream platform" something has gone wrong with your massive hardline mil optical/sat networks- too expensive? not looked after? too much data been collected? Only loser countries like Australia are poor and have to mix "mainstream platform" and "defense applications"...a very strange question for the USA to have to consider.
    11. "high-bandwidth free-space communication, laser strike, and defense against missiles?" Just like the US did in the 1960's70's80's90's - spend lots of cash on sats, think big, send lots and lots up.. Get next gen "Cray, IBM, Honeywell" to place massive amounts of CPU power in Australia, UK, Canada, NZ as the raw data flows... use massive new optical/sat networks to send data back to the US in small sorted encrypted amounts ... spend big to rule the world... its not hard work - ask the NSA for ideas.
    12. Cost parity across the nation's electric grid for solar power - the US lost its solar in early 1980's when solar was removed from the White House.
    Any US public investment in that area will be in a lab in Germany, France, Spain, South Africa, Brazil, China in a month and been mass produced under old and new brands months later. If the US wants solar, offer real cash buy back from solar homes (FIT), stop states from over charging for site 'engineering'/'code' inspections adding $1000's onto costs. Buy in China and watch US suburbia be covered.
    13. increased resolution in manufacturing? Give massive cash and tax breaks to Intel? Give massive contracts to Intel.

  15. Re:Much easier ways on Phil Zimmermann's New App Protects Smartphones From Prying Ears · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The phone gives you movement, address books, links to others, the home computer - its everything any LEO has wanted over the electronic generation -
    A beacon, trap and trace, a microphone, a camera lab (as in pictures taken, shared, gps, unique data in every image to find other images you took and posted)...
    As for any encryption - detailed keystroke logs, clear-text captures of passwords was offered by diagnostic options shipped in many US telco offerings.
    You had the 'mic on' remote dial in, spyware in the cell phone infrastructure - when will a generation learn to put down their small versions of ENIGMA?
    As for 'your device to record anything going to your mic? "
    The classic case was the NSA and GCHQ - let us work in the dark and we can predict the future ... federal political leaders get a heads up on terms of interest from around the world.
    Then you had federal police asking for non court help with encryption, tracking...
    Then for logs, recordings ... then for closed court voice recordings..
    Then high profile cases... state task forces.. fusion centers... the press reports on recordings ...
    At some point the court magic stops and that next person of interest takes the battery out.

  16. Re:Government roads on We Don't Need More Highways · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While the US is sitting in rusting cold war transport networks and wondering who to blame ...
    Your highways where built for troops and war... and getting your political elite out of cities ...
    ie very efficient transportation - just not for you.
    China is funding a rail system in Turkey for $35 billion.
    http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=277360
    Long term thats China to Spain and England by rail. No roads, no shipping.

  17. Re:Why arent ISPs using WiFi for last-mile? on 802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel · · Score: 1

    They are via WiMAX:
    Enhanced broadband to rural and remote areas
    http://www.internode.on.net/residential/wireless_broadband/fixed-wireless/terms_and_conditions/#Equipment
    The "WiMax receivers and base stations must be sufficiently cheap" is the key.
    You have to get it right, at both ends - ie skilled people on site and thats not "cheap"

  18. Re:Don't let it fool you on Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte · · Score: 2

    Warranty on trusted brands is still 3 years. 5 years if you shop around.

  19. Re:I hope you fucking hipsters are proud on Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production · · Score: 1

    ... which famously left China for ethical reasons?...
    They left because they could not gain enough marketshare over established local brands.

  20. Re:More $$$ on The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet $30 Million On Quantum Computing Company · · Score: 1

    The problem is when the CIA "screwed up .. your life" is usually some small hot war in a distant land... Vietnam was great for drug profits and systems testing but no so good for the people who could not 'study' or 'faith' their way out of the draft.

  21. Re:I think I may know the problem... on Why Ultrabooks Are Falling Well Short of Intel's Targets · · Score: 1

    That mythical huge profit zone between a new ipad and the classic IBM Thinkpad.

  22. Re:self-aware... on Sandia Lab Fires Up 300,000 Virtual Android Devices To Test Out Security · · Score: 1

    If a person becomes self aware and protests- finding, tracking and exporting from that one in 300000 devices is a neat skill.
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57524109-38/justice-dept-to-defend-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking/

  23. Re:Public forums? on Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful · · Score: 1

    So the NSA does not have to work on their own people?
    So good people in the NSA don't stumble over the classic Cocaine Import Agency...giving rockets to the freedom fighters ...
    So local nations with imported quality intercept equipment dont find 'something' strange and get someone local to go look.
    As for the "$50 billion budget" that is spread thin over many different sections form wondering what all the other nations are doing, super computing, running spies around the world, watching the press, academia, emerging threats, grooming future leaders around the world..., keeping up contacts with 'import' and 'export' groups - (Virgina boys out to bring home a Mig) stopping, shaping or taking over the next big trend.. to helping a group of freedom fighters rush a compound full of spies...

  24. Re:Before you act shocked... on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    As the AC noted, most of that falls under “tombstone technology” - enough rich and middle class people died quickly or slowly and US laws where changed after the press showed premeditated design issues.
    or their TV or radio enjoyment was been interfered with.

  25. Re:SOCIALISM! FREE MARKET! BLOOBLAHBLOO on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    Register of Copyrights in 1985 - i.e. under Ronald Reagan (R).
    Very consistent in keeping movie, telco, health care cartels, duopolies and protecting the US for the evils of a hi tech hardware and software exporting Japan.