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  1. Re:kinda cheating on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 1

    Re smelted our own ore
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace
    China made a lot of high carbon pig iron that way.

  2. Re:Just like their trains... on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 3, Insightful
  3. Re:Crypto without stego on Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I am not sure who wrote the first paper/used the term first re "World Wide Wiretap"? Google could be good in finding it or not.
    http://www.efc.ca/pages/media/fraser-forum.01may98.html ?

  4. Re:Conspiracy Nut on US Regains Supercomputing Crown, Besting China and Japan · · Score: 1

    You can map out the US interests via Atlas 1, Abel, Abner, Baker, then onto NOMAD- PITS storage, BOGART, CUB, HARVEST, then the IBM, Honeywell years.
    Finally you have the megawatt power demand...
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
    If you where really smart you could map out the voice, telex, fax, data bandwidth per landing/sat per year/decade and what kind of data the US sorted in real time.
    Voice to text, text to dictionary, match and keep or dump.

  5. Re:Crypto without stego on Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription · · Score: 1

    Its an old game.
    The NSA can shape crypto that has mass usage i.e. it was on your computer for free, or you downloaded the most popular/easy to use gui software.
    They can create their own front company.
    They can be in on the creation of a company with a good brand ...
    As people have noted, use a one time pad or a set of face to face terms that can be seen around the world in a passive way.
    Its their telco system, the world wide wiretap - why anything has changed or any software is now 'safe' is not really the right question.

  6. Re:It's all about giving to the community on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Watch it for the questions by end users about trendy computers they could not get support for in the past and what will make young people code more, code better... code they they did in the 1980's... in 2015...

  7. Re:It happens in England on At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded · · Score: 1

    Yes the UK where onto voice from the first telephone satellites links, love voice intercepts from war zones and it seems your chats in queues too.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html

  8. Recite some poetry as you wait on At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded · · Score: 4, Interesting
  9. Re:mercury delay on Looking Back At Australia's First Digital Computer · · Score: 1

    Australia did not have a GCHQ or NSA budget at the time :)

  10. Re:I don't see the outrage on Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers · · Score: 1

    When your on welfare in Australia, the forms you sign are short and crystal clear.
    Cash movements, transactions, shares, cash gifts, new person in your life, changes to education - tell them and all is fine (within set limits) or payments are adjusted.
    You also give the Australian federal gov the right to look into their databases for your name.

  11. Re:Not surprising on Aussie Telco Lays New Fiber For Microsecond Trading Boost · · Score: 1

    If you get a few hours 'free' to loop and inject in the middle, they might test it and notice, then find your neat hardware splicing.
    So you can get physical access to the start point... no optical skills needed.

  12. Re:Simple solution, really... on Online Activities To Be Recorded By UK ISPs · · Score: 1

    Yes via http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
    Browsers all over the UK doing randomised search-queries to popular search engines every few mins.

  13. Re:An airbase is an airbase. on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    Domestic use, the new terms in the NDAA, less posse comitatus, the US been seen as a battlefront, loitering ability of a drone ...
    Add in the http://articles.cnn.com/2012-06-11/us/us_maryland-drone-crash_1_drone-crash-site-routine-training?_s=PM:US
    at $176 million apiece and the vision FAA of 30000 US drones.
    http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-08/news/31036604_1_drones-unmanned-aircraft-new-bill

  14. Re:Just say it already on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    Sure they are http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/325402#ixzz1vooIlTFd
    The Vanguard Shadowhawk will give the Montgomery County Sherriff's Department
    "unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is equipped .... and capable of firing rubber bullets, ejecting tear gas canisters and launching taser projectiles."
    If you want you can get some nice grenade lunchers and 12-gauge shotguns upgrades too....
    http://www.salon.com/2012/04/24/drones_for_urban_warfare/
    Don't worry its just for intelligence, search, reconnaissance ... just like all the new kit was only to be used in Iraq too...
    Welcome to the domestic (U.S.) battlefront.

  15. Re:Woah! on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    They might drop a little box on your property :)
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/27/darpa-funded-hackers-tiny-50-spy-computer-hides-in-offices-drops-from-drones/
    Saves the sneaking of trying to get into your carbon monoxide detector, wall socket or office kitchen.

  16. Re:Cant Americans compete? on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 1

    Re: Then, why cant Americans compete with H1B's?
    You don't need that many anymore. A good engineer from a top university who likes to code and is an all round nice person can make most things you like in China.
    If not they have a security clearance and are mapping the globe or are passing on their skills to students around the world working out what they want to "do" in their 30's.
    They nothing to fear, wealthy families, nice cars, the best Phd's money can buy and a charm that is unique to their inner cliques.
    Their America is doing just fine. How is your Amercia going?

  17. My thoughts on FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor · · Score: 1

    1. The FBI does not have the cash, tech, people or access to telco hardware to seamlessly track content from one exchange to the end point in the USA.
    If you sent abc to your exchange, some trip, back into the USA, back to another exchange - the message is still abc.
    Could a mid budget US federal agency log all US net traffic for a few days, weeks vs a large city?
    2. The FBI has the tech in the form of sneak and peek, key loggers to get down to your home and collect all data in real time.
    At this time it does not want people doing strange things to nice consumer operating systems to spoil the quality of tracking.
    So they talk of Tor been hard work as aspects of VoIP tech once was suggested to be.
    3. The FBI recalls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore and the reaction of the UK gov.
    4. The FBI recalls the number of .gov and .mil staff and contractors it might find
    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/pentagon-declined-investigate-hundreds-purchases-child-pornography.html
    Budgets, laws and hardware will gift the US "net" as a simple network in real time soon.

  18. Re:Who steals from wizards? on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 0

    Any academic who worked with emerging AI and some crypto work would be of interest to any outside government

  19. Re:China Does It on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    Same exCGHQ contractors for both projects?

  20. Re:Easy on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    Something from comedy Little Britain:
    597: The Computer Says No

  21. Re:Whatever happened to.... on Samsung Sues Aussie Patent Office In Apple Suit, Apple Sues Back · · Score: 1

    We tried "features" and got the its "4G" sales effort:
    http://www.theage.com.au/business/accc-seeks-225m-bite-from-apple-20120608-200p8.html

  22. Re:The bigger question. on Flame Malware Authors Hit Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Iran pays on time and very well. Gold, local currencies... Iran is good like that.

  23. Re:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1
  24. Try trackmenot on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
    Let it run in your fav browser and have it use a set of search engines creating a random cloud of false searches when your online.
    You IP will have AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing looking for terms from the daily mainstream press.
    Average frequency and other settings can be used to fill logs all day everyday ;)
    When you do search try something like startpage.com

  25. Depends on the hardware, generation on Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail? · · Score: 2

    Did you have to go to work with a maths degree to programme your computer?
    Did the language get .gov or .edu support e.g. Ada?
    Can you do anything you like and zoom ahead or fail depending on your skills? e.g. C
    Now you have you Lua, OCaml and MS efforts.
    Everyday some gifted project person tries to impress their friends or make a tool just to see if they can in some obscure, free, fast language.
    Why do they fail, ahead of their time like Ada or without the awesomer speed and freedoms for C.
    Or its just not what all your BBC/Windows/ios using friends had and could help you will, i.e. the herd is fun.