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  1. Re:Complete Lies on Australia Drops Second Google Investigation · · Score: 2

    Thats the Jedi trick, the elephant in the room.
    The diligent engineer did know what he was doing and did pass on his issues up the ladder. Nothing was done.
    http://digitaljournal.com/article/324002
    "This private data would then âoebe analyzed offline for use in other initiatives,â like researching how well Googleâ(TM)s other services are used, the document said."
    http://www.dailytech.com/FCC+Google+Knowingly+Used+Street+View+Cars+to+Snoop+on+Emails+Texts/article24574.htm has more

  2. Re:Julian Assange is still relevant? on Supreme Court Rules Julian Assange May Be Extradited · · Score: 1

    Depends what is in the 'Insurance' file wrt to a media company.

  3. Re:I'm confused on Supreme Court Rules Julian Assange May Be Extradited · · Score: 2

    Sweden is thankful to the GCHQ and NSA - bilateral elint agreements, airborne elint.
    i.e. the FRA (Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment) was very happy to have nice crypto friends in the UK and USA as a trusted third party.
    It takes a long time to make the US "third party" list outside Canada, Australia, the UK ect. and very little to drop from the list.
    So really " transparent and subject to due process" is just window dressing.
    Sweden has generations of political types who enjoyed deep intelligence contact with the UK and US and will make sure any sitting government knows not to risk decades of work over legal matters around a non citizen.

  4. Re:I'm confused on Supreme Court Rules Julian Assange May Be Extradited · · Score: 1

    They like to call it aggressive, unpleasant and fear inducing interrogation methods.
    Don't ask for the tapes.

  5. Re:Should only buy military components from allies on Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip? · · Score: 1

    I am sure the good people at the Depot can produce a great nuclear emp protected server to fly/sail/drive military units around the world.
    With it you can add the details of many protesters spotted at base fences and sort them, get facial recognition and build up a fine database.
    The problem is talking to the rest of the data sitting around the USA.
    With private sector servers you can bring in info from your protesters and link it with many commercial databases around the USA and the world.
    Food, flying points, phone plans, computer usage all gets bought up in the private sector by front companies and then sorted on easy to use, massive hardware systems.
    Dell is winning, ex service personal who are now contractors are winning and the political parties who allowed the changes enjoyed contributions.

  6. Re:25 subs managed 132 ships sunk on Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines · · Score: 1

    The US navy seemed to have known about the issues but did very little before or at the start of the war.
    They fixed their weapons systems by the end of the war :)

  7. Re:Legal Grounds on Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature · · Score: 1

    A robot that detects the ad starting and presents the users with a few mins of a fitness game, word/number puzzle, the internet or other computer game?
    Sell it as a fitness/brain helping lifestyle product.

  8. Re:I don't think they're violating any laws on Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature · · Score: 1

    Yes its a computer device with a function in your home. New laws in this area could flow both ways. If data belongs to someone down to the end device, would user data get the same broadcast television protection on any device?
    Free on the web "ecosystem" could get very interesting if all you could do is sign up for an encrypted walled garden.
    Or spend a few mins on every new website clicking EULA for every cookie, flash cookie, 3rd party script, allowing web 2.0 to deep search every message, txt, email...

  9. Re:Soviet Russia on Return of the Vacuum Tube · · Score: 1

    Yes at some point the US must have allowed its vision to shift from nuclear shielding to very adaptive hardware and software.
    With that change Soviet methods could be countered on one airframe with the change of a device, not a total new aircraft.
    Russia was stuck with hardware, the US could update software as needed.

  10. Re:Penny wide; Dollar foolish. on Ten Cops Can't Recover Police Chief's Son's iPhone · · Score: 1

    Its the data that could be vital. A simple bbq pic of a group of older men and woman that?
    With DHS, fusion centers, a lot of interesting federal people are now mixing with local police forces.
    People with histories in Africa, South America, Asia in the 1980's, 1990's.
    Playing coloured traces games with Russian 'advisors' by night, helping clear Communist villages by day.
    You could have 100 of years of combined US experience and long term mil training exposed on a simple picture.
    Or one undercover who just retired.

  11. Re:one in every crowd on Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    Epidemiology is not very hard for many cash poor nations to try and set up.
    Some parts of the world, e.g. ex Soviet nations don't seem to like/support the idea very much, but it should be very easy to do in Japan and the areas around Japan.
    So its as easy as selecting a wide pool of people and testing them at set intervals over many years.
    Counties around the world do it all the time with generations of results in known populations e.g. food, cancer, twin studies.

  12. Re:So basically the DEA is asking for what .... on DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years · · Score: 1

    They want legal cover and immunity. The ability to share the info, keep it, track it.
    No "walking" to court years later.

  13. What this looked like on DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90wnuWo6jk
    Shows the driver face capture, plate capture, passenger face capture and network link on one small roadside camera setting.

  14. Re:Except for Melbourne Australia..... on World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure · · Score: 2

    In Australia you where meant to buy a car or 2 or 3 and drive to work or use rail/bus (with cars for weekend/shopping).
    The main aspect driving classic Australian urban design was import costs and keeping the local car industry employing 1000's.

  15. Re:Anyone know which subways they compared? on World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure · · Score: 4, Interesting

    His team analyzed the geometry of all of the subway networks in the world that possess more than 100 stationsâ"including Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Chicago, London, Madrid, Mexico, Moscow, New York City, Osaka, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo i.e. no Vienna

  16. Re:Why is this appropriate? on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or the java installer

  17. Re:Optus should pay a license on Big Media and Big Telcos Getting Nasty In Landmark Australian Law Case · · Score: 1

    Its not "basically streaming" or "distribute" from one massive telco server room to many users. If you have a tv, your just watching the media you can for free at home from another location.
    The "Your Television connects to your...via HDMI, composite video and component video cables" part makes that pretty simple to understand: its from "your" TV to "your" device.
    Recording broadcasts is time shifting to fit around busy lifestyles. Any VCR or set top box seems to have set the legal condition to do that.
    Charging people to watch them - you are paying for bandwidth to connect back to your home to do "something" with data files from a box in your home.
    The data pipe to your phone is not free.
    The same would apply for moving any data over most Australian mobile networks.

  18. Re:Broadcast rights on Big Media and Big Telcos Getting Nasty In Landmark Australian Law Case · · Score: 1

    More just a codec tunnel from your sofa area box to your tablet, cell or laptop on the go. A VNC with a good codec and useful gui?
    Optus wins with branding, a monthly data rate and getting a long term lock in bundle with your home phone/adsl/optical, cell.
    It will be fun after optical rolls out and quality US codecs are used, from a US studio to your sofa via a box from Apple or MS or Sony.
    Classification will be the only time sensitive issue - it will be fun to see what the middle interests living of UK, US content and sport do :)

  19. Re:"Most detailed"? Bullshit. on Russian Satellite Takes Most Detailed 121-Megapixel Image of Earth Yet · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Different than police helicopters with observer on Aussie Police Consider Using Automated Spy Drones · · Score: 1

    Helicopters are established in Australia. The funding, maintenance, legal use, hours of use, flight paths, sound issues - have all been set.
    Drones offer some new flight school, maintenance training, legal frame works to be set up. Cash for sending staff to the USA, equipment from the USA, ongoing upgrades, more advisors and experts to upgrade the secret export quality optical and telco intercept, voice print systems used.
    The political structure that made it all work is not forgotten.
    New cash is flowing, to new players in different US states. i.e. the private drone universities in the USA want export $
    24/7 day/night lets a drone circle a suburb and track anyone of interest, no matter how smart they are not using real SIMs/landlines, just a car and a voice print on record...

  21. Its strange, when the US really needed this on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: 0
  22. Around the world on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    Party advisors from rich families, apparatchiks, trusted tribal families, cult members and military flunkies are running with tablets or printouts to their respective superiors.
    If we just change our simple tax law here, here and here, tweak citizenship and residency permits here .....
    Think of the yachts, airport, housing, medical, banking, legal, security, car boom for our economy paid for by the USA been so .....
    "Welcome to your happy new home for a few months a year" ad contracts are rushed to media groups around the USA for discussion.

  23. Re:it's irrelevant on Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Confirm Or Deny Secret Relationship With Google · · Score: 1

    you don't use google, or facebook, or other similar things.
    The problem is your friend with a job offer or your boss or your family is. Your name, interests, friends are floating around. Add in your cell calls, emails, texts to your cell phone.
    Contractors buying bulk commercial data, the US gov and govs around the world, your data been looped around the world - its all fair game to the NSA.

  24. Re:Dont forget about M$ on Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Confirm Or Deny Secret Relationship With Google · · Score: 1

    MS seems to have been more a rapid roll out of CPU friendly, rushed beta code to ensure a digital brand and land grab before cashed up start ups got traction.
    Security was to come after as the end users got better cpu's, gpu's, bandwidth and only ***if*** US law ever dictated better digital privacy.
    The NSA would have loved all that clear text, spyware friendly tech been exported, copied, cloned, installed, pushed around the world.
    MS and its rush to build networking gave the USA the gift of a few decades of low cost/easy crypto.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act then fixed aspects of wiretapping networkings in place, making new OS security a pure marketing term due to easy tracking of any messages/usage.

  25. Re:"It's been known" [Re:NSA 3 Google] on Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Confirm Or Deny Secret Relationship With Google · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Re "Citation needed." In many form of links to read
    http://epic.org/foia/epic_v_nsa_google.html
    "On February 4, 2010, the Washington Post reported that Google had contacted the National Security Agency ("NSA")"
    ..."stated that the NSA's general counsel had drafted a "cooperative research and development agreement" within 24 hours of Google's announcement of the attack,
    which authorized the Agency to "examine some of the data related to the intrusion into Google's systems.""