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  1. Re:A semi-Marxist state with voter ID? on 1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting · · Score: 1

    Brazil is not communist. Thanks to the CIA they 'removed' all their communists.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#Brazil
    A massive network of telex machines called CONDORTEL was used to trace and then "question" people of interest.
    The questions where in real time over many days. Think of it as an early chatroom with realtime translation as information was extracted.
    After information was extracted and referenced you joined ~ 60,000 in death.

  2. Re:bait on YouTube Partially Unblocked In China · · Score: 2

    Yes it shows you have news from outside or are trying at random times to get the service.
    What the system expects is everybody to feel so watched they don't even think about trying.
    News like this from "outside" just makes people glow on the networks. You join a list and a count starts.

  3. Re:Cant Have Shade On Panels on Ask Slashdot: Home Testing For Solar Roof Coverage? · · Score: 1

    There are a few products on the US market that will help with that. You suffer a drop, but overall, your system still works ok. Just look for power optimisers.

  4. Some thoughts from Australia on Ask Slashdot: Home Testing For Solar Roof Coverage? · · Score: 1

    As people have noted, get some quotes from people who install in your area, city.
    They will have the feed in, costs and can chart your past yearly usage and system sizes on a laptop/tablet. Factor in local government inspections/regulation costs, upgrades to your home power system, new meter.
    Does you state and federal gov give good cash back for setting up the system, does your utility give you cash or some $0.00 credit only?
    Will your state or federal gov reduce or stop any solar feed in payments? How strong is your energy lobby to get any feed in rates cut or removed?
    Shade can be worked around with a well designed system. Understand what the size of the system can produce, what your utility connection fee is, how much
    you get when you export and your usage over the year. Use your solar during the day as produced vs keep most things off so you export all you can.
    A good free community site for user stats is pvoutput.org - a few US systems are listed.

  5. Re:counterfit? on GAO Sting Finds More Fake Military Parts From China · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnair_Flight_394
    Specifications are that they look and 'feel' the same. How they work is not really an issue for the seller.
    Use counterfeit parts and you risk mid air fall apart.
    Security cleared, fit, healthy, g force rated crews vs what an aerospace company can lobby a US politician over allowing legal imports...

  6. Why would the West do this? on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    The ships arrive empty and depart full.
    It is better to deal with a war lord over an area of needed mineral wealth vs a stable 2nd world government. They would demand and get an upfront clean up contract and ongoing outside testing.....
    If Africa gets its own food security- then steps up to eduction, mining, housing, value added exports....
    As it is now you can extract gems, gold, timber, oil for cents in the $. Why risk paying cents + more when you can keep the balance between chaos and a thiefdom for generations.
    So provide a flood of cheap food to suppress local efforts and ensure any real charity work is limited.
    Mix in tame NGO's that keep a majority of their funds and produce feel good efforts on demand.

  7. Whats the different between on GAO Sting Finds More Fake Military Parts From China · · Score: 2

    an Iranian Tomcat and a modern US military system?
    Iran knows where its jets came from.

  8. Re:Do I understand ? on Virginia Approves First Offshore Wind-Energy Turbine For US Waters · · Score: 1

    The EU dumped cash into them. The US has a powerful coal, oil, gas lobby.
    The lack of a neat feedin "tax" and real political cash at risk makes it different in the USA.
    The US elite also like their sailing and views. Power is best from the inner fly over states with lots of poverty.
    Reality for the UK is setting in http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100142400/wind-farms-even-worse-than-we-thought/
    i.e. the feed in tax in the EU and the energy lobby/wealth vote in the US are two different boondoggles that local politics knows how to work with.

  9. Re:IMHO Apple is becoming a scummy advertiser on Australian Consumer Watchdog Sues Apple Over iPad Marketing · · Score: 1

    re... responsibility to manage the wireless carriers infrastructure?
    If a company wants all the first world brand protections and a captive market... Yes it has to be very clear about what a product can do and will support.
    i.e. in the real world as sold, out of the box.
    If your product is to work with Australian wireless - note wifi, 3g and any sort of new 3g support.
    Then your fine. The average consumer is been flooded with 4g ads and sees a product with "4g" - they will spend a ~mortgage payment and expect a product that is 4g ready on day one.

  10. If your interested in using Macs on Slashdot Asks: How To Best Record Remote Video Interviews? · · Score: 1

    Try http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ishowu-hd/
    10.5-10.7 support, lets you record screen, cameras and has great support.

  11. Re:Fascinitating on SKA Telescope Site Debate Not Over Yet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A scientific project in South Africa?
    South Africa has mining experts, heavy engineering, defence experts, past nuclear experts, good computing and maths backgrounds.
    They built their own nuclear reactors, nuclear weapons, bio/chem weapons and did well with very complex aerospace upgrades.
    Australia has a research reactor, a few universities with hand me down computers and still needs direct guidance from UK and US intelligence/contractors for complex projects.
    Staff would always be an issue in Australia - getting the right people out of the cities is really, really expensive.

  12. Re:Ban consumer electronics too? on Australian Gov't Bans Huawei From National Network Bids · · Score: 1

    Private citizens is fine, its the new rooms or past "exchanges" near the mil bases in suburbia that may prove more interesting.
    Australia does not really have a lot of sat bandwidth so most of its everyday mil chat might go down unique telco like networks.
    Or expose its neat new US packet sniffers to another layer of contractors and risk US anger...

  13. Re:national security on Australian Gov't Bans Huawei From National Network Bids · · Score: 4, Informative

    Australia has done that in the past.
    http://www.australiandefence.com.au/DB96D390-F806-11DD-8DFE0050568C22C9
    Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board let SingTel purchase Optus i.e. Singapore's government-owned telco got the Optus C1/D joint civil/military communications satellite.
    The dedicated military payload paid for by Australia is used for satellite communications in Australian and south-east Asia.
    The payload came from the USA and Japan was the contractor ....
    The main problem for the NBN would be the US/UK/NZ/Canadian/Australian telco choke points- who gets to mirror off every packet in and out of Australia.
    An embassy or joint space project can be contained. Communists deep in your ducts long term is not a good idea.

  14. Re:Possible Abuse on Queensland Police to Look For Unsecured WiFi Spots · · Score: 1

    DSD/ASIO would be getting every packet in and out of Australia by default over any telco link.
    If your chatting with Africa, Asia or the Middle East- your on a list shared with the UK, NSA ect..
    As for sniffing traffic, they would do that as a drift net - all flagged p2p files, forums, chatrooms - going after the person and ip.
    MAC Addresses and SSIDs that will be used in other investigations would really be long term with unmarked vans/cars.
    It sounds like a simple tool that shows a pad lock or no padlock - just like any consumer device, but it cost Australian taxpayers a lot.
    Some telco contractor did good with this deal :)

  15. Re:Omnipresent Surveillance on New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It · · Score: 1

    The will just iPad it, you want a fun tv, you will sign in once- they get your face, modem details (mac), sync it with your bookmarks, browser, cookies.
    After you have set up the language, network, colour, sent data back you might get the option to unplug your TV from the network.
    Until then your stuck in setup ;)

  16. Re:Omnipresent Surveillance on New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Re: It will never be true in my house.
    Depends who is giving you your computer, device or job?
    A school can network to your home with little public comment about camera use
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District
    The background paperwork once needed for high risk, cleared work is now becoming normal
    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/job-applicants-asked-turn-facebook-passwords-article-1.1047427
    Then you have the CIA hinting at the joy of a fully networked US home
    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/

  17. Re:Posting doesn't match up with the speed of ligh on $1.5 Billion: the Cost of Cutting London-Tokyo Latency By 60ms · · Score: 1

    Uk, many severs (US base), water, loops around natural and unnatural problems, Japan (US base), many severs.
    Even if the UK and Japan side offer real dedicated vs best effort, you still have to move around both regions before you hit pure new optical.
    Peering, telco deals can all send your packets for small or long loops before they get to fancy new projects.

  18. Re:Who's going to work there? on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 2

    Salt lake city was selected for a very good reason. The people are loyal, pro USA and want good jobs. Their families can be traced back generations and can be interviewed - that is most important.
    They do not want new Americans, "dual" citizens with dreams of distant issues, people with no real pasts.
    The other issue is power supply, cooling, room to expand and optical loops in the heart of the USA.

  19. Re:What am I missing? on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 0

    The US/UK and cryptanalytic attacks can be summed up in one idea - sell very cheap junk to the world and keep the good stuff away from most people per generation of hardware device.
    Flood the math and crypto books with your work and your math, sell cheap and get friendly govs around the world to push the same junk.
    Then track the packets along networks - your call to Asia, Africa is logged, your voice print kept.
    The US can only produce so many good crypto experts, if they are all working for the gov or big .coms, not much is left for asking too many hard questions.
    You can have the best codes on the best OS, but if some third party has a testing layer in every product shipped that can be turned on - all your https keystrokes are in the clear...
    Then add in law enforcement needs for your telco and the uptake in wireless - your mic, camera and keyboard and good encryption is surrounded by many weak points by default.

  20. Re:Whatever... on Xbox 720 a No-show At This Year's E3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Going strong? Developers are still coding for "640p" and small worlds to fit in with this old plastic box.
    The low cpu, low gpu art is then passed onto PC games so we are all stuck in 2004.

  21. Re:Will iYogi sue Avast? on Avast Drops iYogi Support Over Pushy Scare Tactics · · Score: 1

    Yes Avast is great, updates quickly and does not slow down my older IBM laptop :) Works fine with Steam and runs without any problems in the background.

  22. Re:Happened to a friend of mine. on Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police · · Score: 1

    Think about the crime stats around the world.
    Everybody wants low numbers, great success in finding bad guys and the need for ever expanding budgets... how can all that be pulled out of real world crime stats every year that the press get to see?
    The US shows the way via : http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-03-07/news/the-nypd-tapes-confirmed/
    "Officers were told to arrest people who were doing little more than standing on the street, but they were also encouraged to disregard actual victims of serious crimes who wanted to file reports."
    If your really really good with your yearly stats you get http://jalopnik.com/5889692/the-texas-state-police-now-has-a-crazy-gunboat-fleet @$580,000 per 34-foot speed boat :)

  23. Re:What Sa has over Au ? on South Africa Wins Science Panel's Backing To Host SKA Telescope · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Re South Africa is seen as a better place to do science?
    The long Bush Wars provided a great generational base for science and very hi tech.
    South Africa with some help created aerodynamic casings for its nuclear weapons, that puts in a rather unique list.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Network Australia's tech efforts at the same time :)

  24. Re:FoxNews is covering the story on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 1

    The TSA also holds some interest as they could form a union and work for the gov.
    Add in some charming foreign expert offering to sell profiling classes and pulling people aside to small rooms vs the US touch and glow system.

  25. Re:Still don't want one on Apple Unveils New iPad · · Score: 1

    Thinkpad ~t,r or x 60