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  1. Re:What happens after though on Supercomputer Cools Off Using Groundwater · · Score: 1

    Its a closed loop that goes down deep. If its a fresh site with lots of tests, your fine.
    If your digging into a cheap "new" site with tax breaks, lots of cheap power, rail and huge roads - expect diesel and arsenic contamination.

  2. Make it easy for devs on PS4: What Sony Should and Shouldn't Do · · Score: 2

    1. Less cpu numbers but faster - Todays developers can only just get 2 cores working on average for non video/math problems - no need to add lots of unused cores.
    2. Better gpu - fast, no hardware bottlenecks to save a few cents. Get as much bright moving images from the math skills of developers up on the display within the 1080p range.
    3. Embrace Linux - if some person makes their generations Tetris, Myst/HyperCard, bird game - the PR glow is a net positive - give the game away with every unit shipped/sold game and be nice to the team/person who used your product to show it to the world. Support them.
    4. Make it not hard to code with your product after buying into the system - make it easy to make great looking games early on.
    5. Don't turn stuff off via the magic of networking.
    6. Education - with cheap open hardware products allowing people to build basic kits, projects and learn about hardware, software - why not allow impressionable young minds do the same with add on devices while looking at the word SONY for the length of the lesson a few times every week. Give free software to the teachers and help them with lesson plans after they buy in big.
    Let them buy 'homework' hardware and make family, friends and siblings look at the word SONY over weekends and holidays for hours.
    7. More education - target universities with open code and deep hardware options. With the extra hardware and software your brand with win over a smart new generation - for free. The extra quality/speed of SONY based gpu/cpu robotics let that .edu WIN big at robot 'games'
    Crush the teams that show up with buggy code after reverse engineering children's toys.
    8. Secure your networks.

  3. Re:Forgive my ignorance... on Drone Guides Fuel Shipment to Alaskan Town · · Score: 1

    Many people around the world see drones as death, surveillance, 24/7 tracking for wifi, voice/audio, visual, heat ect.
    Stories in the media filter back to the US and local populations understand what is going to be used on them and the long term new funding they will have to find.
    On the other side you have the manufacturers, public/private maintenance, public/private maintenance training, flight schools, regulators and visions of huge boondoggles.
    States want to set up drone "universities" to cover all the needs of drone use- seeing export and wide scale US use bringing funding to their areas.
    Political leaders pushing for more drones need good news stories- then they can fund more drone roll outs and hope for donations back as massive state/federal cash flows in .

  4. Re:I don't think it's X-Rays on DHS X-ray Car Scanners Now At Border Crossings · · Score: 1

    Re How can this be legal?
    The workers will get free gov health care till the very end. A family alone suffers an early death and builds a photo/flag/medal area in their home to a loved one.
    The real trick will be the cause of death and the tissue samples. The tissue samples will not be kept for educational use and will be dumped after an "outcry" over what a gov hospital can legally keep/cost cutting/space needed/faith.
    The database of deaths can be smoothed over with a normal, expected ratio of middle class nursing home causes - a strange cancer in a "young" person (40-60yo) becomes ~pneumonia.
    This will ensure any book chapter writing dr/prof/phd in 20-40 years with good math skills and a US wide medical database can never do any meaningful epidemic work.
    No people to interview, collect saved/outside dr notes/tissue samples/slides or hear the words he/she worked for the gov in this area all their life..... I will give you other numbers ...
    Their will be 0 legal problems in the US.

  5. Re:What happens when someone builds a trigger... on DHS X-ray Car Scanners Now At Border Crossings · · Score: 1

    Think of the settings e.g. bike, car, van, truck, big truck, heavy engineering equipment...
    Your paper work shows your flagged as having sold your home, moved cash around the world and seem to be emigrating .. A final zap good-bye

  6. Re:Here's a fix. on DHS X-ray Car Scanners Now At Border Crossings · · Score: 1

    The workers will get a pretty medal (designed in USA made in ... ) and expect to see a term like "national sacrifice zones" dusted off as a sound bite.

  7. Re:I don't think it's X-Rays on DHS X-ray Car Scanners Now At Border Crossings · · Score: 4, Informative

    The DHS looked at surveillance from vans with long-distance X-ray capability
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/03/02/docs-reveal-tsa-plan-to-body-scan-pedestrians-train-passengers/
    e.g. "drive-by" mode and covert screening from vans http://www.as-e.com/zbv/
    http://epic.org/privacy/body_scanners/Body_Scan_FOIA_Docs_Feb_2011.pdf
    They build up a 3d like view of metal vehicles. You would think every person in the area would get into shielded rooms (control and guarded waiting room) as the vehicle in question was scanned.
    I guess radiation is now 100% safe in the USA.

  8. Re:How about a novel solution? on Navy May Use Mine-Detecting Dolphins In the Straight of Hormuz · · Score: 1

    Just wait for amazing new facts surrounding: .... Pan Am Flight 103, how Saddam's Iraq was invaded, who really attacked the USS Liberty, who helped with the USS Pueblo, had ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, sent engineers to Grenada, trained the mysterious “John Doe” who worked with Timothy McVeigh, set up the Fast and Furious gunrunning, likes beheading diplomats, impersonates CIA agents... trained the pilots that ... have nuclear ..... , programmed Stuxnet...

  9. Re:Potential problem. on Navy May Use Mine-Detecting Dolphins In the Straight of Hormuz · · Score: 1

    An enemy missile hitting the dolphin transport pen/vessel?
    It would be like the 1982 Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings all over again.

  10. Re:Dolphins ... right. on Navy May Use Mine-Detecting Dolphins In the Straight of Hormuz · · Score: 1

    Most of the world would have nice new fancy plastic minesweepers/minehunters/MCMV? Why the dolphins? Some green PR for recruitment?
    Will the dream of working with cute dolphins sign up more smart kids from the malls?

  11. Re:DHS = Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit on DHS Monitors Social Media For 'Political Dissent' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What to do with dissidents? A body in the ground is useless unless they talked to the press. A body in a cell for 10-15 years is of value to private US prison investors, as prison labor, as a warning to others.
    The East Germans did kill dissidents in the West, but at home they like to mess with peoples minds long term- tell a joke 10 years, protest 10++ years, cover for an escape ect.
    You also lost your job, risked your wider family and friends been pulled down with you.
    If you did "hang yourself" during protective custody - a sealed coffin and no questions.
    If a family member got to the West and made problems, they did like to use family/friends who where left behind.
    Set up a meeting in the West (visa out), tell us when and where and your free...
    Your child will not disappear into state care ...
    As for the US, the no fly list is a start, freezing bank accounts, targeted raids over state or federal laws, diesel therapy (shackled and been being transported from prison to prison over weeks, months), does your lawyer have a security clearance, psychiatric care...

  12. Re:Unforeseen consequences on A DNA Sequencer Cheap Enough For (Some) Doctors' Offices · · Score: 1

    Give blood for a US visa? They can look for the strength of your VMAT2 (God Gene, spiritual experiences) gene.
    If you light up, your fanatic potential is noted.

  13. Re:Just like the NDAA 2012 on DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA · · Score: 2

    The US President of the day has the option to sign for indefinite detention on US Citizens caught inside the USA.
    A neat trick, one can quote the part that seems most fair but indefinite detention is ready to use when needed under a few old laws (Authorization for Use of Military Force).
    Then they get to select military detention (trial by military commission?), an alternative court or competent tribunal, a civilian criminal trial, transfers to third-country or to delete your overly protective "US Citizen" paperwork .... military detention with no outside US lawyer.

  14. Just like the NDAA 2012 on DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA · · Score: 5, Informative

    First it was not for US citizens, then it was to be changed to exclude US citizens, then .....
    All you have now is a signing statement about values to protect you from indefinite detention :)
    As for US law enforcement and the inter tubes, recall the 84,000 "a domain" website efforts:
    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110220/17533013176/ice-finally-admits-it-totally-screwed-up-next-time-perhaps-itll-try-due-process.shtml
    Ignore the pre committee PR and follow the bills :) Even the 2 page ones like S. 1698 the Enemy Expatriation Act

  15. Re:work an election before you tout pen and paper. on 7000 e-Voting Machines Now Deemed Worthless By Irish Government · · Score: 1

    Yes the sample Australian Senate ballot paper pic is a bit small :)
    http://www.aec.gov.au/voting/How_to_vote/Voting_Senate.htm

  16. Re:Old technology is often still superior technolo on 7000 e-Voting Machines Now Deemed Worthless By Irish Government · · Score: 1

    Yes in Australia we have branch stacking http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1688866.htm transcript of Janine Cohen's report "The Right Stuff"

  17. Re:Old technology is often still superior technolo on 7000 e-Voting Machines Now Deemed Worthless By Irish Government · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, you set up a polling station, have all the parties send in trusted locals to watch, count the pencil on paper votes at the end of the day, send in the count that night.
    The staff are let go, hired for the next election.
    If its too close, a law to recount. All computers at a local level do is let people who stole postal votes in the past try some new digital hacks on very expensive machines.

  18. Re:Symantec source hack reveal Indian surveillance on India Mobile Handset Backdoor Memo Probably a Fake · · Score: 1

    Re evil things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Sikh_riots
    If you know your history of India the result from the 1970-80's would be a lot.
    The code of AV tools seems to be of interest to many http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) to hide key loggers with vendor cooperation.

  19. Re:Doesn't matter on India Mobile Handset Backdoor Memo Probably a Fake · · Score: 2

    The Room 641A wiretapping (recall the AT&T San Francisco office and internet traffic been split to the NSA?) went to court, with paper work and the US gov had to offer retroactive immunity to make it all go away in July 2008.
    Then the US gov had to use its state secrets privilege.
    In Dec 2011 the case came back http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/dragnet-surveillance-case/
    All we know is every packet from Asia and within the US that fed a west coast telco office where split and collected.
    The collection point was not near the landing of the Asia link, the split was at point where US domestic and the Asia link could be split. The idea that your US or international cell phone data/voice/VOIP would be left out seems rather strange...

  20. Re:Predictions of the future! on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Predictions of the future! on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 1

    might be looking at them while they use the wireless network
    In the UK thats a given with voice http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html
    "searching for voice matches" "... monitor mobile-phone calls. More recently they have been fitted with equipment capable of picking up signals from wi-fi computer networks."

  22. Re:All the better to watch you with, my dear on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 1

    https was until people saw what a carrieriq like layer can do ;)

  23. Re:All the better to watch you with, my dear on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They get your MAC, browsing habits, voice print and face - for free.

  24. Re:Spectacular! on Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief,_INDECT_Work_Package_4,_2009
    "learn relationships between people and organizations through websites and social networks."
    i.e. hunt weblogs, chat sites, news reports, and social networking sites create automatic dossiers on individuals.

  25. Re:the glass is half... on FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    4 years protected a lot of consulting and private sector "retirement" moves.
    You and your family are security cleared, ready to explore the private sector.
    Nobody wants to be the agent or listed as working under the agent who upset with the private sector contractor.