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  1. Re:Wont someone think of on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 2

    See it more as a "own a brand in the USA", "make in China", protect in the US with a "Medical Devices" sticker model.
    Very low manufacturing cost, a cozy cartel market and "Medical Devices" laws keep it all safe.
    Everybody wins.
    http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s785987.htm shows what this cost for medical devices can do:
    "Dr Shetty insists heart care does not have to be as expensive as the World Health Care Organisation and international medical companies make it."
    "If you make an eco-machine which gives the image of the liver, then that machine say costs 10,000 dollars but the same machine, you say it images the heart, it will be sold for 50,000 dollars. Anything to do with the heart, everyone wants a premium. "
    So yes good luck with this, but its interesting to see how and why medical tech is protected.

  2. Wont someone think of on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US shareholders, their trust kids and this very real threat to generational wealth and long term patents.
    They invested wisely in medical tech and have the US market cornered with helpful devices starting at a few thousand $.
    If developing countries want the tech, let them contact USAID and get it the correct way.
    Overtime this tech will be made into low cost products and shipped back into the US - like pharmacy products are now from Canada and Mexico.

  3. Re:How is that possible? on Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns · · Score: 1

    The CIA types at the fusion centres know exactly how small groups can make huge statements - they did they in the 1980's in Eastern Europe - start small and keep stirring.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston_Plan shows some of the past US thinking.
    As for "crime have "ramped up"" thats what aspects of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO worked on - it protesters are not been evil, get people to join and make them be very bad.

  4. Re:Techniques for enabling terrorism on Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets · · Score: 1

    If this is in the open, i.e. people are talking about it, every gov around the world will have or will soon have some rent a box to find this.
    Your simple voip chat will glow in the dark and you will get a nice file opened or added to.

  5. Re:Go with the simple over complex theory on Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns · · Score: 1

    Wait for the Kent state moment or the next gen "Brigadier-General Reginald E.H. Dyer" turning up the Long Range Acoustic Device on a small urban tank.
    The press will be kept a block away, but people do have HD cameras and some footage will always get out.
    Will the option of life in prison via "local" eavesdropping laws really hold to get all the footage?
    Then you have the photogenic, well spoken, upper middle class young person with a few new life long medical issues in open court.... a great legal team and lots of video.

  6. Where is the bottleneck? on Intel and DreamWorks Working On Rendering Animation In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    The number of very expensive US staff needed with the skills to get the "math" or fantasy art right?
    The detail needed to make it 4K and 8K ready needs many new Intel boxes?
    Or is it just a huge set of current product been linked together with some old distributed computing protocol at very new hardware prices?

  7. Re:This just in... on DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    Cash will flow to more profit friendly places. Bring all your http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mitty dreams with you and enjoy your stay.

  8. Re:Do I have to give them my real account? on Aussie Bank Wants To Trade Social Network Data For Better Deals · · Score: 1

    Depends on the Australians behind the bank.
    Alan Bond, Christopher Skase, Nugan Hand, The Dodgy Brothers, BCCI ...

  9. Re:I built an assistive First Post device. on Ask Slashdot: Building an Assistive Reading Device? · · Score: 1

    The people funding the Occupy and Tea party movements really don't want to talk about cuts to the high quality US medical care.
    UK style age based medical care withdrawal is really harmful to a lot of peoples interests in the US.
    Think of the age care specialists, the nursing homes, all the workers, the hospitals warehousing wings.
    A lot of funding flows in to keep "one" person alive and local communities get to enjoy the trickle down funding.
    All that quality infrastructure that could end up like parts of Detroit if easy 'flip the switch' laws are passed.

  10. Re:More Data on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 3
  11. Re:It is no big deal. Simple solution exists. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 2

    http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/U.S.-Government-Confirms-Link-Between-Earthquakes-and-Hydraulic-Fracturing.html
    Seems like the US army knew something was not good back in 1966.
    By 1990 they seemed to understand a bit more “Injection had been discontinued at the site in the previous year once the link between the fluid injection and the earlier series of earthquakes was established.”
    By 2011 more data seems to have made the post Gasland (movie about fracking) US oil industry re think the way they view the US public.
    Question the wisdom of fracking, welcome to the world of "insurgency" and enjoy some psy ops from oil industry staff with a military background.
    http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-09/news/30376767_1_download-cnbc-oil-industry-conference

  12. Re:She said it best herself on Icelandic MP To Challenge US Court Ruling On Twitter Privacy · · Score: 1

    Exactly, drop US servers, US .coms and all this web 2.0 cloud junk for any real political work.
    Host your own network in your own part of the world and set up quality "non commercial" encryption.
    If you need to us US web media, use it only as a passive updated news link to your real site.
    The NSA, .mil and CIA will be all over your site but a US web 2.0 host makes it too easy.

  13. Re:How did things degrade to this level? on Mexican Cartel Beheads Another Blogger · · Score: 2

    Think of more a NSA Room 641A intercept facility operated with a need to track any clean DEA/CIA/FBI contacts.
    You don't get to sell drugs for long without a total understanding of your local and international telco networks.
    You need to know who is calling from within your group, so you NSA it up and sort everything.
    If a $1.5 million IBM AS400 mainframe was used before 2000, what do you think can be done many years later?
    http://cocaine.org/cokecrime/
    So expect that kind of skill at a local level around South America- in use or for rent.

  14. Re:How about for paramedics? on Device Detects Drug Use Via Fingerprints · · Score: 2

    With the TSA on a highway near you, expect to be scanned and enjoy some "behaviour detection". If you dare quote your rights expect to meet the local "Big Bob".
    http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Tennessee_First_State_to_Allow_TSA_Highway_Random_Search_Program_111108
    If a drug dog can walk "around" your car, expect something like this to be tested soon.

  15. Re:I know they got my info somewhere on Judge Rules Twitter Data Fair Game In Wikileaks Investigation · · Score: 1

    Some US states seem to have better prison medical care than others e.g.:
    http://gawker.com/5856346/prisoner-given-aspirin-to-treat-tumors-still-has-tumors-surprisingly

  16. Re:Nice job Feds. Credit when credit is due. on FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation · · Score: 2

    $378.4bn into "dollar accounts" you get a $110m "forfeiture" i.e. 2% of your bank's $12.3bn profit.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
    So strange how different parts of the US gov can find the cash and time to hunt cyber millions but fail to get a court to understand drug billions....

  17. Re:How long on Mapping a World of Human Activity · · Score: 1

    The throbbing bright animated choke points with very very few expensive interconnects between telco thiefdoms.

  18. Re:You wish you were this guy on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    the US of radio beacon (beeper) tech goes way back in US legal history.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Knotts from the early 1980's

  19. Re:Welcome to the world of police intimidation on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that it's exactly the kind of activity that would *encurage*
    The first warnings are at a distance and very passive, then verbal but still friendly, then verbal, then more direct ...

  20. Re:Welcome to the world of police intimidation on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    "convey with their appearance"
    Some agency got a form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roving_wiretap
    http://w2.eff.org/patriot/sunset/206.php
    So any contact with the press would be of interest, noted and acted on in some way.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO showed a historic interest in the press.

  21. Re:Shouldn't Apples count? on In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Re: Apples server market in full colour:
    Thar's BSD in Them That Apples
    http://www.apple.com/server/

  22. Re:Need some help here on Experimental Virtual Graphics Port Support For Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the read me at https://github.com/ihadzic/vcrtcm-doc/blob/master/HOWTO.txt :
    "In a nutshell, a GPU driver can create (almost) arbitrary number of virtual CRTCs and register them with the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) module. These virtual CRTCs can then be attached to devices (real hardware or software modules emulating devices) that are external to the GPU. These external devices become display units for the frame buffer associated with the attached virtual CRTC. It is also possible to attach external devices to real (physical) CRTC and allow the pixels to be displayed on both the video connector of the GPU and the external device."

  23. Re:omg, quick, someone spend money!!! on Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems · · Score: 1

    So some well connected contractor can collect the max amount of ongoing maintenance work over many state systems with the min number of remote security cleared staff.
    As for "security flaws with prison controls" - your paying top $ in state taxes per prison control system for contractors ect.
    You have the right to know where your state tax $ will go and what your getting from your prison system.

  24. Re:The United States of China on One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals · · Score: 1

    Sure at the top end both parties in the US bail out the too big to fail banks with no real questions.
    At the low end its more about the fog of market forces for your average US citizen buying a car, home, education, medical care, pension plan ect.
    So many in the US have to pay for the very costly mistakes of a few "Captain of industry" types and their global games.
    What taxes are still paid in the US as a total by any sector are held up as a net "positive" and the constant use of tax havens never questioned.
    As for China, the 195/60's killed anyone who might question the use of land. The next generation of workers know to do their jobs and know not to speak out.
    The rest is good PR until China has the local tech to fix their farmland. They will not admit to the problem, spend up on very expensive outside tech or slow down.
    The top party officials in China enjoy very safe food, just like the politicians in the US enjoy good healthcare.

  25. Re:CIA=Facebook=Google on The CIA's Social Mining Department · · Score: 1

    As a few have noted, why was this given a troll -1?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird give a clear historical view of the CIA and its interest in shaping any emerging US press/media.