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  1. Re:Horray on Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Horray on Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear · · Score: 1

    The CIA will play the long game. China will be messed with in Tibet, along its local trade routes, in Africa and back at home.
    The smarter and more connected China becomes, the more the CIA can infect the next generation.
    Young people in China at the top level study very hard and are kept away from many creative aspects of life. The CIA understands this and can pump in free music, fun books/movies, deep cults, free porn, drugs, a blend of green/freedom/faith based/independence spreading NGO's.
    As for nukes read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marshall_(foreign_policy_strategist). The US has some great new ideas :)

  3. Re:Monopoly? on Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set New App Store's Prices · · Score: 1

    "Competition is a sin." The US is just returning to its roots. Monopolistic behavior and cartels worked very very well for a select few for a long time. Welcome back :)

  4. Re:Hungary, 1946-1989. on Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set New App Store's Prices · · Score: 1

    Makes me think of "The marvellous Magyar microcars"
    http://www.economist.com/node/17722676
    Just as Apple/Stalin/Amazon try a "no cars" via Comecon or "store", Hungary went for the microcar.
    Amazon should learn from this. The more "no" is screamed, books are removed, the more very smart people will enjoy finding a way around the brand and their legal enforcers.
    The fun will start when errors slip past and Amazon has to reach in and remove every copy sold at the wrong price.
    East Germany had to do that for a cartoon in its only satire magazine called Eulenspiegel in 1969. Every post office had to find and log every copy sent out with the local police. Whats the difference now? Amazon will get them all?

  5. Re:Free Market on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    Q: When were the first US telco plans sold?
    A: When God put Broadband2Go in front of Adam and said "Choose yourself a plan"

  6. Re:The pricing is wrong on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    He might have done more math over that hour and the price was for a useful subset of the results?

  7. Re:Why use EC2? on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    "don't want to wait the better part of a week." Trailer park, hotel, holiday .. 20 minutes is great. In a week you might be back home :)

  8. Re:Wonder how safe longer keys are... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the code, finally a use for terminal in OS X :)
    I wonder if it gets logged? Get the main computer and read the logs for much the crypto used?

  9. Re:Wait... on US Twitter Spying May Have Broken EU Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    Following may be a cover for “expert advice or assistance” and also point to "currency or monetary instruments or financial securities" efforts.
    ie a tweet and follower helps a designated group’s PR image, and thereby helps “legitimize” it.

  10. Re:Jeeze, Is it just me or on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    Google tracks you. Apple walls you in via its glp vs App Store DRM vision. MS wants you to use its tools to value/shine via their limited 'home brew' marketing efforts.
    Another deep fear of MS would be the digging down to hardware that was sealed off for value added teclo partners. They get full camera use, you dont.
    Sony will rootkit you, Amazon will reach in and remove your ebooks.
    What is left? A large cash payment for a pure Linux phone?

  11. Re:Come on.... on Tunisian Gov't Spies On Facebook; Does the US? · · Score: 1

    The communists who had a rather amazing spy program, but it did not save them.
    After a while people wake up and just dont care. They understand they are on file, know the person next to them at a protest is an informant.
    They can see the cameras at a funeral of a loved one who died in police custody/prison.
    They turn out to protest, side by side, face the uniforms in public and the plain clothes in the shadows of their doorway.
    Where the US wins at this point is the herd is kept so happy, distracted, poor, rich, safe, dumb ect. that they have no urge to become political.
    But splits are forming. GCHQ kept itself well hidden, out of courts (some spy trials over the decades) and mostly out of books.
    The NSA was very effective and did the same. The change is the NSA is now very public ie with google, the massive new Utah Data Center, the fusion centers in most states. Great PR boondoggle for the NSA or someone wanted a massive new effort for internal issues.

  12. Re:Maybe on Tunisian Gov't Spies On Facebook; Does the US? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird version 2.0 would be their game.
    To shape, fake, twist, bait and id any and all that have exposed their operations in the past or might sway larger groups of people.
    The real skill is to twist or change any statement of past fact or a projected path.
    Also a good place just to watch what gets traction and what was never picked up by the herd.
    In other parts of the world, getting a friend with the security emblem can send a clear and final message. The FBI would be looking for a way in to 'groom' a group for domestic press exposure.
    Anyone into peace/anti war protests would be very fair game.
    As twitter showed, they now seek the ip's, in US courts. The subtly aspect of past direct 'news' forming is now more a chilling 'we can find you' anytime.

  13. "did not deal with other chemicals" on Gulf Bacteria Quickly Digested Spilled Methane · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Almost Soviet in that way.
    If its not measured, it does not exist. Feds can keep most of the tame press away. University funding can be shifted.
    http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/27/5717367-is-dispersant-still-being-sprayed-in-the-gulf
    Long term studies and samples then become lost in the mix of "persistent but unsubstantiated reports".

  14. Re:Just make sure to not talk about Zimbabwe on Some WikiLeaks Contributions To Public Discourse · · Score: 2

    Tibet has chromite, corundum, crystal, copper, volcanic ash, magnesite, sulphur, boron, arsonium, graphite, lithium, cesium, rubidium, crystal graphite, zinc, jade, gold, clean water and large forest reserves.
    That makes it of great interest to be 'free' to 'sell' via the USA $.

  15. Re:Didn't the US start off as the good guys? on Twitter Fights US Court For WikiLeaks Details · · Score: 2

    One would like to say with the news about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip that the US got infected.
    But the good/top families did start in very evil ways.

  16. Re:Ok, some clarification. on Twitter Fights US Court For WikiLeaks Details · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/05/report-pentagon-didnt-fully-investigate-child-porn-allegations/
    "The investigators left 1,700 names on the list unchecked, defense officials have told Grassley."
    They dont waste time looking.
    As for this, welcome to the honeypot. Everybody who wanted to help "freedoms" is now on a list.
    Did the other web 2.0 sites roll over like the CC and online retailers?
    If so, will they go down the lists, name by name?

  17. Re:Gartner's prediction: Q4 2012 on Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Capitalist rest of world you research cheapest sim to swap.
    In Soviet America telcos swap you.
    The USA can still ride the lock in profit on rust belt networks.

  18. Re:Why was voice provisioned? on Thieves in South Africa Hit Traffic Lights For SIM Cards · · Score: 1

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8285406.stm
    "to take the British Hawk fighter jets rather than a much cheaper Italian alternative."
    Why buy a system thats requested when everybody wins with another contact?

  19. Re:Don't worry on Internet Downloading Costs To Rise In Canada · · Score: 1

    Company A or Company B, C both reselling A's network at best effort, more data, less data, faster for $ ect.

  20. Re:Encrypt? on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    You burn the data on a dvd burner you paid cash for, on media you paid cash for posting from a location with no camera.
    The box is opened, reposted by trusted wikileaks people over a 'hop' network x times.
    One copy would get out if customs detected one for been 'burned' media.
    The main downfall would be a dvd burner that was paid for by CC/registered and some unique number got burned with dvd.
    Or it was burned at work ect.

  21. Re:Security and profits? on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrell's_Ice_Cream_Parlour The Birthday Club" data been used to mail warnings to young men to register for the draft before their 18th birthday in the early 1980's.
    The NSA's Room 641A, the dreams and database visions of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office ect.
    Large or small, the US private sector and public sector seem to get on just fine. Why would a new net ID system be any different?

  22. Re:Mountain out of a molehill. on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    "The government would have just raided the place." -
    A public trial rolls back the public perception of whistleblowing protection laws and corrects past misunderstandings about feee speech - very chilling, final and wonderfully legal.
    Raids make people sit up, blogs/sites remember the names, keep details about their final work, foreign accredited journalists and domestic citizen journalists sniff around finding witnesses, details leak again....

  23. Re:Does anyone need more reason to quit social med on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    An unknown, over funded, non IPO (private) internet entity that spreads massive amounts of expensive freedoms and democracy - for profit entrepreneurship at its best.
    The potential targets is spot on. Flush people out by helping their generations "Pentagon papers" via the anonymity of the internet.

  24. Re:Icelandic MP supeanad on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    Yes they had very cool net cutters. Strange how the UK wanted distant oil rights, but Iceland was not going to get the same distant fishing rights :)

  25. Re:Encrypt? on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 2

    They used an air gap via a discreet postal network ect.
    Its one way, you send the data out.
    Their irc had SSL encryption. Once its 'public', chat away.