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  1. Re:..making it difficult for them to travel... on One Tip Enough To Put Name On Terrorist Watch List · · Score: 1

    Less chance of citizen journalists been able to turn up at events or for protest groups to build nation wide.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/charlie-skeltons-bilderberg-files is a fun read at first.

  2. Re:Idiots on FBI Raids Texas ISP For Anonymous DDoS Info · · Score: 1

    You would expect a new fed 'friend' or person the feds caught in the past to slowly befriend the admin/best new useful friend over time. Then work out ip's over a day/weeks when offered/gifted admin pw, raids for all... or long term tracking?
    I guess now its all about the wider chilling message, any IP range used gets a van. They have big trucks too ...

  3. unholy alliance of Microsoft, Apple? on OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Authorities · · Score: 1

    They worked together so well to kill avoiding per-font royalty payments.

  4. Re:Drat on Intel Intros 310 Series Mini SSDs · · Score: 1

    and one day we get light :)

  5. Re:How could battery more green than wire? on South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because offering potential car drivers cheap (per seat), clean transport was hurting growth?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scandal

  6. Re:Drat on Intel Intros 310 Series Mini SSDs · · Score: 1

    Yes SATA 6Gb SSD raid via a good sandforce or better like solution.
    Or pack the pci slots :)

  7. Strange no links to on Wired Responds In Manning Chat Log Controversy · · Score: 1
  8. Re:This is dumb on Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Secret discussions with world leaders? Communications from politicians in radical Muslim countries trying to help us out?
    You really need to read some of the more interesting ones. From trade to Russian crypto, abuses by mercs, Australia sitting politicians having chats with the US, p2p laws in Spain..
    Also the US does offer press protection for this. Many others have leaked and its not the 1930's (US ww1 crypto intercept book) or 1970's (Pentagon papers) anymore.

  9. Re:What class of SUV? on Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City · · Score: 2

    Austria/Germany ect have a long deep love of classical 1970'-80's US sitcom freedoms. The wide open spaces, family, cars, art, politics, frontier fun, hi tech ect as expressed by hollywood. Voiced over and beamed into every city and town every night.
    As for France, the SUV thing could be internal protection for a bump to a new class of French car. You pay cash for your clunkers right to be in the city or pay cash for a new car.

  10. Been going on for years on Can Movies Inspire Kids To Be Future Scientists? · · Score: 1

    "How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message: A Salon special report."
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs
    "President Clinton's drug czar, Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, some of America's most popular shows -- including "ER," "Beverly Hills 90210," "Chicago Hope," "The Drew Carey Show" and "7th Heaven" -- have filled their episodes with anti-drug pitches to cash in on a complex government advertising subsidy."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/movies/04flyb.html?_r=1
    Pentagon's New Goal: Put Science Into Scripts
    From drugs to science to a positive view of military life, its all been emotional blended in for generations.
    If your movie gets too "historical", funding and support can stop.
    ... kid to read up on science and scientific issues .. and drugs and soda ... and wars ... and diet and .. [you got funding?]

  11. The gap between the old and the new on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 2

    The system was set up to track IRA truck bombs. A ton of fertilizer-based explosives, in booby trapped trucks.
    As this now seems a distant memory for some, the push is now on to keep the budgets and mindset.
    GCHQ is doing net tracking and voice prints. The revenue issues of OCR vehicle license plates is also fun.
    CCTV seems to be waiting for something. When the UK gov needs mass face recognition after random net organised riots?
    "Cameraman filmed Hungarian revolt" http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/11/local/me-miko11" Miko was shocked to learn that the Soviets had found and confiscated the footage in his locker and were using it to identify people."
    Any real threat will be one way, as the IRA showed or false flag/state sponsored groups seem to understand their missions will be one way or testing ect.
    Public confidence is low as they have a feel for how this system is going to be upgraded.

  12. Think back on Tron: Legacy — Too Much Imagination Required? · · Score: 1

    In 1982, would most who saw Tron (or a few years after, as it garnered 'cult classic' status) been watching with a friend/parent/loved one who could draw them into the tech 'magic' of computers.
    Todays well educated young people might respond to the movie as the 1980's people would to a toaster doco or car movie ie. known tech
    Thats the problem with remakes, people start to feel a few basic scripts are been rewarmed a few to many times by people with the skills and cash to create.
    As for AI, the real question is when did they just go for really fast sorting and matching ;)
    Early 1980 gave us the AI vision, in 2011 can we have the fast database movie?

  13. Re:Diden't MS sue even have people go to jail for on Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    MS helped the Russia gov legally via "anti-piracy raids" with Windows using NGO's who where critical of the Russian gov.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html?_r=2

  14. Re:Useful idiot defined on Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    Re occupies Georgia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_war
    During the night of 7 to 8 August 2008, Georgia launched a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia.. read up on the use of Grad rocket launchers too.

  15. Re:American on Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    Raw materials are back under state control, pensions are paid and lights are on?
    or "The Kremlin’s Clan Warfare: The Putin Era Ends" http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=13442&IBLOCK_ID=35

  16. Re:Its about control/censorship on Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    The "Windows sources" will save you from zero day USB stick efforts?
    Fooling Russia into running Windows as the consumer/industrial OS is the way in, getting to read the unsafe MS code is just a selling point for bespoke gov projects.

  17. Re:Did the centrifuges break -or the controllers? on Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges At Natanz? · · Score: 1

    But whats too "hot" to a national security issue? France, the UK, the USA, Russia (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak_accident), South Africa ect all worked very fast when rolling out their a bomb production lines.
    Iran seemed to think it could skip a few steps with off the shelf kit.
    All it did was expose MS junk to the outside world and invite bad things in. Dont mix any MS products and national security. You would think after the cryptography issues in that part of the world, their older local computer types would be a bit more aware of hardware and software issues?

  18. Re:Open Office Gave Up "Anonymous" Alex Tapanaris on EFF Offers an Introduction To Traitorware · · Score: 2

    MS had a wonderful bug that would stuff random dumps of your hard drives data into their files.
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q139432/
    "documents created in these programs may contain extraneous data from previously deleted files. This extraneous data is not visible within the document and does not affect your ability to use these programs normally. However, it is possible that legible portions of previously deleted files may be viewable if you examine these document files using Notepad or file-utility software. "
    ie "[Word] ignores the logical end of file and includes the entire contents of the final disk sector in the file."

  19. Re:Paranoia on EFF Offers an Introduction To Traitorware · · Score: 3, Informative

    East Germany gave one good example. A a sixteen year old girl printed protest leaflets in 1968 about the demolition of a church using a toy rail stamp like printer.
    The East German gov flooded the area with agents as the fingerprints where not on file and someone had a printer and was using it.
    Her husband "hung" himself in prison in 1980 ... The toy was also removed from shops.
    http://www.laurahird.com/newreview/stasiland.html
    The paranoia of a gov facing an unknown protester was very real :)
    If your wondering where the stasi people ended up, the US did offer a lot of cash for their best and brightest.

  20. Re:Mostly US backed on The Wrong Way To Weaponize Social Media · · Score: 2

    "Also, I don't quite understand how COMMERCIAL services such as Twitter and Facebook are the new bookends for protecting freedom"
    From NGO ads washing US gov funding, near endless hidden start up funding comes with some strings.
    As the NSA is physically part of your 'private' telco, other areas of the US gov are deep in your 'new' social networks and celebrity backed causes.

  21. Mostly US backed on The Wrong Way To Weaponize Social Media · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the good old days of the cold war, the US would just offer a military clique cash and recognition. After a well backed coup anyone who was an issue was killed by death squads.
    The problem with that was it got very messy and the press seemed to link the CIA, US embassies back to the new juntas.
    With todays 'internet' US gov backed NGO's can fund opposition groups that will rise up and sell out under the banner of 'freedom"
    “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.” should be a hint.
    If you can follow pipelines, China, oil and the CIA front The National Endowment for democracy it all starts to look the same.
    From Tibet (vast mineral wealth), Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, Myanmar, Uygar ect, the soft destabilizations are just a new idea for the great game.

  22. Re:Atlas Shrugged on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    And when the parts are sold up north in Canada by a .. is it still carpetbagger like?

  23. Think back to on Examining Indie Game Pricing · · Score: 1

    Bungie's Pathways into darkness on the Mac. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_into_Darkness
    Nothing "up front pricing", "MS", "Sony", "closed systems" "DRM" ect. is holding people back anymore.
    People have the websites, codebooks, bandwidth, forums, art work, cpu, gpu, ram ect ie start making something wonderful.
    The floppy, boxes, shelf space deals, pressing cd's, magazine reviews, stalls, closed print only game press ... what are todays 'young' developers worried about?
    Find an engine with the right contract (free), code it up (free) art it up (free), add sounds (free/low cost bulk deals), music (free if skilled/a band friend?), spin up a really good press release with a few (many) thousands of US$ to get your brand out.
    As noted "Do a good job, and you can charge [more} and get [some] sales" ... sure the market is mature and more people can "code" a game now .. its not the "expensive tools" anymore, just be more creative.

  24. Re:Thoughts on De Raadt Doubts Alleged Backdoors Made It Into OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    A 1/~250 ratio is not bad at all!
    After Enigma during ww2 and its 'safe' use after ww2, Libyan and Iranian embassy leaks, weakened banking security, telco security ect.the lack of seeking a back door would be strange.
    The one safe hobby OS that the US gov let slip away?

  25. Re:Go Apple! on WikiLeaks App Removed From Apple Store · · Score: 1

    "illegally distributing classified documents" was fixed with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
    Some great quotes on that page too. The US press can publish. The person passing the info also has some legal standing in front of a court as they are exposing 'bad things'.
    All this has moved past the US legal system many years ago and "illegally distributing classified documents" did not get much legal traction.
    Passing info to the Soviets for cash is another matter.
    Telling the world about the night time fun US contractors provide at bases or what Spain or crypto Russia *should* to accept is news worthy and seems to fall under press protection.
    As for Apple, we all know now, just like other US "e" publishers, they will remove, delete, ban, wipe ...