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  1. Communist China? on Google Seeks To Grant $25 Million To AI For 'Good' Projects (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that a "good" project?

  2. with the big US brands that allowed PRISM deep in their own networks?

  3. Re:That new wage is going to have to be on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    As owners they took all the risk to set up a small business and had to keep making a profit. Having to attract people who anted their services and keep them returning.
    Now they get to enjoy a house, a SUV, vacations after all that hard work AC.
    They can find great education for the next generation.
    To live in a nice part of a city free of crime and trash.
    No tent cities, no trash on the streets.
    They put in the work, long hours and now get to enjoy a really great lifestyle.

  4. Re:Thinking is hard. Future is discounted. on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "This is two additional pizza per week!"
    People may not want that kind of extra pizza spending. The people who once spend money on pizza may want to try other food, eat at home.
    Their wage may go to a holiday, savings, a hobby, repairs, lifestyle.
    Now the "pizza" shop is stuck with the gov wage demands to cover and the same number of pizza to make and sell.
    The local wage pressure of the workers who deliver all the flour, meat, dairy products. So daily costs go up as part of pizza costs.
    The "pizza" shop faces competition from all the other online food sites locally.
    Less profit per pizza. Less savings long term. Less investment in new equipment. Cant hire new staff due to the new wage demands.
    The hours to set up the pizza making are the same. The hours to clean up are the same. But now new wages add a new pressure on the daily prices of a pizza shop.
    All the customers do not have to eat more pizza. They have the freedom to do other things.

  5. The smaller owners don't have the ability to cover new wages for no result.
    That not money for improvements. Thats not spending for growth.
    A new tax imposed to pay the same workers for the same job.
    Money that cant be made back as the worker gets the money.
    Gone is the ability to grow. No more saving for equipment, new products, new services.
    Any money is now lost to a wage for the same productive level.

  6. That new wage is going to have to be on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    taken from existing profits so that business expansion plans get reduced.
    Taken from needed equipment upgrades. So any competitive advantage is lost.

    What does the business get for that finding money to pay for new wage spending? The same quality of worker.

    The way out of that is to move to a much better city and state that allows a business to grow rather than be wage taxed.

  7. Good Communists with the needed standing under the Social Credit System are allowed to enjoy the different cryptocurrency services.
    Just like they can "own" property, get a "passport", live in a city, travel domestically.
    When they want real money out of a cyber currency they can attempt to do that government approved transaction inside China. No trying to move "money" out of the country.
    No using another nation to hide cash wealth created from a cryptocurrency.

  8. Re:"tasteful, snappy, polished tools"? on Microsoft Closes Its $7.5 Billion Purchase of GitHub (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The tasteful part is a new code of conduct. The code has to be ethical and all comments approved.
    All code use and has comments will have to reflect well on the M$ brand and its party political policy direction.

  9. Re:And we can only hope they drop it on Google's Smart City Dream Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Get the networks done by an IPS not an ad company would be a good start for privacy.

  10. Re:You can do all the Meme's and politics you want on Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Hows that feeling of US and UK government officials, US law enforcement, a think tank and social media censorship looking?
    Enjoying having a think tank, law enforcement and social media staff define what a funny meme is and if people will be allowed to get the joke?
    A government party political test for what art is and will art will be allowed to be?

    Is random funny political art not as funny if the internet don't know the "source"?

    Why should governments, law enforcement, party political social media and a think tank get to set what is funny, political, a meme online?
    Should that not be for the users and the people making the content to enjoy and share, link and finally get to LOL at?

    Do we need government officials and a think tank to decide if something is funny in the free West?

  11. Re:Embrace, check on Microsoft Closes Its $7.5 Billion Purchase of GitHub (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    A new code of conduct will do the rest.
    No comments in any code that are not M$ approved.

  12. Meet new boss. on Microsoft Closes Its $7.5 Billion Purchase of GitHub (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia government extracts all intellectual property from you.

    In Capitalist West M$ becomes partner to intellectual property created by you.

  13. New innovative network design on California Delays Net Neutrality Law's Enforcement Until After Court Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    No staying with federal and state laws protecting existing paper insulated wireline monopoly networks as they are NN ready for all?
    Innovative new networks that will have a freedom to connect without having to ask for a gov to define speed and who in a community will be getting connected.

    Why go back to federal and state rules setting demands on what a new network can and must do?

  14. An ad company on Google's Smart City Dream Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    is always going to let the needs of the paying ad brands be the only consideration.

  15. Re:universal standard? on Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    AC re "Will the same standard of scrutiny and censorship"

    How to detect artists and rate their level of political content:

    A select group of US and UK government officials will decide on the exact level of domestic political comedy.
    US law enforcement has it own experts to prove if a meme has international political content.
    A think tank also has top experts to consider the level of comedy and political funniness.
    Big US social media brands will then take the gov and think tank findings and report all accounts and users trying to be funny in the same way.

    All such accounts will then be banned.
    Too much skill with funny political art shows the hidden work of an anthropologist and an advanced medical study of the US and UK population.
    A political meme that is not funny enough shows the low levels of freedom and creativity found in other nations.
    Any art work that is found to be funny and creative shows a long term domestic support group of artists in the USA. Getting international funding to support decades of artistic study within the USA.
    Cells of artistic spies in the USA getting funding from other governments over decades to study the history of US animation cels.
    Who then ramp up the domestic production of funny political art. US and UK government officials cant view too much meme magic or their party political views change.

  16. Social media is now curated on Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    With inauthentic behavior found and someone sure they are really detecting an effort to spread discord.
    What is next?
    No memes at all because of domestic political considerations? No blasphemy because ads? No funny art work? No links to funny political art work sites?

    No freedom of speech online to enjoy funny political art due to investigation and the demands of US and UK government officials?

  17. Free ad for university on 190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses · · Score: 1

    Look at the quality lecture hall.
    Enjoy our most fun, charming and photogenic academics.
    Take out a loan and enrol.

  18. Re: This is already feasible with 4G, right? on With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 AC.
    How many people are in the room, what are they saying during the ads.
    The they become more responsive to an ad with a celebrity?.
    Changes in face, eyes, attention.
    That needs real time uploading so brands can see what their ads are doing to the minds of the consumers.

  19. Remove DRM? on Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Different part of the US gov finds that to be counterfeiting!
    Won't someone think of the brand!

  20. Re:The New York Times is not a credible news sourc on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "evidence contradicting the story's evidence"
    The budget of the NSA every year? When not spying domestically and globally they should be keeping US gov communications very secure.

  21. An ad company wants to on Google Is Teaching Children How To Act Online. Is It the Best Role Model? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    get into education?
    To spread its own domestic party political politics? For the ads?

  22. The good kind of gov/mil surveillance that should never be mentioned?

  23. Facial-recognition technology on ACLU Demands DHS Disclose Its Use of Facial-Recognition Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Will be great to find illegal migrants who thought they could stay hidden.
    People with fake ID.
    People sharing ID.
    Illegal migrants trying to get the gov tax payers to pay for their full education using fake ID.
    A person supporting banned groups in other nations trying to get in and out of the USA.
    People with a criminal biography trying to use a fake ID to hide their criminal past.
    Criminals, illegal migrants and people who should not be in the USA long term accessing city/state and federal services.
    Illegal migrants using one type of state issued photo ID to create other US ID.
    Criminals moving around the USA.
    Criminals from other nations who thought they could buy a total new ID in one part of the USA and be safe for decades.
    People setting up a tent city. Living long term in a RV on a city street.
    People attempting to use fake ID to get many more city/state/federal support services under different names.
    Illegal migrants trying to get more city/state/federal support services using fake ID all over the USA.
    People working in the USA who did not apply for a work visa.
    Criminals using payments and cash under different names all over the USA.
    Illegal migrants and criminals trying to access the US banking system in new ways under different ID.

  24. The internet is not a EU/China political project on Facebook's Ex Security Boss: Asking Big Tech To Police Hate Speech is 'a Dangerous Path' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would US big tech please return to US 1st Amendment freedoms and stop trying to curate the internet to conform with the internal politics of EU and Communist China.

    Return to allowing the US freedom to have an open press able to report and publish.
    For people to be able to comment and link.
    Let people online comment on political news as part of using their own social media account.
    They are posting links they found interesting. Adding comments, art, cartoons. Its their own creativity and content. Something social media invited users to do as an open platform to connect users and sell ads.
    The freedom to assembly online and petition government policy.
    The freedom to speak and not be banned after speech due to political comments.
    Its the users who are doing the publishing, its their own words, thoughts and political content. Users who spent years posting their ideas, creative art and comments.
    Their comments on politics, bad movie scripts, history, art, culture, news, international events. Something people in the USA have the freedom to do.

    When social media becomes a full time "publisher" then it can set its own domestic party political and internal publishing standards for its own staff.

    Your users are not your workers, they not your staff. They do not have to follow the bands set domestic party political agenda.
    They have a right to comment, link, create, post, question, be political on any topic they want. Users got invited onto open social media for their content.

  25. How to do good computer projects on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    Create a web site and forum and have clear project set out.
    Some sort of chat app for support.
    Write a lot of quality code.
    Tell the world about the project and the skills used in interviews and reviews.
    Get up at 2 am to do live interviews if the timezones are different.
    Find a translator to help spread the message in other languages.
    Be ready for non computer questions and challenging technical questions in the same interviews.
    Invite in people of skill who have a past in really great computer work.
    Keep growing the project. Doing interviews.
    Always read than then respond to every security related report quickly giving the person who reported the problem an outline of how their report will be worked on.
    A timeline and the complexity of the problem can be set out. Keep them updated as the problem is worked on.
    Thank them for their security related report.
    A good project needs the best code and great people who can keep their code secure and updated.