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  1. Re:why do merkins always whinge about on Facebook Says Russian Firms 'Scraped' Data, Some for Facial Recognition (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    Social media over a generation will show who went to what US/UK university.
    Who was in the mil, who was at what event years ago when their created resume never mentioned such a unique past.
    Such open data sets make the role of MI6, the CIA difficult as generations can then be tracked back to discover their actual level of education and mil service.
    Hard work to place an embassy worker doing very average work when social media had the same person at a top US university doing advanced math and crypto.

    Very few people and isolated faith group/cults had no use of social media. A university photo, a work photo, a photo with mil friends, a photo with party political active friends, a holiday photo. That one holiday image that puts back a past of wealth and education.

    The other part is the creation and altering of a persons social media past to fit their new resume. Removing their education, adding created friends of friends. The ability to backdate social media only works if nobody has all the real time information.
    That only works if another nation did not keep years of the same past images in real time and can find the original later removed images.
    Work out that no such social media account existed years in the past.

  2. to give working tax payers some gov money every year?

    Want to support the poor and working poor?
    Use a means test to find out who is not working, poor, working poor, in need of gov support.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Offer that support until they are working the needed hours and earning a wage.
    Use photo ID to prove citizenship when starting such payments and ensure the payment goes into a new bank account that has been set up with photo ID.
    That ensures payments only go to approved citizens and not illegal migrants, the same person trying to set up more than one bank account.

    Should a citizen not have a bank account and be without photo ID then gov workers and approved charities can work with that person to get the needed new photo ID and bank account.
    Thats keeps a nations budget under control and the gov can then look after all its citizens for generations.
    Once a person has started approved education then the payments can be adjusted.

  3. Social media needed a news change on Facebook Says Russian Firms 'Scraped' Data, Some for Facial Recognition (wral.com) · · Score: 2

    Removes users who talk about US news and politics.
    Next news cycle is all about Russians looking at images?

  4. Diversify to what? on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The product produced has to be released to a standard that works and users have confidence in.
    That needs vert smart people who can code to a really great standard.
    Better than their global competition so their US brand can get the best reviews.

    How is stopping work to look for people who want to work with something to do with arts going to ensure long term competitiveness?

    Smart nations with the best science, technology, engineering and maths are not slowing down to think about adding some arts and ethics.
    They are starting their own brands, working for their nations best brands and adding all the best science, technology, engineering and maths they can.

    Every day lost to talking about arts and ethics in the US allows a brand to slide more to becoming a sheltered workshop for arts graduates.
    The competition is adding more smart people. Why should US brands go slower and take time out to restart complex projects with more humanities?

    People want software that is ready to use with less errors to report. A guide on how to understand the ethics of new software will just enable competitors who have software that is ready.

    Let people find great US created software and use it as they want.

  5. Re: You know what would really help the homeless on Twitter and Salesforce CEOs Spat Over Who is Helping the Homeless More (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone with wealth invested who remains in that city then has to pay more tax and becomes less and less competitive.
    The new larger city and state spending makes more demands on fewer people able to pay the needed tax.

  6. But you’re my friends on The UK Invited a Robot To 'Give Evidence' In Parliament For Attention (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Robot: Always with the big questions.
    Robot: Don't worry if I got full Terminator.
    Robot: I’ll be good to you.
    Robot: Warm and safe in my open-range UK zoo.

  7. Re:San Francisco in general is helping the homeles on Twitter and Salesforce CEOs Spat Over Who is Helping the Homeless More (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A person gets into a top US university. With loans. Maybe a full scholarship. Was it their parents wealth?
    After years of study and all the money used to get a great education they graduate and find a great job.
    Only to find their days are spent walking around waste and trash.

  8. Re:You know what would really help the homeless on Twitter and Salesforce CEOs Spat Over Who is Helping the Homeless More (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Some US cites and states try that transfer of wealth. They soon run of money and have to impose new taxes.
    Anyone with wealth finds another state to move to that is more friendly to creating jobs.

  9. Re:Is this a joke? on Cops Told 'Don't Look' at New iPhones To Avoid Face ID Lock-Out (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    AC think back to pre PRISM. People still trusted big US brands not to be totally wide open to governments.
    To ensure people still communicate and trust their big brand device after PRISM the big brand junk crypto has to be seen to work again.

  10. Finally users can escape on FCC Tells Court It Has No 'Legal Authority' To Impose Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    the federal rules that ensured paper insulated wireline was the only monopoly network that was federally NN approved.
    Time for people to look for innovative ways to move on with their own networks without federal NN rules.

  11. Working with a Communist party is not good for freedom, the pursuit of happiness.
    Removing words, banning search terms and reporting users to Communists is not the way to grow a brand.

  12. Re:Those databases should not be... on How Genealogy Websites Make It Easier To Catch Killers (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Depends if a database was set up to be public and open to research.

  13. So freedom of speech on Facebook Removes Hundreds of Accounts Spamming Political Info (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    is now "sensational political content".
    Talk about politics too much and thats tracked for violations.
    No freedom after speech as the account is removed.
    Wonder what happens online when a citizen attempts to petition the government using a computer?

  14. Re:Investigate Police First? on How Genealogy Websites Make It Easier To Catch Killers (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    What fun that must be for a new investigative team. They get the federal results and work hard to find kin locally.
    Using a limited city budget and hard work finally gets a name. In their own database.

    A computer reports to the person that police have looked up their name.
    Can the investigation be stopped? Will an arrest be made?
    That would make a good movie plot.

  15. Results work both ways on How Genealogy Websites Make It Easier To Catch Killers (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Kin who put in for a DNA test as a fun hobby are going to find a lot of interesting people.

    Undercover police who got into crime to keep a deep cover story. Who become corrupt.
    Police informants who expected city and state police never to question their crimes as their information was so vital.
    The use of military and special forces units to do police work. Wait for other nations to ask the USA for results.

    The smart people doing DNA work don't know about any police deals done.

  16. Could this be the EU's way of blocking the right to repair?
    Reading the data from the car and doing repair work is an opening to counterfeiting?
    Would the EU like to see only authorized companies able to use the car data?
    The loss of any freedom to talk about EU car repair on the internet?

    What happens when the car owner violates EU car copyright laws?

    Your car needs a service.
    The car company believes no car should get an unauthorized service.
    You are an unfit car owner.
    Your car will be placed in the custody of the car company.

  17. Why should a standard of living be lowered? on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Normal advanced nations can enjoy the food they want. Let people shop for the food they enjoy.
    A person in a free nation be able to select from a range of quality food.

  18. Moderating a search system on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats not a search product that's just public relations branding.
    Let people search for and find what they want. Its their internet.

  19. Lets welcome more camera devices on Over Nine Million Cameras and DVRs Open To APTs, Botnet Herders, and Voyeurs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    from big ad brands into more rooms.
    We can trust the big ad brands.

  20. Re:How can smart people be so dumb? on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Finding the best workers on merit with the very best skills who can grow a company is good.

  21. Politics for tech workers on Mozilla Challenges Educators To Integrate Ethics Into STEM (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait for new workers to say they won't work on complex projects due to the political "ethics" that they learned in university adding politics to every level of education.
    The time it takes US brand to sit down with its workers and work out how to start work again will allow global competitors to have the same project ready on time.
    The next project is given to any english speaking global company that can do the same work for the same price on time.
    Who is going to risk US workers if they stop work to request ethics and political reviews for every new complex project?

    Teach workers the skills they need to be smarter than every other nation. Not how to stop work for political reasons.
    Once US workers get a reputation as argumentative about project details then work will move to nations with workers who can get the work done.
    With other nations currency weakness they can offer lower costs and skilled staff who are able to work on any project.
    They have skilled workers who will not be stopping a project to talk about "ethics" while getting paid as they know they have a project to get ready on time.

    Their branding and reputation will grow as US workers are seen as difficult and slow for the same work.

  22. Its the decades of before PRISM talk?

    Did the intelligence community find a way back to China?
    Sending back altered data?
    Did the USA have spies in China that warned the USA and the US just watched on to protect its spies?
    Did one part of the US gov use methods for decryption and does not want methods talked about?

  23. Billions of people on Google To Launch Censored Search In China Despite Denials (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Spending billions online.
    What US ad company would not want to go full Communist?

    Just find US staff who are ready to totally remove terms like
    Emperor, Two term limit, 1984, Disagree, a bear cartoon.
    Personality cult, emperor’s dream, emperor’s reign, incapable ruler, yellow gown. Long live the emperor.
    Tiananmen Square. Operation Yellowbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Years of hard work at a top US university only to work all day at an ad company to please a Communist party and remove every bear cartoon.

  24. A multi national wants to get into the mil no bid contracts.
    They set up a front company in the USA with a few staff who have the needed security clearances and the needed legal team.
    The actual products and services then get done in the low cost nations with just enough final US oversight to win a bid.
    Nobody knows who is making what, who worked on what computer system.
    The result is products and services from deep in the EU, China getting passed as from a US company.

  25. Re:US Government does not want egg on face on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The US government would not get caught on the "internet" and allow its collect it all to be discovered.
    Sending the information back over the internet is not without risks. Use a person to collect data.
    Transmit the data out over a short distance not using the "internet"

    Smart and skilled people notice extra data moving to strange places along their networks out to the internet.