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  1. Re:desalination plants on the coast on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Desalination plants would be the way to do this.
    Energy costs are no problem.
    The cost of the plants would be no issue.

    The only open question would be spare parts and servicing?

  2. Be free to talk about any product, service in real time.
    Talk to a community and suggest moving to better hardware in real time.
    Users can then make a real time selection of better products that are secure.
    Find better brands.

  3. Re:Mobile devices vs full-feldge computers on Should Webmasters Resist Google's Push For AMP Pages? (polemicdigital.com) · · Score: 1

    Not is the network is a going to be a direct network to an ad company.

  4. An ad company is looking to sell and place as many ads as it can. That not "privacy for users"

  5. Re:Well, that's very VERY disappointing... on Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    AC PRISM was working well. That collected everything. Nothing was ever secure from police, mil, gov.

  6. Re:As opposed to on Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "How they did it before?"
    The police worked with people who could do advance "jailbreak" like work as needed on the early big brand phones.

  7. Re:My goodness, what could possible go wrong? on Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    AC recall PRISM. Collect it all.

  8. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Police get the PRISM v 2.0 keys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:Excellent news. on Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The world needs more OS and file system competition.

  10. Re: Can I play Bioforge? on Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    They do have software....
    https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/...

  11. Re:can someone educate me on the need for throttli on AT&T Offers Unlimited Plan Deal For First Responders, But It Can Be Throttled (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What is mentioned in the linked text is a set of "personal use and family plans" for " first responders and their family members".
    Thats very different to "emergency" protected networking all over the USA.
    ie "personal use and family plans" and the mentioned "secondary or retired responders" in some states.

  12. Re:Fossil fuels are subsidized heavily on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Whats "Fully burdened"? The price people have to pay for all the new green energy? The price a nation pays for existing fossil fuels at a lower cost?

  13. GRU often get listed in the US media as some entity that gets its cyber "methods" discovered in real time by the US media. Its the wrong intelligence service to be listing.
    Any actions by the GRU that the US gov knows about would be fully classified for decades and decades.
    No information about what the USA knows about the GRU would be given to the US media in real time if it was true.
    The US would never talk of its methods re GRU in real time to the media.
    The "Armed Forces" part should be a hint that its all fake US domestic party political news. Its not that kind of spy, cyber spy part of the military.

  14. Re:And now we know on The Pentagon is Investing $2 Billion into AI (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Before the AI winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... its springtime for contractors.
    Its an AI party.

  15. City budgets on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Put some city money back into supporting and improving transport.
    Make US transport networks great again.
    Clean up cities. No more crime.

  16. Re:Cherry picking facts on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Fossil fuels make energy when its needed for a low price. Not just when the wind is blowing within set limits.

  17. Re:Will this one lose money too? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    AC re "generate that power in gas plants instead"
    At a lower price saving people real money each utility bill....

  18. NSA, CIA, GCHQ did not worry about anonymous communication.
    Police with lots of cash per investigation at a national level don't worry about anonymous communication anymore.

  19. Re:Who can afford to run a tor exit node ? on Tor Browser Gets a Redesign, Switches To New Firefox Quantum Engine (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Governments.

  20. Re:OP must be joking... on 'I've Seen the Future of Consumer AI, and it Doesn't Have One' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Re "face detection" is not AI. Its a really big and fast database. Filled with faces the police know about and random people walking past CCTV.
    Re "fuzzy logic controllers in washing machines" A set amount of power, water, weight of laundry is not AI. Just good programming within set limits.
    Re "'finding directions" with maps that are created and set.
    Re "recommendation algorithms" that is set by past people buying things and another person showing the same interests. More to do with collecting lots of human data sets than any need for AI.
    OCR for cheques is all about the years of math getting OCR to work.
    Re "thermostats" The human likes a set range of temperatures and their heating cooling system can only be so responsive.
    Re "robot vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers" only have a small area to go around and ensure they don't go back over the same areas again and again. No AI needed for that map.
    Re "medical diagnosis" is full of work done by decades and generations of really skilled humans. Educate humans to the same level in the best teaching hospitals and that quality is not hard to get. Using well educated humans.
    Another AI winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is the result of all the years of AI work. Every generation attempts to do AI and then gets to rediscover the same AI hype insights.

  21. Re:Stupid industry fads on 'I've Seen the Future of Consumer AI, and it Doesn't Have One' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Good for a few workers over the decade of hype.

  22. Re:Why is it "wishful thinking"? on Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "why can't it be competitive in putting the pieces together?"
    Think back to the 1970 and 1980's when the CPU thing needed new production lines and was no longer low yield skilled lab work.
    Non first world nations part pay their workers in food, dormitories. Their introduction to work is free as its part of the nations free "education".
    Tax reductions and industrial export support then further supports the electronics brand in the poor nation.
    No unions. Lots of pollution.

    The big brands moved to very low cost nations and got to import their new product back into the USA. Computer products from the USA for the world of consumers.

  23. Re:But for how long? on Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as the NRO needs hand crafted space CPU products.

  24. Re:So My Solution on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy enough 30% decades old EU content. Hours of 1960-70's EU nation movies. Add in a few new low cost EU crime dramas that don't need as much support.
    Then the EU law makers will start demanding that the content has to be "new" productions to ensure more EU wide employment.
    Streaming services will create the lowest cost soap opera, dramas and EU home renovation reality shows. In different EU nations to spread the new gov enforced work around.
    The EU will then demand a quality of EU nation "culture" has to be included in more shows. No more low price content. The EU will demand art and academic experts support production.
    Finally EU gov workers will sit in on all new EU productions to give culture and quality guidance.

  25. Re:Unintended consequences on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Along as something is created on a EU location, has EU staff, used EU rented equipment and was in a EU nation language.
    Such protective EU laws keep an entire "arts" culture in work and working on EU gov enforced content creation.