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  1. The FBI sets a utility pole surveillance camera. https://arstechnica.com/tech-p... (6/16/2016)
    Now another team looks in with wifi to map out the location from the outside in.

  2. The "free" OS that has to be kept away from all open mics and webcams.

  3. Re:Safety? on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    AC its passive.

  4. Re:Would this hold up in court? on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    AC the need to pass scanning will be presented well ahead of entering so the "they're commonly advertised ahead of time." is covered.

  5. Re:Looks like a portable device... on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The "money to staff" will be found as security money is always great for contractors, over time, new support contracts. All the needed scanners. Keeping the scanners working. New software. The CCTV around the scanners to get gait, face. Any cell phone on the person?
    A GUI and network to track a person all over a city.

  6. Acoustic coupler on Slashdot Asks: Did You Have a Shared Family Computer Growing Up? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    With a message from the UK, one word at a time slowly displaying on a CRT.

  7. AC many still had to use ramps for many years.

  8. Re:Would this hold up in court? on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That is the idea of why its been set that way and everyone is scanned. Random stops of people who are criminals are difficult to present as "random".
    The need for some type of reasonable and articulable suspicion is removed when everyone is scanned.
    Scan everyone and that later legal question is stopped. Its not the police selecting any random person. Everyone gets a scan thats equal before the law.

  9. The detection can uncover fraud, fake ID use by one person, illegal migrants, criminals using a new ID, shared ID.
    People who expected decades of federal and state "privacy" laws to never connect different state and federal databases and discover the created ID was fake.

  10. Re:Looks like a portable device... on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What was the Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... work will now be part of entering any part of a transport network.
    Less of the past "random" and more a part of using transport.

  11. Re:Another reason to love telecommuting on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Images of the front and back of every type of transport are kept.
    Driver and passenger faces are kept as they enter a city and on the drive back after work.
    All cell phone network use is detected and collected too.
    Face, method transport and details on the type of in use communication.
    Lots of CCTV in all city areas then fills in the gait and face. Daily movements to work and what is done while working in the city.
    Domain Awareness System https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    History from the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re:Would this hold up in court? on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The sign that tells people that if they keep walking into a 'station" that they will be scanned?
    The person can then select not to go further. Not to get scanned by not using the service.

  13. People still have the freedom to read a newspaper review, watch a movie review on TV, the internet.
    The only review that will be allowed on social media will be the positive once approve by the studio and the actors.
    Write the "wrong" review on social media and expect a ban, shadow ban? Reported?

  14. Re: "Whatever the Navy ends up doing..... on It'll Cost $1 Billion To Dismantle America's Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "it's not like there's a new material to make the structure out of."
    Most advance nations found out with decades of science and testing that their metals around the reactor don't last all that long.

  15. Enjoying too much freedom again? on Reddit Blocked In China (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Tibet?
    Taiwan?
    A cartoon about a talking bear?
    Tiananmen square?
    Bureaucratic profiteering?
    June 4?

    Enjoying that internet sovereignty on social media?

  16. Re:Have these researchers actually written code? on Researchers Use Machine-Learning Techniques To De-Anonymize Coders (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Its everything around the copy/paste parts that will stand out.
    Comments, style, format, something a university always suggested. . . .
    Even date, font, slang, US vs UK spelling. Useful comments, comments that are always off topic? Unique use of terms to invoke faith, spellings?
    Someone who worked on NSA, GCHQ, mil/contractor code and always has to keep their comments to a set bureaucratic style? Something that feels like billable hours?

  17. Re:Why bother? on Should Online Courses Film Students Taking Tests? (mypalmbeachpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem then is that such people stay in the education system and might get a "pass" by having other people sit their exams.

  18. Re:Why bother? on Should Online Courses Film Students Taking Tests? (mypalmbeachpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Ensuring the person taking the exam is the person on the student ID is a great start to ensuring exams are passed on merit again.

  19. Re: Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If that "permanent resident status" was only ever granted legally as protection from another nation?
    Thats why nations are so interested in people who claim legally they need full protection but then go on long holidays in the nation they claim to need protection from.
    That new citizenship might not last very long when person is found to have not told their new nation the truth when getting "lawful" new "citizenship".
    New facial recognition is going to make such holiday result in legal questions on return.

  20. Re:Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The other really great part is to count every person in and out and see if they over stayed their visa.
    The USA will finally be able to reconcile its visa use. Every legally allowed person into the USA. Every person returning to their own nation within the time of their visa :)
    The administrative side is a positive.
    The USA now has a way of knowing on the day when a person is over staying.
    The "vulnerable" will get the full support of their own nations embassy... just as they had over many decades of travel.

  21. Re:Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    People put in the needed documents that show their own nation is such a risk that they need the fully protection of another nation.
    A year later they take a few months holiday in the same nation they claimed to need full protection from...
    Thats why facial recognition will allow governments to uncover people who do not need that kind of protection.
    Documents requesting full protection will match the face of a person going back to the same nation.

  22. Re:Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Getting a "tourists" visa is not a right AC.

  23. Re:Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    People have done that ship, jet, car, international travel for many, many decades.
    Get a passport.
    Apply to the nation and wait for an approved visa.
    Wait for that other nation to consider the visa request.
    With the correct reason for travel eg work, study, a holiday, an extended visit.
    Wait for approval from that nation and get the passport ready.
    Enjoy the visit. When things go wrong, try the embassy.

  24. Re: Wait for the US wide database sharing on Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    When its "Ok" to go back to a nation for months on holiday that legal definition of needing international protection is over.

  25. Long term nuclear use and average metals don't mix. After a while that metal starts to get strange in wonderful ways.