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  1. Re:Danger? on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    An illegal migrant would not have the "passport" with the legal ability to stay in the USA AC.
    Thats the "illegal" part in illegal migrant AC.

  2. Invest in a US state on Massachusetts Proposes Public Shaming of Net Neutrality Violators (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Run the risk of getting a good brands telco reputation caught up in the US party politics of "open internet principles"?
    The more a state attempts to regulate and demand an ISP, telco has to do "open internet principles" the more such a state stands out from the rest of the USA.
    Lawyers and experts needed to understand what complex compliance for political "open internet principles" is in that state.
    To ensure full compliance in that state for their unique legal view of what "open internet principles" is in any year.

    Say invested in that state with a new network.

    Would "open internet principles" allow a limited for profit network to be created? Over a wealthy part of a city, gated communities?
    Good parts of a state that could pay back such an investment in a fast new network?

    Would state party politics demand that all the state then get the same new network for "free"?
    Poor communities will never be able to pay back the use of a new network.
    Would "open internet principles" demand a telco build new network in areas of a state that would never make a profit and require constant payments to keep working?
    A telco would be forced in a state under ""open internet principles"" to build a network and support a new network that would never make a profit?
    So everyone in that state got their full equal share of free telco "open internet principles"?

    Who is going to pay for an "open internet principles" design?
    The customers in more wealthy areas and who pay for plans? So consumer can then get "free" "open internet principles" in poor parts of the state?
    To do that would need massive new state gov support payments to ensure the telco can make a profit and support all the poor people getting free telco networks.
    A new "open internet principles" tax to do a state wide network? Internet to nowhere.

  3. Re: Danger? on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes the USA could go full China with a system like that.
    Want a US passport if tax was not paid? No passport will be approved until the tax issue is removed.
    Domestic security to get on a bus, train to move around the USA internally. No "holiday" on that profile.
    No paying for any domestic flights, hotels, rental cars.
    Paying for a long list of products and services not approved by a state and federal government gets blocked and every attempt reported.
    No gambling, no alcohol, no magazines, no books, no holidays, limited internet. A person has an improved "profile" when they are working, doing gov approved study.

  4. Re:Danger? on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    That would be a fun change to government banking regulations.
    Making a baking service to pay a wage into and that every citizen has a right to use.
    Some type of universal "savings" account with a "electronic" card that could accept funds and pay out funds.
    It would not be a loan account.
    Think of something like an Electronic benefit transfer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... from any US bank, connected to photo ID and US citizenship.
    No US citizen would be "ineligible" as the bank would have to register and provide that type of account when asked to do so. The US gov could cover any costs for the very poor citizens.
    After the person is working they could get normal banking services. A citizen who is not working would stay on the bank/gov supported account for as long as needed.

    A wage when working or gov support would just get moved to a persons bank and to their bank card depending on a citizens needs at any time.

  5. Re:Whatever happened to step changes? on Nvidia, Western Digital Turn to Open Source RISC-V Processors (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    For a very short time in history Apple had a CPU that with the correct software and lot of skilled work could do tasks at a good speed.
    The Intel went full fast.

  6. Re:give it a rest on Facebook Finally Discloses Pro-Brexit Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The SJW cant win a vote so they make push to make the results illegal.
    People all over the UK voted to exit the EU.
    The gov of the UK respected that vote and moved to exit the EU.

  7. Re:Forget wall street, it benefits fascists on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    CCTV kept for years has mostly given governments that in most city and mall areas.
    Every face and what they buy. The transport they used.
    People wonder around with a cell phone on while using "cash".
    Known and unknown people do a transaction with cash, both with cell phones on.
    Every method of transport in and out of a city is collected on.
    Moving around the USA to make legal large amount of cash is not going to be as easy as it once was.
    Voice prints fill in the rest.
    Spend too much cash beyond an average wage and its reported. Deposit cash and the gov gets a record.

    The cash movement ability for normal people is already well closed.

  8. Danger? on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    Good parts:
    Your banking, tax and transactions as a business owner are automatic.
    The payment is made for a service, product and the money is ready to use in an account.
    Every citizen has to have a bank account. Show ID to get a bank account.

    The plus side for that is all illegal migrants have to get another layer of new photo ID and interact with banks and who pays them for work.
    Thats a trail that can be used to discover who is not allowed to work in a nation, who is in a nation illegally.

  9. Re:Let Adam Smith decide? on New York City May Cap the Number of Uber, Lyft Vehicles On Its Streets (engadget.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The risk was that a city had to keep going back to the consequences. Police and courts seeing the same problems again.

    Ensure the service has good working equipment.
    The way to measure the amount to pay was set and could not be tampered with.
    Police knew of staff and that staff could be trusted with all the different people who would use the service.
    That the person who was approved to drive knew the city to a good level. Was able to welcome a tourist. Provide a service for any travel distance needed.
    For that level of service and having to accept any distance traveled a city would ensure an approved company was able to be a going concern.
    Safe, a set fee, police aware of any problems. People could then use the service 24/7 in a city with confidence.

  10. Re:Workloads may shift to GPU on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It can be a risk if the CPU, GPU maker suddenly drops support for something in a past generation of hardware that made the math work great.
    How much money, skill and time for software can go to a part of GPU, CPU that can totally change in a year?

  11. Re:Cars are freedom on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Let people in a city enjoy their own pursuit of happiness.
    Not everyone wants to be jut another pedestrians and cyclists.
    People may not want to have to use subway and bus systems.
    For that person it can be car ownership. The USA gives every person in a city that freedom.

  12. Re: Never been a fan of hyperthreading on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then someone is going to have to create some new software. Buy a better computer.

  13. Re:I guess the ole USB trick is passe now... on State Governments Warned of Malware-Laden CD Sent Via Snail Mail From China (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Penetration testers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... did that for years.
    The NGO, charity worker who was "friends" with the boss. With a USB drive to show a short movie of some project.
    Ready for any computer.

  14. Who wants social media on Facebook's 'Downvote' System Begins Rolling Out Wider In US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    to look like their own failed nations internet?
    The internet was fun as it protected and expected US freedoms. Freedom of the press. Freedom of speech. Freedom after speech.
    Remove that and social media becomes any other failed nations "internet". With extra censorship, reporting, bans.

  15. Censorship always fails.
    Any 3rd world nation can report, ban, block, shadow ban, censor.
    Bring back some US free speech and make the internet great again.

  16. Re: Why would google care? on Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From the Play Store (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    AC the CPU is needed for the ads and the mic to be responsive.
    Real customers who paid for ads do not want consumers using their ads CPU power.

  17. Status.
    Personal driving and car ownership in the USA as its fun. People can buy their own car in the USA and enjoy it. No big gov to tax a new car like in the EU.
    Re "desirable places"
    Clean up the city streets. Stop the crime. Return to services that citizens want in a city.

  18. Re:Providing font packages as MSI files? on Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Go full Microsoft Chrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... again.

  19. Re:Policework on Police Are Seeking More Digital Evidence From Tech Companies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    People did not move around as much as they had to have jobs. Move into an area and the city police would know if that new person was a criminal.
    That worked until the 1960's. The police solution rates for crime all other the USA was great.
    The 1960's saw the rise of drug culture and the need to ensure police did not investigate.
    That saw a massive amount of new and very different crime over the decades.
    The FBI also started to really create lists of interesting ways to track crime. That almost became predictive in a small wealthy community.
    Find the person who does to fit and who is planning for a bank robbery. Reports of parking near a bank and watching for hours.
    Entering a bank not as part of a local community as a stranger to that community.
    Police and FBI could quickly move in on such patterns and movements of money at set days to a bank.
    Crime was easy to work on when no issues of police corruption had to be considered. The community in great towns and cities would report as they saw things too.

  20. Re: If TWC/Charter are booted... on New York Threatens To Kick Charter Out of State After Broadband Failures (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Paper insulated. Great for NN internet. The same speed.

  21. Re:More important question: on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    After Ice Lake then? Will the fix just be software for a long time after 2021?

  22. Re:Workloads may shift to GPU on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the software, the code, the limitations of a consumer GPU and the CPU math thats supported for the task.
    A game supporting consumer GPU that needs really great code may not always be the best for a given math task.

  23. Re:Never been a fan of hyperthreading on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy another computer and do the streaming external to the game playing computer.

  24. Re:Never been a fan of hyperthreading on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    When someone pays a really, really smart person to work on the difficult math of video and photography software.
    Do that to some really great software standard with a supportive OS and a new CPU can really offer more.

  25. The great news is police can then stay inures of the USA expected to have crime.
    More police, faster to respond. Less time to escape.

    Politically the GUI will show exactly what parts of a city and state have huge amounts of crime.