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  1. Once they get the cost of collect it all and voice prints with a nice GUI down to a per year city police software rental price.

  2. Re:Should require a warrant on Microsoft Calls on Congress To Regulate Face Recognition (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The US has powerful federal privacy protections to stop any federal database of people getting collected at a US gov level.
    The way other federal law enforcement agencies work around set of privacy laws that is:

    Perfect the hardware and software to detect faces using federal criminals faces already in the federal criminal databases.
    Tell every US sate and city that the powerful, expensive and new software exists but it has no real time use.
    Provide federal funding to any state interested in any federal state task force for any reason a sate wants.
    The state police then fills their own database in real time with data sets they are working on. CCTV, public/private partnerships, anything allowed at the state level
    At no time did the US federal gov create any working federal database with federal funds that can look over the entire US population.
    All the US gov ever did was contract for/test some new software with a very limited set of federal criminal images.
    Offer the same software support to all states.
    The US Constitution and any 1970-1990's federal database collection privacy laws are fully understood when state police make an ID and arrest :)

  3. Re:Because they have no worthwhile software on Microsoft Calls on Congress To Regulate Face Recognition (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't want other brands getting their ads connected to real people before MS is ready.

  4. How to filter the internet on Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Keep all internet usage for 12 to 24 months.
    2. Create a list of sites a nations internet users are never allowed to use.
    3. Go back over list of sites users looked at for any usage of the sites that are not allowed.
    4. Look for repeated and long term use of sites that are not allowed.
    5. Send plainclothes police to have a shutdown with people who use the sites most often and for a long time.
    6. Detect changes in usage patterns.
    7. People who don't stop using the internet in that way get more police interviews. People connected to them interviewed about their lifestyle.

  5. Re:Controversy Makes Facebook go round! on Facebook Chooses To Demote Fake News Instead of Remove It (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Who wants to read a movie review approved by the actor and studio?
    Comments on a religion approved by a cult, faith?
    News about a nation approved by their junta, monarchy, theocracy?
    News from nations state-run media?

  6. Re:Not sure this is /. material on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Russia.

  7. Re "Even then the lack of any chain of custody calls into question the quality if any evidence found on it."
    The cyber currency will do that part.... ??? Now the world knows how the USA tracks it all.

  8. But the "cyber currency". The internet says so. No need to think about the server and any forensic analysis.

  9. "Russia" used cryptocurrency? Something the USA can follow.
    "Russia used the "internet"? A communications system the USA has some skill with...

    Now the media is told of "how" "Russia" got caught so such skilled US investigative methods cant be used again...

    US police methods never get told to the media in real time. Decades later the USA might declassify something about a project.

  10. Re:Seems meaningless or foolish on Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But then a gov does not get to do virtue signalling.

  11. Re "'more code that's less fantastically wasteful of computing resources."

    But how will the social media company know if the ads get seen in nations with users who are lite on spending ability?
    All that extra code ensures the user has see the ad, the ad was kept secure and the user reaction to the ad was tracked.
    All that computing is now needed to track users and the ads.

  12. Re:What will they invent next?? on Apple Partnered With Blackmagic On An External GPU For MacBooks (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Its like the days of the Radio Shack Expansion Interface for the Radio Shack TRS80.
    A new box next to the new computer to do more computer things with.

  13. Re:Why would you try to game on a Mac? on Apple Partnered With Blackmagic On An External GPU For MacBooks (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So the creative music and graphics people can get a feel for parts of the new game as its getting made on their own Macs.
    When all ready the resulting game will be great on Windows 10 with any good consumer GPU.

  14. Re:iPad before Linux. on Adobe To Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When a free OS can use RAM, GPU and CPU in very advanced ways and give all computing power to an application.
    ie the computing power to secure renting the software.

  15. Re:How usable can it be? on Adobe To Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The artist with the correct tactile fingertips guides the software into placing the masks. The really advanced software also places the mask in the best position once prompted by a set of fingers over a part of the image.

  16. Re:Smells like BS on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of a spy for China in the US, UK looking over the mil contractors who are getting ready for action against China.
    The NSA and GCHQ will be tracking all traditional communications methods a spy could use to get large amounts of information back to China.
    Huge real time datasets surrounding readiness and disposition of US, UK locations and changed contractor movements.

    The main interest to China is the location of all translators the UK can trust in any generation that can be contacted for UK/GCHQ mil work.
    Its a set list and both the UK and China know machine translation is not what is needed.

    The "radar" is the spy network China has in place in the UK, USA deep in the contractor/translator sector.
    The "quantum" part is the new secure message system that gets past the NSA, GCHQ back to China giving them the needed early warning.
    That the GCHQ has called up all its translators needed to work on all communications to use on information from China.

    China studied the US and UK methods during the Koran war. How the UK had the mil translators ready for any new languages.
    China and Korea was not a new problem for the UK as they had a global collection/translation network.
    How the USA had to learn Korean and how to understand more than Russian, German and French.

    Quantum will protect China as a way to get spy mil information back to China in time.

  17. Re:Relevancy on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Why would China brag about this new advanced technology, telling the world that a "quantum radar" is indeed possible?'"

    So that every CIA and MI6 spy in China starts asking questions, looking terms up on their gov/mil computer system.
    US and UK "tourists", "teachers", "social media" video makers and "embassy" staff wondering around China change their routine to contact spies deep in China for new information on "quantum".
    The spies start to show in the bait they take and in what they ask about.

  18. Re:conditioning on The FCC Is Changing Up the Country's Emergency Alert System (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "to do a lot more testing which is designed to look like a real alarm?'
    Parts of the world have testing done often. eg city tornado sirens.

  19. may or may get something digital in Germany.
    Online internet banking go the same way?

  20. Re:Confused about the ruling on TSA Screeners Win Immunity From Abuse Claims, Court Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The US courts have seen many people try and say they have all kinds of rights when getting searched.
    A full court warrant to look in any bag, their lawyer, the right to say no to any search.
    US courts have considered all that over many decades of attempts to change the results of what was found during a search.

    Given the numbers of people to search, the time per search and the location of an airport US courts have sided with allowing searches and the search results are legal.
    The idea that a flight could be held back so a court can fax a warrant, a lawyer can be contacted, a lawyer can drive to an airport, the search can take place.
    Per item searched per passenger searched. Transport in the USA would be held back hours per passage per flight. Waiting for courts and a lawyer per passenger.
    US courts fully understand what the time, rights and legal use of a search is at an airport.

  21. Re:Don't fly on TSA Screeners Win Immunity From Abuse Claims, Court Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Dont worry the US has Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team (VIPR, or VIPER) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    to consider when using other methods of transport all around the USA.

  22. You are on Apple Says New MacBook Pro Keyboard Won't Fix Sticky Key Issue (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    pressing the keys the wrong way.

  23. Re:Why does Ireland have a "National Investment Fu on Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So Ireland can invest in complex things that will allow Ireland to grow.
    Projects and services that span any one government party term and that private investment could see as a short term risk.
    Like the US has considered for its use of Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle, or GARVEE, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but for more projects.

  24. Re "schemes to encourage"
    How about just letting smart people find their own pursuit of happiness.
    Pass their exams on merit and have the freedom to find profession they want to do.

  25. Re "information can be gained from seeing what they are looking for."
    The US networks are so fast, so open, not encrypted.
    The only way to get caught is to stop and type in a set of terms, questions, project names.
    The massive movement of data from and to a contractor is not see as something thats not "normal" as the entire network is thought to be secure by design.
    That only cleared people and projects could ever be on an internet connected mil/gov network with no encryption.
    Entering strange names and terms to search with is quickly detected. Thats the human side of security the USA spend big on.
    The US networks are set to find spies looking into projects they have no clearances for not stopping approved contractors moving any data for projects.
    Anyone in the network is an approved contractor by default.