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  1. Re:Censorship, and attempting to legislate moralit on UK Politicians Push For FOSTA SESTA-Style Sex Censorship (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "in the United States".
    The UK is trying for new censorship again.
    The UK had a long history with police and what could be sold. What kind of printed and published material could be created and then sold in the UK and imported.
    This time of the internet.

    The USA had a lot more freedom to publish and sell printed material at the time.

  2. AC try the Constitution of California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and its "free speech" rights..

  3. Re: 60 hours? on An AI System For Editing Music in Videos (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    That would be neat. An AI watching both the audience and band wanting to get a contract. The enthusiasm, the reaction of the audience in terms of something new and unexpected.

  4. Re "businesses are not allowed to restrict speech"

    That legal question got asked a few times during the ownership and building of large open spaces in different parts of the USA in past decades.
    A large section of private property open to the public. That allowed people to walk around in.
    Could free speech for faith and politics topics be allowed to exist in such an open location given the free flow of people?
    Courts in some US states did attempt to say yes in some ways, given the free movement of people.
    Later it reverted to a much more clear understanding of private property.

  5. Re:Everyone looking for the next gold rush on E-Waste Mining Could Be Big Business (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    A "free" work force to take everything apart and get it ready. So only the very best parts get metals extracted from them.
    Who can be expected to do a task again and again with the skills to get past plastic and any RF exposure compliance to the parts that make a profit? For free.

  6. Re:Problems in no particular order... on As Student-Loan Debt Soars, Alternatives, Like Income-Share Agreements, Are On the Rise (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The very ability to memorize facts sets that person apart from the rest of the average wider population.
    The given work after university needs the person to learn new skills and keep up with many new changes every year.
    A person who can learn and understand? Can bring some new skill and describe something new if found, that they worked on.
    That they can teach about something new. Take in totally new information, understand it and then teach about it. To staff that can be educated.

    Some needing support for all tasks given in their new job just like they got at university? On a full wage. Needing extra time and support just to do a standard task.
    Another full time job is created to look after staff who cant work alone and has no ability to learn.
    Someone has to create a level of busy work to make sure the worker has a job they can do?
    Then go back and try and find a worker with the actual skills needed. Trying to learn how one job became 3 wages.

  7. Re: 60 hours? on An AI System For Editing Music in Videos (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    To test if some math can show the sale of such new music based on past music sales. On video and while doing music in real time.

    Have a new band play in front of the AI to see if they can make a music video that will sell bas ed on past sales.
    Eye contact, movement, voice, dancing, walking, running, clothing. To smile, not to smile. The lyrics. The energy and skill put into performing.
    The ability to perform to the style that is selling at that point in time.
    The artist who has decades of new sales. Talent for the future sales. No just that year.
    The AI can pick up on all that per frame and with the music.
    A group of humans looking at 100 performances to select a very few to invest in.
    An AI can give a feel for talent, presentation, skill, look, the ability to sell over all the performances.
    No risk in selecting on talent and trying to work with appearance later. To find out that cant be done.
    The group that looks amazing but cant be trusted work live on stage due to a lack of skill. No good to find out later they cant be educated to get the quality.
    An AI can detect all that and give its results every time. Skill, the wanted look for the video and a sound that will sell. Decades of sales on a new sound that could have been missed by humans.

  8. Re:There's an existing method already on The Funky Boat Circling the Planet on Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Gas (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Find a nation with a navy that does real training ship work. ie they have tall ships and expect a crew to learn the skills.
    2. Show them the "automating the process" for sail.
    3. Hire a skilled crew with navy skills for when the "automating the process" needs support.
    4. Enjoy the automated sail and having a great crew.

  9. Removing the US declaration of independence on Facebook Apologizes After Flagging Declaration of Independence As Hate Speech (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    If freedom of speech surrounding US history makes the ban list.
    That must be a massive list of the rest of the internet thats on a never link, never find, never mention, never deep link, never show, repot and ban.
    A SJW created white list that only uses words and terms they approve of, the rest of the internet and US history is banned?

  10. They know on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Popular Websites Add New Features So Sparingly? · · Score: 1

    The versions numbers of OS, web browsers and what is supported.
    They know how many use add ons that will not support other non https networks and block data from another domain.
    That needs a https connection to one trusted domain. Bandwidth costs for a huge site load per view becomes a matter of profit.
    Keep it simple and fast with less data costs that support all computers OS and browsers expected to view the site.

  11. Re:Censorship, and attempting to legislate moralit on UK Politicians Push For FOSTA SESTA-Style Sex Censorship (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It worked in the 1950's.
    What to print a book? Magazine? Like to import a magazine, book?
    Should a government not approve of such material the having of one copy and lots of copies for sale is not legal.

  12. Re:Prostitution is legal in the UK. on UK Politicians Push For FOSTA SESTA-Style Sex Censorship (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Think of the internet in the same way as in the past a book/magazine of ads for services that got printed.
    The service would have to have a contact phone number. The illegal ad would be paid for.
    The ad sold would have a phone number to a service that was not legal.
    Publishing ads for an illegal service and making money from such ads would result in an investigation.

  13. Re:Where then ... on UK Politicians Push For FOSTA SESTA-Style Sex Censorship (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The same way as over the decades. With MI5/6 and the GCHQ in the next room.

  14. Re:Without reading tfa on Valve Shuts Down New Way of Estimating Game Sales On Steam (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    For the SJW tech media that has hyped a SJW game and its potential to sell?

  15. Re:Normal banking while its cybering outside on UK Banks Told To Reveal Tech Meltdown Plans (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    AC the bank gave the person a list of products and services. When the person selected an online online back account they understood that account would only ever work with the needed "internet" part.
    During a time of of cybering why should a bank change its policy? Risk fraud and criminal cash flows under the cover of cybering?
    The government can ask for photo ID, proof of citizenship and hand out free money every day during a cyber event.

    Criminal groups could use failed crypto and criminal bank staff to get money out of a bank under the cover of wide scale cyber events.
    After the cyber event a bank would have to tell online account users someone with the correct crypto at that time collected from all their accounts?

  16. Re:Leukemia on EPA Blocks Warnings on Cancer-Causing Chemical: Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone would see the result of that "more" over generations of testing.
    Peer review and US wide data collection on health would be telling going back decades.
    Advanced nations like the USA do keep looking at averages over generations of health and know what is happening any given decade.
    The US can afford its own epidemiology reports.
    Brain experts, kidney experts, lung experts, heart experts, diabetes experts all look at what happened and report.
    Massive jumps in the numbers resulting in most people in the USA getting something would stand out.
    Both in treatment numbers and the national numbers for that year and decade.
    Peer review would find over and under reporting.

  17. Re:Guess they haven't learned the lesson yet on Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "the same total-cost are equivalent. "
    The competitors can get the same deal on made in China parts and as early in the design stages.
    When profit is not the motive at this time to build brand names quality can be pushed up.
    Unless Apple has its very own lower cost cpu, gpu, wireless and brings in a new lens set?

  18. Re:An alternate proposal is needed on The EU's Controversial Copyright Law Has Been Rejected -- For Now (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    France and Spain also really need to stop the internet cartoons and memes about their national politics.
    The internet has to be controlled and filtered to prevent such uploads.
    VPN detection could offer the account holder to turn off their VPN. Risk the EU social media account they logged into getting banned on detection of VPN use.
    Want to use EU social media in the EU? Not if any VPN is detected.

  19. Re:Normal banking while its cybering outside on UK Banks Told To Reveal Tech Meltdown Plans (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The contingency plan is to look after a set of customers who hold the correct paperwork and account types.
    Crypto will be down during a total cybering so each bank is isolated and can only trust its own paperwork.
    Any attempt to network could result in contacting a fake network that supports fake bank accounts and fake crypto.
    Criminals could use the cybering event to present with fake networked apps and accounts requesting cash.
    A van or truck under police guard arrives with a set amount of cash for a set of a banks own account holders.

    A government could set up a system for people to show they are citizens, their ID and give out a set amount every day.
    That would be for a government to do. Re "data on tape around"? The power supply might not be working. Any central location could have been infected with malware before or as part of a cybering event. All later data added to or trusted from that tape could be used to criminal groups. It could also move malware from bank to bank.

  20. Re:Leukemia on EPA Blocks Warnings on Cancer-Causing Chemical: Report (politico.com) · · Score: 0

    If most Americans got sick in that way, US pathologists and epidemiologist would have book chapters on that.
    Experts from all over the EU would be flying in to study most people in the USA to fill their own publications with study after study.
    Medical work in the USA looking at most Americans would be career making for medical experts globally. Reputations made tracking the formaldehyde from its origins to the lungs of the wider US population and the results. Slide after slide and book chapter after book chapter.
    Charity ships would dock to help with the case load.

  21. Re:The German telco past on German Police Accused of Carrying Out Some Pretty Stupid Raids (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    A German court can create a "court order" for many political reasons that are unique to the West German legal system after the 1950's and now the German legal system. A German court order can be a very political event. German laws are very different as to what is constitutional and how German democracy is to always be protected.

  22. Re:Normal banking while its cybering outside on UK Banks Told To Reveal Tech Meltdown Plans (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if that account type never supported such services. The banks would be open for teller supported accounts from each bank branch.
    During a cybering no network crypto could be trusted to work any electronic network to see if such digital accounts and customers existed.

  23. Re:Normal banking while its cybering outside on UK Banks Told To Reveal Tech Meltdown Plans (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Do you have your full account numbers available in a non-electronic form?"
    A bank statement they got from their bank by post over the years. The card they got with their account. Photo ID.
    That would provide some evidence the correct account exists at the tent outside the bank during sorting.
    The bank would then have its paperwork on file during a cyber event to show the account exists and was created at that bank.
    The person could then ask for a set amount of cash per day from their own account while the cybering lasted.
    Re "The banks cannot manage the volume of paper required any more-- and even if they could, the complexity of banking needs today would make a paper ledger nearly impossible for solving modern banking needs."
    Thats why only accounts created in that bank and for accounts that have teller support need to be allowed in during cybering.
    No networks needed as its cybering. Just the paper files created in that bank.
    A set of supported accounts created at that bank would be printed out and be on file.
    Re 'bill payment and similar types of services"
    The daily cash allowed would be enough to pay for food and other needed items from a shop. Citizens with ID, ATM cards and online banking apps with no way to get more cash would have to line up for the gov to hand out food.

  24. Re:Not sure about the UK on UK Banks Told To Reveal Tech Meltdown Plans (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    See movies like the Road and the movie Mad Max.

  25. Re:Normal banking while its cybering outside on UK Banks Told To Reveal Tech Meltdown Plans (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Big tents can offer solutions to many cyber related problems. With banking and cyber its just the size of the tent near the bank and the number of police needed.