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Comment It is time to stop criminals. (Score 0) 175

by HansKloss (#45421215) Attached to: Italy Investigates Apple For Alleged Tax Fraud

Most of big corporations are infiltrated with criminals wearing executive suits. And I'm tired of excuses, "it's legal because our lobbying arm wrote the legislation and paid the right people to pass it"
Criminal is criminal! No matter how many laws are passed.
We all pay the price when money is constantly siphoned and siphoned to private corporations by governments sitting deeper and deeper in debt.

Comment What to do with U.S. stockpiles of bombs? (Score 1) 634

by HansKloss (#45130087) Attached to: China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World'

Wishful thinking on the part of China. U.S economy is based on military industry well-being. What they suppose to do with warehouses full of weapons?

Notice the constant pressure by administrations to invade country after country to unload those bombs.
Recent Syria events are not helping either, warehouses are overflowing and we can be sure they will find a new target.

Submission + - 802.11ac 'gigabit Wi-Fi' starts to show potential, limits (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Vendor tests and very early 802.11ac customers provide a reality check on "gigabit Wi-Fi" but also confirm much of its promise. Vendors have been testing their 11ac products for months, yielding data that show how 11ac performs and what variables can affect performance. Some of the tests are under ideal laboratory-style conditions; others involve actual or simulated production networks. Among the results: consistent 400M to 800Mbps throughput for 11ac clients in best-case situations, higher throughput as range increases compared to 11n, more clients serviced by each access point, and a boost in performance for existing 11n clients. Wireless LAN vendors are stepping up product introductions, and all of them are coming out with products, among them Aerohive, Aruba Networks, Cisco (including its Meraki cloud-based offering), Meru, Motorola Solutions, Ruckus, Ubiquiti, and Xirrus.

Submission + - US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Claudia Assis writes that the US will end 2013 as the world’s largest producer of petroleum and natural gas, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia with the Energy Information Administration estimating that combined US petroleum and gas production this year will hit 50 quadrillion British thermal units, or 25 million barrels of oil equivalent a day, outproducing Russia by 5 quadrillion Btu. Most of the new oil was coming from the western states. Oil production in Texas has more than doubled since 2010. In North Dakota, it has tripled, and Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah have also shown steep rises in oil production over the same three years, according to EIA data. Tapping shale rock for oil and gas has fueled the US boom, while Russia has struggled to keep up its output. "This is a remarkable turn of events," says Adam Sieminski, head of the US Energy Information Administration. "This is a new era of thinking about market conditions, and opportunities created by these conditions, that you wouldn't in a million years have dreamed about." But even optimists in the US concede that the shale boom's longevity could hinge on commodity prices, government regulations and public support, the last of which could be problematic. A poll last month by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that opposition to increased use of fracking rose to 49% from 38% in the previous six months. "It is not a supply question anymore," says Ken Hersh. "It is about demand and the cost of production. Those are the two drivers."

Submission + - UK Minister: British Cabinet Was Told Nothing About GCHQ/NSA Spying Programmes (theguardian.com) 1

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes: From the Guardian: Cabinet ministers and members of the national security council were told nothing about the existence and scale of the vast data-gathering programmes run by British and American intelligence agencies, a former member of the government has revealed. Chris Huhne, who was in the cabinet for two years until 2012, said ministers were in "utter ignorance" of the two biggest covert operations, Prism and Tempora. The former Liberal Democrat MP admitted he was shocked and mystified by the surveillance capabilities disclosed by the Guardian from files leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. "The revelations put a giant question mark into the middle of our surveillance state," he said. "The state should not feel itself entitled to know, see and memorise everything that the private citizen communicates. The state is our servant." Huhne also questioned whether the Home Office had deliberately misled parliament about the need for the communications data bill when GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping headquarters, already had remarkable and extensive snooping capabilities. He said this lack of information and accountability showed "the supervisory arrangements for our intelligence services need as much updating as their bugging techniques".

Submission + - Radioactive Waste Found Leaving Fracking Wastewater (mintpressnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Well, who would have thought pumping high pressure Fracking water & chemicals deep into the Earth would pour out Radium & other elements creating radioactive wastewater 200 times above normal background radiation? That's exactly what a Duke University study found spewing out of the Pennsylvaniaâ(TM)s Josephine Brine Treatment Facility.

Submission + - All Your Child's Data Are Belong to inBloom 3

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Q. What do you get when Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch put their heads together? A. inBloom (aka SLC), the Gates Foundation-bankrolled and News Corp. subsidiary-implemented collaboration whose stated mission is to "inform and involve each student and teacher with data and tools designed to personalize learning." It's noble enough sounding, but as the NY Times reports, the devil is in the details when it comes to deciding who sees students' academic and behavioral data. inBloom execs maintain their service has been unfairly maligned, saying it is entirely up to school districts or states to decide which details about students to store in the system and with whom to share them. However, a video on inBloom's Web site suggesting what this techno-utopia might look like may give readers of 1984 some pause. In one scene, a teacher with a tablet crouches next to a second-grader evaluating how many words per minute he can read: 55 words read; 43 correctly. Later, she moves to a student named Tyler and selects an e-book 'for at-risk students' for his further reading. The video follows Tyler home, where his mom logs into a parent portal for an update on his status — attendance, 86%; performance, 72% — and taps a button to send the e-book to play on the family TV. And another scene shows a geometry teacher reassigning students’ seating assignments based on their 'character strengths', moving a green-coded female student ('actively participates: 98%') next to a red-and-yellow coded boy ('shows enthusiasm: 67%'). The NYT also mentions a parent's concern that school officials hoping to receive hefty Gates Foundation Grants may not think an agreement with the Gates-backed inBloom completely through.

Comment In Soviet USA (Score 1) 169

by HansKloss (#44978213) Attached to: Did NIST Cripple SHA-3?

Encryption algorithms are created by security forces. Most data in the U.S.A is manipulated to serve government propaganda of success. Just look at unemployment, inflation etc, methods of calculations to see how it changed in the last 20-30 years.

Comment "Legal" what a stupid word. (Score 2) 252

by HansKloss (#44968301) Attached to: Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance

Absolutely right and on topic. "Legal" became very fashionable word for various organized crime rings within governments around the world.

"The law" turned into another business venue which can be stretched to some shady organization or group of people liking. Add media ownership to that mix and any passages from the Constitution are not worth more than toilet paper.

Comment Don't forget foreign trade secrets, technologies, (Score 1) 126

by HansKloss (#44958031) Attached to: NSA Director Wants Threat Data Sharing With Private Sector

And who said they are wasting resources. While at, it let's pick up some foreign patents, technologies, trade secrets, contract bids and anything that destroys overseas companies..
Surprise, surprise. That technology you worked for the last 4 years, has been just patented by some start-up in California.

Thank you Mister! You are a true American patriot.

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