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Comment Re:This reads like fake news (Score 2) 21

If something like this event was indeed false reputable sites would not be mentioning it.

Looks like we've got massive vote moderation manipulation on Slashdot again. I guess inevitable when someone mentions "Iran" since they have an online propaganda operation almost as big as Russia and China do. All the sane takes downvoted. Just simply wrong (as maladroit mentions) takes upvoted because they make people feel uncertain.

Comment Re:Kremlin surveillance (Score 1) 32

No, I mean like "the UI is at IP a.b.c.d and the password is 'password', now integrate it to the monitoring dashboard". Following which the whole history of each camera would be available on demand wherever the management system is.

Which is the opposite of a weird backdoor involving sending text messages from a specific dedicated list of phones.

Comment This reads like fake news (Score 4, Interesting) 21

This seems to be propaganda : There's absolutely no independent source, this seems to originate from some gossip by an official in UK's government, sourcing it to the NCSC (a branch of GCHQ), who in turn declined to comment.
The Telegraph heavily uses "it is understood that..." which hints that they were giving very vague information that they're in no way able to confirm.
Also, about Slashdot's summary: there's no more details from the BBC, they're basically pointing to The Telegraph's article.

Comment Re:Kremlin surveillance (Score 2) 32

Hmm. Probably originally implemented to enable Kremlin surveillance of Russians (in Russia), but there was no reason to remove the surveillance back door for the export version/

The Kremlin would just get the installers to give them the direct access. No need with getting special complex software features written. Also, historically their crypto stuff has not been bad and has been paranoid so this is unlikely to be official. This is either done by private people associated with the company or, more likely, done by Russia with the speculative hope that they get installed somewhere interesting abroad. Likely there are hundreds of these cameras in countries all over the world and if they can do number plate recognition or be fed into a system which can then they can be used to track dissidents and so on.

Comment Re:Wrong conclusion. (Score 1) 46

There doesn't seem to be as much money in green energy than there is in, lets say, oil.

It's a bit more specific. The money in oil goes to a specific group of, typically quite corrupt (because it involves land purchase and government permits) businessmen. There is less money in renewables (which is why they are cheaper for the consumer) however the money goes either to sophisticated engineering such as turbine and solar panel production or to the local owners of the solar systems.

That means that where oil tends to damage the local economy (look at very oil rich countries, like Venezuela and Nigeria - exception being Norrway), renewable generation can be very much a positive.

Comment Re:Years and years (Score 1) 18

I have a mug from a conference Startpage sponsored about a decade ago.

It's been in my Firefox at least since then. Did I add it manually?

I am actually surprised this is new!

I guess Mozilla was being paid to not do this? Ages ago we had Altavista, Excite, Yahoo, and even Google as options. I really had no idea how deep the anticompetitive tying had become.

BTW, if you want to search for anything counterculture Yandex Search will have it on the first page while the Western engines will gaslight you into believing you misremembered something.

Even 20 pages deep.

Comment Rural Electrification (Score 2) 150

We seem to be in a parallel to Rural Electrification now.

If someone lives five miles from the nearest connection, currently on 100A AC and POTS, is the limited budget better spent on running five miles of fiber or dropping off a satellite terminal?

They'll be going from either 3Mbps DSL to 300Mbps satellite or 800Mbps fiber.

If we had unlimited money I'd say fiber almost everywhere. But that isn't realistic.

The flip side is some of these rulings which ought to be applied to edge cases may well be applied to areas where FTTH is entirely reasonable and achievable.

Government almost always sucks at applying broad rules without subtlety at both the median and the far sigmas.

I live in an area where welfare broadband is offered for about $15/mo for about 60Mbps. Frankly I could live with that almost all the time. I do download some massive datasets every few months but my smoothed average is probably 2% of my max.

But those welfare programs exist because society has decided that some Internet is required for participation so there is some responsibility to provide.

The bigger risk is probably dual-use dangers. Ukraine has been using Starlink for terrorist attacks and while Musk has said he cut them off the Russian FM has warned that Russia will take out the Starlink constellation if it continues because apparently it is.

So we don't run fiber and then Starlink goes away, and then what?

There are also ice storms, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, etc. that can take out landines for months so having a few satellite terminals in an area would be more antifragile.

FCC is seemingly treating this as simple when it's complex.

Comment Re:Once again (Score 1) 52

You aren't exchanging keys, you are generating fresh ones. The information you exchange is the entangled state, but even if it's intercepted it's not an actual bitstream so Eve gets nothing. The entangled state is then distributed at less than light speed. Now you come to use the state and "generate" the key. At this point the two different entangled particles both give you the same number instantly depending how you measure them, but there's nothing traveling in between so nothing to intercept.

Comment Re:Its eggs the of 90s (Score 0) 47

For individuals there really is only one reasonable course here. Ignore the sensational studies and news.

Man, if you're getting your science information from news stories, the problem is you.

Man we live in a world where phantomfive does not even read the sentences he is quoting. Maybe the problem is YOU and maybe it is a symptom of to much screen time.

Comment Its eggs the of 90s (Score 1) 47

Screen time is killing our kids, no wait screen time is making our kids smarter than ever, maybe screen time does not really matter, omg screen time is killing our kids...

For individuals there really is only one reasonable course here. Ignore the sensational studies and news. Make sure you kids get some play with things that are not screens. Make sure not all the screen time is 'games' and at least some of it cognitive activities even if it is writing little text games in python/ruby/perl/etc that AI could crap out in seconds, letting them think work and solve a problem matters.

wait 20 years for the science to catch up as it has on cholesterol and saturated fats; tell yourself you did your best and let your kids know to not mess up your grand kids they way you did them.

Comment Re:Isn't capitalism supposed to fix this? (Score 1, Troll) 79

> We have a massive shortage why is nobody stepping up to make more supply?

Look up some stuff instead of just commie ranting.

Apple is testing supply from an up-and-coming DRAM supplier in China. Hynix is working on converting old fabs into a smaller process to create more fast RAM. TSMC is building a fab in Arizona. Samsung is opening a fab in Texas next year.

> the big three can anytime they want drastically increase production within 6 months to a year

Tell me you've never been to a fab without telling me you've never been to a fab.

If they could double their capacity Altman would buy *that* too. At least presume that the greedy capitalists are greedy.

> Capitalism needs a referee and US dumbasses fired the ref.

How, precisely, did they accomplish this coup in China?

Also, why not move to China, Cuba, or North Korea? They have varying degrees of central planning that should take care of your needs. Nobody wants you to be unhappy.

Comment Re:What a benefit! (Score 1) 53

Reenlisting is tougher since you already got your GI Bill and VA Benefits and such.

On a recent talk show a military guy was saying that DoD was instrumental in nationalizing the student loans under Obama.

They knew infinite money for school would jack up the price of school for everybody but unaffordable college is what drives people to the GI Bill and their recruiting was dragging ass after the last time a President lied us into war in the Middle East over made-up claims of weapons of mass destruction (and then promised to leave Iraq and close Gitmo).

Say what you want about TikTok but the kids all know about the scam now. They didn't even bother trying to convince the country this time.

Have we had a story here about the record-short procurement process last month for the new Draft management software?

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