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    6G standard can turn into marketing fluff
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    Mordor: Video cameras will be merged into one system
    • Russia can create a "National Video Surveillance Platform", writes "Kommersant" with reference to a source in the government. The article says that all smart cameras operating in the cities of the country will be combined into a single circuit of the video surveillance system.

      It is planned to spend 250 billion rubles for the development of the platform and installation of cameras over five years. Earlier, the topic was discussed at a meeting of the interdepartmental commission on the implementation and development of the hardware and software complex of technical means "Safe City". It includes the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the FSB. The Ministry of Industry and Trade said that the initiative "comes from the industry."

      It is noted that the creation of the "National Video Surveillance Platform" will use the Moscow experience, but with a different approach. So, now city video surveillance systems send video in a continuous stream to the Data Processing Center (DPC). The cameras, which will work in a single circuit, are planned to be equipped with computing modules, they will independently recognize suspicious situations, including crimes, and only after that send the video stream to the data center.

      Cameras with built-in analytics and recording capabilities are already actively used in retail and industry, the article says. They will gradually replace the cheaper ones.

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    Australia: Anti Cat measured backfired
    • In July 2015, feral cats were officially recognized by the Australian government as a "pest threatening the unique local fauna." The extermination of two million individuals is an extreme measure, which they decided to turn to after other methods turned out to be ineffective.

      and now

      Australia is seized by a new natural disaster. Following fires, floods and droughts came the mouse plague, a gigantic invasion of rodents that forces farmers to burn their crops. Others are forced to flee their own homes.

      Australia suffers from an invasion of mice about once every ten years. Older farmers recall the 1970s, when there were so many mice that the ground seemed to be moving.

      The invasion of mice leads to millions of losses.

      One of the reasons is new management methods. To keep the dry soil moist, Australian farmers are planting new crops directly over the stubble - the stubble left over from the harvest.

      It serves as a shelter and food for mice at the same time.

      Biologist Steve Henry calls mice "reproductive machines." They begin to reproduce offspring as little as six weeks old.

      After three weeks of pregnancy, a litter of ten mice is born. And the parent individuals continue to reproduce without any breaks between pregnancies.

      Four months later, some of the “babies” reach maturity on their own and mate, giving birth to “grandchildren”. You now have up to 90 individuals plus two original ones.

      For eight months - and this is approximately one breeding season - one parental pair of mice produces offspring of about 500 rodents.

      And that's just from one pair of mice! Take four - and you already have 2 thousand. The population is growing exponentially and reaches millions.

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    Capitalism: After record profits Nvidia drops support for anything but Windows 10
    • Nvidia is planning to drop support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 later this year. Nvidia drivers will be exclusively available for Windows 10 in October, with only critical security updates available on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 through September 2024.

      It is interesting that Nvidia top management and leading managers even have no idea where to spend huge money they got this year by promoting and supporting crypto scam and participating is shady schemes of reselling cards to big miners with huge margins that reached 2000-3000% to production cost.

      Whole Windows 7-8.1 team had been less than 8 people and they even was not exclusive, it is one of their tasks but not only one.

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    War: US billionaires don't pay taxes and have ties with IRS
    • SpaceX founder Elon Musk earned $13.9 billion from 2014 to 2018 and paid $455 million, which is 3.27 percent tax rate. In 2018, Musk paid no taxes at all.

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      Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made $99 billion and paid $4.33 billion over the same four years - his tax rate was just 0.98 percent. And in 2007 he also did not pay income tax.

      Warren Buffett evades payment the most. According to Forbes, his fortune grew by $24.3 billion between 2014 and 2018. During this time, Buffett paid $23.7 million (!) in taxes, less than ten cents for every $100 he earned.

      When asked by journalists, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg and Carl Icahn, who are involved in the investigation, replied that they paid as much taxes as they saw fit to pay.

      https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

      Biden administration started serious investigation, but not against richest criminals, but against journalists and their sources of information. As most of tax evasion in US happens due to private agreements between largest companies and richest people with IRS. As IRS close the eyes on obvious criminal schemes and offshore dealings.

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    Good quote: On Apple and monopolies
    • In order to accumulate some capital, producers need a quasi-monopoly. Only if they have it can they sell their products at prices significantly higher than production costs. In a system with real competition, there can be no profit. Real profit requires the restriction of the free market, that is, quasi-monopoly.

      However, quasi-monopoly can be established only under two conditions:

      1. A product is an innovation for which there is (or can be induced) a sufficiently large number of buyers who are ready to purchase it.
      2. One or more powerful states are ready to use their power in order to prevent other manufacturers from entering the market (or at least restrict it).

      In short, quasi-monopoly can exist only if the market is not “free” of state participation.

      Immanuel Wallerstein

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