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About 35% of billionaires in the US are Jewish, although Jews are only 2% of the population.

http://racehist.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-forbes-400-by-ethnic-origins.html http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/07/forbes-400-by-ethnicity.html

Globally speaking, about 11% of all billionaires are Jewish, almost all of them living in the US or Israel.

"Of the world's 1,426 billionaires ranked by "Forbes", 165 are Jews, who have an aggregate fortune of $812 billion, substantially more than last year. "

http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-Features/Forbes-ranking-The-worlds-richest-Jews-310104

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000837031

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/04/forbes-jewish-billionaires.html

Both chairmen of the Federal Reserve since 1987 have been Jewish (Greenspan and Bernanke) and both the people Obama is considering to replace Bernanke are Jewish (Summers and Yellen). So we will likely go 30+ years with only Jewish Federal Reserve chairs.

A lot easier and cheaper to do R&D with a working prototype in hand.

And it wouldn't be the first time Israel disappeared some foreign manufactured equipment to get it "off the books" only to come up with some derivative internal products later. In fact, they have concentrated on making major components for foreign purchased platforms for years, rather than building new platforms from scratch. Most of their tech is derivative work.

It seems just as likely, given Israel's apparent lack of concern over these thefts, that they know exactly where these engines are.

It was finalised yesterday:

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000803148

I guess that means they'll have to get another printer in a few days.

One of the posts in the linked thread goes to some Israeli biz-pub.

The Ha'aretz article about RMS' decision doesn't mis-attribute "Linux Founder" to RMS.

The error is in another publication

Bizarrely, the Arab League claims that this move by Israel is a violation of international law. No, I'm not kidding.

Oddly, the Arab league isn't happy. Go figure.

US Gen. (Ret.) Barry R. McCaffrey said 27 of the 30 Apaches participating in the attack were unfit for operations afterwards, and "only two reached their target causing minimal damage to the enemy." The helicopters that were hit crash landed across four kms while returning to base.

According to well-known economists Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, in an article recently published in the Journal of Industrial Economics, open-source software development needs to overcome a number of difficult problems before wide-scale adoption of open-source solutions in industry and government becomes feasible. Two of the more serious problems with open-source software are the "forking" of open-source projects and the orientation of open-source products towards high-end users.

He then proceeds to define "forking" in this context:

The forking of open-source projects occurs when passionate disputes between open-source software developers over product design lead to the splintering of projects into a multitude of varieties. With proprietary software, forking generally does not take place since development is centralized within a firm and disciplined by market forces. Relying on a current open-source product design is, therefore, inherently risky.

So it seems that he is referring more to project splitting than forking.
The paper in question, The Scope of Open Source Licensing states:

Forking refers to an internal threat of competing groups moving in different directions and producing incompatible versions of the same initial open source project. It is unclear to us how license type will affect the probability of forking or the effectiveness of the original project leader's response; this topic may reward future research.

Which is, IMHO, a valid concern, although not a major one since it occurs very infrequently.
Or possibly, you would like to argue that Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole are also "idiots who don't know what they are talking about"?

Regardless, the "forking" issue is not the major one.

Sauer's article addresses the possibility of Israel's Ministry of Finance abandoning the currently used commercial software in favor of open-source alternatives and their argument that the move will save Israeli taxpayers up to 60% of the cost of continuing to do business with Microsoft and other proprietary software companies.

Sauer says that

There is a common misconception that open-source software, such as Linux, is cost-effective because it can be freely loaded on as many computers as desired without incurring additional license fees. In fact, software license fees comprise only a small percentage of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of software. Most estimates place software acquisition costs between 5% and 8% of TCO. TCO is dominated by costs related to customizing systems, maintaining and servicing systems, and training systems personnel.

He then continues to point the real problem:

The article in question is Open question. The government claims open-source software means a 60% saving. It doesn't add up. Dr. Robert M. Sauer has a homepage if you are interested in finding out more about his other work.

Sources inform "Globes" that Steadicopter's pilotless helicopter prototype was stolen on Saturday-Sunday night. Unknown parties broke into Steadicopter's Kfar Maccabi plant, and stole the helicopter, but not its computer software or the money in the office.

Steadicopter is collaborating with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) on the project. Steadicopter claims its pilotless helicopter is the first of its kind in the world.

Steadicopter business development director Amir Rochman told "Globes" that the helicopter was stolen a few days after the completion of its test program and final test flights, during which it flew automatically and reached its targets using the global positioning system (GPS).

Rochman said, "We invested NIS 5 million in the project in the past three years, and today the police came to the factory to investigate and lift fingerprints."

Steadicopter CEO Tuvia Scgl told "Globes" today that he had no doubt that industrial espionage was behind the theft. "We're convinced that the thief was working for our competitors, because he went directly to the helicopter's location, and broke only the guardrails to that room.

"The helicopter is unique. No other company in the world has succeeded in operating such a flying machine, capable of independent flying without remote control. Many companies have tried, but none of their tests worked."

Steadicopter was launched in the TEIC Technion - Israel Institute of Technology incubator in Haifa. The companies owners are TEIC, Rosh Ha'Ayin-based ITES - Imaging Technology Enterprise Systems, Renault importer Yoel Carasso, and businessman Yossi Kabiri.

Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on November 10, 2003

As for mothballing, moth ball away... given the current economic trend of the world, the space program makes little sense anyways. Things have to be fixed down here before they can be sent up, IMHO.

Yeah... Israel needs more US taxpayer money. They are much more important than any space program.

Sigh...

Standards compliance is an issue not only concerning banks. Today the div shows up in the wrong place, tomorrow I'll only be able to access my bank account with M$ OS.

Mozillableness:
bad example: Globes IL

good example: WebFX

B.t.w, my bank's website works well under mozilla

According to this story the F.B.I. recently arrested some script kiddies under suspicion, not evidence, but suspicion, that they were going to create denials of service attacks. These script kiddiots in turn turned over some other Israeli script kiddiots in an effort perhaps to save their own ass.

So ponder this question a bit and toss it into a conspiracy theory if you want; The F.B.I. who can track down the persons responsible for bombing the U.S.S. Cole can't keep track of script kiddies?

I think the bigger picture should be clear that certain agencies know damn well who these kids are and allow them do wreck havoc until damages of hundreds perhaps millions of dollars occur and then they use them as script kiddiot snitches in hopes of catching more morons to make themselves look good.

If you take a few minutes to view the cases at Cybercrime you can notice that most arrests occur monthly and the damage done on these crimes are at a very high price with the perps often getting little to no time as is seen in Coolio's case in which he's getting sentenced for misdemeanors while commiting felonies at an adult age. There is a lot more going on behind the scenes than most people realize or maybe care to know.

As for minors securing a network I don't see how exactly the intend on allowing this to fully materialize when half of these rootards don't even understand the meanings of IS-IS, IPSec, ISAKMP, CA, let alone fully understand upper crust protocols.

Theres a lot more thats happening thats not being mentioned here.

removing the dot in dot.com