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Fire-Breathing Dragon Burns Americans and Tibetans by reporter · 2003-07-29 11:16 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Chinese "Dragon" Chip On Sale

For a country that is as backward as mainland China, possessing the ability to make a high-performance 32-bit pipelined microprocessor is a tad surprising. However, when you think of the intimate relationship between Taiwan and mainland China, you realize that the technology for the Dragon microprocessor came from Taiwan. So, things are not that surprising.

Consider the following.

The constitution of the Chinese living in Taiwan supports the integration of both Tibet and Mongolia into mainland China. While Tibetans suffer and die at the hands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Chinese in Taiwan support integrating Tibet into "One China".
The Chinese son of the chairman of a powerful conglomerate in Taiwan has joined with the son of Jiang Zemin, the butcher of Tibet, to build an advanced silicon-wafer factory in Shanghai. (reference: "Sons of prominent Chinese team up on chip venture")
Senior Chinese military officials retired from the Taiwanese military have gone to mainland China and given military secrets about the American F-16 fighter jet to the Beijing government. (reference: "Military secrets on sale to China")
The Wall Street Journal reports that the majority of American spies who steal sensitive computer and military technology (like microprocessor blueprints) to give to mainland China are actually born and raised in Taiwan. Both spies mentioned in "Two Men Arrested for Planning to Smuggle High-Tech Encryption Devices to China" are born and raised in Taiwan.

In other words, we Americans should blame ourselves. Why? American companies, especially those in Silicon Valley, employ hordes of Chinese from Taiwan. When they are given lucrative opportunities in mainland China, they will seize those opportunities. Some of those opportunities involve giving sensitive American technology to Beijing. We did this to ourselves; we made it easy for the Taiwanese to give American technology to Beijing.

This hemorrhaging of technology will continue until we in the United States of America (USA) wake up. We should treat Taiwan as a province of China. When we slap punitive sanctions against China, we should also apply those sanctions against Taiwan. If we do not want to give sensitive technology to China, then we should not give sensitive technology to Taiwan. Period.

Several companies in Silicon Valley prohibit Chinese nationals from working on technologies deemed sensitive by the American government. Yet, those very same companies readily employ Taiwanese nationals to work on the same sensitive technologies. Folks, let's wake up before the fire-breathing dragon burns us Americans along with the Tibetans.

Chinese Supercomputer:Bad News for Western Society by reporter · 2003-07-27 06:49 · Score: -1, Troll · on China Building Linux-Based 10 Teraflop Supercomputer

That China will soon have the one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world is ominous. It will enable the Chinese to accelerate the development of biological weapons, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, etc. This supercomputer will also enable the Chinese to quickly crack encrypted messages.

The United States of America (USA) must and should beat China in every technological area. Why? Because our values are superior.

Please read "Kill and Cull". The Chinese routinely harvest (i. e. cut out with a knife) organs from prisoners while they are still alive. Some prisoners are skinned alive in order to sell their skins to the highest bidder in a black market for organs. Almost as chilling, Amnesty International reports that the Chinese routinely rape, torture, and kill Tibetan nuns.

The USA and China are not equivalent societies. Why kind of society is China? It is a brutal dictatorship. What kind of society is the USA? It is a bastion of human rights and democratic values. We should be very concerned when China beats the USA in any technological area because when China beats the USA, China enhances its ability to export its values across the world. We should not be concerned if Canada or other society with comparable regard for human rights has a supercomputer that outpowers an American supercomputer. However, China is different.

Apologists for China are very slick. (Some of the apologists are employees of the "China's People Daily".) They employ a strategy of personifying a nation. Please read "Re:I think that Communist China will overtake US". By personifying a nation, the apologists trick you into using typical person-to-person social etiquette to support the brutal dictatorship called "China". So, for example, we often say, "Sally should just mind her own business if she does not want other people poking their noses into her business." The apologists hijack this social etiquette and apply it in personifying a nation. The apologists say, "The USA should 'just mind its own business' if it does not want other nations poking their noses into American business." Slick. Very slick.

Allow me to conclude by emphasizing that the majority of apologists for China are ethnic Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. In fact, the Wall Street Journal reports that the majority of spies stealing computer and other critical technology for mainland China actually were born and raised in Taiwan. Please read "Two Men Arrested for Planning to Smuggle High-Tech Encryption Devices to China".

Most (but not all) Chinese immigrants in the USA insist that American society is equivalent to Chinese society. Their attitude is shockingly different from the Russians who immigrated to the USA during the Soviet era. The Russian immigrants viewed the USA as being superior to the Soviet Union and hoped that the USA would force the Soviet Union to reform. The Russian immigrants would be alarmed when a Soviet supercomputer outpowered the best American supercomputer.

By contrast, the Chinese immigrants feel that a Chinese supercomputer challenging the best American supercomputer is a wonderful thing.

China is a Brutal Dictatorship by reporter · 2003-06-28 13:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Two Views On a China-US Space Race

That China is anywhere near the USA in critical space technology ought to scare most people. We're not dealing with equivalent nations. One nation, the USA, is a bastion of democracy and human rights. The government actively enforces civil and criminal laws that safeguard our civil rights. The other nation, China, is a bastion of fascism and savage barbarism. Chinese soldiers routinely torture and kill Tibetan nuns. Chinese doctors routinely harvest organs from victims who are still alive. Please read " Kill and cull: China rejects doctor's testimony". Indeed, the Chinese penchant for deceit and hypocrisy are directly responsible for spreading sudden-acute-respiratory syndrome (SARS) to the rest of the world. If the Chinese had not covered up the SARS epidemic, then we might have stopped the infection before it spread to its Canadian victims.

There's no equivalence. We Americans should try to continue "winning" the space race against the Chinese.

Unfortunately, there are apologists for China. They are really slick. Please read "Us (US) versus Them". The apologists talk about a nation as though it is a person. They present China and the USA as two people. Then, the apologists try to evoke the use of social etiquette between two people. "We should welcome them to the [space technology] club with open arms." is equivalent to "Billy is getting better at baseball. Let's invite Billy to join our game."

Yet, China is not a person. It is a brutal dictatorship, and we should never be lulled into using person-to-person social etiquette to deal with a brutal dictatorship. We should do everything that we can to defeat China both in outer space and inner space.

Note that most of the apologists for China are culturally Chinese. Many of them proceed to becoming spies for China. Please read " Two Men Arrested for Planning to Smuggle High-Tech Encryption Devices to China". The majority of people who steal American military/space technology to give to Beijing are Chinese from Taiwan (source: Wall Street Journal). There is no parallel for this kind of bizarre behavior.

By contrast, when the Soviet Union was a brutal empires, Russian immigrants who fled to the USA were grateful to us Americans. The vast majority of the Russian immigrants wanted us Americans to defeat the Soviet Union. The Russians viewed the USA as the superior nation with values that should be spread to the rest of the world.

The ethnic Chinese view the USA as being equivalent to China. According to the ethnic Chinese, the USA and China should have the same military/space technology -- "just to be fair".

Old News, already done in mice, fish, HIV ... by scientistguy · 2003-06-19 06:47 · Score: 1 · on Genetically Engineered Pets Hit the Market

The jellyfish protein introduced as a transgene in different organisms is known as green fluorescence protein, or GFP. There are actually quite a few derivatives of this protein with different spectral properties (e.g. see here http://www.clontech.com/gfp/excitation.shtml). Since the late 1990's, many researchers have engrafted GFP into the genome of mice as well as zebrafish to study developmental processes. GFP has also been used to label and track HIV-1 in light microscopy studies (see here, here, here, and here). Because of the protein's stability and ability to fluoresce under physiological conditions, it has been enormously useful to track live processes at the molecular level in real time. In short, this molecule rocks.

The researcher at NTU hasn't really done anything new or innovative, and patent rights to this molecule and its applications are in part held by Columbia University (at least they used to be). Thus even if a firm is interested in these glow-in-the-dark fish, they're likely going to pay significant royalties to be licensed to do so.

Here's some context.. by The+Tyro · 2003-04-22 23:59 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Open Source Enables Terrorist States

This may or may not have anything to do with it... but Theo apparently has made a bunch of anti-war comments to the media, to the tune that he hoped his grant was taking funding away from the US-led war effort in Iraq. here a link... and here's another

Now, I'm not here to say that Theo's not entitled to his opinions; he unquestionably IS entitled to them. I would point out, however, that it's not a good idea to publicly bite the hand that's feeding you. By injecting a political viewpoint into this grant, Theo put the DARPA folks in a quandry, and while it may have had nothing to do with the grant cancellation, it certainly did NOT help matters.

Focus on coding and doing what you love (if it's all about the software). I'm not saying high-profile people can't have opinions... they just need to be careful about where they voice them, and be prepared to deal with the consequences if they use their position to advocate a viewpoint (ask Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins about that). It's not wrong to speak up... you've just got to be ready to deal with the fallout.

Presumptions by Tailhook · 2003-04-10 05:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Rebuilding Iraq's Internet

Concern for the fate of the Internet in Iraqi presumes that the place won't end up as another Muslim theocracy. It will, and you'll see about as much interest in things 20th century (other than weapons) from Iraq as you do from Iran.

Let the UN try to build out Iraqi Internet. Frankly I have no hope for the place and I'd rather we just get out. That's what the Muslim world wants anyhow. They're already blowing themselves up in Baghdad and slicing apart their returning exiles, in a mosque, in a holy city. Who needs this?

Lets get our POWs and leave. Screw finding WMD. The UN is a joke and trying to satisfy them with "proof" of WMD is pointless. Anything found will be discounted as American plants.

Time to go.

Re: wow by Black+Parrot · 2003-03-05 18:56 · Score: 3, Funny · on Australian Federal Police Raid Major ISPs

> Sounds so Orwellian for an American groupie country. Whats going on?

Orwellian is 'in' this year in the USA, so groupie countries can be expected to follow suit.

It's (good/not good) to be the king by rodney+dill · 2003-03-01 05:14 · Score: 1 · on Red Herring Magazine Shuts Down

Being the creator isn't all its stacked up be from this news release on the demise of Red Herring.

The fallout from the 2001 terrorist attacks and corporate scandals of last year compounded Red Herring's problems, said Tony Perkins, the magazine's founder and a columnist until the end.

"The Red Herring was like a small vessel trying to navigate this perfect storm," said Perkins, who got Friday's bad news when he tried to turn in his column for the April issue. "I feel like we continued to put out a great magazine, but it would have been a miracle if we had survived all this."

Hopefully the founders of Slashdot have better rapport with the owners.

Good post, wish I would've thought of it.

Re:It'd build interest in the military! by Thing+1 · 2003-01-22 15:32 · Score: 1 · on Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States

Military tech has been stuck in the same putrid earthy shades of green and brown for far too long!

Funny, that's what another visionary thought in the late 60s. There was an article about him recently , which said:

While chief of staff at Fort Carson in Colorado in the late 1960s, Hughes felt the Army's strict rules failed to inspire restless young men in the turbulent era.
So he let troops paint tanks in psychedelic colors, drive them in road rallies and bring wives and girlfriends along as navigators. He stocked base hangouts with beer and go-go girls, encouraged black troops to stage Guerrilla Theater and brought in such diverse political speakers as Cesar Chavez and William F. Buckley.

Another /.er asked :

I wonder how "strongly encouraged" his retirement was......

which I got a kick out of. And who knows, Hughes is a wireless pioneer, perhaps he'll be on Jobs' staff!

cellphone traffic by Traicovn · 2002-10-14 03:15 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Tracking People Via Cell Phone

This really isn't that new of a technology. I know it has been proposed here in the US on some highways to use information like the number of cellphones in an area, the information could be used to track things like traffic congestion, and then monitoring centers could direct highway patrol to problem areas. It might also help alert highway patrol of accidents, etc. The idea is that they monitor the flow and can see the number of cellphones in an area. The technology of course makes sense because so many people have cellphones and with digital cellphone technology your phone maintains a constant, or almost constant connection to the cellphone tower to my understanding, whether you are making a phone call or not. I know that if you look at this http://money.tbo.com/money/MGAKCWDF15D.html that you can see where this sort of technology has already been used, but not applying to cellular phones. The idea is essentially the same however. I believe that the cellphone traffic technology stuff I'm talking about was planned for testing somewhere south of D.C. on the beltway or something. It was either Virginia or Maryland where I saw something about it though. Don't know if it ever got implemented.

Some people may also know that reccent government mandates in the US have required cellphone companies and manufacturers to be able to locate a cellphone call to a more precise geographical area. I believe that the goal is something like 25 feet or so. I think the requirement is 300 feet right now. Not sure on this though. The reason stated was of course for 911 calls, however other uses could be conceived.

People can turn their cellphones off, however there are some theories that the phone may still give off some signals (so just remove the battery). Of course new legislation will require you not to remove the battery and the phone will not be able to be opened, etc or else you'll be brought to court under DMCA type laws! heheh Maybe going into areas of 'No Service' will be forbidden too :)

( .hj by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-31 18:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Matchbox -- a Small Footprint Window Manager

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( .hj by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-31 18:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Matchbox -- a Small Footprint Window Manager

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Foreigners keeping U.S. elections secret? by scalveg · 2002-07-20 16:40 · Score: 1 · on Unauditable Voting Machines

According to the article, the company that manufactures the machines is Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., who have been in the Florida papers for having a VP who has been indicted in an elections kickback scandal in Louisiana. You must read this URLon the subject!

Further research on the web suggests that an unwholesome number of people involved in selling election services and products have, not backgrounds in (say) accounting, but instead, backgrounds in (you guessed it) politics.

According to a St. Petersburg Times article:

"New York safemaker Jacob H. Myers invented a mechanical voting machine in 1892 and his company later became Automatic Voting Machines, which Sequoia acquired in 1984.

"[Sequoia is the] only company whose touch screen product has been successfully tested in an actual election in a large county -- the 2000 general election in Riverside County, Calif.

"[Sequoia] has installed other older systems in three Florida counties. Sales are down 90 percent after the 2000 election as local officials await federal funding before buying new equipment.

Sequoia is a subsidiary of Jefferson Smurfit Group, a leading manufacturer of paper products."

Jefferson Smurfit, who in reality only owns 15% of Sequoia, is primarily a manufacturer of paper and packing products, based in Ireland.

The remaining 85% of the company is owned by De La Rue of Hampshire, England, an enormous company of 7000+ employees with a background in secure printing (providing paper for over 150 national currencies, including of course the UK) and a strong interest (20%) in Camelot, the operator of the British lottery.

Other than not seeming to take their security as seriously as they ought to, DLAR seems like a squeaky-clean company, and probably has a bright future. Especially if they can keep U.S. elections secret from the population.

Transparent proxying should be an option by Denium · 2002-03-23 11:14 · Score: 1, Informative · on How to Work Around Broken Port-80 Routing?

If the user wants to use proxying, so be it.

If the user, despite ISP encouragement, chooses not to use a proxy, that should be his choice. He is paying for the bandwidth, and is assumed to be aware of the possible performance hit.

This was discussed in the vuln-dev mailing list after Comcast implemented transparent proxying.

This raised quite a stink when Comcast's logging habits were revealed. Oops.

There is obviously a performance degradation involved with re-resolving the address given to the cache server. Furthermore, requests now appear to be coming from the server, not the actual user -- potentially breaking host-based authentication systems.

I've also seen these cache systems horribly implemented. An IRC network that I administer recently starting checking for HTTP proxies on connection. This was performed by connecting to the remote user's host on certain ports (80, 3128, 8000, and 8080) and then issuing a CONNECT request. In more than one case, a blatantly stupid ISP redirected _incoming_ port 80 traffic to their server -- WITHOUT any sort of access restrictions on their proxy. Sort of ironic that they were probably using untold amounts of bandwidth for 1337 bounce kiddiots.

Proxying without consent is an Evil Thing.

Transparent proxying is a PITA by Denium · 2002-03-23 11:08 · Score: 0 · on Using Images as Passwords

If the user wants to use proxying, so be it.

If the user, despite ISP encouragement, chooses not to use a proxy, that should be his choice. He is paying for the bandwidth, and is assumed to be aware of the possible performance hit.

This was discussed in the vuln-dev mailing list after Comcast implemented transparent proxying.

This raised quite a stink when Comcast's logging habits were revealed. Oops.

There is obviously a performance degradation involved with re-resolving the address given to the cache server. Furthermore, requests now appear to be coming from the server, not the actual user -- potentially breaking host-based authentication systems.

I've also seen these cache systems horribly implemented. An IRC network that I administer recently starting checking for HTTP proxies on connection. This was performed by connecting to the remote user's host on certain ports (80, 3128, 8000, and 8080) and then issuing a CONNECT request. In more than one case, a blatantly stupid ISP redirected _incoming_ port 80 traffic to their server -- WITHOUT any sort of access restrictions on their proxy. Sort of ironic that they were probably using untold amounts of bandwidth for 1337 bounce kiddiots.

Proxying without consent is an Evil Thing.

Modular? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-04 16:45 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Trial Wends Onward

MS said in an ap.com article that they can't/won't offer a modular Windows, and that there is no demand for such an offering.

Linux is modular, and there is demand for it.

Federally subsidized lobbying? by cretog8 · 2001-04-19 09:46 · Score: 1 · on CERT To Charge For 'Timely Alerts'

According to that TBO article, the ISA is going to be putting effort into lobbying Congress on such issues as privacy regulation...

So the money they'll take in isn't just targeted to pay the hard-working folks checking security holes, it seems.

The advisories we see are already delayed? by mikej · 2001-04-19 05:34 · Score: 2 · on CERT To Charge For 'Timely Alerts'

The implication here is that CERT notifies government agencies 45 days before they notify the public (which is why CERT advisories always seem to be extremely late to anyone reading bugtraq). The suggestion here is that they're going to start letting companies buy into the original notification round, a full month and a half before they announce it to everyone else.

Re:FP by Yardley · 2000-11-11 12:06 · Score: 2 · on CIA Chat Room Violates The Company's Policy

The Associated Press just released an article on this topic.

Spy Agency Investigating 160 Employees, Contract Workers for Unapproved Site

WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA is investigating 160 of its employees and contract workers for exchanging "inappropriate" and off-color messages on a covert "chat room" in the spy agency's classified computer network, The Washington Post reported.

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Re:FP by Yardley · 2000-11-11 12:06 · Score: 2 · on CIA Chat Room Violates The Company's Policy

The Associated Press just released an article on this topic.

Spy Agency Investigating 160 Employees, Contract Workers for Unapproved Site

WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA is investigating 160 of its employees and contract workers for exchanging "inappropriate" and off-color messages on a covert "chat room" in the spy agency's classified computer network, The Washington Post reported.

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