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Bush Administration Loosens Computer Export Laws

Posted by timothy on from the wag-that-tail dept.

An anonymous reader contributes: "The State Department has issued this statement detailing the Bush Administration's approval for sharply raising technical specifications of exported computers to a group of more than 40 countries including Russia, China, India, Pakistan and Israel. The threshold for export without a license to Tier 3 countries will rise to cover computers capable of 190,000 million theoretical operations per second (MTOPs), up from 85,000 MTOPs now. The change is exptected to take take effect in January or February of 2002."

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  1. Re:Bush? by Ledge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How dare you post links to sites containing useful & logical information in this bastion of Socialism? What are you? One of those wacky Capitalists or something? Follow the rest of the crowd and let your emotions lead you to starvation.

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    If it ain't a Model M, it's a piece of crap.