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Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License?
WindBourne writes "It appears to be that the U.S. house of Reps. want to classify Pentium 4 and above CPUs as weapons. This would mean that all these will require export licenses. Apparently, they have not heard about that the far east has developed large CPUs as well that are used in beowulf clusters." According to the article, this clause is unlikely to appear in the final version -- but stranger things have happened.
Athlon is definitively a dangerous weapon - it can cause 3rd degree skin burns
So can I still fly with my "weapon"?
$7.95/mo, 200 GB disk, 2TBxfer, MySQL, PHP, RoR.
..so perhaps we were justified going in there after all.
Back when the fastest x86 chip was a Pentium 2, the G3 received this same classification. Apple even ran ads that proclaimed their "weapons grade" status. Looks like Intel is finally catching up with an Apple chip that's two revisions old. :o)
I dunno who it is
but it prolly is fhqwhgads.
So are wars gonna be decided with Unreal Tournament now?
12:50 - press return.
being in a large room full of developers sitting unhappily at cubicles is bad enough, but no we are all armed with weapons, ahhhh!!!
"but money is the God of Algiers & Mahomet their prophet." - Rich. O'Bryen June 8th 1786
my keyboard, in it's current condition, should be classified as a WMD.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
well.. another country to be liberated soon
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of congressman...
It would be the only cluster in the world to slow down as you add nodes.
So, now we can finally identify the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!
I was beginning to get worried that my beloved president was wrong.
Now we're going to have to arrest you for disseminating this information.
Sincerely,
The Feds
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License?
Sure, if you throw one hard enough.
Red Bull gave me wings and I flew into the ceiling fan.
Does this mean I need a CCW permit to stick a P4 in my pocket?
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AMD would presumably love this - their Opterons are produced in Dresden and I can't see the Germans joining in on this.
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They were manufactured in Taiwan or someplace... ?!
How do you say "Beowulf" in Mandarin?
The use of a Pentium 4 or better as a weapon can easily be avoided by running any Windows variant on it.
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Everybody knows that all computers, and parts thereof are made here in the good old US of A, so if we don't export them, the moozlim ayrab terrorists can't get them. Our congressmen and senators are geniuses!
/sarcasm
How ya like dat?
The amendment will never leave the House
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while they're at it, they need to punish the overclockers for making their weapons run faster
I know I'm going to be modded up on this
This is a stick-up. Give me all your money.
No seriously, I'm packing a P4 3,4ghz. You do NOT want to fuck with me.
This means every AMD chip on earth after the K6 is a weapon.
---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"
Yeah, but since they can't run Windows® it would be not ready for the desktop.
If it sucks, say it sucks
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Right before the election Dubya will announce that he's found the missing Weapons of Mass Destruction.
They're sitting in boxes at the Bagdad CompUSA store marked "Intel inside"!
Nice work!
-Goran
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I'd hate to have to leave my laptop at home when I go to the coffee shop. Of course the part about concealing it could be difficult.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
All they have to do is require that the faster chips ship with Longhorn. There won't be enough cycles left for advanced weapons design!
Proven to disable a US Destroyer.
Windows NT.
I suggest that we make it export tariff free and make sure it gets distributed far and wide.
Because that makes about as much logical sense as this legislation.
I feel for California. If this goes through, they'll have legislators pushing for registration, fingerprinting, five day waiting periods, closing the "computer show loophole" and the like. I recommend burying half of your high end computer hardware now so that you can have it available when the government starts confiscating.
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Your fingers probably aren't cold if they're clutching an Athlon.
Congress is in session, and across this great land of ours, many a village is missing its idiot.
Now, you must ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky?
Well, do you, punk?
"Colonel Look, A whole stack of Pentium 4s!"
"Good work private. We've finally found those WMDS."
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I would be more worried about people with concealed Athlons. You're minding you're own business, and then some nut with an overclocked Athlon without so much as a fan or heatsink, suddenly produces it in his asbestos mitten, brandishing it at you. You feel the heat coming off it, looking down at death itself. You think of reaching for the P4 holstered at your side, but he's got the drop on you. That would suck.
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yeah...simpler and *MUCH* more spectacular crashes!
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Congress? But, you repeat yourself ...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of US representatives. Never mind... that wouldn't produce much more work than one representative (0 x any number...)
How do you say "Beowulf" in Mandarin?
Genghis Khan?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Is "Fab 4" in England?
Fellowship 9/11
Or maybe BEI4 YAO3 WU2 FU2 [4ff6 302d 4ad3 3695], which (I think) means 'completely unfathomable vast big-head'.
(however, I don't speak Mandarin, this is just from looking up syllables in the Unihan Database
>;k
weapons of math destruction
That would be those ancient Pentiums with the FDIV bug.
Infuriate left and right
Read Tom Clancy for the answers to all this...and while you're at it, marvel at his ability to predict the Bush presidency...
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
It was, but then Michael Jackson bought it and had it moved to his backyard (next to the roller-coaster).
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"It appears to be that the U.S. house of Reps. want to classify Pentium 4 and above CPUs as weapons."
But only if you ship them with free copies of Microsoft Windows.
--Texas? I hope so, poor oppressed misguided people.. Their mullahs make them worship strange things like cows and oblong balls. They have temples with over priced knick knacks they buy and give to each other as some sort of pagan ritual. Then they erect these strange skeleton looking towers all over. On their pagan holidays they get out of their mind on this "brew" stuff they have and just...fight and swear and do a lot of animal sacrafice. They wear funny shoes and hats, too, not anything like what normal people wear. All in all, yes, they need liberating and some enlightnment to get civilised.
At 9:13 AM two CPUs crashed into the Sears Tower, killing a dog when it tried to eat them. Terrorist organization al BM has declared that they were responsible for this horrible strike against the western world.
President William Gates III. has announced that the terrorists have been located "somewhere around Europe or something" and that two ICBMs (InterContinental Beowulf Missiles) with a payload of 32x4 GHz have been launched somewhere at Europe's general direction.
Our hearts are with the owners of Fido, who choked on the deadly weapons which crashed into the Sears Tower. Officials suspect them to be Pentium-type processors, but cannot say it before they have been retrieved from the dog's stomach.
The Sears Tower seems to be out of imminent danger of collapsing, but, as some random government suit said: "only a few hundred chips more and they might have smashed a window."
I other news, Apple Defense Systems (ADS) has just finished their new G2000 RISC (Really Incredible Stuff-based Computer) line of ultra-expensive and extremely hip weapons of mass destruction. President Gates has announced that the USA will be saving money for the next five years, hoping that this will generate enough money to actually afford an Apple-brand WMD (or iWMD, as Apple calls them).
This were the 11 o' clock news at 10, with Tejas Barton.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
I bought a Dell. Dell asked me because they where an Amerikan company. Are you going to use this computer for(no joke) Nuclair weapons? Biologic weapons? Mass murder? chemical weapons? Any terrorist activities we don't now of... ...
Ofcourse as a honest terrorist I answerd to them all YES!!!.
Afterall I was expecting to play C&C...
I don't know where Americans find there politicians. But you U.S.A. people should start looking harder!
More like weapons of math instruction...
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Now I feel old.
Um, by your argument we shouldn't allow anyone to be elected to any position, because they're clearly going make laws that would benefit their own positions
SHHHHH! Don't tell anyone. They might figure it out.
My other response is: NO KIDDING! BRILLIANT!
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I suggest the name of the company as 'Universal Exports.'
(surely someone here gets the joke)
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