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The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed
Whispering Bob writes "Techworld has got an interesting article on the technology behind the Echelon spying networks run by the US, UK, Cananda and Australia. Apparently the super storage and analysing technology used in the US is sold by privately owned Texas Memory Systems. It can deal with one trillion floating point operations per second. Now that's some technology."
You bastards. You've slashdotted echelon.
Posting as annoyomous coward due to evil echelon listening post in the hills behind me. Will get my revenge.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:4mzhQXtHaVoJ: www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm%3FNewsID% 3D2430+&hl=en
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of cananda. :)
That damn intelligence war must be really working.
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O Cananda!
Our home and native land1
True oatriot love in all thy sons commadn.
WIth glowing hearts we see thee rise.
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from far and wide,
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The Echelon system is basically a beowulf cluster of Symbian sex machines.
Spy in the sky satellites listen in to what we say and look at what we do. Then solid state disk keeps the real time analysis of these calls and images operating at full speed. The world's fastest storage system is used in the world's most sophisticated spying operation.
Here's to hoping it never becomes sentient.
Now that we know how it works, lets all , I mean all call some one on our cell phone and say:
"John has a long moustache"
lol
* Carthago Delenda Est *
* = Accident as in... Remote controlled, no pilot, full speed against military installation.
** = On paper, at least. There might be a small error on the flight manifest... Or 400 small errors.
*** = Play the terrorist card; not only does it draw away suspiscion, it also garners support.
Besides, what's this who deal about spy satelite? Don't they know it's so very dangerous up there, with all the space debris? Especially this 3-stage 'space debris' which is remarkably shaped like a missile, with an explosive warhead... I wonder how that got up there?
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"Star Treck"
Is this a video you buy on a street corner? Like those cheap Rollex watches I keep being offered?
They have technology in Texas??
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Since it's slashdotted, I have a question: could someone please tell me what is that "echelon" thing we are talking about? It seems interesting with those trillion floating point operations and all that but I don't have much time to search for more info right now because I am very busy building a nuclear bomb for Robert Malda, pseudonym CmdrTaco, Commander in Chief of the Slashdot terrorist organisation, and if I don't give it to him before the narcotic transport arrives and he won't be able to assassinate the president on time, then my arse is going to expericence some serious jihad with his weapons of mass destruction, because how else will he be able to overthrow the federal government and start the violent uprising to destroy democracy and bring Islamic fundamentalism to the US? So, could anyone tell me what's that? Thanks.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
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If it ever does become sentient, it'll probably classify it's own creators as a terrorist organization and end up working with the good guys.
... and they should prefer ADIDAS !!
Echelon, among other stuff, is supposed to snoop on telecommunication networks.
For example, matching voice patterns, it will alert the CIA every time someone utters 'Ana raicha al quaeda' in arabic.
This has been known to cause too many alerts at a time when an earthquake caused a colera epidemic, which caused many arabs to go to the 'sit' (quaeda) frequently.
Echelon has been critizised in the far dull past to lack overlook and control of who enters keywords, so the public wouldn't know whether it has been used to do some really cool insider trading on the stock markets.
Usually, however, the keyword 'echelon' just evokes paranoia on the minds of european business top executives and serves to cover up human intelligence gathered or made up by the president himself at the dinner table. Or so I heard.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
Skynet are a Belgian ISP and I assure you that there is absolutely no danger of them becoming sentient. Ever.
The post anonymously option you are [not] attempting to use is one that isn't available to your user.
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Eye strike a key and type a word and weight four it two say
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As soon as a mist ache is maid. It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite. Its rarely ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it. I am shore your pleased two no.
Its letter perfect in it's weight. My chequer tolled me sew.
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(Reader's Digest)
How about a new type of slashdot effect... we pick a few random bad words and slashdotters make sure to mention them several times in all phone conversations.
Thats a capitol idea, comrad. you are da bomb. Now, if you will excuse me while I nuke a burrito and trim a bush in my back yard. See for several days this bag dad bought has been getting on my last nerve. Gas up the lincon, we are going to kill some time.