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China's President Hu Talks IT Warfare
narramissic writes "In his keynote speech at the Communist Party Congress in October China's president Hu Jintao was specific in his references to one area of IT: defense. 'We must build strong armed forces through science and technology. To attain the strategic objective of building computerized armed forces and winning IT-based warfare, we will accelerate composite development of mechanization and computerization, carry out military training under IT-based conditions, modernize every aspect of logistics, intensify our efforts to train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers and change the mode of generating combat capabilities.'"
George W. Bush trying to say something about IT Warfare without sounding like a complete FUCKTARD? I can see it now.... GW - We will be defending the intertoobs against the Chinese using the latest in IT warefare technology! We have developed a Nucular weapon that can use your incredimail send button to a bomb to all your AOL and MySpace friends, just make sure they are all in China!!!!111 LOL!!1 At least the Chinese d00d sounds like he know a little about IT.
"My immediate reaction is "WTF? What kind of moron doesn't make things 64-bit safe to begin with?" Linus