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Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet

meridiangod writes "The Air Force is fed up with a seemingly endless barrage of attacks on its computer networks from stealthy adversaries whose motives and even locations are unclear. So now the service is looking to restore its advantage on the virtual battlefield by doing nothing less than the rewriting the 'laws of cyberspace.'" I'm sure that'll work out really well for them.

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  1. Only traitors will vote for Oook-oook Banana by ringbarer · · Score: -1, Troll

    September 16, 2011. Today it finally began! After all these years of talking-and nothing but talking-we have finally taken our first action. We are at war with the System, and it is no longer a war of words.
    I cannot sleep, so I will try writing down some of the thoughts which are flying through my head.
    It is not safe to talk here. The walls are quite thin, and the neighbors might wonder at a late-night conference. Besides, George and Katherine are already asleep. Only Henry and I are still awake, and he's just staring at the ceiling.
    I am really uptight. l am so jittery I can barely sit still. And I'm exhausted. I've been up since 5:30 this morning, when George phoned to warn that the arrests had begun, and it's after midnight now. I've been keyed up and on the move all day.
    But at the same time I'm exhilarated. We have finally acted! How long we will be able to continue defying the System, no one knows. Maybe it will all end tomorrow, but we must not think about that. Now that we have begun, we must continue with the plan we have been developing so carefully ever since the Gun Raids two years ago.
    What a blow that was to us! And how it shamed us! All that brave talk by patriots, "The government will never take my guns away," and then nothing but meek submission when it happened.
    On the other hand, maybe we should be heartened by the fact that there were still so many of us who had guns then, nearly 18 months after the Obama Act had outlawed all private ownership of firearms in the United States. It was only because so many of us defied the law and hid our weapons instead of turning them in that the government wasn't able to act more harshly against us after the Gun Raids.
    I'll never forget that terrible day: November 9, 2009. They knocked on my door at five in the morning. I was completely unsuspecting as I got up to see who it was.
    I opened the door, and four Negroes came pushing into the apartment before I could stop them. One was carrying a baseball bat, and two had long kitchen knives thrust into their belts. The one with the bat shoved me back into a corner and stood guard over me with his bat raised in a threatening position while the other three began ransacking my apartment.

    My first thought was that they were robbers. Robberies of this sort had become all too common since the Obama Act, with groups of Blacks forcing their way into White homes to rob and rape, knowing that even if their victims had guns they probably would not dare use them.
    Then the one who was guarding me flashed some kind of card and informed me that he and his accomplices were "special deputies" for the Northern Virginia Human Relations Council. They were searching for firearms, he said.
    I couldn't believe it. It just couldn't be happening. Then I saw that they were wearing strips of green cloth tied around their left arms. As they dumped the contents of drawers on the floor and pulled luggage from the closet, they were ignoring things that robbers wouldn't have passed up: my brand-new electric razor, a valuable gold pocket watch, a milk bottle full of dimes. They were looking for firearms!
    Right after the Obama Act was passed, all of us in the Organization had cached our guns and ammunition where they weren't likely to be found. Those in my unit had carefully greased our weapons, sealed them in an oil drum, and spent all of one tedious weekend burying the drum in an eight-foot-deep pit 200 miles away in the woods of western Pennsylvania.
    But I had kept one gun out of the cache. I had hidden my .357 magnum revolver and 50 rounds of ammunition inside the door frame between the kitchen and the living room. By pulling out two loosened nails and removing one board from the door frame I could get to my revolver in about two minutes flat if I ever needed it. I had timed myself.
    But a police search would

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    1. Re:Only traitors will vote for Oook-oook Banana by DanTheStone · · Score: -1, Troll

      I thought it was a decent story. A little racist and offtopic, though. I think it deserved the Offtopic mod more than Troll.

    2. Re:Only traitors will vote for Oook-oook Banana by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yes, because the Nuremburg trials were such a great success for humanity.

      Most of the criminals got away to South American or were taken to the United States through Operation Paperclip.

      Oddly enough, W's grandfather Prescott Bush helped many Nazi's escape after WW2. Before WW2, Prescott was laundering money for Fritz Thiesen (top Nazi financier) through his bank Union Banking Corp.

    3. Re:Only traitors will vote for Oook-oook Banana by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      YHBT and all that but still, ringbarer -- plagiarizing troll that he is -- said nothing about religion. But that didn't stop you from building a straw man to argue against. How about in the future you debate your opponent's actual position?

      Really, how did he get a +5 mod when all he did was spew anti-religion rhetoric? Oh right, I forgot this was slashdot.

  2. all that bork barrel spending by Tyrannicsupremacy · · Score: 1, Troll

    and the us air force is no match for a mere 100,000,000 chinese children being forced to hack them using computers that probably still have turbo buttons?

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  3. creators polishing planet/population rescue kode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's newclear powered, & way user friendly, as well as tamper proof.

    greed, fear & ego (in any order) are unprecedented evile's primary weapons. those, along with deception & coercion, helps most of us remain (unwittingly?) dependent on its' life0cidal hired goons' agenda. most of yOUR dwindling resources are being squandered on the 'wars', & continuation of the billionerrors stock markup FraUD/pyramid schemes. nobody ever mentions the real long term costs of those debacles in both life & any notion of prosperity for us, or our children, not to mention the abuse of the consciences of those of us who still have one. see you on the other side of it. the lights are coming up all over now. conspiracy theorists are being vindicated. some might choose a tin umbrella to go with their hats. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.

    we note that yahoo deletes some of its' (relevant) stories sooner than others. maybe they're short of disk space, or something?
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    http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/10/07/atwood.debt/index.html
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01dowd.html?em&ex=1212638400&en=744b7cebc86723e5&ei=5087%0A
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/05/senate.iraq/index.html
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    (deleted, still in google cache)http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080708/cheney_climate.html
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    (talk about cowardlly race fixing/bad theater/fiction?) http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/19/news/economy/sec_short_selling/index.htm?cnn=yes
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/opinion/04sat1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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    (some yoga & yogurt makes killing/getting killed less stressful) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_re_us/warrior_mind;_ylt=A0wNcw9iXutIPkMBwzGs0NUE
    (the old bait & switch...your share of the resulting 'product' is a fairytail nightmare?)
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    is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators w

  4. Re:Disconnect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    air-gapped network

    I love the gay little computer terms you guys throw out on a daily basis. "See see! I know this phrase! I'm wunna youze guyz!"

  5. Re:In soviet Russia... by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: -1, Troll

    What, did the Chair Force suddenly run out of little brown babies and wedding parties to blow to smithereens in bloody, shredded chunks?

    Now, they want to establish a way to control the medium through which the horrors of their mission are communicated.

    Babykillers. That's the bottom line - cause freedom isn't free - you have to spend money on bullets for wogs, to rip it from their cold and lifeless hands.

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  6. Re:Disconnect by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 0, Troll

    google invented nothing. changed nothing. what are you going on about?

    altavista was one of the first search engines. predated google by years and years. (in fact google hired brian reid, one of the altavista architects (iirc) and then fired him later when his stock was about to vest. ....do no evil. yeah right.

    google channged nothing at all about 'the internet'. they are simply yet another search engine and mail service (etc etc). big deal.

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  7. Don't forget the USAF is military... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...and has the equipment, the know-how, and furthermore, the balls to DoS the holy crap out of any upstream ISP or NSP that's providing a source path for anyone who is "being an irritant" while making it look like the DoS is coming from Europe or Asia or wherever the original cuprit(s) who pissed them off are located. Don't ask me how I know this.

  8. Re:Disconnect by gatkinso · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are full of shit.

    I once saw a similar situation go down at NSA at Ft Meade, MD, but all they did was call the cops.

    NSA does have their own police force, but they are in fact simply cops. Fat, donuts, late model American sedans with light bars on top... you get the picture.

    A few weeks later it came out the the guy was not a spy - but he was a Bell Atlantic employee.

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  9. Re:Disconnect by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 0, Troll

    I see the google fanboys are strong in this thread.

    point me to something google INVENTED, please.

    they may have POPULARIZED a lot of things but invent? I have yet to see useful things that people use all the time other than email and search (from google). sure, they have almost every kind of software imaginable - but where have the innovated other than just being 'darlings' of the geek world? ...or, was it the brian reid comment that was the hardest for the googleboys to swallow? truth is hard when it goes against your brainwashing, eh?

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