Obama To Get Secure BlackBerry 8830

CWmike writes "President Barack Obama is set to receive a high-security BlackBerry 8830 soon, The Washington Times reported today. The device is said to be in the final stages of development at the National Security Agency, which will check that its encryption software meets federal standards. It might not be ready for months. It was reported that Obama will be able to send text and e-mail messages and make phone calls on the device, but only to those with the secure software loaded on their own devices. The list includes First Lady Michelle Obama and top aides. The security software is made by Genesis Key, whose CEO, Steven Garrett, is quoted as saying: 'We're going to put his BlackBerry back in his hand.' The Sectera Edge was pegged in January by analysts as the top device choice because of its reputation for secure data communications when used by other federal workers. And there are many reasons why Obama might have been told 'no' on his BlackBerry. But Obama may wish he had chosen a Sectera if BlackBerry has more outage problems like its latest last week, which meant no mobile e-mail for hours across the US."

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Re:Racism is Rampant...

[4D6963]

No it's not, although lots of people mistakenly think it is. The ramifications/implications of those things are pretty deep, even deeper than in the broken window fallacy, but in the case of a welfare mom with 4 kids, the main difference is that by giving her more money she'll give better food, a better health but more importantly a better education to her 4 children, the difference being ultimately that these children will grow up to be more qualified and thus produce more value/wealth, but also move up in social classes.

But to answer your original question, there's probably not much of a difference, although you might assume that the welfare mom being poorer than the original average taxpayers, she might spend that same money more fully and more quickly, thus stimulating faster. Although if you look at it closer, there may be a reason or two why the opposite would happen, but regardless I think the difference in "stimulus" would be quite marginal.

Re:Racism is Rampant...

[fractoid]

Hah, such naivete. Giving welfare mom more money does not necessarily mean a better life for her bastard offspring. It means she can get a new TV, dvd player or drugs...

Your cynicism blinds you to the greater issue here - that giving welfare mom more money for sitting on her ass doing nothing is teaching her kids to do the same.