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Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment
ceswiedler writes "Wired is reporting that the Stuxnet worm was apparently designed to subtly interfere with uranium enrichment by periodically speeding or slowing specific frequency converter drives spinning between 807Hz and 1210Hz. The goal was not to cause a major malfunction (which would be quickly noticed), but rather to degrade the quality of the enriched uranium to the point where much of it wouldn't be useful in atomic weapons. Statistics from 2009 show that the number of enriched centrifuges operational in Iran mysteriously declined from about 4,700 to about 3,900 at around the time the worm was spreading in Iran."
the system is meant to be CONTROLLED from a windows, or any, machine connected to the network.
the centrifuge controllers etc naturally don't run windows. they might even be dos.
anyways, the problem wasn't just running windows, it's that the whole control network for the centrifuges wasn't isolated.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
[Hypothetical Russian Contractor]:"Well, this styrofoam someone threw in the reactor 3 months before launch is nasty stuff, and will cost a lot of your precious Iranian dollars to fix. (Thank goodness we thought of that before we wrote the most complex worm ever written. With the Iranian maintenance and repair fees Russia can finally conquer the world!)"
// MD_Update(&m,buf,j);
yeah, that'll work. After all we think they are crazy, they think we are crazy. They won't agree to "meet in the middle" - they want us to "appease" them. We apparently want them to not try to blow people in other countries up. Not very likely to get anywhere positive from "talking". We've talked for years.
You'll have to explain, of course, why the paedophile prophet *did* "convert" at swordpoint.
And of course, there is "abrogation" (you see, in islam god is always right the first time, you know, except when he changes his mind, meaning rationally allah is always wrong). The verse about compulsion, you see, wasn't correct. It has therefore been "abrogated" (changed) into these :
O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them.... (9:73)
O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you.... (9:123)
Say unto those of the wondering Arabs who were left behind: Ye will be called against a folk of mighty prowess to fight them until they surrender.... (48:16)
But if you have any knowledge of islam, you would know this. So why bother arguing ? You're simply lying.
Again, to Christians, or any rational human being this looks beyond absurd. An all-knowing God changing his opinion ? That's just stupid. After all, God knows the future, so why doesn't he know his future opinions ? And it is beyond stupid. This is BECAUSE Jesus Christ never changed his opinion on any matter (yes, there are a few times when he came close, but you won't find any contradiction in the new testament, and you won't find direct contradictions between the new and old testaments either)
The quran is full of contradictions. When someone asked the paedophile "prophet" about the open contradictions (e.g. initially the paedophile prophet forbade stoning), "allah" said this :
"some of our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that Allah Hath power over all things?"
(when reading the stories about the paedophile there are absurdly many "convenient" revelations, to the point of ridicule).
Abrogation, like forceful conversion, is also part of just about all religions, except Christianity. The bible is a paragon of consistency, and so western people simply cannot fathom how anyone could accept the blatant inconsistencies that a 2 year old can easily find in other religions. The bible goes to absurd lengths to both be consistent, and goes to even more absurd lengths to explain how there can not be any inconsistency.
In islam it is in fact so very bad, that there are almost no muslims alive today whose ancestors haven't been genocidally conquered by muslims. The paeophile prophet himself claims to have started 13 wars, and to have executed at least 13000 people.
The worst accomplishment of islam : there were barely any arabs in the middle east in 600. From Egypt to Morocco there were only black people (and the indigenous tribes that still live there are still black, e.g. the Touareg), and from Saudi Arabia over Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, ... lived Hindus, now only found in India.
You might think they were converted. Well, no. As anyone knows perfectly well, muslims have exterminated every last man, woman and child of northern africa and replaced them. The same goes for the Hindus. The *LOW* estimates of casualties of islam are 700 million people dead. Mostly Hindus from India.
Christianity did not even have the option of converting people at swordpoint the first 400 or-so years of it's existence. In fact the meeting the swordpoint was often the cost of converting *to* Christianity. Unless you liked being eaten by starved lions.
Just about all religions except Christianity started with armies forcibly converting people. Judaism, hinduism, buddhism, ... all started with an invasion army. But none started with a genocidal maniak that compares to the paedophile "prophet" that started islam. The fact that Christianity grew without forcible conversions is a unique event in history, it hasn't happened before, nor since (and of course, Christianity hasn't remained all that peaceful. Even if the worst periods of Christianity were a lot more tolerant than even the "most tolerant"