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Why Israel Could Be the Next Cybersecurity World Power
jfruh writes: Beersheba is a small town in southern Israel, more than an hour's drive away from Tel Aviv and the bulk of the country's population. But the city is a hotbed of cybersecurity startups driven in part by a graduate program at the local university and the country's military and intelligence apparatus's keen interest in the subject. "To become such a cyber nexus, any place has to have several ingredients: A great university with a solid computer science department with a penchant for security research. Check. Several industry partners who have set up their own research and innovation laboratories nearby, to take advance of the cheap labor pool of graduate students. Check. An active venture capitalist operation that can fund startups is also essential, along with mentors who can help entrepreneurs along. Double check. And finally some solid support for local and national government to grease the wheels of progress. Check."
Stop interning the Palestinian populace. Allow the Palestinians to have their land back as per UN Resolutions. Let them have freedom of mobility, the chance to build a viable economy and rights as a regular citizen, not a second class citizen. No justice, no peace.
"SO we bide our time, waiting for a purer kick to bloom and the future is still bleak, uncertain and beautiful" -GSYBE
The bible has plenty of similar peace loving statements of equality and acceptance. The difference is not what exactly is in each holy book, but how followers interpret those words: as laws, suggestions or stories. Christians and jews generally do not go around killing non-believers and transgressors of holy law, nor do many of them think they should. Muslims however have frequent and violent clashes over holy texts (with each other), and in many muslim countries the nastiest kinds of holy rules have been set into law. In addition, many of the "moderate" muslims who might profess to be against violently taking the law into their own hands, will still proclaim the koran to be law over and above the law of men, and will explicitly agree with (for example) a death sentence for apostacy.
Islam is not a religion like any other, not by a long shot. From a humanitarion point of view it is worse than the others both in word and in practice. With that said, every person deserves to be treated according to their own actions and convictions, not to those of others.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Jew, Christian, Muslim. The hardcore fanatics always scare the shit out of me. And you would be hard-pressed to find anyone outside of ISIS and Al-Quaida more fanatical than Mossad and its crazy Zionist ilk. The thought of them having cyber-weapons is scary. But much more scary is the thought that we actually gave those religious crazies nuclear weapons.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
While this may certainly be true, it does not ameliorate the fact that the notion of a Jewish *state* is inherently and inescapably racist.
Denying this would necessarily lead to acceptance of an Aryan state, and that didn't really work out well, did it?
In fact, denying that a Jewish *state* is racist is a subtle form of Holocaust denial, in that it would require insistence that the Holocaust was not an act of racism, but solely of anti-Jewishness. This conclusion would be neither factually nor morally correct.
While I can understand and support the idea of a Jewish homeland, it is difficult to see how encapsulating it in a Jewish *state* can be anything but unjust. I believe that the state of Israel is doomed, but not from any outside forces. Its fatal flaw lies within. Israel and I happen to have been born in the same year. It will be interesting to see who dies first.
Wow, after about 70 posts that are either anti-semitic/israeli trolls or troll counter-trolls, we finally get our first post that addresses the actual article topic. Slashdot's set a new record.