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U.S. Eases Computer Export Controls
wbackous writes "C|NET's NEWS.COM has this article concerning the export of high performance PCs. The article also notes that some countries, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Brazil to be exact, were moved to the low-risk catagory." The dumb thing here is that almost anyone, almost anywhere, can put together a Beowulf network out of commodity PCs. I mean, computer export controls are obsolete, so why bother with them at all?
Ye GODS, man, are you MAD? We can't be letting the imperialist enemies of America get their hands on our cows! What havoc they could wreak! What war they could wage! Have you never read Shakespeare in the original, and seen the (now oft-mistranslated) line "...let slip the COWS of war..."? (cows => dogies => dogs)