So the man and woman are having consensual sex, and the woman changes her mind during the act. Now it's rape? How does that protect the rights of the man? Especially when women not infrequently have unrealistic, self-created expectations of what the sex will be like or mean - just as men do?
Well, Assange received 2/3 of Wikileaks' payroll, so Wikileaks seems to consider him at least very important to it.
There are other orgs like Wikileaks, like Cryptome, but they didn't receive the kinds of leaks that Wilileaks has received. Nor have they received anything like Wikileaks' attention, though their lesser publications still merited much more attention than they did receive.
After this latest cycle, Assange has become equated with Wikileaks, even if here hadn't been before. Especially in the minds of people who actually leak the kind of content Wikileaks publishes, and even more so in the minds of the mass media which publicize what Wikileaks publishes. Which is where it counts, even more than inside the Wikileaks org itself. But because of what's happening to Bradley Manning after leaking (punitive confinement, possibly torture, and probably conviction for treason - and so possibly execution), I think the Wikileaks brand is tainted as a recipient of leaks.
Which is just as well, I suppose. Because Wikileaks has now put its class of org on the map. So other leak publishers will have an easier time getting an audience. Now something much like it will go on without Wikileaks or Assange being necessary, able to reach a much larger audience and therefore having a much larger effect.
The next step will be a leak publishing org (perhaps Wikileaks itself, and perhaps deliberately set up) publishing faked leaks that discredit the org, and (to some extent) the entire class of org. That would be the most effective counterintel to a threat like Wikileaks and its fellows. I expect it's only the complacency and incompetence of the CIA/etc that has left Wikileaks and others with their perceived integrity intact.
As far as the law is concerned, he's accused of deliberately damaging a condom during otherwise consensual sex. There are degrees of rape, as there are degrees of most crimes, and that is a minor degree of rape, even in Sweden where it is considered rape.
I'm not confusing Interpol with anything - Sweden alerted Interpol to find Assange. Show me a single other case where Sweden alerted Interpol to find a missing foreigner who was accused of this particular kind of rape.
It's true that this "rape" case gets unusual attention because it's Assange, but I don't see how his being a "drama queen" has anything to do with it. Subsequent to his being targeted with these accusations and manhunt, he made some public comments to the media that was hounding him, which doesn't make him a drama queen. Though staying in the public eye is a good survival strategy when you've made the kinds of enemies he has with his leaks, especially the Pentagon and CIA/etc.
Those cables didn't "embarrass everyone" - they embarrassed the US most of all, and a few other countries a lot less. Not just because the actual leaker was a US soldier who demonstrated the insecurity of US comms, but because the subjects of the cables is mostly US performance in its various wars, and duplicity in prosecuting them. The cables didn't just embarrass the US, but actually compromised operative secrecy in several cases. The US is clearly the government most likely to be pressuring Sweden.
The rape cases are working well to discredit and capture Assange, and to inhibit other leakers seeing his treatment. Just executing him quickly would blow back on the US rather badly, and even the current incompetent CIA/etc aren't going to do that.
I don't have a "mancrush" on Assange. I have a rather deep love for the truth. So when I say "fuck you" for saying something stupid like that, I'll explain that it doesn't mean I have a mancrush on you, either. I just think you're stupid and not worthy of respect.
It's true that nothing is clear. It's not clear that the women retracted their consent during a sexual act.
One version of the story is that the entire duration of the sex was consensual, but that a condom broke, or wasn't used the way the woman thought it was. At that point the woman (or women) wanted Assange to get an STD test so the woman would know their own risk, but Assange refused. At that point, the woman (women) claimed their consent was retracted.
If that version is what happened, then it wasn't rape. It might be some other crime - the women seem to have a right to know what their risk of STD was, when it changed from when they consented. But it's not rape.
Assange does seem to be saying that the proximal cause of his legal problems is "revolutionary feminism" (which can have "retroactive consent revocation" laws passed in Sweden), rather than "persecution to serve US political interests". But he doesn't say that the "revolutionary feminism" is the only reason he's subject to an international manhunt and extradition on those accusations. Indeed he earlier did say that the emergence of those accusations was the product of US effort to counterattack him, which does seem obvious to a reasonable person. Just as he didn't actually say that he's "a victim of Left-wing radicalism" - the Telegraph said that, adopting Assange into its own rightwing agenda.
So you're right: nothing is clear, and without specifics, we should be wary. But what strongly ties this to Wikileaks instead of just he/she said about sex is that Assange is Wikileaks, and no one accused of acts like Assange is has been the subject of an international manhunt and UK extradition proceedings.
Assange is the only person wanted for questioning in a case like this who was the subject of an Interpol bulletin and now a UK extradition. Because he is being railroaded by the USA.
I didn't say that the USA set up whatever happened between Assange and the two women in Sweden - you did. I said that the manhunt that is working to extradite him was set up by the USA.
It's possible for them to both be true. Assange should be "held to account" just like anyone else under the same allegations. None of whom are subjects of international manhunts, Interpol bulletins and UK extradition. It's the political motivations of various governments, namely the US and Sweden, that are going beyond that.
As for reasonable doubt, just the existence of a very powerful enemy isn't enough to create reasonable doubt. "Anything can happen" isn't "reasonable". If there is physical evidence of his actual crime, and no physical evidence of exoneration, any doubt isn't going to be reasonable.
No, he can't go out and murder and rape people on camera and it's just a USA plot to discredit him. Only you said that. So you are underscoring the other post's point that you are an idiot - and not just because you're "naive".
Assange is the only person whose "wanted for questioning" by Swedish police for a crime of this minor nature has been escalated into an international manhunt, enlisted Interpol, and within days hauled the UK justice system into extradition proceedings. He is being singled out, from all the many people over many years who were wanted by Swedish police for questioning in this matter. He differs from them in that he leaked many cables more or less damaging to the USA.
Regardless of what happened between Assange and the two women accusing him (which is certainly not "murder and rape people on camera", and isn't even actually rape, but rather a failure to stop consensual sex) - it is perfectly clear to everyone that Assange is being railroaded by the USA. Except perhaps to idiots.
I agree with you about Pickens. But I don't know why you think I underestimate him. Everything I said about him is the measure of a top capitalist. Unless maybe you mean he's an even bigger asshole than what I described.
You're pretty lonely when you're all excited about the sole company you've got: someone who likes killing a few cycles showing how stupid and alienated you rightwing trolls are.
But since you do seem to like it, you can have your hole to yourself.
The amount of corn farmland in the US produces so much corn that corn prices are too low to support corn farmers, so the public subsidizes the corn farmers. If we consume more corn because we added fuel production to the consumers, that should increase demand compared to supply enough to keep prices supported without subsidies. Yet we still have the price subsidies. So is corn ethanol production really reducing the supply of food corn enough to impact the food economy?
"Hot SF babe"? And that's just the least of your blather.
You're a troll, who has hooked no one. Your face knocked our fists around a little, but now your feeble attempts to say something relevant are easily and deservedly ignored. Enjoy your lonely troll hole.
This story's challenge sounds like a contest held by the Dead Media Project that SF/futurist author Bruce Sterling started in a 1990s mailing list. Though it's really about "extinct media", but Sterling is an SF author.
I'm amused to see that today the DMP itself is down. I hope they've got a backup - and a restore device that works.
I know it's not VNC (or is it?) or Android, but I'm looking for a way to share my local Windows 7 desktop across the LAN to another Windows 7 user who watches as I do something onscreen. And a recorder to play it back. If the recorder can take a microphone narration, that's perfect.
Is something like that built into Windows 7? Or is there a free app that can do it?
Pickens was one of the top cowboys in getting us into this oil mess. Then he invested oil profits heavily in natural gas, which indeed did pay off: production has risen some as consumption has risen slightly more, but prices have doubled, with frequent sevenfold spikes that last most of a year. Nice racket, but not good enough for a snakey oil salesman like Pickens.
So Pickens started pitching his plan to move America's cars from gasoline to natgas, switching the natgas flow away from our gas turbines. New combined cycle gas turbines get up to 85% energy efficiency, because the plants can usefully consume the heat, but cars will just pump it out into the air - at about 20% energy efficiency (or worse: about 17% for gasoline cars converted to natgas). Which all means that we'd have to burn 4-5x as much natgas to get the use in cars we do now in CCGT plants. Which means buying 4-5x as much gas, from Pickens, just to burn 80% out in his backyard.
He invested $2B in wind farms because he expected at least that much more profit from natgas. He's getting that profit anyway, without the wind farms. If he'd been serious about the wind farms, he'd have them up and running, producing power, instead of letting them depreciate and then selling them to a foreign country.
Pickens has done all he could to get us into this energy crisis, and has no skills in getting us out of one. Indeed, if oil money weren't so easy once you're in the old boy club, that old boy wouldn't have made much anywhere that takes skills that actually serve and develop a market, rather than shooting fish in a barrel - Texas style, which means oil barrel.
The reason the US was overtaken in this particular metric is that the US is no longer devoting resources to being at the top of it, because those resources go into being top in the other metrics that actually do matter. The Chinese moved into the top spot after it ceased to be the most important.
This report is advising the president not to be tricked into wasting resources competing with China in that less important category at the expense of retaining leadership in the other categories.
The US doesn't build the tallest skyscrapers anymore, because we built an even bigger suburban infrastructure around cities, making such density less valuable. Other countries that do build the world's tallest building (for a while) are either wasting their time, or competing in an unnecessary race the US has no real value anymore in winning.
The US has a largely transparent government, and this advice from an advisory group to the president is good advice. Far better to compete in what matters, and to tell the truth about why. If the president were in the critical path to building the tallest buildings, the focus away from them to other development patterns would have become better known, though just as aptly practiced.
The people who misunderstand this report and the US compliance with it are not important in the supercomputer industry. Just as people who whine that the US doesn't have the world's tallest buildings anymore aren't important to the construction industry.
And there are specific problems that would be reborn if we resumed physical testing. Like the problems that N Korea is deliberately causing by doing so. All the budget boondoggles are worth avoiding actually detonating nukes, which always brings the world closer to detonating them near people.
After all, many other US industries have been deregulated — take, for instance, oil, natural gas, or trucking — and greater competition in those sectors swiftly brought prices down.
Seth Blumsack, the author of that offensive lie, should be forced to read aloud the live data feed of the oil and gas market prices. For the rest of his life. Oil and gas prices have skyrocketed without regulations protecting us from speculators, supply side manipulation, and every other kind of abuse the market manipulators cook up. Trucking is a random example of an industry never properly regulated enough that is also not actually deregulated.
But right there under lying Blumsack's byline is a cluster of pictures of Enron creating a faked energy crisis in California, because deregulation allowed it. Of course, that crisis also required Bush and his lying "free marketeers" to be running the Federal government, which is obligated to protect one state from interstate commerce abuses that damage it - which is what Texas deregulation allowed by keeping Enron's practices and books secret, even though California's deregulation required opening them.
Resumption of physical nukes testing wouldn't resolve anything. And the only thing that commencement of actual hostilities would resolve would be everything. We are stuck no matter what we do, now that the cat's out of the bag. And as we develop ever more ways to quickly release lots of energy, especially at a distance, especially cheaply, we're going to be stuck with lots more cats.
I'd like to see a reliable budget explanation of how much is spent on modeling the degradation of the arsenal. Vs how much is spent the development of new weapons by modeling simulated tests on stored data from old tests, under the old weapons test ban treaties.
I'm not at all confident that any of what we do, including the original production, has ever given us a working arsenal of nukes. But if our enemies and rivals believe we've got one, that's good enough for me. Indeed, given the proliferation, sabotage and accident probabilities over time, I'd rather have nothing but simulations and belief in them than the real thing.
Well, at least those nukes budgets have some value: improving supercomputer performance, that can be used for actually useful applications.
Maybe someday we'll get smart and use the computers for only that kind of apps, like weather and climate modeling, and energy physics research that doesn't make bombs.
The advice to the president doesn't change rules for "fastest supercomputer". It tells the president not to be suckered into a supercomputer race measured on only the FLOPS, but rather on more useful performance measures. Because getting sidetracked into less useful metrics to see who's winning the race will waste US resources in winning the race, but not producing the most useful computer. And the US interest is in producing the most useful computer, not in nominally winning the race.
In fact, that report says "let China dominate the Top500, if the US still has the better computers". Which is exactly what I want the US doing, and what I prefer China to be doing rather than leaving the US behind in actual usefulness.
But if you want to get caught up in "the USA is dead" trip that leads into traps that actually would hurt the US if acted on, go ahead. You're not having any effect on the US supercomputer effort.
I'd love to jailbreak my PS3, install Android, then install this PlayStation app on in to hook it back up to the PlayStation Network. Then I could dual-boot the PS3 between GameOS and Android without having to leave behind the PS Network. And program it in Android without losing access to the RSX (or the SPUs), maybe writing some games. Maybe writing some games that connect to the PS Network. Without paying a royalty to Sony, so I could write some cheap but cool (for a few hours, anyway) games.
The missing link is Android on PS3. How's that coming along? Is there even a single HowTo somwhere for jailbreaking and installing Linux instead of Android, to get started programming in Java for when Android is ready?
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So the man and woman are having consensual sex, and the woman changes her mind during the act. Now it's rape? How does that protect the rights of the man? Especially when women not infrequently have unrealistic, self-created expectations of what the sex will be like or mean - just as men do?
Well, Assange received 2/3 of Wikileaks' payroll, so Wikileaks seems to consider him at least very important to it.
There are other orgs like Wikileaks, like Cryptome, but they didn't receive the kinds of leaks that Wilileaks has received. Nor have they received anything like Wikileaks' attention, though their lesser publications still merited much more attention than they did receive.
After this latest cycle, Assange has become equated with Wikileaks, even if here hadn't been before. Especially in the minds of people who actually leak the kind of content Wikileaks publishes, and even more so in the minds of the mass media which publicize what Wikileaks publishes. Which is where it counts, even more than inside the Wikileaks org itself. But because of what's happening to Bradley Manning after leaking (punitive confinement, possibly torture, and probably conviction for treason - and so possibly execution), I think the Wikileaks brand is tainted as a recipient of leaks.
Which is just as well, I suppose. Because Wikileaks has now put its class of org on the map. So other leak publishers will have an easier time getting an audience. Now something much like it will go on without Wikileaks or Assange being necessary, able to reach a much larger audience and therefore having a much larger effect.
The next step will be a leak publishing org (perhaps Wikileaks itself, and perhaps deliberately set up) publishing faked leaks that discredit the org, and (to some extent) the entire class of org. That would be the most effective counterintel to a threat like Wikileaks and its fellows. I expect it's only the complacency and incompetence of the CIA/etc that has left Wikileaks and others with their perceived integrity intact.
As far as the law is concerned, he's accused of deliberately damaging a condom during otherwise consensual sex. There are degrees of rape, as there are degrees of most crimes, and that is a minor degree of rape, even in Sweden where it is considered rape.
I'm not confusing Interpol with anything - Sweden alerted Interpol to find Assange. Show me a single other case where Sweden alerted Interpol to find a missing foreigner who was accused of this particular kind of rape.
It's true that this "rape" case gets unusual attention because it's Assange, but I don't see how his being a "drama queen" has anything to do with it. Subsequent to his being targeted with these accusations and manhunt, he made some public comments to the media that was hounding him, which doesn't make him a drama queen. Though staying in the public eye is a good survival strategy when you've made the kinds of enemies he has with his leaks, especially the Pentagon and CIA/etc.
Those cables didn't "embarrass everyone" - they embarrassed the US most of all, and a few other countries a lot less. Not just because the actual leaker was a US soldier who demonstrated the insecurity of US comms, but because the subjects of the cables is mostly US performance in its various wars, and duplicity in prosecuting them. The cables didn't just embarrass the US, but actually compromised operative secrecy in several cases. The US is clearly the government most likely to be pressuring Sweden.
The rape cases are working well to discredit and capture Assange, and to inhibit other leakers seeing his treatment. Just executing him quickly would blow back on the US rather badly, and even the current incompetent CIA/etc aren't going to do that.
I don't have a "mancrush" on Assange. I have a rather deep love for the truth. So when I say "fuck you" for saying something stupid like that, I'll explain that it doesn't mean I have a mancrush on you, either. I just think you're stupid and not worthy of respect.
It's true that nothing is clear. It's not clear that the women retracted their consent during a sexual act.
One version of the story is that the entire duration of the sex was consensual, but that a condom broke, or wasn't used the way the woman thought it was. At that point the woman (or women) wanted Assange to get an STD test so the woman would know their own risk, but Assange refused. At that point, the woman (women) claimed their consent was retracted.
If that version is what happened, then it wasn't rape. It might be some other crime - the women seem to have a right to know what their risk of STD was, when it changed from when they consented. But it's not rape.
Assange does seem to be saying that the proximal cause of his legal problems is "revolutionary feminism" (which can have "retroactive consent revocation" laws passed in Sweden), rather than "persecution to serve US political interests". But he doesn't say that the "revolutionary feminism" is the only reason he's subject to an international manhunt and extradition on those accusations. Indeed he earlier did say that the emergence of those accusations was the product of US effort to counterattack him, which does seem obvious to a reasonable person. Just as he didn't actually say that he's "a victim of Left-wing radicalism" - the Telegraph said that, adopting Assange into its own rightwing agenda.
So you're right: nothing is clear, and without specifics, we should be wary. But what strongly ties this to Wikileaks instead of just he/she said about sex is that Assange is Wikileaks, and no one accused of acts like Assange is has been the subject of an international manhunt and UK extradition proceedings.
Assange is the only person wanted for questioning in a case like this who was the subject of an Interpol bulletin and now a UK extradition. Because he is being railroaded by the USA.
I didn't say that the USA set up whatever happened between Assange and the two women in Sweden - you did. I said that the manhunt that is working to extradite him was set up by the USA.
I also said that you are an idiot. You are.
Goodbye.
It's possible for them to both be true. Assange should be "held to account" just like anyone else under the same allegations. None of whom are subjects of international manhunts, Interpol bulletins and UK extradition. It's the political motivations of various governments, namely the US and Sweden, that are going beyond that.
As for reasonable doubt, just the existence of a very powerful enemy isn't enough to create reasonable doubt. "Anything can happen" isn't "reasonable". If there is physical evidence of his actual crime, and no physical evidence of exoneration, any doubt isn't going to be reasonable.
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No, he can't go out and murder and rape people on camera and it's just a USA plot to discredit him. Only you said that. So you are underscoring the other post's point that you are an idiot - and not just because you're "naive".
Assange is the only person whose "wanted for questioning" by Swedish police for a crime of this minor nature has been escalated into an international manhunt, enlisted Interpol, and within days hauled the UK justice system into extradition proceedings. He is being singled out, from all the many people over many years who were wanted by Swedish police for questioning in this matter. He differs from them in that he leaked many cables more or less damaging to the USA.
Regardless of what happened between Assange and the two women accusing him (which is certainly not "murder and rape people on camera", and isn't even actually rape, but rather a failure to stop consensual sex) - it is perfectly clear to everyone that Assange is being railroaded by the USA. Except perhaps to idiots.
Then the "Ethanol has taken over prime farm corn land." statement to which I replied is BS.
I agree with you about Pickens. But I don't know why you think I underestimate him. Everything I said about him is the measure of a top capitalist. Unless maybe you mean he's an even bigger asshole than what I described.
You're pretty lonely when you're all excited about the sole company you've got: someone who likes killing a few cycles showing how stupid and alienated you rightwing trolls are.
But since you do seem to like it, you can have your hole to yourself.
The amount of corn farmland in the US produces so much corn that corn prices are too low to support corn farmers, so the public subsidizes the corn farmers. If we consume more corn because we added fuel production to the consumers, that should increase demand compared to supply enough to keep prices supported without subsidies. Yet we still have the price subsidies. So is corn ethanol production really reducing the supply of food corn enough to impact the food economy?
"Hot SF babe"? And that's just the least of your blather.
You're a troll, who has hooked no one. Your face knocked our fists around a little, but now your feeble attempts to say something relevant are easily and deservedly ignored. Enjoy your lonely troll hole.
No, you're clearly nothing but a troll, and have clearly been bitten by a stronger human.
This story's challenge sounds like a contest held by the Dead Media Project that SF/futurist author Bruce Sterling started in a 1990s mailing list. Though it's really about "extinct media", but Sterling is an SF author.
I'm amused to see that today the DMP itself is down. I hope they've got a backup - and a restore device that works.
I know it's not VNC (or is it?) or Android, but I'm looking for a way to share my local Windows 7 desktop across the LAN to another Windows 7 user who watches as I do something onscreen. And a recorder to play it back. If the recorder can take a microphone narration, that's perfect.
Is something like that built into Windows 7? Or is there a free app that can do it?
Pickens was one of the top cowboys in getting us into this oil mess. Then he invested oil profits heavily in natural gas, which indeed did pay off: production has risen some as consumption has risen slightly more, but prices have doubled, with frequent sevenfold spikes that last most of a year. Nice racket, but not good enough for a snakey oil salesman like Pickens.
So Pickens started pitching his plan to move America's cars from gasoline to natgas, switching the natgas flow away from our gas turbines. New combined cycle gas turbines get up to 85% energy efficiency, because the plants can usefully consume the heat, but cars will just pump it out into the air - at about 20% energy efficiency (or worse: about 17% for gasoline cars converted to natgas). Which all means that we'd have to burn 4-5x as much natgas to get the use in cars we do now in CCGT plants. Which means buying 4-5x as much gas, from Pickens, just to burn 80% out in his backyard.
He invested $2B in wind farms because he expected at least that much more profit from natgas. He's getting that profit anyway, without the wind farms. If he'd been serious about the wind farms, he'd have them up and running, producing power, instead of letting them depreciate and then selling them to a foreign country.
Pickens has done all he could to get us into this energy crisis, and has no skills in getting us out of one. Indeed, if oil money weren't so easy once you're in the old boy club, that old boy wouldn't have made much anywhere that takes skills that actually serve and develop a market, rather than shooting fish in a barrel - Texas style, which means oil barrel.
The reason the US was overtaken in this particular metric is that the US is no longer devoting resources to being at the top of it, because those resources go into being top in the other metrics that actually do matter. The Chinese moved into the top spot after it ceased to be the most important.
This report is advising the president not to be tricked into wasting resources competing with China in that less important category at the expense of retaining leadership in the other categories.
The US doesn't build the tallest skyscrapers anymore, because we built an even bigger suburban infrastructure around cities, making such density less valuable. Other countries that do build the world's tallest building (for a while) are either wasting their time, or competing in an unnecessary race the US has no real value anymore in winning.
The US has a largely transparent government, and this advice from an advisory group to the president is good advice. Far better to compete in what matters, and to tell the truth about why. If the president were in the critical path to building the tallest buildings, the focus away from them to other development patterns would have become better known, though just as aptly practiced.
The people who misunderstand this report and the US compliance with it are not important in the supercomputer industry. Just as people who whine that the US doesn't have the world's tallest buildings anymore aren't important to the construction industry.
And there are specific problems that would be reborn if we resumed physical testing. Like the problems that N Korea is deliberately causing by doing so. All the budget boondoggles are worth avoiding actually detonating nukes, which always brings the world closer to detonating them near people.
Seth Blumsack, the author of that offensive lie, should be forced to read aloud the live data feed of the oil and gas market prices. For the rest of his life. Oil and gas prices have skyrocketed without regulations protecting us from speculators, supply side manipulation, and every other kind of abuse the market manipulators cook up. Trucking is a random example of an industry never properly regulated enough that is also not actually deregulated.
But right there under lying Blumsack's byline is a cluster of pictures of Enron creating a faked energy crisis in California, because deregulation allowed it. Of course, that crisis also required Bush and his lying "free marketeers" to be running the Federal government, which is obligated to protect one state from interstate commerce abuses that damage it - which is what Texas deregulation allowed by keeping Enron's practices and books secret, even though California's deregulation required opening them.
Resumption of physical nukes testing wouldn't resolve anything. And the only thing that commencement of actual hostilities would resolve would be everything. We are stuck no matter what we do, now that the cat's out of the bag. And as we develop ever more ways to quickly release lots of energy, especially at a distance, especially cheaply, we're going to be stuck with lots more cats.
I'd like to see a reliable budget explanation of how much is spent on modeling the degradation of the arsenal. Vs how much is spent the development of new weapons by modeling simulated tests on stored data from old tests, under the old weapons test ban treaties.
I'm not at all confident that any of what we do, including the original production, has ever given us a working arsenal of nukes. But if our enemies and rivals believe we've got one, that's good enough for me. Indeed, given the proliferation, sabotage and accident probabilities over time, I'd rather have nothing but simulations and belief in them than the real thing.
Well, at least those nukes budgets have some value: improving supercomputer performance, that can be used for actually useful applications.
Maybe someday we'll get smart and use the computers for only that kind of apps, like weather and climate modeling, and energy physics research that doesn't make bombs.
The advice to the president doesn't change rules for "fastest supercomputer". It tells the president not to be suckered into a supercomputer race measured on only the FLOPS, but rather on more useful performance measures. Because getting sidetracked into less useful metrics to see who's winning the race will waste US resources in winning the race, but not producing the most useful computer. And the US interest is in producing the most useful computer, not in nominally winning the race.
In fact, that report says "let China dominate the Top500, if the US still has the better computers". Which is exactly what I want the US doing, and what I prefer China to be doing rather than leaving the US behind in actual usefulness.
But if you want to get caught up in "the USA is dead" trip that leads into traps that actually would hurt the US if acted on, go ahead. You're not having any effect on the US supercomputer effort.
I'd love to jailbreak my PS3, install Android, then install this PlayStation app on in to hook it back up to the PlayStation Network. Then I could dual-boot the PS3 between GameOS and Android without having to leave behind the PS Network. And program it in Android without losing access to the RSX (or the SPUs), maybe writing some games. Maybe writing some games that connect to the PS Network. Without paying a royalty to Sony, so I could write some cheap but cool (for a few hours, anyway) games.
The missing link is Android on PS3. How's that coming along? Is there even a single HowTo somwhere for jailbreaking and installing Linux instead of Android, to get started programming in Java for when Android is ready?