The fact of the matter is that when you screw other over badly enough you can expect relalition. And thats whats going on, The Bush Administration is parionoid because they are becomming aware of how damn much they have screwed others over.
WTC came was attacked once before 9/11 and targets of WTC, Pentagon, White House say what?
Wrongful manipulation of world economy with political and military backing..
So now the world stock markets must be terrorist activity, considering how its manipulation resulted in dotcom boom (easy winnings had to be put somewhere) and buts (easy come easy go) and the losers, worldcom, enron, etc.. whom still haven't told the american public what they were really doing.
South east asia, indonesia is 88 percent muslin (CIA info).
All it took to help set off the war drums on iraq was one lone high ranking enough, military official, who would not be questioned about there entry into a US military base containing anthrax stores, knowledge how to handle it and newsmedia addresses....
who would be stupid enough to not know the bush administration would fall all over themselves abusing the anthrax events to get the media to bang war drums for bush?
Who are the real terrorost?
The most terrorism I have seen is not the WTC comming down but the very long running war drum banging of the bush administration against a country that most certainly did not have anything to do with WTC...
Prove that god doesn't exist? You can't as that is a scientific impossibility. So was proving Iraq didn'[t have any weapons of mass destruction. And teh US hasn't been able to find any.
Remember the smallpox threat that was use in all this?
... how no matter what amount of attack Open Source suffers in the way of libel it just keeps on going and going and going.
Haven't those attacking yet realized the essence of why it Open Source Software got a name and a community persistant it developing it?
Its simply "CONSUMER CHOICE" of those consumers that have the talent to create and share their own choice. Motivated by perhaps those who don't or refeuse to provide an acceptable choice to those consumers.
And is the character of those attacking Open Source Software, one of providing a consumer acceptable choice? Now who is really to blame, if there is someone to blame, for Open Source Software?
The answer sould be obvious to anyone with even half the intelligence of the libel criminals.
Which is a mailing list trying to address how to make existing open source software available to teh USPTO in their searching for prior art.
But if Programming is made easier, even automated, then it becomes common place like using the hindu-arabic decimal system today, instead of the Roman Numeral system for math,.
Software will never be genuinely free until it is easy enough to create that the typical end user can do so by directing the computer to do most of the work (like the fictional Star-Trek holo-deck is programmable by a child).
Its called Libel. And its really more against the programmers than it is against any F/OSS project(s). It is as well very arrogant, as it insinuates that only Microsoft or proprietary works developers are capable of programming.
Microsoft has been doing this illegal act for quite some time. When is it time to have a class action lawsuite against the jackass that coined the phrase "software pirates" when he called hobbist such, when these hobbist first discovered they can themselves create and fix software?
Need Legal representation for such a case? Where is the EFF? What about funding? Considering who would lose the case and pay the bill, don't we know that teh initial money can be raised (i.e. firefox raising of funds for advertising...)
So why is MS being allowed to continue this falseness, this libel it promotes???
Or Doesn't teh F/OSS communiyty understand that teh more people using F/OSS the more backing it will receive for development and hardware support....
It took 300 years for the hindu-arabic decimal system to overcome the roman numeral system in acounting. It took 350 years for the Catholic Church to exonerate Galelio....
Maybe if we keep the Roman Catholics out of it...
Then there are other issues which are more pressing on the need for change.... Software Patents battle...
"Also depends on your skill level, of course. And one of the cardinal Laws of Programming is that there are no Laws of Programming, only tradeoffs"
Some things are worth trading off (its not a bug, its a feature)...
When we reach the level of automation that anyone can simply tell the system what they need in a progam, and it spits it out well optimized, then all of these programming methodologies will go the way of the roman numeral system way of doing math.
Is it going to take all these methodologies to get us there? NOPE!
Its only going to take a better perspective and application of the fundamental actions involved in programming, like the decimal system over the roman numeral system,
The applications covers the natural process of taking any complexity and automating it for easier use and reuse, so the users of the complexity can apply the complexity thru the simplification of the resulting automation interface.
Think I'm kidding?
to finish the subject line:....buster!
The following mailing list archives is from a new mailing list intended to address making prior art of FOSS better accessible by the patent office and others.
There is some interesting read in there and there is also mention of slashdot being used for observable comment, if you follow a link in the list to the recent USPTO meeting regarding prior art and FOSS (its a link to Groklaw summaries of that meeting).
There really is a way for the FOSS community to overcome the software patent deception, but it means enlightening others.
its a human characteristic that separates us from other creatures.
The ability to advance and create upon what other humans before us have done.
Intellectual property rights (the ability to say no, you cannot use) had its purpose. But today its really losing ground on the reasons it was created it the first place.
Thats what you are seeing in the efforts to extend them further. Copyright has become a joke in that its limited length terms has in all practicality become a deception of continually extending them into infinity.
When in reality, with todays technology it is easier to create and market/distribute works within the shorter time length of the original copyright length terms. Yet the length terms are getting longer.
Where did all this IP build up come from?
A: by those who want to constrain us more and more for their benefit, and its not so often the actual creators doing it.. what some call capital-ISM...
Given the genuine nature of softrware, software is copyrightable... it is not patentable.
Copyright term length is way way out of wack and sucks more than patent term length.
I fully believe in the ability of any human to advance and improve upon the works of those before them. This is the unique quality of man over all other known creatures.
I belive in giving credit where it is genuinely earned but I do not support the false constraints of such IP upon the unique quality of our being.
Its all a matter of honesty. And honestly, software by its very nature is not patentable. That is provable too.
Now think about it. To be honest and remove the fraud of software patents, then he won't have to build up such a data base of prior art to defend against software patents.
I've noticed effort lately to alter the meaning or scope attached to "copyrights" and "Patents" as it applies to software. Mostly in defence of software patents.
Now maybe there is something to software not being copyrightable, but the primary current battle is that of "Software Patents"
Does a copyright suppress the creation of functionally similiar but different code? NO!
If he wants to solidify his arguement, then he has no choice but to prove software is not patentable.
Because untill you remove the fraudlent cover of patentability, you won't be able to see what is not even copyrightable.
Oh wait... that would fuck up 98% of the worlds beliefs.
Hmmm... maybe its time for that.
At one time Islam was the strongest force behind human advancement, gathering knowledge of all kinds and developing it further as well as being productive with such knowledge. Islam was considered of the highest quality products and education.
then an ottoman feeling the pressure to go to war in his royal ?(or whatever you want to call it) position, though there wasn't a real cause for it, started the downfall of islam in going to war.
Knowledge begets knowledge... and specific knowledge, such a war knowlegde, begets its own kind.
War is destructive and the opposite of productive....
Just ask father physics and mother nature. They are very persistant in telling you, no matter how much you don't listen.
1) Help microsoft pay for ongoing anti-trust legal battles
2) help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value
3) Help homeland security worm its way into your personal affairs, thru windows back doors.
4) help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value
5) help suppress open source software.
6) help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value
7) help the economy by requiring more people to be hired to handle windows IT issues.
8) help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value
9) help MS to buy out and shut down better products.
10 help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value.
I said HONEST..... I didn't say anything about Ethical.
There was a time when investing in stock was based upon believing in a company's products and services. Today that doesn't matter, so long as you have a positive return (do a google for "trillion dollar bet" for the extreamly unethical side of this.
.... lets put cameras in the police department streamed to the internet and GPS in police cars and politicians too, especially those who have plenty of people who don't like them....
People in general, are not so honest. Being a police officer is NOT an excuse or and exception to the facts.
I can think of a whole lot of situations that would open up a risk factor for cameras invading police departments, politicians and really anybody.
A country willing to sacrifice freedom in exchange for security, shall have neither nor deserve neither.
Ben Franklin and Rosevelt got it, how come the current administration doesn't?
Maybe they need a test run of these cameras on police and politicians....in order to learn why thats the way it works in reality.
Actually the truth about.NET is that this marketing company thought that they would take a look at what everyone else was doing, collect it up, put it all in the same pot, cook it to boil it down to hopefully a product or product line that would do most all of what everyone else was doing. What amounts to programming concepts and datatypes in a non-conflicting application...
This is not an uncommon practice in the world of competition.
In doing so they stumbled into doing something that should already have been done as a mater of computer science. But remember they did not do it as a matter of science, but of marketing competition.
Once they did this, they then had to figure out what they had and how to market it. And they stumbled their way thru this.
Due to the primarily marketing mindset and resulting insecurities of microsoft products in general, the.net platform is no exception. Where any growing demand for.net platform developers is equaled to the growing QA demand.
As the many things MS tried to market the.NET as, internet applications was a part that took hold and even developed out side of MS.NET in the form of portable.net (dotGNU) and MONO.
Language is only as useful as the AGREED upon use and meaning of it is applied. It is that which enables communication.
To see this from a matter of communication lines that can carry whatever transmission they might carry...
What happens when some party tries to restrict a language? Another party breaks the rules in order to advance beyond the limitations of the restrictions.
And of course you have those who play the markeing game in effort to distort the meaning so as to dishonestly gain market share (thanks to customers that don't have the time or interest to sort out the crap)....
This idea of two roads, one a well maintained super highway and the other one of being a hillbilly dirt back road is rather limiting....
Third world countries are not having to deal with such petty bickering between telcos and land lines....
Instead they are developing wireless communication lines which really come down to technology less costly to create and maintain/replace than land lines. Technology is certainly either advanced enough or quickly getting there that such petty bickering should be or will become a moot issue.
With such the only needed agreed upon issue is that of connectivity. I pay a phone bill or a cable bill, etc...What I am paying for should be the access to communication and how well the company I go thru services me and costs shouild be the only competitive issue here.
If I want multimedia band width then I would figure to pay more than what is consider basic VOIP (which is replacing analog) but currently I'm paying maybe more for such reduced service (bell south phone and internet dial up).
Considering the massive digital leakage that has been being reported (information leaking from all sorts of places, includintg the IRS - the real reason they dropped teletax).... and the most popular OS being one produced by what is primarily a marketing company, not even a secondary technology company, but a legal firm and buyout company (Microsoft)...where their own anti-spyware disables third part anti-virus software (Symantec - a cpu and resource hog)...
Lets get real here. Stop wasting Tax payer money on theories and the following of Bushes faith path.
If you want to be secure, don't connect to open lines with non-secure systems. And even better, get your priorities straight.
The only thing real about this is that its genuinely misinformation itself. Where even those participating are the most gullable.
Want to protect the US againts misinformation? Get rid of the Bush administration... tell thenm to move to iraq and set up a remote office from there.
What the hell is cyber security worth if there are other worse and more down to earth and real problems than playing "the matrix"
Computers are tools created by man and as such they can and do break, leak, etc... just like any other man made tool. The difference is that breakage is taken into consideration to reduce physical harm.
Man made tools sould not be relied upon in critical matters unless they have been designed to fail in such a manner they is safer (consider the auto industry..)
Now there is the other side of this "cyber storm" that of not protecting the American public, but of deceiving teh american public.....But the government already knows how to do this as the war on iraq has proven beyond doubt and the government (1 person, no conspiracy just the nature of politicians that would then obviously inherently play on it) can and does resort to threaten the resources it needs into co-operation (anthrax threats on teh new media to help bang war drums....)
Putting all this into perspective - see recent slashdot story regarding an adware company hiring one individual to impliment something that then took down a critical care hospital network.....
Its the american way....shrug
The US government/military has its own telephone exchange system, separate from the public telephone system. I'd imagine they would also by now have their own digital communication network.
It also seems the NSA failed to update their system to handle the y2k problem, as their system went down (all of them) for sime number of consecutive days...
I think for anyone to do the accounting of governemnt failures in system maintainence and honesty to teh american people, it would clearly expose where the real national security risk really are.
Slashdot Mirror
if facts are trolls then bush and homeland security have nothing to worry about
... everyone pay off their debts..
Then we can claim they are wasting tax payers money and busy doing things that have nothing to do with security.
We can fire them.
who is responsible for the anthrax letters?
Who kill JFK, Marilin Monrow, etc...
in excahnge for no more anominity?
...k market.html
2 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stoc
And 6 grand is what in comparison?
The fact of the matter is that when you screw other over badly enough you can expect relalition.
And thats whats going on, The Bush Administration is parionoid because they are becomming aware of how damn much they have screwed others over.
WTC came was attacked once before 9/11 and targets of WTC, Pentagon, White House say what?
Wrongful manipulation of world economy with political and military backing..
So now the world stock markets must be terrorist activity, considering how its manipulation resulted in dotcom boom (easy winnings had to be put somewhere) and buts (easy come easy go) and the losers, worldcom, enron, etc.. whom still haven't told the american public what they were really doing.
South east asia, indonesia is 88 percent muslin (CIA info).
All it took to help set off the war drums on iraq was one lone high ranking enough, military official, who would not be questioned about there entry into a US military base containing anthrax stores, knowledge how to handle it and newsmedia addresses....
who would be stupid enough to not know the bush administration would fall all over themselves abusing the anthrax events
to get the media to bang war drums for bush?
Who are the real terrorost?
The most terrorism I have seen is not the WTC comming down but the very long running war drum banging of the bush administration against a country that most certainly did not have anything to do with WTC...
Prove that god doesn't exist? You can't as that is a scientific impossibility. So was proving Iraq didn'[t have any weapons of mass destruction. And teh US hasn't been able to find any.
Remember the smallpox threat that was use in all this?
The truth is. :
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod0
The question is:
Why are we not doing what we know how to, have the resources and man power to genuinely remove what terrorist use to gain support and followers?
The real terrorist are the ones parionoid of retailation, because they have been so damn fucking bad on others.
....because MS certainly using it to promote their web browser IE.
But they are more sneaky about it.
When you install IE it defaults to reloading pages from the web instead of using the same page already in the cache.
What this does is mak it look as though their browser is being used more.
... how no matter what amount of attack Open Source suffers in the way of libel it just keeps on going and going and going.
Haven't those attacking yet realized the essence of why it Open Source Software got a name and a community persistant it developing it?
Its simply "CONSUMER CHOICE" of those consumers that have the talent to create and share their own choice. Motivated by perhaps those who don't or refeuse to provide an acceptable choice to those consumers.
And is the character of those attacking Open Source Software, one of providing a consumer acceptable choice?
Now who is really to blame, if there is someone to blame, for Open Source Software?
The answer sould be obvious to anyone with even half the intelligence of the libel criminals.
... we sometimes put something it its place, to offset its void. Maybe we should start pumping cow dung into the void...
... an analogy as to how programming is done today and how much easier it can be and why it needs to be.
http://wiki.ffii.org/IstTamaiEn
AS a matter of dealing with software patents and the scope of non-novel...
some additional relative reading on teh patent issue:
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/priorart-discuss/
Which is a mailing list trying to address how to make existing open source software available to teh USPTO in their searching for prior art.
But if Programming is made easier, even automated, then it becomes common place like using the hindu-arabic decimal system today, instead of the Roman Numeral system for math,.
Software will never be genuinely free until it is easy enough to create that the typical end user can do so by directing the computer to do most of the work (like the fictional Star-Trek holo-deck is programmable by a child).
...be applied to Free Open Source Software.
s g/d46560fa21fbc352?hl=en&
Thought its not quite MLM..
http://threeseas.net/mind/CDM.html
though I didn't include a date in the text, the file is dated OCT 14 1998 on teh server.
and there is this too:
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/m
Being that Linux is open source and this allows anyone to modify it to run on most any hardware..... Even Linus Himself created an Embedded Linux while working for Transmeta called Modori - http://midori.sourceforge.net/ ... and there is Damn Small Linux - http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ....and BasLinux (Basic Linux)
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/baslinux/ (running it on a camera????)
So what is MS really saying?
Its called Libel. And its really more against the programmers than it is against any F/OSS project(s).
It is as well very arrogant, as it insinuates that only Microsoft or proprietary works developers are capable of programming.
Microsoft has been doing this illegal act for quite some time. When is it time to have a class action lawsuite against the jackass that coined the phrase "software pirates" when he called hobbist such, when these hobbist first discovered they can themselves create and fix software?
Need Legal representation for such a case? Where is the EFF? What about funding? Considering who would lose the case and pay the bill, don't we know that teh initial money can be raised (i.e. firefox raising of funds for advertising...)
So why is MS being allowed to continue this falseness, this libel it promotes???
Or Doesn't teh F/OSS communiyty understand that teh more people using F/OSS the more backing it will receive for development and hardware support....
Well lets see...
It took 300 years for the hindu-arabic decimal system to overcome the roman numeral system in acounting.
It took 350 years for the Catholic Church to exonerate Galelio....
Maybe if we keep the Roman Catholics out of it...
Then there are other issues which are more pressing on the need for change.... Software Patents battle...
"Also depends on your skill level, of course. And one of the cardinal Laws of Programming is that there are no Laws of Programming, only tradeoffs"
Some things are worth trading off (its not a bug, its a feature)...
When we reach the level of automation that anyone can simply tell the system what they need in a progam, and it spits it out well optimized, then all of these programming methodologies will go the way of the roman numeral system way of doing math.
Is it going to take all these methodologies to get us there? NOPE!
Its only going to take a better perspective and application of the fundamental actions involved in programming, like the decimal system over the roman numeral system,
Its not that far off.
The applications covers the natural process of taking any complexity and automating it for easier use and reuse, so the users of the complexity can apply the complexity thru the simplification of the resulting automation interface.
....buster!
Think I'm kidding?
to finish the subject line:
The following mailing list archives is from a new mailing list intended to address making prior art of FOSS better accessible by the patent office and others.
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/priorart-discuss/
There is some interesting read in there and there is also mention of slashdot being used for observable comment, if you follow a link in the list to the recent USPTO meeting regarding prior art and FOSS (its a link to Groklaw summaries of that meeting).
There really is a way for the FOSS community to overcome the software patent deception, but it means enlightening others.
..... now picture that.
h ael/ScannerCamera/
h tml
my second thought was how.....well, the scanner camera...
http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/alumni/02-04/mic
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-demo-scanner-cam.
its a human characteristic that separates us from other creatures.
The ability to advance and create upon what other humans before us have done.
Intellectual property rights (the ability to say no, you cannot use) had its purpose. But today its really losing ground on the reasons it was created it the first place.
Thats what you are seeing in the efforts to extend them further. Copyright has become a joke in that its limited length terms has in all practicality become a deception of continually extending them into infinity.
When in reality, with todays technology it is easier to create and market/distribute works within the shorter time length of the original copyright length terms. Yet the length terms are getting longer.
Where did all this IP build up come from?
A: by those who want to constrain us more and more for their benefit, and its not so often the actual creators doing it.. what some call capital-ISM...
Given the genuine nature of softrware, software is copyrightable... it is not patentable.
d iscuss
Copyright term length is way way out of wack and sucks more than patent term length.
I fully believe in the ability of any human to advance and improve upon the works of those before them. This is the unique quality of man over all other known creatures.
I belive in giving credit where it is genuinely earned but I do not support the false constraints of such IP upon the unique quality of our being.
Its all a matter of honesty. And honestly, software by its very nature is not patentable. That is provable too.
https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/priorart-
Now think about it. To be honest and remove the fraud of software patents, then he won't have to build up such a data base of prior art to defend against software patents.
I've noticed effort lately to alter the meaning or scope attached to "copyrights" and "Patents" as it applies to software. Mostly in defence of software patents.
Now maybe there is something to software not being copyrightable, but the primary current battle is that of "Software Patents"
Does a copyright suppress the creation of functionally similiar but different code? NO!
If he wants to solidify his arguement, then he has no choice but to prove software is not patentable.
Because untill you remove the fraudlent cover of patentability, you won't be able to see what is not even copyrightable.
... is needed is HONESTY?
Oh wait... that would fuck up 98% of the worlds beliefs.
Hmmm... maybe its time for that.
At one time Islam was the strongest force behind human advancement, gathering knowledge of all kinds and developing it further as well as being productive with such knowledge. Islam was considered of the highest quality products and education.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Islam
then an ottoman feeling the pressure to go to war in his royal ?(or whatever you want to call it) position, though there wasn't a real cause for it, started the downfall of islam in going to war.
Knowledge begets knowledge... and specific knowledge, such a war knowlegde, begets its own kind.
War is destructive and the opposite of productive....
Just ask father physics and mother nature. They are very persistant in telling you, no matter how much you don't listen.
1) Help microsoft pay for ongoing anti-trust legal battles
2) help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value
3) Help homeland security worm its way into your personal affairs, thru windows back doors.
4) help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value
5) help suppress open source software.
6) help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value
7) help the economy by requiring more people to be hired to handle windows IT issues.
8) help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value
9) help MS to buy out and shut down better products.
10 help those who have stock in MS to see a growth in their stock value.
I said HONEST..... I didn't say anything about Ethical.
There was a time when investing in stock was based upon believing in a company's products and services.
Today that doesn't matter, so long as you have a positive return (do a google for "trillion dollar bet" for the extreamly unethical side of this.
.... lets put cameras in the police department streamed to the internet and GPS in police cars and politicians too, especially those who have plenty of people who don't like them....
People in general, are not so honest. Being a police officer is NOT an excuse or and exception to the facts.
I can think of a whole lot of situations that would open up a risk factor for cameras invading police departments, politicians and really anybody.
A country willing to sacrifice freedom in exchange for security, shall have neither nor deserve neither.
Ben Franklin and Rosevelt got it, how come the current administration doesn't?
Maybe they need a test run of these cameras on police and politicians....in order to learn why thats the way it works in reality.
Microsofts pervasively integrated and well manifested "user frustration function"....
...demagnitizer....
Oh my, I'm seeing spots, sun spots...
A new lower power level of EMP weapons has been announced, following the announcement of the first commercial Magnetic computing....
Actually the truth about .NET is that this marketing company thought that they would take a look at what everyone else was doing, collect it up, put it all in the same pot, cook it to boil it down to hopefully a product or product line that would do most all of what everyone else was doing. What amounts to programming concepts and datatypes in a non-conflicting application...
.net platform is no exception. Where any growing demand for .net platform developers is equaled to the growing QA demand.
.NET as, internet applications was a part that took hold and even developed out side of MS .NET in the form of portable.net (dotGNU) and MONO.
This is not an uncommon practice in the world of competition.
In doing so they stumbled into doing something that should already have been done as a mater of computer science. But remember they did not do it as a matter of science, but of marketing competition.
Once they did this, they then had to figure out what they had and how to market it. And they stumbled their way thru this.
Due to the primarily marketing mindset and resulting insecurities of microsoft products in general, the
As the many things MS tried to market the
Language is only as useful as the AGREED upon use and meaning of it is applied. It is that which enables communication.
To see this from a matter of communication lines that can carry whatever transmission they might carry...
What happens when some party tries to restrict a language? Another party breaks the rules in order to advance beyond the limitations of the restrictions.
And of course you have those who play the markeing game in effort to distort the meaning so as to dishonestly gain market share (thanks to customers that don't have the time or interest to sort out the crap)....
This idea of two roads, one a well maintained super highway and the other one of being a hillbilly dirt back road is rather limiting....
Third world countries are not having to deal with such petty bickering between telcos and land lines....
Instead they are developing wireless communication lines which really come down to technology less costly to create and maintain/replace than land lines. Technology is certainly either advanced enough or quickly getting there that such petty bickering should be or will become a moot issue.
With such the only needed agreed upon issue is that of connectivity. I pay a phone bill or a cable bill, etc...What I am paying for should be the access to communication and how well the company I go thru services me and costs shouild be the only competitive issue here.
If I want multimedia band width then I would figure to pay more than what is consider basic VOIP (which is replacing analog) but currently I'm paying maybe more for such reduced service (bell south phone and internet dial up).
WTF...
Considering the massive digital leakage that has been being reported (information leaking from all sorts of places, includintg the IRS - the real reason they dropped teletax).... and the most popular OS being one produced by what is primarily a marketing company, not even a secondary technology company, but a legal firm and buyout company (Microsoft)...where their own anti-spyware disables third part anti-virus software (Symantec - a cpu and resource hog)...
Lets get real here. Stop wasting Tax payer money on theories and the following of Bushes faith path.
If you want to be secure, don't connect to open lines with non-secure systems. And even better, get your priorities straight.
The only thing real about this is that its genuinely misinformation itself. Where even those participating are the most gullable.
Want to protect the US againts misinformation? Get rid of the Bush administration... tell thenm to move to iraq and set up a remote office from there.
What the hell is cyber security worth if there are other worse and more down to earth and real problems than playing "the matrix"
Computers are tools created by man and as such they can and do break, leak, etc... just like any other man made tool.
The difference is that breakage is taken into consideration to reduce physical harm.
Man made tools sould not be relied upon in critical matters unless they have been designed to fail in such a manner they is safer (consider the auto industry..)
Now there is the other side of this "cyber storm" that of not protecting the American public, but of deceiving teh american public.....But the government already knows how to do this as the war on iraq has proven beyond doubt and the government (1 person, no conspiracy just the nature of politicians that would then obviously inherently play on it) can and does resort to threaten the resources it needs into co-operation (anthrax threats on teh new media to help bang war drums....)
Putting all this into perspective - see recent slashdot story regarding an adware company hiring one individual to impliment something that then took down a critical care hospital network.....
Its the american way....shrug
The US government/military has its own telephone exchange system, separate from the public telephone system. I'd imagine they would also by now have their own digital communication network.
It also seems the NSA failed to update their system to handle the y2k problem, as their system went down (all of them) for sime number of consecutive days...
I think for anyone to do the accounting of governemnt failures in system maintainence and honesty to teh american people, it would clearly expose where the real national security risk really are.
soooo, isn't teh whole point of .net that of internet based application development?