EADS are one of Airbus parent companies owning 75%. They are then in turn partially owned by the french state( 29% joint share with Legardiere(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagard%C3% A8re_Group)).
The other 25% is owned by BAE systems who, as far as I can tell in 5 mins rudimentary research, are entirely owned by other commercial interests. None of whom have a controlling share.
Sorry, I have also studied enough Physics to know that getting nuclear fissile material through an airport in the US is ridiculous. But blowing a load of plutunium up (properly, so that a supercritical mass is created) above a city in the US without the plane ever landing is plausible and practical.
The only place a geiger counter would be effective is in whatever airport that the plane took off from (Think Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana for instance as it is currently being redeveloped).
The plane would never have to land, just explode at 30 000 ft above a US city and cause massive nuclear fallout.
Didnt the US have one of its own presidents shot under dubious circumstances on US soil back in the 60's. I think that any CIA involvment in that conspiracy may hold up some of my arguments about 911.
For fuck sake, if the US cant even protect its own head of state who the fuck expects us in the rest of the world to take them seriously. And if they can protect them then the CIA was involved. Your screwed either way.
Americans also need to wise up on what their government does with their blessing overseas. Like killing innocent civilians with agent orange (in Vietnam) or bunker busters (in Iraq).
You (the nation as a whole) elected them, you deserve a measure of responsiblity for their actions, that is what democracy means. And the same applies to me as I am british and my Govt also invaded Iraq. If I or any my friends is killed, while we may not deserve that to happen to us (nobody deserves to die), I can understand what may motivate someone to kill us. Even if the person doing the killing is just as fucked up as Bush senior himself.
It's just that if it had not happened then the US public wouldn't have been so tolerant of their own sons and daughters dieing in countries like Afganistan and Iraq while trying to secure the rest of the worlds oil reserves.
In Afganistan they wanted to build a pipeline that the taliban never would have agreed to. In Iraq, well the largest oil field in the world speaks for itself.
Just look at what was happening to US defense expenditure before 911. It was going down as the majority of the population realised that there was no big bad communist Russia to fight anymore so there was no need for aircraft carriers and nuclear subs.
Now we have terrorists, an enemy who can never go bust like Russia did. And if you kill a terrorist, 10 more just spring up their place. It is a war the US can never win. Which obviously suits the people who make from money from war by selling defense equipment to the US govt.
The NSA and CIA let planes crash into the twin towers and that conveniently empty (for redecoration apparantly) wing of the pentagon. They did this as they knew it would result in massive increase in their budgets.
And before you dismiss this as a troll, just think what you might ignore if you were looking at redundancy from somewhere you had worked for 20 years. From a career you enjoyed, possibly with no other hope of employment in the same field. After all, who hires people with a 20 year gap on their CV which they are not allowed to discuss for reasons of national security.
If all I had to do to protect it was look the other way briefly, I might just do it if I had a wife and 3 kids to support.
But herein lies the problem, the people on the other side are more desperate the we are. Most of Iraq has a much lower standard of living than the US, the population is on the edge of starvation, disease is rife and on top of that the country is a war zone where you might just catch a stray bullet or bit of shrapnel and die. Now on top of that only thing your country has of value to trade with (oil) is in the hands of foriegn companies (the only ones with the expertise to extract it) who are allied with the foriegn invaders. Try putting yourself in this position and think of how determined you might be to throw those foriegn invaders out.
But my final point is more disturbing than all of this. We now NEED the CIA and NSA. We need them to stop some super pissed of terrorist obtaining a nuclear device from Pakistan (Definately have nukes unlike Iran) or Iran (Maybe have nukes but definately dont like us) and blowing us up with it. All they have to do is smuggle the nuke onto a plane bound for the US from some third world country.
What happens when one of the kids hacks the proxy server?
My parents tried to keep me from using their computer while they were ate work so I would actually got into school / college. Given time (I never actually went to school anyway) and motivation (pr0n) you would be amazed at what you can achieve.
I do think this is great idea however as you are training the IT professionals of tomorrow from a very early age.
"If these stupid kids would figure out the same thing, and do just a teensy bit to obscure their identities (no real names, blur faces and obvious location-signs in photos), we would all-but-stop-hearing about the evils of MySpace."
And start hearing about the fictitious evils of some other fad that most people won't understand so will believe.
Lets face it, the original family who are trying to dredge myspace through the courts are only doing it because there is a chance they will get paid. The lawyers representing them just smell a buck, but at least they will work for their money.
And the only reason this story gets so much coverage in the press is that the media love pandering to ignorance. Especially when it helps their circulation.
And if you do happen to work in IT proffesionally, or want to, then knowing what mistakes people have made in the past or what they have done that has worked well can help you immeasurably.
But then, who wants to do something well when you can do a half arsed job, spend twice as long ironing out the bugs and then get a reputation for being a fuckwit.
I just thought I would throw in my two cent regarding fast release cycles and living on the bleeding edge. I actually stopped using Redhat / Fedora on my home PC as it was not as recent as I would have liked. I have now moved to Gentoo.
The other thing that always bugged about Redhat was that I kept breaking the RPM system. I know this could always be blamed on me, but since I started using Gentoo, Portage (The gentoo software repository) has never given me any problems whatsoever.
Or the alternative hack is a caller display system for your phone. That way when the windows users ring up you can ignore them, after all you know what they will want already.
I hadnt really though about what the endgame to all this would be until now. But this is probably a very good point.
Microsoft must have realised they had a problem in having a 7 year gap in releases. They were worried a lot of companies may have switched or considered switching when the security side of XP started taking a battering as malware writers as such started to get to know all it little holes they left.
So they needed a tactic to make Linux look dubious from a mass deployment point of view for the same period. This was especially true when they found out that alot of stuff like WinFS was not going to be ready in time. Combine this with the specs for what Vista would actually contain were starting to look thinner and thinner. Meanwhile various linux developers have read the Vista specs and are trying to implement their versions, some of which may actually be available first (This is quite easy as no company can bring the same number of developers to bear on a problem as the Open Source Movement as a whole)
So their solution was to shop around for a company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and offer the board a huge cash payout. this would keep the company afloat long enough for the various execs to find other work or reach retirement age. And if SCO get fined I doubt anyone at SCO or MS will care as the damage has been done, and the goldenhand shakes will be protected in the pension fund. (Personally if I was a SCO exec I would still want MS stock as a payout)
The real problem is that the american legal system is such a crock of shit that this tactic will probably work, and the case will still be running until one side stops throwing money at it. Being that IBM have put themselves in a position where they cannot back down (They backed Linux 100%) this will hopefully be if SCO give up.
But I do still worry that the (SCO) lawyers prevail and this results in all the Open Source resources I mentioned earlier being directed at rewriting a large chunk of the OS the same way MicroSoft has. In the case of MicroSoft this was because harsh deadlines caused poor design decisions. This is probably just MicroSoft's way of trying to cause similar problems to appear in Linux (or Linux 2) as the rewrite is hurried by the number of smaller companies that now rely on Linux (Mine Included as we use Linux to host almost everything).
In the situation of worrying about losing your day job if you dont get your hobby programming done quick enough, the hobby programming will suffer in quality. Less Time to complete a task = More Mistakes in it's implementation.
That could buy them decades being the only half decent OS supplier for the x86 platform again, just like the 80s. This would result in the development costs of Windows being halved as they stopped having to worry about quality to anywhere near the extend they do now.
mpq format you say? Well that sounds about as useful to me as a chocolate teapot.
Will my mp3 player support it? No, Then I guess they wont be getting very many of my hard earned pennies.
As soon as the record companies wise up and start offering a decent legal download site maybe people will actually use it, in the mean time AllofMP3 will carry on strong and they'll be no WTO place for them Rooskies.
1) First and foremost is that grabbing someone by the shirt is actually assault and you could in theory be prosecuted for it, especially if they are a minor.
2) The other more serious point is that the reason your record shop is going bust is not because of piracy. It is due to the digital age. I will quite happily pay for music. I dont even mind the price being whatever record companies choose to charge, although how much it costs does change how often I can afford it. Believe it or not the last CD's bought last month I have used once, to rip them to PC. Now they are just rubbish which I need to throw away.
The main issue I have is with accrueing more wasteful plastic crap (ie - the CD itself) when all I want is the digital copy of the music I can play and store on my pc / laptop. I am now looking at throwing away my entire CD collection. I have ripped it all to my PC for personal use as this and my phone/ mp3 player are the only way I ever want to play it. Morally I should not resell the CDs as I still use the content, but I am fed up with owning so much useless junk I dont need anymore.
I like the idea of keeping photos, films, music and everything else possible in this format which takes up less physical space and doesnt need me to lug it around seperately. With all this in mind I want to start buying music online but I cannot play anything other than mp3 on my phone so this is the format I choose to buy it in.
I hope this has explained the main problem facing all retailers of physical products. But just to summarise -
I ( and I am sure I am not alone in this) work and can afford to spend a fair amount of money on entertainment, but I do not want to buy the physical item associated with the entertainment. Just the content. I do not however want to rent the content as I would probably like to watch it again in the future, possibly on vastly different hardware and software to that which I now own (I know for a fact my phone will change in september this year whay I am entitled to an upgrade to a more recent model). The fact most legal online retailers use DRM also discounts me from using these as I mainly use linux which is unsupported.
Icidentally if anyone can point me at a 100% legal site (under UK law) where I can pay to download mp3s I would be very grateful.
More clear evidence that the moderation system doesnt work as intended. Just set your view of slashot to show you everything and filter out the crap manually as you read it.
Ive often noticed that as soon as you post something that most people here disagree with, whoever has some mod points instantly mods the post down rather than post a comment breaking down why they disagree.
Maybe they should just change the mod system so that the ratings go from strongly disagree to strongly agree, that seems to be how it's used anyway.
The main difference between now and the 1930's is that the US won the war that resulted and has made sure it came out on top.
Nowadays all the best, most technologically advance weapons come from the US. OK, so russia did give us the AK-47, but that alone will not let you successfully invade another country. If the west wanted to remove the threat of another country the easiest method is what we did to Iraq in th 1980's - You impose sanctions and stop them getting any weapons that threaten anyone other than themselves.
Of course the big problem with this approach in Iraq was that it also stopped the west getting as much oil as they need to drive SUV's everyday. So rather than stop buying inefficient vehicles they came up with a plan to convince the public that the armed forces were needed to "stabilise" the world. I defy anyone to show me how the US and UK (I am british) have helped stabilise Iraq.
I fondly remember the days when the US and UK were looking at cutting their military budget, but now those days are gone and all we can do is hope that the US Govt comes to its senses and realises that their powers should end where their borders do. The British lost our empire in the second world war (mostly) and I for one think that was one of the best outcomes. (I am also glad I was not brought up speaking German)
(Please ignore my sig on this post as this is a serious comment from a serious pacifist - not just a troll for a change)
Good point, maybe the real issue here is that Rockstar and ID Software aren't donating enough of their profits to either parties campaign funds.
I'm sure if the computer game industry combined to form an industry body similar to mpaa and started employing some decent lobbyists this would all be blown under the carpet in no time. Of course ultimately we would end up paying for this through higher prices as the cost is passed on to the consumer, but that is how politics and business works in the US isnt it?
When the state exceeds its rightful authority, it is the right - the duty - of citizens to resist, non-violently if possible, violently if need be. An order requiring me, convicted of no crime, to yield a sliver to flesh to the government is inherently illegitimate. I repeat: the sovereignty of the state ends at my skin. It is a simple principle, for which I am prepared to fight very hard.
Nice idea, but having been DNA tested by the police on numerous ocasions I would like to point out the problem with resisting a DNA test - it is nigh on impossible. All that is required is one freshly plucked hair. It is actually easier to false someone to provide a DNA sample than it is to take fingerprints with their co-operation.
For those people who have the patience to read an awful lot of complicated physics you may realise that the hard part is obtaining sufficient quantities of fissile material.
People who talk about restricting nuclear weapon design info are just demonstrating their own ignorance of exactly how easy it is to build a nuke.
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Lack of close friends due to the internet? Bullshit, I have no friends because I keep offending anyone who comes close.
Lets just get this straight, Airbus is partially owned by France.
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To learn more about who owns Airbus just follow this link:
http://www.eads.com/web/lang/en/1024/content/OF00
EADS are one of Airbus parent companies owning 75%. They are then in turn partially owned by the french state( 29% joint share with Legardiere(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagard%C3
The other 25% is owned by BAE systems who, as far as I can tell in 5 mins rudimentary research, are entirely owned by other commercial interests. None of whom have a controlling share.
http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=183#significan
If anyone finds any of this to be incorrect please post some links so I may learn more.
Sorry, I have also studied enough Physics to know that getting nuclear fissile material through an airport in the US is ridiculous. But blowing a load of plutunium up (properly, so that a supercritical mass is created) above a city in the US without the plane ever landing is plausible and practical.
The only place a geiger counter would be effective is in whatever airport that the plane took off from (Think Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana for instance as it is currently being redeveloped).
The plane would never have to land, just explode at 30 000 ft above a US city and cause massive nuclear fallout.
Didnt the US have one of its own presidents shot under dubious circumstances on US soil back in the 60's. I think that any CIA involvment in that conspiracy may hold up some of my arguments about 911.
For fuck sake, if the US cant even protect its own head of state who the fuck expects us in the rest of the world to take them seriously. And if they can protect them then the CIA was involved. Your screwed either way.
Americans also need to wise up on what their government does with their blessing overseas. Like killing innocent civilians with agent orange (in Vietnam) or bunker busters (in Iraq).
You (the nation as a whole) elected them, you deserve a measure of responsiblity for their actions, that is what democracy means. And the same applies to me as I am british and my Govt also invaded Iraq. If I or any my friends is killed, while we may not deserve that to happen to us (nobody deserves to die), I can understand what may motivate someone to kill us. Even if the person doing the killing is just as fucked up as Bush senior himself.
The CIA and NSA did see 911 coming.
It's just that if it had not happened then the US public wouldn't have been so tolerant of their own sons and daughters dieing in countries like Afganistan and Iraq while trying to secure the rest of the worlds oil reserves.
In Afganistan they wanted to build a pipeline that the taliban never would have agreed to. In Iraq, well the largest oil field in the world speaks for itself.
Just look at what was happening to US defense expenditure before 911. It was going down as the majority of the population realised that there was no big bad communist Russia to fight anymore so there was no need for aircraft carriers and nuclear subs.
Now we have terrorists, an enemy who can never go bust like Russia did. And if you kill a terrorist, 10 more just spring up their place. It is a war the US can never win. Which obviously suits the people who make from money from war by selling defense equipment to the US govt.
The NSA and CIA let planes crash into the twin towers and that conveniently empty (for redecoration apparantly) wing of the pentagon. They did this as they knew it would result in massive increase in their budgets.
And before you dismiss this as a troll, just think what you might ignore if you were looking at redundancy from somewhere you had worked for 20 years. From a career you enjoyed, possibly with no other hope of employment in the same field. After all, who hires people with a 20 year gap on their CV which they are not allowed to discuss for reasons of national security.
If all I had to do to protect it was look the other way briefly, I might just do it if I had a wife and 3 kids to support.
But herein lies the problem, the people on the other side are more desperate the we are. Most of Iraq has a much lower standard of living than the US, the population is on the edge of starvation, disease is rife and on top of that the country is a war zone where you might just catch a stray bullet or bit of shrapnel and die. Now on top of that only thing your country has of value to trade with (oil) is in the hands of foriegn companies (the only ones with the expertise to extract it) who are allied with the foriegn invaders. Try putting yourself in this position and think of how determined you might be to throw those foriegn invaders out.
But my final point is more disturbing than all of this. We now NEED the CIA and NSA. We need them to stop some super pissed of terrorist obtaining a nuclear device from Pakistan (Definately have nukes unlike Iran) or Iran (Maybe have nukes but definately dont like us) and blowing us up with it. All they have to do is smuggle the nuke onto a plane bound for the US from some third world country.
What happens when one of the kids hacks the proxy server?
My parents tried to keep me from using their computer while they were ate work so I would actually got into school / college.
Given time (I never actually went to school anyway) and motivation (pr0n) you would be amazed at what you can achieve.
I do think this is great idea however as you are training the IT professionals of tomorrow from a very early age.
"If these stupid kids would figure out the same thing, and do just a teensy bit to obscure their identities (no real names, blur faces and obvious location-signs in photos), we would all-but-stop-hearing about the evils of MySpace."
And start hearing about the fictitious evils of some other fad that most people won't understand so will believe.
Lets face it, the original family who are trying to dredge myspace through the courts are only doing it because there is a chance they will get paid. The lawyers representing them just smell a buck, but at least they will work for their money.
And the only reason this story gets so much coverage in the press is that the media love pandering to ignorance. Especially when it helps their circulation.
Why on earth do people keep posting links to articles on a private site. I know that we would only have to register to read it, but who bothers?
Posting links to articles which are a pain to read just encourages people like me.
And if you do happen to work in IT proffesionally, or want to, then knowing what mistakes people have made in the past or what they have done that has worked well can help you immeasurably.
But then, who wants to do something well when you can do a half arsed job, spend twice as long ironing out the bugs and then get a reputation for being a fuckwit.
I just thought I would throw in my two cent regarding fast release cycles and living on the bleeding edge. I actually stopped using Redhat / Fedora on my home PC as it was not as recent as I would have liked. I have now moved to Gentoo.
The other thing that always bugged about Redhat was that I kept breaking the RPM system. I know this could always be blamed on me, but since I started using Gentoo, Portage (The gentoo software repository) has never given me any problems whatsoever.
Apparently holding a large matal aerial above your head in a thunder storm is dangerous as well.
It is unavoidable, although it could be reduced by making sure only the smartest teachers were highered.
That way, maybe they would turn out students who could spell the word "hired".
There is a hack, its called Linux.
Or the alternative hack is a caller display system for your phone. That way when the windows users ring up you can ignore them, after all you know what they will want already.
I hadnt really though about what the endgame to all this would be until now. But this is probably a very good point.
Microsoft must have realised they had a problem in having a 7 year gap in releases. They were worried a lot of companies may have switched or considered switching when the security side of XP started taking a battering as malware writers as such started to get to know all it little holes they left.
So they needed a tactic to make Linux look dubious from a mass deployment point of view for the same period. This was especially true when they found out that alot of stuff like WinFS was not going to be ready in time. Combine this with the specs for what Vista would actually contain were starting to look thinner and thinner. Meanwhile various linux developers have read the Vista specs and are trying to implement their versions, some of which may actually be available first (This is quite easy as no company can bring the same number of developers to bear on a problem as the Open Source Movement as a whole)
So their solution was to shop around for a company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and offer the board a huge cash payout. this would keep the company afloat long enough for the various execs to find other work or reach retirement age. And if SCO get fined I doubt anyone at SCO or MS will care as the damage has been done, and the goldenhand shakes will be protected in the pension fund. (Personally if I was a SCO exec I would still want MS stock as a payout)
The real problem is that the american legal system is such a crock of shit that this tactic will probably work, and the case will still be running until one side stops throwing money at it. Being that IBM have put themselves in a position where they cannot back down (They backed Linux 100%) this will hopefully be if SCO give up.
But I do still worry that the (SCO) lawyers prevail and this results in all the Open Source resources I mentioned earlier being directed at rewriting a large chunk of the OS the same way MicroSoft has. In the case of MicroSoft this was because harsh deadlines caused poor design decisions. This is probably just MicroSoft's way of trying to cause similar problems to appear in Linux (or Linux 2) as the rewrite is hurried by the number of smaller companies that now rely on Linux (Mine Included as we use Linux to host almost everything).
In the situation of worrying about losing your day job if you dont get your hobby programming done quick enough, the hobby programming will suffer in quality. Less Time to complete a task = More Mistakes in it's implementation.
That could buy them decades being the only half decent OS supplier for the x86 platform again, just like the 80s. This would result in the development costs of Windows being halved as they stopped having to worry about quality to anywhere near the extend they do now.
And thanks to the joys of Janus DRM, as soon as you stoping paying, you stop listening.
The other point of DRM is that it looks to see if you are authorised to play it everytime you try.
No Internet Connection - no more music until it's fixed, even though the music is already stored on your PC.
mpq format you say? Well that sounds about as useful to me as a chocolate teapot.
Will my mp3 player support it? No, Then I guess they wont be getting very many of my hard earned pennies.
As soon as the record companies wise up and start offering a decent legal download site maybe people will actually use it, in the mean time AllofMP3 will carry on strong and they'll be no WTO place for them Rooskies.
A few points regarding your post.
1) First and foremost is that grabbing someone by the shirt is actually assault and you could in theory be prosecuted for it, especially if they are a minor.
2) The other more serious point is that the reason your record shop is going bust is not because of piracy. It is due to the digital age. I will quite happily pay for music. I dont even mind the price being whatever record companies choose to charge, although how much it costs does change how often I can afford it. Believe it or not the last CD's bought last month I have used once, to rip them to PC. Now they are just rubbish which I need to throw away.
The main issue I have is with accrueing more wasteful plastic crap (ie - the CD itself) when all I want is the digital copy of the music I can play and store on my pc / laptop. I am now looking at throwing away my entire CD collection. I have ripped it all to my PC for personal use as this and my phone/ mp3 player are the only way I ever want to play it. Morally I should not resell the CDs as I still use the content, but I am fed up with owning so much useless junk I dont need anymore.
I like the idea of keeping photos, films, music and everything else possible in this format which takes up less physical space and doesnt need me to lug it around seperately. With all this in mind I want to start buying music online but I cannot play anything other than mp3 on my phone so this is the format I choose to buy it in.
I hope this has explained the main problem facing all retailers of physical products. But just to summarise -
I ( and I am sure I am not alone in this) work and can afford to spend a fair amount of money on entertainment, but I do not want to buy the physical item associated with the entertainment. Just the content. I do not however want to rent the content as I would probably like to watch it again in the future, possibly on vastly different hardware and software to that which I now own (I know for a fact my phone will change in september this year whay I am entitled to an upgrade to a more recent model). The fact most legal online retailers use DRM also discounts me from using these as I mainly use linux which is unsupported.
Icidentally if anyone can point me at a 100% legal site (under UK law) where I can pay to download mp3s I would be very grateful.
More clear evidence that the moderation system doesnt work as intended. Just set your view of slashot to show you everything and filter out the crap manually as you read it.
Ive often noticed that as soon as you post something that most people here disagree with, whoever has some mod points instantly mods the post down rather than post a comment breaking down why they disagree.
Maybe they should just change the mod system so that the ratings go from strongly disagree to strongly agree, that seems to be how it's used anyway.
Wouldnt that require a basic knowledge of HTML?
The main difference between now and the 1930's is that the US won the war that resulted and has made sure it came out on top.
Nowadays all the best, most technologically advance weapons come from the US. OK, so russia did give us the AK-47, but that alone will not let you successfully invade another country. If the west wanted to remove the threat of another country the easiest method is what we did to Iraq in th 1980's - You impose sanctions and stop them getting any weapons that threaten anyone other than themselves.
Of course the big problem with this approach in Iraq was that it also stopped the west getting as much oil as they need to drive SUV's everyday. So rather than stop buying inefficient vehicles they came up with a plan to convince the public that the armed forces were needed to "stabilise" the world. I defy anyone to show me how the US and UK (I am british) have helped stabilise Iraq.
I fondly remember the days when the US and UK were looking at cutting their military budget, but now those days are gone and all we can do is hope that the US Govt comes to its senses and realises that their powers should end where their borders do. The British lost our empire in the second world war (mostly) and I for one think that was one of the best outcomes. (I am also glad I was not brought up speaking German)
(Please ignore my sig on this post as this is a serious comment from a serious pacifist - not just a troll for a change)
Good point, maybe the real issue here is that Rockstar and ID Software aren't donating enough of their profits to either parties campaign funds.
I'm sure if the computer game industry combined to form an industry body similar to mpaa and started employing some decent lobbyists this would all be blown under the carpet in no time. Of course ultimately we would end up paying for this through higher prices as the cost is passed on to the consumer, but that is how politics and business works in the US isnt it?
Nice idea, but having been DNA tested by the police on numerous ocasions I would like to point out the problem with resisting a DNA test - it is nigh on impossible. All that is required is one freshly plucked hair. It is actually easier to false someone to provide a DNA sample than it is to take fingerprints with their co-operation.
Then stop looking at pr0n!
Incidentally the plans for building your own nuclear weapon are readily available over at wikipedia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_desig
(No Joke!)
For those people who have the patience to read an awful lot of complicated physics you may realise that the hard part is obtaining sufficient quantities of fissile material.
People who talk about restricting nuclear weapon design info are just demonstrating their own ignorance of exactly how easy it is to build a nuke.