What many miss is that Iran and AQ are obviously working together, which is quite scary. Weapons showing up in Afghanistan being used by AQ, have traced back to Iran and China (neither of these nations are friends to the west, even though economically they seek to dominate the west).
What is interesting is that AQ HATES iran, but is willing to work with them for now (and vice-versa). That speaks loudly.
Obama sees Iran as a VERY real threat. That is why he is moving towards the umbrella. The problem is, that he inherited a nightmare from W.. He has been fighting against a nightmare economy, that had the jobs sucked out of for the previous 8 years, has 2 wars, created in the previous 8 years, has seen NK gotten the bomb and nothing done about it in the previous 8 years, is watching Burma building a secret nuke reactor in the previous 8 years, has a massive debt of just under 11 trillion (now just under 14 trillion) that was built up from 1980 on (though to Clinton's credit he did less than 1 trillion and left a balanced budget ), and massive failings in the economy far beyond what the global economy caused. Seeing as how you have been reading the wikileaks, you can see that the USA gov. recognizes that China views itself as being in a cold war with the USA.
So from Obama's POV, he had time to deal with Iran, while nearly everything else MUST BE DEALT WITH NOW.
OTH, Israel is working on how to stop Iran (consider today's actions), while developing a new MOAB and building missions for how and when to deliver it. You can bet that all of the middle east has given permission to Israel to flyover (including supplying fuel) to deliver these. My guess is that we will see this fireworks in about 1 year. A very real problem is that Iran is working on Chemical and biological bombs as well. Biological may be far far worse then a nuke, depending on what they use. I could see them inoculating their citizens and then hitting Israel and counting on it taking out the population EAST of them (iow, through the sunnis).
Actually, it was obvious from Iran's action on these centrifuges what Iran's intentions were. The worm is designed to 'fuzz' the results of fuge run. With the fuge's running correctly, then you would have great separation between the various isotopes. With the virus, it does not separate them cleanly. So, the material is perfectly fine for running in ANY nuclear reactor including Iran's. The fact that they required better separation can only mean one thing: they are building bombs.
What is even more interesting is that Iran is not just trying to deny it, but they are sending ppl all over the world to astroturf about it. Even here on/., we have astroturf trolls that are claiming that Iran is not making bombs. Yet, Iran's own actions on this virus prove that they are liars.
You need a tax on ALL GOODS. If you do just imports, then it will be considered a bias. OTH, if you treat all goods the same, then you are fine.
So a tax on emissions from the location of the final product AND primary subcomponent along with distance would do the trick.
A tax on all goods based on emissions from where the final and primary sub-component come from is needed. Ideally, it should include a tax on the distance shipped. As such, something made in America would have 0 distance. Something from Canada or Mexico would have a slight differential. However, something from Saudi Arabia, China, etc. would have a much higher tax on the distance. Likewise, I would love to see other nations drop their BS on cap/trade and instead put in a tax on emissions/distance.
Well, GE and Google have found out that the tech that they brought into CHina has nor proliferated into other CHinese companies. GE is slowly pulling out of CHina and we all know how Google has done. And more large corps are pulling back out. They have figured it out that the Chinese gov. is there to milk the companies.
wow; How the f**k did you get modded up?
The korean war was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. Vietnam war was North Vietnam invading South Vietnam. Iraq war (desert storm I) was caused because Iraq invaded kuwait. And afghanistan taliban absolutely were supporting and hiding OBL and AQ when we went in there.
Now, W DID invade Iraq and yes, I agree that we should not have (and I believe that W/Cheney should have charges brought against them for Iraq). BUT, all of the ones that you mention shows me that about the only bigot here is you. Calling this Christian is a joke. America is composed of many religions. OTH, AQ/Taliban/etc are composed of exactly one religion.
Hey, I am ALL FOR US pulling out of Japan and South Korea. Of course, japan, south korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and even India would oppose that To be honest, it was nearly ALL of asian gov. that BEGGED USA to join in the Asian pact. In fact, when the last Japanese leaders wanted us off of Okinawa, we started to explore pulling out of Japan, then the populace voted out those leaders, and voted in some that would keep America in Japan.
Think that it might have something to do with local spending as well as all of the missiles, new nuclear powered boomers and attack subs, and even the recently restarted nuclear warhead manufacturing line that China has. And as to global projection, both Russia and CHina now have nuclear subs parked at Venezuela, and CHina just asked to park boomers/attack subs at Cuba.
But hey, if you think that China is all that, please, please, please, move there if you are not there. You might also try Iran, Eastern Pakistan or Somalia.
We are already there. Chinese leaders have been in a cold war with the west for 20 years. The west has been hoping to avoid it, but they are not. Keep in mind that when a nation avoids all of their treaties obligations(free their money, quit dumping, quit subsidizing, open trade by 2004 via Clinton and IMF/WTO; Put pollution control on ALL Of their power plants by 2003 with Japan and South Korea; etc. etc. ), then they are for all intents and purposes in a cold war.
Actually, I was responding to the fool parent to me. In it, he implied that Mac would be cracked when they were no longer 'obscure'. That kind of logic is what lets MS off the hook for the many decades that they ignored security.
As to this particular virus, yeah, they CHOSE Windows. They could have chosen to make the virus work via neutral arch (i.e. all intel/amd OS; which is hard), pure hardware (which is doable, but again hard), OR simply use a singular easy to hit target (which is always windows).
Had germany had any real thoughts about Security, they would have done Linux, Mac, or simply Unix.
Thank God that some damn lazy marketer foisted windows into Siemens. Otherwise, I think that it would have been a LOT MORE DIFFICULT to hit the box. Not because it is *nix, but because if you push *nix and push Security for the reason, then Iran would have had a secured network. As it is, Iranians are obviously just as foolish as others that run that junk, so it was exposed.
Personally, I find it interesting that Iran is in such turmoil from it. If anybody wanted proof, that was it. The modification allows the final uranium to be usable for nuke plants, but it is worthless for bomb-making. IOW, Iran would have no reason to be concerned if this was for peaceful uses. The fact that they are near panic about it, says that this is purely about weapons. As such, I say that offer Iran an ultimatium:
if you export to anywhere with the tech or the bomb and we have proof, then we will flatten ALL of their facilities and any nation that the tech was transfered to.
if they explode a nuke, even as a test, we will do the same.
if they Launch a missile at anytime, then we will flatten all of their military site and all locations including cities, in which we think that they have ANYTHING in a military fashion. IOW, we WILL wipe out their military.
Finally, we change our no-nuke pledge to the world to include the possibility of using it on Iran and anybody that they transfer nuke tech to.
I wish that I had not replied on this article. I would have modded you down. Obviously you are neither a cracker, a virus writer, or logical.
Ppl target Windows not do to number of systems, but number of openings. If a system had 99% penetration of desktop markets, but had ZERO opening, or even limited openings, then the crackers/virus writers/etc would then target the 1%. Why? BECAUSE IT IS EFFECTIVE.
Hell, just look at 7-11 vs. banks. Once upon a time, banks were the favorite targets. Then along came 7-11. Much smaller amounts, but banks had acquired security, while 7-11 had none. When 7-11 moved to having decent security, then robbers went back to mostly banks. There are more banks robbed from in Colorado than 7-11s. WHy? Because 7-11 has effective security.
This is a wake-up call. It is one that has been missing for a long time. Thankfully, it is not damaging to ANYTHING. The ONLY downfall is that if you are running the German designed centrifuges, then it will only mix Uranium with a tolerance that is acceptable for Nuke Plants. Basically, it does not have high enough tolerance for bombs. The problem for Iran is that they obviously have ZERO intentions of doing this work for nuke plants like they claim. It is all for bombs.
The nations play fair. OTH, when nations such as China, South Korea, AND INDIA play with their money to make exports cheap, then there is a problem. Right now, America is forcing our money down, but that is to try and stop all the leaching that a number of Asian countries are doing, in particular, China. If we could get China to SIMPLY OBEY THEIR MULTIPLE TREATIES and free their money, then offshoring would be less of an issue.
Keep all computers off that network that are allowed on ANY OTHER NETWORK. The ONLY possible exception should be a single billing type system, where it pushes data from scada to the billing system (with the pushing system not allowed to have anything else on it). Also, all systems on the SCADA network should not have a single wifi on them.
In general, most apps that are X11 tunneled are simple desktop apps. Few are things like Doom. It would not make sense. Now, once Qt/gtk are fully ported to Wayland, it does not mean that the X11 port will die. At least not for another 5-10 years. As such, the core apps will likely be available in both wayland and X11 versions. The issue is, what will speeds for the network look like in 10 years? It is obvious to me that VNC will be a speed burner as the norm is 1G connections and thin clients have fast GPU for processing VNC quickly. IOW, the move to Wayland/VNC is not a big deal.
Wayland will NOT retain X's network transparency. The reason is that it is a local arch ONLY. It was not designed to be networked by itself.
OTH, It DOES run X11 and VNC on top, just like Windows and Mac do. As such, it will still be possible to do all the same things. The difference is that speeds, reliability, driver devl, security, etc will improve.
This will still have X and the ability to forward X over SSH. Normally, the X-server is the base app and then has drivers to interact with kernels/Drivers. NOW, what will happen is that Wayland will be the 'server' and X-server will simply run as an app talking to it. On the local application, you WILL see a slowdown. The reason is that you just added another layer. BUT, when X is going over the network, the slowness is the network. As such, you should not notice ANY difference at all in terms of speed.
Finally, there is VNC, though I myself prefer X/ssh.
It may be a useful trick in politics, but it is still a fact. If we pass cap/trade, it WILL kill the economy. The reason is that many companies will simply pick up and move to the first nation that offers them good deals WRT labor and energy costs.
So, how do nations like CHina, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia handle having a large amount of jobs coming their way and requiring lots of energy? They build new energy plants. And what is the absolute FASTEST way to get massive energy? COAL PLANTS. And china has shown that the only way to have cheap energy, is to drop your pollution controls.
So, not only do the jobs flow out, but the CO2 increases.
This is a LOSE-LOSE-LOSE proposition.
The best, and possibly the only workable, way is to tax all goods (save maybe food) based on the CO2 emissions from where the good and primary subcomponent come from. Most importantly, the emissions need to be measured via sat and the tax applied on a emissions PER KM ^2 rather than the foolish per capita. That is the ONLY way that we will get emissions down across the world.
And you must be younger than wonko. The economy for the last 10 years has been horrible. The difference is that a bubble was pushed by the W/neo-cons and it lead to the great recession. Worse, the economy for most of 2000 really was lackluster. 4% growth with little job creation is NOT what I call good.
Few are blaming the dems for the economy (Ok, there is ~37% idiot Americans out that there that DO blame them for multiple wars, the attack on America, Katrina, etc).
The real problem is, that the dems have had 2 years and really have not done that much. Realistically, not a one has had an original idea. Seriously. They are still pushing Cap/Trade even though it will actually increase CO2 while killing our economy. Their only real bill that was a stimulus was their recent small business bill. Their original stimulus bill pushed buying from China and hiring illegals. All in all, the last 2 years, while not corrupt or making matters worse, did nothing GOOD EITHER.
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What many miss is that Iran and AQ are obviously working together, which is quite scary. Weapons showing up in Afghanistan being used by AQ, have traced back to Iran and China (neither of these nations are friends to the west, even though economically they seek to dominate the west). What is interesting is that AQ HATES iran, but is willing to work with them for now (and vice-versa). That speaks loudly.
Obama sees Iran as a VERY real threat. That is why he is moving towards the umbrella. The problem is, that he inherited a nightmare from W.. He has been fighting against a nightmare economy, that had the jobs sucked out of for the previous 8 years, has 2 wars, created in the previous 8 years, has seen NK gotten the bomb and nothing done about it in the previous 8 years, is watching Burma building a secret nuke reactor in the previous 8 years, has a massive debt of just under 11 trillion (now just under 14 trillion) that was built up from 1980 on (though to Clinton's credit he did less than 1 trillion and left a balanced budget ), and massive failings in the economy far beyond what the global economy caused. Seeing as how you have been reading the wikileaks, you can see that the USA gov. recognizes that China views itself as being in a cold war with the USA.
So from Obama's POV, he had time to deal with Iran, while nearly everything else MUST BE DEALT WITH NOW.
OTH, Israel is working on how to stop Iran (consider today's actions), while developing a new MOAB and building missions for how and when to deliver it. You can bet that all of the middle east has given permission to Israel to flyover (including supplying fuel) to deliver these. My guess is that we will see this fireworks in about 1 year. A very real problem is that Iran is working on Chemical and biological bombs as well. Biological may be far far worse then a nuke, depending on what they use. I could see them inoculating their citizens and then hitting Israel and counting on it taking out the population EAST of them (iow, through the sunnis).
Actually, it was obvious from Iran's action on these centrifuges what Iran's intentions were. The worm is designed to 'fuzz' the results of fuge run. With the fuge's running correctly, then you would have great separation between the various isotopes. With the virus, it does not separate them cleanly. So, the material is perfectly fine for running in ANY nuclear reactor including Iran's. The fact that they required better separation can only mean one thing: they are building bombs.
/., we have astroturf trolls that are claiming that Iran is not making bombs. Yet, Iran's own actions on this virus prove that they are liars.
What is even more interesting is that Iran is not just trying to deny it, but they are sending ppl all over the world to astroturf about it. Even here on
You need a tax on ALL GOODS. If you do just imports, then it will be considered a bias. OTH, if you treat all goods the same, then you are fine. So a tax on emissions from the location of the final product AND primary subcomponent along with distance would do the trick.
A tax on all goods based on emissions from where the final and primary sub-component come from is needed. Ideally, it should include a tax on the distance shipped. As such, something made in America would have 0 distance. Something from Canada or Mexico would have a slight differential. However, something from Saudi Arabia, China, etc. would have a much higher tax on the distance. Likewise, I would love to see other nations drop their BS on cap/trade and instead put in a tax on emissions/distance.
Well, GE and Google have found out that the tech that they brought into CHina has nor proliferated into other CHinese companies. GE is slowly pulling out of CHina and we all know how Google has done. And more large corps are pulling back out. They have figured it out that the Chinese gov. is there to milk the companies.
wow; How the f**k did you get modded up?
The korean war was started when North Korea invaded South Korea.
Vietnam war was North Vietnam invading South Vietnam.
Iraq war (desert storm I) was caused because Iraq invaded kuwait.
And afghanistan taliban absolutely were supporting and hiding OBL and AQ when we went in there.
Now, W DID invade Iraq and yes, I agree that we should not have (and I believe that W/Cheney should have charges brought against them for Iraq). BUT, all of the ones that you mention shows me that about the only bigot here is you. Calling this Christian is a joke. America is composed of many religions. OTH, AQ/Taliban/etc are composed of exactly one religion.
We Occupy Japan? Seriously?
Hey, I am ALL FOR US pulling out of Japan and South Korea. Of course, japan, south korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and even India would oppose that To be honest, it was nearly ALL of asian gov. that BEGGED USA to join in the Asian pact. In fact, when the last Japanese leaders wanted us off of Okinawa, we started to explore pulling out of Japan, then the populace voted out those leaders, and voted in some that would keep America in Japan.
Think that it might have something to do with local spending as well as all of the missiles, new nuclear powered boomers and attack subs, and even the recently restarted nuclear warhead manufacturing line that China has. And as to global projection, both Russia and CHina now have nuclear subs parked at Venezuela, and CHina just asked to park boomers/attack subs at Cuba.
But hey, if you think that China is all that, please, please, please, move there if you are not there. You might also try Iran, Eastern Pakistan or Somalia.
When you have treaty obligations such as freeing your money by 2004 and you do not do so, then you have indicated that you are in a cold war.
We are already there. Chinese leaders have been in a cold war with the west for 20 years. The west has been hoping to avoid it, but they are not. Keep in mind that when a nation avoids all of their treaties obligations(free their money, quit dumping, quit subsidizing, open trade by 2004 via Clinton and IMF/WTO; Put pollution control on ALL Of their power plants by 2003 with Japan and South Korea; etc. etc. ), then they are for all intents and purposes in a cold war.
I TRY to get Google finance when looking at how money exchange and stock. Google likes to point to Yahoo and others (which are all junk).
As to this particular virus, yeah, they CHOSE Windows. They could have chosen to make the virus work via neutral arch (i.e. all intel/amd OS; which is hard), pure hardware (which is doable, but again hard), OR simply use a singular easy to hit target (which is always windows). Had germany had any real thoughts about Security, they would have done Linux, Mac, or simply Unix. Thank God that some damn lazy marketer foisted windows into Siemens. Otherwise, I think that it would have been a LOT MORE DIFFICULT to hit the box. Not because it is *nix, but because if you push *nix and push Security for the reason, then Iran would have had a secured network. As it is, Iranians are obviously just as foolish as others that run that junk, so it was exposed.
Personally, I find it interesting that Iran is in such turmoil from it. If anybody wanted proof, that was it. The modification allows the final uranium to be usable for nuke plants, but it is worthless for bomb-making. IOW, Iran would have no reason to be concerned if this was for peaceful uses. The fact that they are near panic about it, says that this is purely about weapons. As such, I say that offer Iran an ultimatium:
Finally, we change our no-nuke pledge to the world to include the possibility of using it on Iran and anybody that they transfer nuke tech to.
I wish that I had not replied on this article. I would have modded you down. Obviously you are neither a cracker, a virus writer, or logical.
Ppl target Windows not do to number of systems, but number of openings. If a system had 99% penetration of desktop markets, but had ZERO opening, or even limited openings, then the crackers/virus writers/etc would then target the 1%. Why? BECAUSE IT IS EFFECTIVE.
Hell, just look at 7-11 vs. banks. Once upon a time, banks were the favorite targets. Then along came 7-11. Much smaller amounts, but banks had acquired security, while 7-11 had none. When 7-11 moved to having decent security, then robbers went back to mostly banks. There are more banks robbed from in Colorado than 7-11s. WHy? Because 7-11 has effective security.
This is a wake-up call. It is one that has been missing for a long time. Thankfully, it is not damaging to ANYTHING. The ONLY downfall is that if you are running the German designed centrifuges, then it will only mix Uranium with a tolerance that is acceptable for Nuke Plants. Basically, it does not have high enough tolerance for bombs. The problem for Iran is that they obviously have ZERO intentions of doing this work for nuke plants like they claim. It is all for bombs.
The nations play fair. OTH, when nations such as China, South Korea, AND INDIA play with their money to make exports cheap, then there is a problem. Right now, America is forcing our money down, but that is to try and stop all the leaching that a number of Asian countries are doing, in particular, China. If we could get China to SIMPLY OBEY THEIR MULTIPLE TREATIES and free their money, then offshoring would be less of an issue.
I was thinking the same thing. But, that is easy; Just a bunch of hcl will do that trick.
RBCs are enucleated, so no. Without that DNA material, there is LITTLE chance of that.
Keep all computers off that network that are allowed on ANY OTHER NETWORK. The ONLY possible exception should be a single billing type system, where it pushes data from scada to the billing system (with the pushing system not allowed to have anything else on it). Also, all systems on the SCADA network should not have a single wifi on them.
In general, most apps that are X11 tunneled are simple desktop apps. Few are things like Doom. It would not make sense. Now, once Qt/gtk are fully ported to Wayland, it does not mean that the X11 port will die. At least not for another 5-10 years. As such, the core apps will likely be available in both wayland and X11 versions. The issue is, what will speeds for the network look like in 10 years? It is obvious to me that VNC will be a speed burner as the norm is 1G connections and thin clients have fast GPU for processing VNC quickly. IOW, the move to Wayland/VNC is not a big deal.
Wayland will NOT retain X's network transparency. The reason is that it is a local arch ONLY. It was not designed to be networked by itself.
OTH, It DOES run X11 and VNC on top, just like Windows and Mac do. As such, it will still be possible to do all the same things. The difference is that speeds, reliability, driver devl, security, etc will improve.
This will still have X and the ability to forward X over SSH. Normally, the X-server is the base app and then has drivers to interact with kernels/Drivers. NOW, what will happen is that Wayland will be the 'server' and X-server will simply run as an app talking to it. On the local application, you WILL see a slowdown. The reason is that you just added another layer. BUT, when X is going over the network, the slowness is the network. As such, you should not notice ANY difference at all in terms of speed.
Finally, there is VNC, though I myself prefer X/ssh.
It may be a useful trick in politics, but it is still a fact. If we pass cap/trade, it WILL kill the economy. The reason is that many companies will simply pick up and move to the first nation that offers them good deals WRT labor and energy costs.
So, how do nations like CHina, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia handle having a large amount of jobs coming their way and requiring lots of energy? They build new energy plants. And what is the absolute FASTEST way to get massive energy? COAL PLANTS. And china has shown that the only way to have cheap energy, is to drop your pollution controls.
So, not only do the jobs flow out, but the CO2 increases.
This is a LOSE-LOSE-LOSE proposition.
The best, and possibly the only workable, way is to tax all goods (save maybe food) based on the CO2 emissions from where the good and primary subcomponent come from. Most importantly, the emissions need to be measured via sat and the tax applied on a emissions PER KM ^2 rather than the foolish per capita. That is the ONLY way that we will get emissions down across the world.
And you must be younger than wonko. The economy for the last 10 years has been horrible. The difference is that a bubble was pushed by the W/neo-cons and it lead to the great recession. Worse, the economy for most of 2000 really was lackluster. 4% growth with little job creation is NOT what I call good.
Few are blaming the dems for the economy (Ok, there is ~37% idiot Americans out that there that DO blame them for multiple wars, the attack on America, Katrina, etc). The real problem is, that the dems have had 2 years and really have not done that much. Realistically, not a one has had an original idea. Seriously. They are still pushing Cap/Trade even though it will actually increase CO2 while killing our economy. Their only real bill that was a stimulus was their recent small business bill. Their original stimulus bill pushed buying from China and hiring illegals. All in all, the last 2 years, while not corrupt or making matters worse, did nothing GOOD EITHER.