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  1. The inventor, Edwin Armstrong (FM, etc.) . . . on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 1

    . . . used to say, "It ain't what people don't know, it's what they think they know!"

    I've come in contact with at least one super genius that I know of, and it was a most humbling experience. I have solved technical problems which previous companies and persons have spent hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of dollars, to solve, to no avail. Perseverance prevails when intelligence is sometimes lacking . . .

  2. Dude! Only the Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group on FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment · · Score: 1

    ....are "allowed" to cyberjack any Boeing (or other commercial airliner) jet!

  3. Due diligence required on Calling Out a GAO Report That Says In-Flight Wi-Fi Lets Hackers Access Avionics · · Score: 1

    Until one understands all the ARINC systems aboard, both the Boeing 777 and Airbus, and the satellites (including the Inmarsat satellites), and the avionics systems at control towers are ARTCCs and earth ground stations and VSATS, and the Microsemi FPGAs installed, and the Freescale chips, etc., and the report on the backdoored Actel/Microsemi chips, etc., this nebulous talk is all soooooo much bullcrap from the yahoos. With hardware trojans and hardware malware pre-installed, especially in any or all of the 1,000Microsemi FPGAs onboard a Boeing 777, plus other ARINC items, one cannot begin to fathom just how easy it is for the guilty parties to hack this and other avionics systems, and all others with such chips, etc.

  4. MH370, for instance? on GAO Warns FAA of Hacking Threat To Airliners · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Good-bye, Mr. Chips!

    (Or, why that missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 is a really, really big deal --- besides the murder of 239 souls aboard.) Onboard flight MH370 were twenty employees of Freescale Semiconductor, a major microchip producer, owner of major fabrication facilities (referred to as foundries in the industry).

    Back in 2012, some researchers at an institute connected with Cambridge University discovered a backdoor, at the hardware level, in the Actel/Microsemi chip used for military purposes, designed and manufactured by the Microsemi Corporation. What the authors didn’t mention in their highly technical paper was that these chips are also to be found in ARINC avionics (ACARS: Aircraft Communications and Addressing Reporting System, formerly known as ARINC Communications and Addressing Report System --- plus other avionics communications systems), transponders and the black boxes (flight data recorders, cockpit voice recorders, crash recorders, etc.).

    Microsemi chips are produced at Freescale foundries, as well as Freescale chips are also to be found in ARINC avionics, transponders along with a wide range of other industry applications.

    It is important to note that the owners of Freescale Semiconductors are the Blackstone Group, the major private equity/leveraged buyout (PE/LBO) firm, and the majority owner, and the Carlyle Group, another PE/LBO firm and a minority owner.

    It is also important to note that ARINC (designer and manufacturer of major avionics systems (fly-by-wire) aboard Boeing and Airbus jets was until recently owned by the Carlyle Group, and a portion of ARINC still is, as they moved ARINC’s DoD division over to Booz Allen, the major government intelligence contractor (where Edward Snowden last worked in America), and also owned by the Carlyle Group.

    Malaysian Airlines, which may have figured into it, was at that time partially owned by the hedge fund of Lord Jacob Rothschild, long an advisor to the aforementioned Blackstone Group.

    The previously mentioned Microsemi Corporation, whose chips are backdoored, or compromised, is managed by James Peterson, CEO and board member. Peterson is one of the sons of Peter G. Peterson, founding member of the Blackstone Group.

    Both the process of chipping (purposely introducing defects into chips for cryptographic penetration) and backdoors in chips, dates back to the late 1950s and 1960s.

    When the U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, it contained chipped cryptographic communications gear, developed by the NSA at the instigation of the CIA, which the CIA hoped the Soviets would copy, allowing deep penetration by the NSA. Unfortunately, this was around the time of the real defection of two NSA employees (Martin and Mitchell), so after being given the coordinates of the U-2’s air route by previous “defector” Lee Oswald to allow the Soviets to shoot it down, they were now possibly savvy to the covert operation’s agenda.

    The first major successful operation involving backdoored chips was supposed to have occurred in the 1980s, when an American industrial controls computer system (SCADA) was sold illegally through a Swiss firm to the Soviets, and resulted in a series of major explosions at their northern Baltic Sea naval installation (chips set to control maximum temperatures of fuels did the opposite).

    When a group is seeking to compromise, and therefore control, both the Internet and a wide spectrum of computer hardware applications (communications, transportation, industrial, financial, etc.) the process of chip access is crucial, and to do that covertly it must be done at the chip fabrication point.

    Hence the use of, and subsequent disposal (murder), of those Freescale Semiconductor engineers aboard flight MH370. Below is the youtube link to a video from a SAIConference (SAIC, is one of the two government intelligence contractors, the other being Booz Allen), the expert from University College Londo

  5. Re:expanding the H1B #s is good for nobody but few on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    That's why they are pushing either Hillary Bush or Jeb Clinton for president: who was Sen. Hillary Clinton's major financial backer?

    Tata Consultancy, of course, along with Rupert Murdoch! If I hear one more Ameritard claim either Clinton is a liberal, I will slice and dice them!

  6. Re:you cannot fight the tide on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    You made a number of Business Council and US Chamber of Commerce comments, douchetard: from people who are cheaper and better (or hungrier). - - when corporations and hedge funds are sponsoring terrorists like that Conneticut fund sponsored the Times Square bomber, or sponsoring workers in general, simply 'cause they have greater control over them, or pay lower wages and zero bennies, that is not an equivalence argument --- that is the argument for the dismantling of the economy, dipshit!

  7. Re:About time. on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Great comments, roc97007, been there and done that sooooo many times over the past few decades! Corporate swine never differentiate among the talent, since all they do is count the money on the way to their private banker, and hence there has never been any so-called meritocracy in Amerika (closest I've ever been when I was in the military during the draft).

  8. Re:About time. on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    I don't see any real democrats on the list, and FYI to the clueless, so-called socialist Bernie Sanders voted to lower food stamps, remember? (He later claimed he regretted that vote, no doubt the way recently turned democrat, Elizabeth Warren, regrets all those years she voted republiCON!)

  9. Re:Just Political Posturing on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Agreed!

  10. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Because that is how they both create, and treat, serfs. Been going on forever. And this replacement of tech workers with both foreign visa workers, and training foreign replacements, has been now going on for decades, so why in the bloody hell are these politicians finally getting in the act (I have been with various groups over the past 34 years , ever since the Black Congressional Caucus promoted legislation (along with some clown named Al Gore, I believe) to offshore defense-related sensitive jobs under the guise of diversity (so that's who sold out both the Black-American worker in particular, and the American workers in general)! This is simply one of many ways they are doing a leveraged buyout of America, loading it with debt while profiting off the selling and loading of said debt, forcing wages down while using the cheapest labor possible --- and it spells present and future doom!

  11. Re:Fix is pretty obvious. on Github Under JS-Based "Greatfire" DDoS Attack, Allegedly From Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    Can't see those trees, can ya? The forest too much in the way for ya? China can do whatever they like, as long as the banksters continue to offshore all the jobs, all the technology and all the investment their way.

  12. Re:Ancient Chinese wisdom on Github Under JS-Based "Greatfire" DDoS Attack, Allegedly From Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    So you prefer chopsticks to more advanced tools? You a former IBM'er, per chance?

  13. Re your weird assed comments on Github Under JS-Based "Greatfire" DDoS Attack, Allegedly From Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    If Korporate AmeriKa hadn't (along with their subsidiary, the US gov't) offshored all the jobs, technology and investment to China, they wouldn't have been capable of doing this. We now stand at a disadvantage, thanks to the banksters!

  14. Minverva Project is . . . on Inside Minerva, a Silicon Valley Bid To Start an Elite College Online · · Score: 1

    . . . DoD/CIA, dood!

  15. Saaaaayyyy whaaaaat????? on Schneier: Either Everyone Is Cyber-secure Or No One Is · · Score: 1

    Commenter claims: . We often forget that the NSA has two missions, and they are exactly the two things that Bruce argues cannot co-exist: To secure the computing infrastructure of the US against foreign espionage, and to provide espionage on foreign communication.

    Had you ever worked at the NSA, or served in military intelligence, you would know better, as their two missions are financial intelligence acquisition for the money masters, and command-and-control of the populace. Sometime you might study the history of who founded the American intelligence establishment, or else peruse the three chapters on the Kennedy administration in Richard Parker's outstanding biography of John Kenneth Galbraith.

  16. Trovicor Monitoring Center on Schneier: Either Everyone Is Cyber-secure Or No One Is · · Score: 1

    also uses DPI (packet injection) and is supposed to be the state-of-the-art full-spectrum intelligence platform: it will allow one to intercept an email, alter and forward it unknown to either the addressor or addressee, with a new meeting time and place, and then dispatch either an extreme rendition, or kill team, to the rendezvous point. Ain't life grand?

    https://www.wikileaks.org/spyf...
    http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
    http://www.allgov.com/news/us-...
    http://securityaffairs.co/word...

  17. You should have immediately contacted the FCC and FTC and Better Business Bureau!

  18. Re:Same Crew Anteed Up Money to Defeat WA Income T on Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook Press WA For $40M For New UW CS Building · · Score: 1

    Plus 1,000,000!

  19. Re:Should come with its own football team on Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook Press WA For $40M For New UW CS Building · · Score: 1

    Plus 10,000!

  20. Re:Should come with its own football team on Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook Press WA For $40M For New UW CS Building · · Score: 1

    Plus 1,000!

  21. Re:The meaning of language changes on One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake · · Score: 1

    This is obviously what this dood does in place of sex!

  22. I concur on One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake · · Score: 1

    And I certainly pray that was the correct usage?

  23. Oh, thank the gods. . . . on One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake · · Score: 0

    . . . I wasn't aware of this and have been misusing that phrase forever! Great that this dood, Henderson, would spend valuable time doing this instead of normal stuff like understanding what a completely fraud-based society he exists in today!

  24. Re:Wrong Move on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    You are most correct, of course, which is the goal --- and then evermore articles from the National Association of Manufacturers, and whatever Big Tech is called now, as I believe they changed the ITAA name to something else, they will claim good IT people are too difficult to find, must offshore more jobs!

  25. CHK6 and Incentivize on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    Hate that word, "incentivize" which translates to bribery and thievery to us non-Wall Street types. You said ...now it's time to make an effort to tap into another pool of resources to help fulfill/solve the stated problem...

    Problem with that is this is the region which leads in offshoring jobs. Plenty of workers. . . remember, it was Micro$oft, on 9/12/01, which took advantage of the horrendous attack on America to have an unscheduled layoff of 1,000 local workers!