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  1. Re:ask what they can switch on that they don't tel on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 1
    consider a trojan boot loader in a router.

    if such a small piece of software sits in a router, camouflaged by dirty programming, it could be activated by a key riding on a search engine answer, addressable by the device or CPU serial number.

    then it learns what it's orders from instructions which ride piggyback on search engine answers

    your router or PC ( and CPU ) is of no interest as long as you have nothing special. The very moment you have you become a sought after target.

    Now if the fifth column is already in your router ( or PC ) it is far more efficient than Echelon.

  2. ask what they can switch on that they don't tell! on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 1
    and CPU identification is the least of what I think.

    to put among several million transistors some functionality ( speak program ) you don't know about should be trivial!.

  3. hypersonic glider ? on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1
    please explain to me how this works!

    maybe somebody who jumps off the Empire State Building glides down to the street.

  4. Re:So They're Either Lazy or Stupid - or bothj on Facebook Exec: Online Anonymity Must Go Away · · Score: 1
    Every boulevard-paper can destroy the existence of people publishing wrong claims or at least things which sound like a person did something rejectable.

    They are then sentenced to pulish a revocation.

    That is something to be called upon as the newspaper is considered more credible than any anonymous poster in a forum.

  5. Re:Great! on Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect · · Score: 2
    Google did it - but they used WiFi access points for their navigation. Far cheaper than GPS transmitters!

    And BTW differential GPS is an old hat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS

  6. Can the NSA or GRU or FSB be attacked by LulzSec? on Could the KGB Infiltrate LulzSec? · · Score: 1
    as long as they connect to the Internet - why not.

    Richard Feynman showed the ignorance of military blockheads towards security.

    But they have heavily recruited and may get some ideas from those newby-geek-militarists

    until they are fed-up and realize in what a fucking insititution they have landed.

  7. a skydiver dropping things on iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pocket · · Score: 1

    should absent from this sport as he endangers other living beings!

  8. Re:The education system has been bad for tech for on How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back · · Score: 1
    China has in its top governement positions a majority of scientists and technical persons

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    the US has lawyers

    now they try via IP law to sue the whole world instead of preferring straight talking scientific and technical guys over blabla lawyers and politicians.

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    read recently deceased Robert Peas column "Peas' porridge" and you will realize this.

    ( He was more or less THE analog chip designer )

  9. Re:Farewell Bob, we'll miss you... on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    will be remembered not only for his electronics - also he outspoke that if you continue to neglect engineers, young talent will trun away from engineering. ( See Obamas plans to get more engineers )

  10. Re:Anyone surprised? on US Warns of Problems In Chinese SCADA Software · · Score: 1
    Now lets assume they looked at the design and improved it / eg. removed some vulnerabilities -

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    and lets assume this makes the Chinese clones immune. -

    why would the US warn about Chinese products at all?

  11. I hereby declare the existence of pathogens on Japan Criminalizes Virus Creation · · Score: 1
    and any reproductive activity thereof, or even worse, creative activity to generate pathogens

    - to be criminal

    and will be from now on punished through criminal law and high/hay fever!

    God, be warned, you may get punished!

  12. they carefully avoiding to show the advisors on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 1
    who are wearing NATO if not US uniforms!

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    this smells of improvised weapons as adviced by people who do not want to be seen being behind the scene!

  13. Re:I'm still amazed - its tools! ( or toolz ) on EU Ministers Seek To Ban Creation of Hacking Tools · · Score: 1
    please first forbid the development of weapons!

    then you may consider tools!

    a tool is a tool is a tool

    somebody no knowing this is a fool

    with a tool you can create and destroy in contrast to a weapon!

    So dear minister, concentrate on weapons!

  14. or: I need some intelligent partially dumb slaves on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 2
    because anybody else becomes:

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    human engineer = politician and/ort spin-doctor

    financial engineer = banker and/or fraudster

    medical engineer = pharmacist or doctor

    and will have their personal engineer slave who programs the TV and the Internet for him/her.

  15. Re:I doubt there was an inquiry from Austria on German Police Train Vultures To Find Bodies · · Score: 1
    No the vultures are their heraldic animals.

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    BTW The Krapfen are Berliners, not Bavarian Donuts.

    So beware of saying: Ich bin ein Berliner *g*

  16. Re:Difference? Nope - I prefer China on What Can't You Say On China's Social Networks? · · Score: 2
    You have far more pressure in the US to be patriotic and aligned with the mainstream than in China.

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    An Intern who is with us right now visited China last year for some months. He said:

    The way China is portraied as an authoritarian regime is utterly wrong.

    For example what lands you in Thailand in jail will make you no trouble in China.

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    BTW: do not step on the toes of the local Sheriff, Major, Province-Governor. This will cause you trouble in:

    US, Thailand, China, Japan....

  17. yes please! zero on Ask Slashdot: Reducing Software Patent Life-Spans? · · Score: 1

    make it an infinitesimal short periode!

  18. I doubt there was an inquiry from Austria on German Police Train Vultures To Find Bodies · · Score: 1

    as the vultures come from a Zoo/breeder in Austria ;-)

  19. double edged on UK Plans Cyber Weapons Program · · Score: 1
    the services require that computers are accessible somehow.

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    so there are some backdoors, trojans etc in the OS

    so there is the dominance of Closed Source Software to allow this

    - then it is too expensive to produce hard-to-access systems for the critical areas.

    even if they would have such systems, then there are too many critical areas ro deploy them without being noticed

    - I fear these cyber militant statements are preparing a decoy target of standard systems - inviting for an attack

    which will be the reason for the next military action.

  20. double edged on UK Plans Cyber Weapons Program · · Score: 1
    the services require that computers are accessible somehow.

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    so there are some backdoors, trojans etc in the OS

    so there is the dominance of Closed Source Software to allow this

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    then it is too expensive to produce hard-to-access systems for the critical areas.

    even if they would have such systems, then there are too many critical areas ro deploy them without being noticed

    - I fear these cyber militant statements are preparing a decoy target of standard systems - inviting for an attack

    which will be the reason for the next military action.

  21. Re:The best defense is a strong offense on Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit · · Score: 1
    here should be the Chinese but slashdot does not support the font! ( maybe they should!)

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    Wèishénme ni bù gàosu wo and also ommitts the character with the little v on top!

    Even countries like Austria recruit now Cyber-Warriors!

  22. if the Soviets were behind it, on New Book Reports Soviets Behind Roswell UFO Scare · · Score: 1

    they would have made it public for a worldwide haha on the US!

  23. anyone here thinking the US is not using this? on Falun Gong Sues Cisco · · Score: 1
    remember there are export restrictions - the real hot stuff is used in and by Gods own country!

    feed your paranoia!

  24. its a long time on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 1
    since Benjamin Franklin worked for the US givernment.

    He even was not elected as President! although hes shows up on a banknote.

  25. typical US colored water or real coffee? on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1
    a study without a null - hypothesis tested!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis