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  1. no quantity = no quality on China To Overtake US In Science In Two Years · · Score: 1
    good and especially original ideas are statistically distributed.

    The biggest fool may have the best idea, but being a fool it is stolen from him and exploited by others!

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    Sounds familiar - isn't it?

  2. I miss greatly on HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down · · Score: 1
    the Anonymous mask as the icon to this story!

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    same bullshit goes on in my company: big manager boasting security - justifying any expenses - but are not able to remember more than one password at a time and reuse it everywhere!

  3. question is - who would want that? on Tiny Transistors Could Be Used To Track Cash · · Score: 1
    the cheque is invented, so is the bill of exchange.

    the advantage of banknotes is their anonymity, the abstraction to the underlying transaction of real goods and services.

  4. Re:until they are hacked like the Swiss, the Austr on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1
    I know of no government which achieved a compilation comparable to the sold binary product - maybe except the Chinese one:

    I run Chinese M$ software without getting the usual malware!

  5. Re:One of these things is not like the other. on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1

    their wrong doing? You can get a new Porsche from OSS, but from M$ you can as some people in Vienna found out!

  6. until hackeb like the Swiss, the Austrian on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1
    and many more other Foreign Offices!

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    Sovereign countries should use sovereign software! And protect this way their very own assets !

    Is there any risk calculation availabe- for the existence of firmware trojans/bootloaders in IT equipment from abroad? (US, PRC, Taiwan, S-Korea ...)

  7. until they are hacked like the Swiss, the Austrian on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1
    and many more Foreign Offices around the World!

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    Shouldn't sovereign countries use sovereign software? To protect their very own assests?

    Where is a risk analysis for firmware trojans in IT equipment from abround ( US, PRC, Taiwan, SKorea... )?

  8. until they are hacked like the Swiss, the Austrian on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1
    and many other Foreign Offices around the world.

    Not to speak of that sovereign countries should use sovereign software

    where is the risk analysis for a backdoor/firmware trojan in IT products coming from certain countries? ( US, PRC, Taiwan etc.. )

  9. bashin the messenger, but where are the facts? on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1
    I am not used that slashdotters forget to bring facts and arguments, but instead do a lot of bashing on the person.

    what I have learned is:

    Google was founded by 2 students who came from Russia.

    they could afford to buy server farms and communication bandwidth which enabled them to push the established leader of the Internet business from its position.

    I know a venture capitalist and he said he would not have put money in that.

    Then we had the Google break-in. Short time later Google was more or less thrown out of China. Maybe the intruders found information that there was also a backdoor on Google servers in beijing - accessed from across the big pond?

    Which they did not like?

  10. its not the money on Science Programs Hit Hard By Proposed Budget · · Score: 1
    it is the spirit which makes successful science and applications!

    money may simply be an indicator that new things are welcome -

    but it is not the media good science grows on.

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    the best fertilizing media for science is the readiness to accept surprising results when they are beinf presented and proofed!

  11. several things possible on US Has Secret Tools To Force Internet On Dictatorships · · Score: 1
    bidirectional traffic using the Echelon satellites to and from the mobile phone towers - rumors have it that this was already used in Iran to provoke many people to come to the areas where protests were staged.

    Trojan Boot Loaders in all routers ( and maybe switches ) overriding configured settings - this does not prevent disruption of communication if the Internet providers really have to pull the plug - literally the fibre patch cables.

  12. here one hears also more and more Hindi on Is Setting Up an Offshore IT Help Desk Ethical? · · Score: 1

    and Bangladeshi. Even with illegal Visa

  13. some out of use on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    halberd
    iron armour
    lead pencil
    slide rule

  14. read my lips on EU Approves Intel's McAfee Purchase After Interoperability Pledge · · Score: 0

    because what I say may not be what I will do

  15. reality has to take precedence over PR on Challenger 25 Years Later · · Score: 1
    this is what R.P. Feynman wrote in the appendix of the Challenger commission report.

    He threatened to leave officially the commission if they would not publish it.

    He demonstrated the know weakness of the booster seals by immersing it in ice-water in fronty of the TV cameras.

    And Apollo 1 - it was know that pure oxygen is a big risc - aks any welder.

    So far for the sake of ignorance they paid dearly with their lives.

    And Russian Kosmonauts too!

  16. prrof of fusion/fission would be emitted radiation on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1
    Physical review quotes the energies emitted by Cu59 by Positron decay as 0.343±0.004, 0.463±0.010, 0.872±0.005, 1.305±0.005, and 1.70±0.01 Mev, with respective relative intensities of 16±3, 15±5, 29±4, 36±4, and 4±2%. The half-life of Cu59 was measured to be 81.5±0.5

    If you want to proof its nuclear, get out your low-energy radiation detectors.

  17. if you do not want to loose it, dont't use it ! on Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology · · Score: 1
    the problem of all secret weapons is that it can be used as a surprise once.

    Then a lot of brains start to think how to overcome it and statistics says:

    the more people think about it the more probable is it that a defense can be found.

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    SunTzu said: the best general does not have to fight because his enemies know they will be defeated.

  18. if you can't beat them on Espionage In Icelandic Parliament · · Score: 1

    denounce them ( Wikileaks )

  19. Re:Ed Roberts and Gery Kildall too on Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope · · Score: 1
    Sorry - I di not mean you!

    I thought about the presentation of things in the public: Who remembers that Bills dad is/was an outstanding lawwyer in Washington plus his mother on social terms with two IBM directors?

  20. Re:Ed Roberts and Gery Kildall too on Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope · · Score: 1
    Roberts to be the one who built and sold the first true Desktop PC for which Billy Boy and Paul Allan wrote after a PDP source code manual the Basic Interpreter

    Gery Kildal to be the one who wrote the first Desktop PC OS CP/M and who was tricked by Billy the Gates, son of a lawwyer.

    Tim Patterson who wrote the original Q-DOS stealing from CP/M.

    and so on and so on and so on

    Americans have problems in their aquaintance with the truth.

  21. freeze the bank account of the sender! on Spoofed White House Card Dupes Many Gov't Employees, Steals Data · · Score: 1
    isn't this the obvious solution to hit these bad people who do such things?

    Block their credit cards too!

  22. Re:Gotta Appreciate People Who Learn on Chinese Intellectual Property Acquisition Tactics Exposed · · Score: 1
    you are damned right!

    If they manage to have Taiwan want to come back into their Nation tyhen they did a good job!

    I compared schools in Europe, US and China. I tend to have my kids go to school in China.

    And I saw Chinese people arrest a pickpocket. Cant remember to have seen/heard such in Europe or US!

  23. Re:UN is a toothless wonder on Vint Cerf, US Congresswoman Oppose Net Regulation · · Score: 1
    you talking about the US?

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    oops - just recently the US paid its debts accumulated over 20 years to the UN !

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    sorry - maybe you mean - whom?

  24. Hey Vint on Vint Cerf, US Congresswoman Oppose Net Regulation · · Score: 1
    you are also against the Monopoly of Credit-cards by the US?

    and the monopoly of the US in international transactions - after the EU let the US spy on its money traffic?>

    - and I guess there is also a monopoly of the Internet - or at least a pretty far reaching monitoring if not control of the very Internet!

    - Dear Vint - you know who gave the money for developing the 'net' - don't you ?

  25. look at Steve Ballmers on Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    he attended Harvard, met Billyboy and became later a very rich man!