The Russians are coming

[danrok]

ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURER Sitronics, which makes telecommunications, information technology and microelectronics gear in Russia and the CIS, is to open a 90 nanometre microchip plant.

See front page:
AOA - The Russians are coming

Comments?

[dsio]

Incoming Lada CPUs :P

[Daniel ~]

Making passport chips and other ID type chips....why am I uncomfortable with this!? ":O}

[dsio]

I'd be more concerned if the ID chips were made by the Germans :P

[cloasters]

You got a point, dsio!

[cloasters]

Sooner or later a government will insist upon RFID-ing all citizens. Radiant future indeed.

[danrok]

Originally Posted by cloasters

Sooner or later a government will insist upon RFID-ing all citizens. Radiant future indeed.

Technology could turn out to be their greatest weakness. Pull the plug and they're powerless.

[cloasters]

The plugs will be defended very well. Oh joy.

[Daniel ~]

Ah remember Marcusa! (Radical Berkly Professor in the 60's. Spiritual inspiration to many a radical liberal) Basically he said

"The more complex a system is the more dependent it becomes, in all it's parts, on EVERYTHING working as it should...or nothing works....."

One need not destroy a car, just stop it from reaching gas, one need not destroy an oil field, just put one break more in the pipe than they have repair crews, or further away from the repair station than those crews can walk to repair it... just break the circle and the wheel stops rolling...":O}

Also bear in mind that less that 10% of the American's of their day were active contributors or protagonist in our war of Independence.

In short, it doesn't many nor must they do all that much to bring down an unpopular government.

[Rondog]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

Ah remember Marcusa! (Radical Berkly Professor in the 60's. Spiritual inspiration to many a radical liberal) Basically he said

"The more complex a system is the more dependent it becomes, in all it's parts, on EVERYTHING working as it should...or nothing works....."

One need not destroy a car, just stop it from reaching gas, one need not destroy an oil field, just put one break more in the pipe than they have repair crews, or further away from the repair station than those crews can walk to repair it... just break the circle and the wheel stops rolling...":O}

Also bear in mind that less that 10% of the American's of their day were active contributors or protagonist in our war of Independence.

In short, it doesn't many nor must they do all that much to bring down an unpopular government.

I had this discussion with a client when he was complaining that his network was malfunctioning. Apparently everytime someone restarted the main computer some things would stop working, like shared printers.

[Daniel ~]

"If it can go wrong, it will go wrong" One of my favorites...

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

"If it can go wrong, it will go wrong" One of my favorites...

That's "Murphy's Law"...

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by MUff1N

That's "Murphy's Law"...

Unfortunately....It belongs to all of us now! LOL