Re: @ allthecoolshortnamesweretaken - Space-grade Gaffer tape?
Give me a Swiss army knife or a Leatherman, a roll of duct tape, a can of WD-40 and a handful of cable ties and I'll get you to hell and back.
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Well, why should drug dispensing machines be any saver than money dispensing machines...
One way to look at the problem is to conclude that the free market is not able to provide sustainable long-term solutions.
So what will it be - a medicinal-industrial complex akin to the military-industrial complex? A handful of companies that control the market - but are increasingly unable to deliver anything useful (Exhibit A: The F-35 desaster)?
Or a cluster of manufacturers attached to universities to combine R&D and actually building stuff, all run by the state in order to make sure they are still operating in a couple of decades?
They sure do love their acronyms, don't they?
Wouldn't it make more sense to set up a seperate arm of the services that deals exclusively with all the cyberwar stuff and nothing else? You know, like when the Air Force was set up as as a seperate arm when it became apparent that operating a large fleet of bombers and fighters and whatnot was too big and specialised to be just a sub-branch of the army? This is pretty much the situation we have now, isn't it? You need a dedicated outfit of specialists for this sort of thing, not half a dozend competing sub-branches.
Interested, but pretty sure I'm > 5 km away.
Good luck with the experiment, but do be be careful!
He taught me : keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
You don't get to choose your ancestors, and whatever happened in the past happened, good and bad.
I kinda like Churchill's take on this. Apparently he worried not so much that those who forget the past are condemned to relive it, but that the loss of the past would mean “the most thoughtless of ages. Every day headlines and short views.” (House of Commons, 16 November 1948)
Germany has seen terrorist attacks*, it's just that thankfully it's been a while since a large successful one.
*amongst others:
- mid 1960ies to mid 1980ies the Baader-Meinhof group and three generations of 'Rote Armee Fraktion', including the hijacking of LH181
- Olympic Games Munich 1972
- Oktoberfest Munich 1980
Coming soon: FBI vs The Tech Industry, round two! Stay tuned, and pass the popcorn.
Right now the FBI has made a tactical retreat, combined with a couple of smoke grenades. But it ain't over 'till the fat lady sings. I wonder what they will try next, and how they are going to do it.
What really could spice up the proceedings would be a whistleblower from the FBI. I'm pretty sure there are feds who still have the fidelity, integrity and bravery to consider this.
Good point. I'd like to add the 'please love me' attitude.
As to "Lovely people, but the ones who put men on the moon are in the increasingly small minority. - a lot of the ones who put men on the moon are dead already. (Especially the "Nazis with slide rules" brigade.)
Also, Columbus was Italian, working for Spain. Historical side note: Columbus faked his log because he was traveling in Portugese waters. No one was quite sure how big the world really was at the time, but Spain and Portugal had already divided it between them, contract brokered by the Pope and all...
But as part of my family is Norwegian - yeah, something viking, I could live with that!
"This ability "is vital in order to see patterns in the behaviour of those who might join a cell such as the one in Brussels. And it can help us to spot them if they make a mistake," wrote Hague."
So the game plan is to wait for the opposition to make a mistake? Very reassuring, Mr Hague, very reassuring.
"Fadell is a close friend of Alphabet CEO Larry Page, and was diverted to rescue Google's creepy wearable Glass. He's also rechanneled to be a performing "thinkfluencer" at the secretive celebrity events Google likes to host."
A performing thinkfluencer - is that really a proper job for a grown up?
Also, what outfit is he wearing for his performance, on a scale from, say, ABBA to Die Form?