How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,
After a heated discussion in Foxnews with the Donald, the ambassador informs President Linus that the Soviet Union has created a windows device, which consists of many buried bombs jacketed with "Linus-System-G"

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Do a search someday on " Information Wars 2025, Air Force". The information is not always for machines. Our soldiers will have protection from nervous system interference. While the 'terrorists' will hear, feel, and see, etc what ever we project onto them. Ever notice how the Slashdot war helmet resembles the tin-foil hat?

You are correct, Americans are intentionally kept ignorant. Tea bags bring us back to the halcyon days of tarring and feathering. Most Americans barely understand a Watt. So a lumen, etc are beyond the goal of conformist society.

I, for one welcome our new fluorescent and LED masters.

I, for one welcome our new quantum overlords.

FLOPS / Watt is the future. No doubt. Tesla (NVIDIA) has the edge on the low end now. Low power per cycle will win in the long term. Multi core x64 bit for now. But to the powers that be, 32 / 64 /128 bits per watt per cycle will rule someday.

They skipped IP V5, so why not skip V6? IP V7, although alpha is more likely to be adapted than IP V3, or V5. Skipping generations seems the historical precedence. Probably the military had an IP V5, and V3 for internal use that was very secure, and DARPA funds less secure information for us.

Supreme Commander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander) is a great game for MMO. Already large scale, and scalable.

Most of these games are good, and run on linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games

I have played "The Battle for Wesnoth", that is very good for turn based strategy.

Orange book:

A-
You are are a single communication construct. No one outside the circle of trust has any idea what is communicated.

B-
You are in a network (circle) of trust. moving data to each other is logged, and allowed/censored.

C-
A typical LAN with verifiable security.

D-
The internet, a net work of networks. Data can 'vanish', as a function of time/money spent on keeping the data stored.

Read the data security handbook summarized:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluation_Criteria

Ignorance is strength,
War is peace,
Freedom is slavery.

All your base are belong to us.

The post about OS-X, is both a "flame-bait", and a noteworthy, free speech comment. Often when moderating and I read such a post, I will use "interesting" which does not penalize the remarkable comment. It would be nice to have the option to mark the post as "flame-bait" but not subtract rating points. "Off-topic" has the same problem.