it will be done via computer viruses. All vehicles that need to communicate will be attackable at light speed by infected communications. All conceivable vehicles will have computer links, not just "radios"... so if you can infiltrate their comms, you win. This is both manned and unmanned vehicles, stealth or hidden or whatever.

And of course the K govt will say its only 8 yrs old, not 94M, and they are responsible for finding it....

precisely, it's a release of thousands of emails showing the goverment has been spying on citizens, illegally, and harassing oponents sometimes with made up charges. The blocking is stupid, it took me 2 minutes to download it all via a proxy...

if the USA had to stop all imports from China due to a war it would probably not be alone, with European and other partners perhaps following suit to some degree, since any reason that warrants such a ww4 move (think of the cold war as ww3) may trigger alliances. I don't know if Chinese rulers would not have an insurrection at home from the massive unemployment created there. They are in a tenuous position now, with many local protests squashed and kept quiet each year. India and others could probably substitute China within five years with such a situation. Of course the whole world would suffer more disruption than in the Great Depression! I really doubt it would ever come to that. Chinese and US leaders represent ecomic interests that would not allow any scenario where they all lose.

wow, finally got first comment! :-) Forgot to say that iOS and OSX are likely to merge sometime in the future too, and are related technologies... but I suppose so is this Android with the other ones. Will Android ever run desktop/laptop/server computers?

iOS works on tables AND phones... is Android inferior?

Get a nice i7 pc or server with a UPS, 12-16 gb RAM, a small hard disk for booting/OS and 4 hard disks for RAID 10 storage (or RAID 5 even), which the motherboard should provide directly. Put the free version of the XEN virtualizer on it. Install some VM's you can get preconfigured from Turnkey, Bitnami or Jumpbox or make yourself. Donwload an OpenFiler VM to use as a NAS for all your file needs, including storing the VM's. One VM could have a Liferay installation for a quick intranet. Another could have Postgress or MySQL, depending on your preferences, if you need a DB. For the employees, I agree that Macs are a good investment with low maintenance compared to Windows. Just not dealing with viruses or AV software will make your lives much easier! If you can get discounted second-hand Macs, they are a good setup. You COULD perhaps have a $1000 Mac Mini Server with all the sw you need, and use the Pages/Numbers software on the Macs instead of Office (no extra price). As an alternative, get semi-decent clones and use Ubuntu Linux on them, they are pretty close to Windows. Make sure eveyone knows how to print to PDF, send those files to clients instead of the original non-Word files and the formatting will go through ok. Configure the PC's to store the users documents in OpenFiler. If they don't have large files (or you pay for the additional storage, like $10/user/month) and wish to be able to work from home, rather than laptops get them DropBox accounts. By the time they get home, they can open the files on their home pc's AND have offsite backup. Don't bother with LDAP or AD. Host the company webserver at an ISP for a couple of bucks per month, as well as a mail server. The advantage of using XEN is that you can make any additional servers needed at the office easily without messing with existing servers or buying more hardware for a while. If the hardware died it's simple to put in a new server and run the images on it, without reinstalling or even restoring from backup. Ditto if you need to move to a larger server later on or want redundancy.

I thought Guantanamo was under US jurisdiction...

In 1982, Argentina caused major havoc in the war with Britain with just 5 exocet missiles. It nearly sank the Invincible, whicj probably would have made the war a draw. If Iran has these weapons that could have even a small chance of sinking or damaging a carrier, it will really complicate the war for the USA and could force it to restrict their use or keep even more forces dedicated to their defense. Dont underestimate countries like Iran, like the uk underestimated Argentina, or the USSR did with Finland in 1939, for instance...

Hey, I took a bunch of community college classes before graduating from HS, after hours, and got the credits. I took a bunch of Advanced Placement (AP) classes in high school and did not need to take those classes in college later. I don't see that you need to move out of high school entirely if you don't want to, yet can still get ahead. Let people have several paths available:

1) go to high school until the end, like today

2) have fewer classes in hs so you can go to community college without having to do it after hours

3) go to college early (like some people have always been able to do regardless of their age!) when hs has nothing left for you

4) give these outstanding students more opportunities to do exchange semesters abroad. Now THAT will teach them really valuable things: languages, other cultures, and more rigorous high schools than in America (Japan, Germany, etc)

Society DOES have to move on from the formula for the past 100 years. More than uniformity and conformity now we need self-starting people that can learn their whole lives.

"U.S. military personnel in Iraq discovered the problem late last year when they apprehended a Shiite militant whose laptop contained files of intercepted drone video feeds. In July, the U.S. military found pirated drone video feeds on other militant laptops, leading some officials to conclude that militant groups trained and funded by Iran were regularly intercepting feeds." The Germans did not think the Poles could break their codes. The Japanese did not think the US and the Australians would break their codes. The British did not think Argentina would finish assembling the Exocets on their own without the French manuals or use them in a way differently than designed. The Afghan and Iraqi insurgents have the money and the brains to break into Western weapon systems, don't underestimate them (or the probable help from Iran, Syria, Korea, etc...) The prospect of getting killed is a powerful motivator.

Argentina, where our laws are probably even sillier than in the USA, but that's beside the point. I don't think in most places someone would be accused of piracy and face years in jail for casually filming a screen for two minutes in the background of a birthday celebration. That is such a lapse of common sense that it's scary. For an adult to have reached that level of idiocy, the medium in which he moves (society) must also be pretty dumb... That is the tragedy, for if a great country like the USA with all its resources can generate these people, then the world is lost...