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Comment But they found out about it (Score 1) 180

The makings for a successful attack of this nature include the intrusion not being detected. If they know that the plans were stolen then measures can be taken to mitigate the situation. The most successful cyber espionage or any other kind of espionage operation is a clandestine one; if everyone knows that you know what they know there is significantly less advantage there.

Comment Crap (Score 1) 1

Looks like I am totally a fool. When I connected w/o Squid it was fine. Dunno why it wasn't displayed as a Squid error in my browser with the small picture of a squid, that is what led me to believe it was real. MY BAD! -Cow

Comment Sounds dangerous. (Score 4, Insightful) 176

This is not the type of thing to be fooling with at this stage in technology. Until we understand things better it wont be safe to do this. Nature has a way of surviving in unusual and surprising ways. Besides Microsoft, seriously even if you arent a mac user you would not put something in your body from this company with a history of poor quality and security problems in its software not to mention an emphasis on making money rather than making a quality product that makes money because it is good they make a mediocre one and people use it because they don't know any better or think they have no choice. Frankly even if Apple were to do this type of thing (which they wont) i would not mess with it anyway because they are a computer and software company. IBM Nanomachines? There is something dangerous from a company that actually specializes in such things is on the cutting edge of development and knows what the hell they are doing.

Comment High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Score 2, Informative) 463

Is't illegal wiretapping and collecting data in violation of the law a felony? If it could be proven that bush was directly responisble for the recent illegal survailance then he could be impeached. I think that there is no way that the techniques the president/NSA are using are not in direct violation of constitutional, statutory, and precidential law. If only somebody would hold the president legally accountable for his actions...

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