I know several contractor's who consistently try to bid themselves out of jobs when it comes to dealing with Universities.
Not all of them are technical contractor's admittedly, but I've heard similar stories from various fields.
Most of the time they say that the amount of interference from school official's and various professor's makes the work a nightmare and not worth doing at any price.
I wonder if Cisco figured "the juice isn't worth the squeeze" and intentionally over inflated their price to ridiculousness in order to avoid the entire project.

These were the first fantasy books I can remember reading, and I was completely hooked on the genre afterwards.
I was in the first grade as I recall, and while they were a quick a light read, they actually dealt with some fairly heavy (at that age anyways) moral issues and life lessons.
Oh, and if you're basing an opinion of these books off of having watched Disney's Cartoon...don't...there are few similarities if any.

This article is slightly disingenuous at best...at no point and time has the US admitted to being behind these cyber attacks. The NYTimes article that it links to sites unnamed sources, claiming that they are current and former government officials, yet does not release any names or actual proof. It looks to me like it's a bunch of unsubstantiated rumors trying to be spread as fact to generate news.

I couldn't help but notice how this "opinion piece" didn't bother to mention the use of Stuxnet and it's effect on the Iranian enrichment program. This was as prime an example of Cyberwarfare as you'll ever get.

I guess if you're a zealot on a platform, its customary to completely ignore anything that's counter productive to your agenda.

Not that I feel that sacrificing individual rights and/or providing the government with more power is the answer.
More like user education...user education...user education!

I'm not sure how it works in Canada, and IANAL...but I believe in some jurisdictions in the US you can go directly to the District Attorney and have them investigate the matter. Particularly in cases where the local police authority are not doing their job.

They may even balk at first on what's a seemingly small crime to them, but if you make a big enough nuisance of yourself, there's a good chance they'll do something about it, just to make you go away.

Perhaps I'm wrong on this, but I was under the impression that the controller's were part of a closed network, hence the reason for sneaking the stuxnet virus in via USB. Why on earth would it be trying to report back to anywhere?
Either, I have my facts wrong, or somebody is just making crap up to point a finger.

If this is the case...then the Windows Machine with IE8 had to have been the first one to go down. Irish security researcher Stephen Fewer, the guy who exploited that one is the one who won the $15000.
So either this article is incorrect, or you don't know what you're talking about.

SPOILER ALERT!!!

What do you mean Tron wasn't really in this?
He was in pretty much the whole movie, just corrupted as Rinzler.

I have no problem donating to plans/projects for these kinds of things.
My problem is that you never really know where your tax dollars are going, so it makes it really hard to support government funded projects like this.
I think our tax system needs overhauled/updated. I think we should be able to pick and choose what projects our money goes to...at least a percentage of it anyways.
Don't get me wrong...you couldn't let everyone just throw every tax penny at say education reform or transportation or something, but how about giving us the option to appropriate say 25% (or heck even 10%) of our tax dollars how we see fit.
At least then we could support government projects like this and at least have a sense that some of our money was going where we wanted it to.
And for those who don't care, let them just pay taxes as usual...100% just goes wherever the higher ups decide.