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Lt. Col. John Bircher Answers Your Questions 232

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 03 2008, @02:35PM
from the questions-that-dan-savage-won't-touch dept.

A few weeks ago, you asked questions of Lt. Col. John Bircher, head of an organization with a difficult-to-navigate name: the U.S. Army Computer Network Operations (CNO)-Electronic Warfare (EW) Proponent's Futures Branch. Lt. Col. Bircher has answered from his perspective, at length, not just the usual 10 questions, but several more besides. Read on for his take on cyberwar, jurisdiction, ethics, and more.

Google Building Its Own -> 0

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Paul Jakma

on Monday November 19 2007, @11:50AM

Paul Jakma writes "NyquistCapital argue that Google are building their own 10GigE switches, with ASICs from Broadcom. "We were watching shipments of SFP+ components for 10GbE in the market but simply couldn't account for their end destination — sort of an optical component dark matter problem.", Andrew Schmitt writes, of their reasoning for their conclusion. The blog speculates that start-up Arastra may be involved with Google in some way. Might Google help drive adoption of a simplified 10GigE standard?"
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2.6.24-rc1 Adds Up to Be Biggest Ever-> 0

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eldavojohn

on Wednesday October 24 2007, @12:14PM

eldavojohn writes "The latest release candidate of the Linux kernel is massive. One reader pointed out it is 1,565,010 lines of code & Linus Torvalds noted, "In short, we just had an unusually large amount of not just x86 merges, but also tons of new drivers (wireless networking stands out, but is by no means the only thing — we've got dvb, regular wired network, mmc etc all joining in), and a fair amount or architecture stuff, filesystems, networking etc too." Well, hopefully all these improvements — especially the wireless improvements — bring the Linux kernel one step closer to the general public."
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Massachusetts Data Protection Bills

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Larry Greenemeier

on Friday February 23 2007, @10:27AM

Larry Greenemeier writes "Companies doing business in the Bay State may soon face stiff penalties for wayward security practices as Massachusetts is now considering legislation that would place these companies on the hook to pay for any costs associated with a data breach of their IT systems."

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by Fitascious on Thursday April 13 2006, @01:32PM

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