Trade war, or war within the bureaucracy of the US Govt itself? Remember that Cybersecurity Executive Order? Wonder who will be put in charge?

Reminds me of a little story about a power outage, maybe.

We can't tell you what we know, but trust us to be in charge...

> I've seen people from Israel, Iran, England, Australia, Canada, Germany and China all working in the one place on incredibly sensitive cyber espionage for the one country

Sure you did kid...

How about you stop making comments on Slashdot and go back to your Intro to Information Tech class.

You must be new around here... Almost everything we do is worthless.

My god, somebody who is intelligent on the interwebs!!!?

Are you lost?

" The last 3 places I have lived at had only 1 cable company "choice". "

That is because the local government in the last 3 places you lived had a franchise agreement with the cable provider. That means the government IS the reason you have no choice, which pretty much makes your argument poop.

I think it was more like 'hey check out my website'. It was packed full of very interesting information though and I'm glad I clicked on it.

or if we can stab ourselves in the balls with a steak knife

The reason is that Sony / Fujitsu / Toshiba / etc, don't owe anything to the United States, and they WILL go to other countries to find cheap labor.

If you had your choice of two laptops with equal hardware in them, but one was $500 more, which one would you buy?
Unless of course you are looking at a Mac...

http://www.l-3com.com/cs-east/ia/smeped/ie_ia_smeped.shtml

Yes because we all know that old Cisco routers are not vulnerable to anything.