'Fore he shoots first.

You'll get my mouse, when you pry it from my cold dead hand.

I always heard that as Tyr.

Why am I put in mind of a particular Latin phrase, when I read the name of this death-bot? Why would BAE christen the thing with a homophone for Tyrant?

Sic semper Taranis!

Murder by numbers, 1-2-3
It's as easy to learn
As your A-B-C...

What Nokia must do to stay relevant in mobile?

TIME TRAVEL!

My! I had know idea that he inspired such passionate exchanges. Captain, if you are reading this, give yourself a gold-star. So seldom does anything from Canada cause such an exhibition!

Maybe that can be added to "Accomplishments". :-)

What if there are no "massive cyber-attacks" by "Chinese hackers"?

Who'd know? The key part of almost every successful TCP/IP network attack or compromise is the ability to manipulate intermediate hosts, etc. to obfuscate and mislead as to the actual "real location" of the attacker or malicious agent. When I was so preoccupied, in the mid/late-nineties, it was common practice to use Chinese IP space as "base-camp" for our explorations. I remember, in particular, an entire University lab of several dozen Sparc5 clones, directly connected to the Internet. Getting shell on these was a trivial exercise. The poor quality of the systems administration on these hosts was also an excellent indication that any forensics effort would be pretty hopeless, with the simple deletion of local logfiles.

Given the resources of a US or Israeli intelligence agency, it is completely likely that attacks could appear to be "Chinese" - without ever having a ZH presence. Manipulation of BGP, etc. could produce the required 'evidence'.

Which also begs the question: why would "Chinese" or "North Korean" state-sponsored "hacker gangs" be able to launch attacks with sophistication enough to be considered a threat to national infrastructure, yet simultaneously naive enough to be triangulated back to their supposedly surreptitious origin?

As they say, "Pull the other one, it has bells on it."

The only serious outcome of any mass-scale foreign cyber-attack has been to create a climate for the acceptance of increased surveillance, demolition of limits for Federal agencies and the Military in regards to the law-abiding civilian US population, and the complete obliteration of 4th and 1st Amendment protections afforded by the U.S. Constitution. What if that is not the "unintended consequence"?

The summary for the submitted article misses almost EVERY important aspect to this story, as it was initially reported! It almost looks like an attempt to deliberately minimize concern over the dubious legality and suspect agenda for "Perfect Citizen".

In fact, Samzenpus and "Wiggles" seem content not to mention the program's Orwellian name, nor the specific use of the term "Big Brother" by Ratheon contractors associated with the NSA on this effort.

Here is the summary I supplied, when submitting this story as a front-pager for Slashdot. I believe that it is more cogent and INFORMATIVE than the blandness offered us.

For once, I really wouldn't mind a "dupe" story, either my summary or that of another poster with some insight to the implications of "Perfect Citizen".

Right.

So they don't deserve a National team.

The whole thing was created in slight reaction to the national aspirations of the Welsh and Scottish. You have the move to a Scottish Parliament and co-equal Scottish pound, you have required Cymry language on the telly. Suddenly, there's a U.K. team becoming the England team...

Interestingly, GB is different than UK. GB is England, Wales and Scotland - some say Cornwall, too, but who are we kidding? UK is the above, plus Northern Ireland.

Since I posted a little bit about an RC helicopter...

And Dick was Lebanese...