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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (178484)	7/1/2004 4:13:34 PM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

Brian, selling above Pentium 3 to foreign govts doesn't sound as threatening to our security, as compared to not completing the fbi project below that'll catch terrorists! If the govt cared about our safety, they'd adequately fund and complete this project: cnn.com "The FBI's much-lauded computer system that was supposed to aid in tracking domestic terror threats will not be ready by year's end" Regarding your article, if the govt imposes such a thing, the work around is to simply purchase chips overseas from say Via (or whatever they are called) and do assembly overseas, rather than purchasing low-end chips from USA manufacturers and assembling here. This of course hurts USA manufacturers and gives overseas firms more business. Nothing like shooting the USA firms in the foot, courtesy of our govt. Also, if the govt really wanted to improve security, they wouldn't let a bunch of foreign "art" students (that were actually engineers) waltz into the Valley's technology center (and other areas in US) where the govt deported them on a simple immigration violation (so they can come back and do it again?), instead of charging them with espionage. Someone at the top of our govt almost is giving the appearances of handing over military IP to partnering countries without consent of businesses, as if it's an exchange for some favor our country needs. My brother (who works in Washington) doesn't think that's actually the case, instead he thinks a partnering country simply got caught spying (he's not convinced they were taking IP) and he believes the USA govt didn't charge them (with anything more serious than a simple immigration violation) because of strong lobbying power and a desire to handle it quietly. (That certainly doesn't give entrepreneurs the confidence to work with the govt.) Someone in hightech said there's absolutely no way the govt would have let a foreign country taken IP because of the more powerful hightech lobby. Someone from the foreign country in question said their country spies on everyone, including on the USA, as if it's no big deal. So my vote would be to invest money into the FBI or CIA/SS and beef their systems up, rather than trying to control exports to the degree DoD desires, when DoD truly has no such control anymore on low-end chips since there are overseas suppliers. They need to think more globally now. Regards, Amy J

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (178484)	7/4/2004 11:21:56 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: The current version of the defense authorization act would lower that limit to systems deemed "militarily critical" by the Department of Defense. That level is currently set to the equivalent of a computer using a Pentium 3 processor running at 650MHz, state of the art in 1999 but considered feeble today. The group presently running this country isn't very bright, I'm afraid (actually, terrified is more like it). God only knows what ridiculous crap they're going to dump on us next.