Comment Re: I don't think so (Score 1) 42
Comment America to start a firefight in a gasoline -filled (Score 1) 42
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's new Technology Support Office will give the United States the ability to disrupt foreign technology programmes without going to war, provided the countries concerned agree that what happened to them was not war. Quietly sabotaging a foreign factory allows the enemy to quietly sabotage an American factory. Neither government then has to admit that hostilities are underway, and both populations can continue enjoying peace while waiting for replacement parts.
American technological superiority is expected to prove decisive. The United States possesses sophisticated financial networks, advanced semiconductor facilities, enormous data centres and highly automated distribution systems. Its adversaries have fewer such assets, leaving American planners with a shorter target list and their opponents with the burden of choosing. An early assessment found that the United States could inflict a decade of damage on a rival's emerging technology sector. The assessment did not price a week without its own.
Officials stressed that the objective is deterrence. Once adversaries understand how much damage the United States can do, they will have every incentive to stop. The possibility that they might attempt to communicate the same message has been incorporated into next year's funding request.
Comment Frontier models to be denied internet access (Score 1) 16
Comment Re: My kind of pandering (Score 1) 152
Comment what's wrong with you people? (Score 2, Insightful) 124
Comment My kind of pandering (Score 1) 152
If it were to make it to law (snowball's chance) it sounds good. But I have to say America doesn't need single issue whack-a-mole symptom fixes, but major changes to address the corruption that causes the need. Regulatory capture, revolving doors, legalized bribery, lobbyimg of non-law-making policy advisors, bribed judges, defanged internal audits and special police units, and so on.
In this case, its lack of consumer protection best addressed by changing the structure of the ftc, so lawmakers don't have to notice each iteration of this king of swindle.