He said he would destroy me, and he would hunt me down and kill me if I would endanger a source, although I never gave him reason to suspect I would. He also threatened to have me locked up.
More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/magazine/20FOB-Q4-t.html?_r=1
President Barack Obama has included funding in his 2012 budget proposal for development of the next generation of supercomputers, an exascale system. The money is going to the U.S. Department of Energy, which has led in developing the world’s fastest computers.
If Congress approves Obama’s request, DOE will get $126 million for exascale development, with about $91 million for the DOE’s Office of Science and $36 million for the National Nuclear Security Administration.
“The really big question for everybody is: What is the business model?” Holger Forst, telecoms expert at accountant firm Ernst & Young, said on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest wireless trade show.
Last Thursday the Dutch website Rijksoverheid.nl has been DOS-sed. Rijksoverheid.nl is the gateway to the webpages of all the ministries of the Dutch government. The website went down for hours. It is not known who is behind the attack.
Dutch language article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2450048/rijksoverheidnl-slachtoffer-van-aanval.html
Previously:
How to prevent a pro-WikiLeaks DOS attack – DOSarrest
http://vrritti.com/2010/12/10/how-to-prevent-a-pro-wikileaks-dos-attack-dosarrest/
Obama takes a leap of faith and trusts the government to the cloud
“We have download traffic, upload traffic, BitTorrent traffic, and we have HTTP traffic. So we can answer questions like: I live in this city in the world–it could be anywhere, literally anywhere–which ISP should I use? Which is the fastest? Which ISP is messing with BitTorrent traffic? Because we have this data, we can see the difference in speeds by time of day.”
The president and the business leaders discussed shared goal of promoting American innovation, and commitment to new investments in research and development, education and clean energy
More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/17/obama_hosts_tech_titan_meeting/
Thus has been born the “AllVid Tech Company Alliance”—named in honor of the FCC’s suggested gateway interface
More: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/google-best-buy-and-sony-ally-against-big-cable.ars
