Is this a good thing? Weren't we complaining about Clinton doing the same thing?
To: truthandlife
"These reforms are needed due to the rapid rate of technological change in the computer industry. Single microprocessors available today - by mail order and the Internet - perform at more than 25 times the speed of supercomputers built in the early 1990s," said White House Deputy Press Secretary Scott McClellan.
So because you can buy faster stuff on the street we should ease exports of supercomputers? Sorry that doesn't fly and endangers our country. Seems to be to be a subsidy through to the supercomputer manufacturers.
If they can get faster computers on the street (like a linux cluster) they why do they need to get a super one in the first place?
3 posted on
01/03/2002 8:24:07 AM PST by
lelio
To: truthandlife
"The president's decision will promote national security, enhance the effectiveness of our export-control system and ease unnecessary regulatory burdens on both government and industry," the White House said in a fact sheet released yesterday. I thought that traitor Clinton was out of office.
To: truthandlife
He did the right thing. MTOPS means nothing when it relates to hardware. A Beowulf Cluster can be constructed from old 486 machines and rival super computers for speed. The comerence dept. is way behind the eight ball on thecnology. Check out this site for Beowulf Clusters.... http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/
5 posted on
01/03/2002 8:27:23 AM PST by
babygene
To: truthandlife
It's a sell out! No question about it.
Good-bye cowardly gop, I guess I'll go back to being without a political party...again.
6 posted on
01/03/2002 9:05:37 AM PST by
jungleboy
To: truthandlife
Wow.
I expected to see several posts explaining why when Bush does it, its different from when Clinton did it.
Amazing.
7 posted on
01/03/2002 9:20:30 AM PST by
Nephi
To: truthandlife
We have a lot of legacy code written that runs on 'supercomputers' this is a play to keep these companies afloat. The technology has passed these machines by. If the Chicoms invest big bucks in obsolete technology that is their problem. The machines are no longer supercomputers.
In truth the type of weapon designs done through the mid 80's can be done by a run of the mill PC. IT has more storage, memory and a faster cpu than the boxes used to design hbombs in the 80's.
Encryption may be another issue. Don't know enough. Doubt the NSA or Rummy would let the Chicoms get ahold of tech that would let them break our encryption.
8 posted on
01/03/2002 9:42:20 AM PST by
Leto
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10 posted on
01/03/2002 10:04:52 AM PST by
batter
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01/03/2002 11:34:39 AM PST by
batter
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