Time to Harden Your Hardware - "this past week has seen alerts about an unusual number of
vulnerabilities and attacks against some important and ubiquitous
hardware devices, from consumer-grade Internet routers, data storage and
home automation products to enterprise-class security solutions." (I have no readers so this plea is probably for nothing but seriously people update your damn router firmware)
Why is broadband more expensive in the US? - "We deregulated high-speed internet access 10 years ago and since then
we've seen enormous consolidation and monopolies, so left to their own
devices, companies that supply internet access will charge high prices,
because they face neither competition nor oversight."
Rethinking Offshoring - "As companies adopt a more comprehensive total cost analysis, they are finding that rising offshore labor rates (going up by 18 percent a year in China, 500 percent in the last 12 years) often are combined with other hidden costs of offshoring to counterbalance any remaining savings from cheap price or labor abroad."
Navy Official: China Training for 'Short Sharp War' with Japan - “We witnessed the massive amphibious and cross military region
enterprise — Mission Action 2013,” Fanell said at the West 2014
conference on Feb. 13 in San Diego, Calif. “[We] concluded that the PLA has been given the new task to be able to
conduct a short sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East China
Sea following with what can only be expected a seizure of the Senkakus
or even a southern Ryukyu [islands] — as some of their academics say.”
Democrats Can't Accept Trade Off - "When it is convenient, the CBO is the Nonpartisan Arbiter of Absolute
Truth. When inconvenient, CBO is—well—pay no attention to that report
they just released."
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