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This, I was a Tomahawk tech in the Navy, ~85% of my system was COTS electronics. So, much of the system could be purchased on the internet (probably the same place the Navy supply system gets it) if you know what components to look for, and if you did find them (they were pretty dated), I am willing to bet a lot of those components would come from over seas. The software to make it work is what is proprietary, and really matters.
Next time I go, I'll try to line up a college seminar, maybe, to talk about 2nd Amendment. College kids are eager to learn anything about the good ol' US of A. They might as well learn something truly unique and precious about this country.
The trouble is that all the chips they are putting down and on which they are running that software are getting complex enough that that it is, or is approaching impossible to be 100% sure of what you are getting.The software to make it work is what is proprietary, and really matters.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
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When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
Indeed - not a leg to stand on to be found:The eugenics capital of the world wants to talk to us about human rights violations.
To all the Commie Bastards, Come and get take them!!!!!!
Do you mean the Chinese or U.S. Politicians ?
The trouble is that all the chips they are putting down and on which they are running that software are getting complex enough that that it is, or is approaching impossible to be 100% sure of what you are getting.
It was one thing when you had parts with a few dozen pins, now there are 100's. You can also design the chip to function perfectly normally under any test mode that might detect something odd. As time goes on, the complexity of exploits from intentional vulnerability to EM to remote compromise are going to increase.
It is hard enough to make COTS hardware do what you want it to on the timelines we have (in the Consumer market) to do so much less attempt to harden them to any sort of attack. Much less to harden them against back-end process manipulation (i.e. sending masks overseas for production at which point exploits are inserted).
Been there done that - if its not happening now, its only a matter of time...This doesn't really reflect reality in the defense industry and particularly when it comes to weapons programs, and that's about all I can say about that.
As a manufacturing engineer who now drives buses as a union laborer, you sure didn't get with the game.
Which is probably why you are driving a union bus instead of flying over there as a manufacturing engineer to set up lines for production.
PennyPincher said:I don't often swear. I don't often even think about swearing. But as far as China telling the US about human rights and guns I say - F^%$ off!
Human rights groups reported that 50 to 100 people were executed in the wake of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, some for things as minor as setting a police motorcycle on fire or taking photographs of tanks around the square. Another 15,000 to 20,000 were detained, with 99 of those still in prison in ten years later.
Just a FYI, I no longer drive a bus, I am semi retired and when I do work I am in the automotive trades, as among other things a MA licensed auto damage appraiser.
I support the workers rights to unionize, as did Ronald Regan. I also support the right of the government to toss the employees out on their asses when the unions when they do something stupid.
Ask the Boston Carmen's Union what happened to them when they got too big for their britches, same for PATCO.
http://www.examiner.com/article/china-condemns-u-s-gun-ownership-as-human-rights-violation
“The United States prioritizes the right to keep and bear arms over the protection of citizens' lives and personal security and exercises lax firearm possession control, causing rampant gun ownership,” the report claims. “The U.S. people hold between 35 percent and 50 percent of the world' s civilian-owned guns, with every 100 people having 90 guns [and] 47 percent of American adults reported that they had a gun.”
Because if anyone knew about human rights violations, it would be China.
Screw china put a 10% tariff on all the cheap junk they send us. And if they cry put a 20 % on it. Tell them to shut up or screw.
It's not an accident - they know what they are saying. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery."Well, they have it ass-backwards: This is one the few remaining bright spots in American freedom. Self-preservation is a human right, but don't tell them.