White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce, who formerly worked at the NSA, has said the agency had no knowledge of the Spectre or Meltdown vulnerabilities in Intel processors that came to light last week. Andy Greenberg reports in WIRED: On Friday, White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce, a former senior NSA official, told The Washington Post that the […]
Archives for January 2018
Obama vs Trump: The Great Experiment
With each incoming administration, the deck chairs change, but usually the ship sails on course. New administrations have been unlikely to completely overturn their predecessors’ policies–until now. “We’ve gone from hard left, under Obama, to hard right, under Trump,” Victor Davis Hanson reminds readers of NRO. Whatever Donald J. Trump’s political past and vociferous present, […]
Belichick, Brady, Kraft — Patriots Serious Disagreements
Bill Belichick (coach), Tom Brady (quarterback) and Robert Kraft (owner) differ on Brady’s trainer, body coach, business partner Alex Guerrero. According to Seth Wickersham at ESPN: THE CRACKS FIRST revealed themselves in early September. The season had just started, and Guerrero was once again becoming an issue in the Patriots’ building, just weeks before the release […]
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
One of my takeaways from the book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, is Musk’s ability to stay focused on his long-term goal of putting humans on Mars. At his rocket company, SpaceX, there was some grumbling from employees about when the company would file for an […]
The Cotton Doctrine Will Give America More War and Less Security Says Cato’s Chris Preble
My friend Chris Preble, the vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, and author of The Power Problem, has written that Senator Tom Cotton’s foreign policy doctrine includes more of the war that has defined the twenty-first century for America. Implementing such a policy though, says Chris, would mean less security […]
The Last Lion: Keep Buggering On
To help pass the time on our road treks, especially during the 2,000-mile drive between Key West and Newport, Dick and I have been listening to the 42-disc set of William Manchester and Paul Reid’s The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965. We finished disc #32 as we were slip-sliding into […]
World’s First Long-Range Rifle Capable of Eliminating Targets 2.4 Miles Away
Russian company, Lobaev Arms has created a long-range rifle capable of eliminating targets at distances of up to four kilometers. The rifle, built like a Ferrari or Porsche, was made piece by piece, with a focus on the firearm’s power and precision. The SVLK-14 Twilight is a carbon fiber-reinforced “sandwich” of plastic, fiberglass and Kevlar […]
Is There a “Ghost Gun” in Your Safe?
Untraceable rifles called “ghost guns” are appearing as a black market must have according to The Wall Street Journal‘s Zusha Elinson. Guns with no serial numbers and no chain of ownership are turning up more and more. The guns are most prevalent in California, where firearms restrictions are some of the strictest in the country. […]
Iced in in Charleston
Debbie and I are iced in at Charleston’s Planters Inn. Happy New Year!
Trump Administration Opens a Channel to the Iranians with a Warning
CIA Director Mike Pompeo has opened a channel of communications with his counterpart in Iran, Major General Qassem Soleimani, with a warning that Iran would be held accountable for any attacks on American forces in Iraq by Iranian-controlled troops. This was a warning, but it was better than no dialogue at all. Perhaps it can […]
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