SkyNet has arrived folks!

[kwame k]

True and I found, through my extensive research, that using items found in any household you can thwart just about any attack........

[fifth element]

cute.


no, really.....cute...

[kwame k]

Ah.....the classics never go out of style

[BITEYOASS]

It's probably just an unmanned replacement for the U-2 and SR-71. Satellites can't zoom in that accurately when there is an obstruction or interference. Hence, a backup is needed.

[Nitro Express]

True and I found, through my extensive research, that using items found in any household you can thwart just about any attack........

I used to work in FBI computer center. It's where all the backup data for Washington DC was kept. The whole building I worked in was shielded by 1/8" copper plate with huge ground wires on it. The whole building was a faraday shield. All that copper would cost a fortune at today's prices.

[ace diamond]

is it not rather ironic how life and various forms of art tend to mirror each other........
this is a prime example of how truly terrifying such things can be.
think seriously of the implications of this kind of technology, and where it can lead to, and you will have the most hellish
nightmares that make dante's inferno look extremely tame by comparison.....
scary stuff......

[ace diamond]

i will say this......
in 1998 i had a dream that china staged a red dawn style invasion on the united states.
the difference being, is that most of their operatives were already here in almost every town and major city in the country.
when the chinese started the air raids and paratroopers started parachuting down, the soldiers they needed were activated by advance notice.
because they were already here in their sleeper cells.
in the dream, the chinese took over this country, and there was a very small window to get out and sneak into canada.
everyone that was stuck here was either killed or enslaved.

now that was just a dream i had.......in 1998.

it is something to keep in mind that the chinese are one of the oldest civilizations on earth,
and they have done this many time before......after all, the chinese invented gun powder, and sun tzu, author of "the art of war",
was chinese.
the other thing to bear in mind, is that they are infamously secretive.
so i'd say the chances of any advance warning when they do begin would be almost none.
it scares the shit out of me that i now see the first stages of this now happening....
china is excessively over crowded, so they are kicking their own people out of the country, and sending most of them here.......
they have been hoarding oil and fuel and weapons and such for years.....now with the discovery of advanced military technology
that may surpass anything we can defend against.......their military has been doing a lot of training for a potential invasion in
recent years.....they've also been bulking up their numbers by forced conscription.......
all this and the fact that the united states owes them so much money we'll be lucky to ever pay it back.......
china is about to become the most powerful nation on earth by force.....and it will be our fault......we helped them do it........
and we're letting them do it......this is serious bad news people..........the united states is in seriously deep shit........

[Diamondjimi]

[kwame k]

Hackers working in China broke into the computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies to steal bidding plans and other critical proprietary information, the computer security firm McAfee Inc said in a report.

The report, which named the attacks Night Dragon, declined to identify the five known companies that had been hacked and said that another seven or so had also been broken into but could not be identified.

"It ... speaks to quite a sad state of our critical infrastructure security. These were not sophisticated attacks ... yet they were very successful in achieving their goals," said Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president for threat research.

The hackers got into the computers in one of two ways, either through their public websites or through infected emails sent to company executives.
During the at least two years -- and up to four years -- the hackers had access to the computer networks, they focused on financial documents related to oil and gas field exploration and bidding contracts, said Alperovitch.

They also copied proprietary industrial processes
.
"That information is tremendously sensitive and would be worth a huge amount of money to competitors," said Alperovitch.
The hack was traced back to China via a server leasing company in Shandong Province that hosted the malware, another term for malicious software, and to Beijing IP addresses that were active from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Beijing time (0100-0900 GMT).

McAfee's report did not identify who was behind the hacking.
"We have no evidence that this is government sponsored in any way," said Alperovitch.
McAfee provided the data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which did not respond to requests for comment.

"This is normal business practice in China. It's not always state sponsored. And they do it to each other," said Jim Lewis, a cyber expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.

Asked if Beijing normally agreed to arrest hackers, Lewis responded: "It's not impossible, but it hasn't happened very often."
The Chinese government often says their country is also a victim of hacking. But Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters at a regular press briefing on Thursday in Beijing that he was unaware of this case.

"I really have no grasp of this situation, but we frequently hear about these types of reports," Ma said.
Western governments and companies have long been concerned about corporate espionage based in China.

"We are aware of these types of threats, but we can't comment specifically about what's in the Night Dragon report," said FBI spokeswoman Jenny Shearer.
Washington believes that hacking attacks on Google Inc that briefly prompted the company to pull out of China were orchestrated by two members of the country's ruling body, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks.

The French government is looking into a possible Chinese role in spying on carmaker Renault SA's and Nissan's electric vehicle program.

In 2007, a Chinese student working at car parts maker Valeo was sentenced to prison for obtaining confidential documents from the automaker. A French tribunal stopped short of an industrial espionage verdict, instead finding that she had "abused trust." (Additional reporting by Michael Martina in Beijing; Editing by Andre Grenon and Yoko Nishikawa)

Link

[SunisinuS]

In 2009, a Canadian research group said a China-based ring stole information from thousands of hard drives worldwide. The Information Warfare Monitor said attackers broke into government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and his exiled Tibetan government.

There are no estimates of losses attributable to hacking traced to China, but McAfee has said previously that intellectual property worth an estimated $1 trillion was stolen worldwide through the Internet in 2008.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_us_cyberattacks

Be nice if they actually did something original for once. If and when China becomes the "leading" superpower in the world...the entire planet will long for the days when the "Tyranical US" was in charge. How much foreign aid does china provide the world? How often is it giving assistence to a country after an Earthquake? The world will rue the day. The world's (distant still) 2nd biggest economy is already the worlds biggest polluter. Hell I would rather have an Alien invasion from outerspace than China in charge.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

shit yeah,especially if the aliens are hot, and want to trade beer for "shmegulating"

[Blaze]

In 2009, a Canadian research group said a China-based ring stole information from thousands of hard drives worldwide. The Information Warfare Monitor said attackers broke into government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and his exiled Tibetan government.

There are no estimates of losses attributable to hacking traced to China, but McAfee has said previously that intellectual property worth an estimated $1 trillion was stolen worldwide through the Internet in 2008.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_us_cyberattacks

Be nice if they actually did something original for once. If and when China becomes the "leading" superpower in the world...the entire planet will long for the days when the "Tyranical US" was in charge. How much foreign aid does china provide the world? How often is it giving assistence to a country after an Earthquake? The world will rue the day. The world's (distant still) 2nd biggest economy is already the worlds biggest polluter. Hell I would rather have an Alien invasion from outerspace than China in charge.

Let me Google that for you.... :thatmechanicalsmileweareallsofondof:

http://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/chinas-international-aid-policies/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40361.pdf

Generally China avoids giving or lending cash up front to the recipient countries. Rather, most deals are quasi-barter. Chinese construction and engineering companies, employing a large phalanx of skilled Chinese workers and some local workers, receive funding directly from, say, the China Export-Import Bank. Then over several years the host country agrees to repay the bank in commodity terms—oil or, say, iron ore, whose production and marketing may be facilitated by the construction project itself. To increase leverage in assuring repayment, China may also provide follow-on maintenance crews for the railway, port, or power plant—as well as dangling the possibility of complementary projects in the future.

Republic of China
Pledged more than $3 million to the relief effort, plus supplies.[14

[QUOTE]

In the past several years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has bolstered its diplomatic
presence and garnered international goodwill through its financing of infrastructure and natural
resource development projects, assistance in the carrying out of such projects, and large economic
investments in many developing countries. This report examines China’s economic impact in
three regions — Africa, Latin America (Western Hemisphere), and Southeast Asia — with an
emphasis on bilateral foreign assistance.
China’s foreign aid is difficult to quantify. The PRC government does not release or explain
Chinese foreign aid statistics and much of PRC foreign aid does not appear to be accounted for in
the scholarly literature on foreign aid. Some Chinese foreign assistance partially resembles
official development assistance (ODA) as defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), but in other aspects shares characteristics of foreign
investment. In terms of development grants, the primary form of assistance provided by major
OECD countries, China is a relatively small source of global aid. However, when China’s
concessional loans and state-sponsored or subsidized overseas investments are included, the PRC
becomes a major source of foreign aid.

This report is based on research done by the New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate
School of Public Service in 2007-2008. The Wagner School study, while not comprehensive,
suggests a dramatic increase in PRC foreign aid and related activity. According to the research,
which is largely based upon news reports of Chinese foreign economic activity, PRC foreign
assistance and government-supported economic projects in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast
Asia grew from less than $1 billion in 2002 to $27.5 billion in 2006 and $25 billion in 2007. Aid
and related investment to Africa showed the most significant increase. These totals, however,
should be interpreted with caution. Some aggregate values may be inflated: Some PRC loans or
aid pledges may not have been fulfilled and some aid pledges that include multiple projects or
that span several years may have been counted more than once. Some PRC investment activities
may more closely resemble FDI than aid. In other ways, totals may be undervalued, such as when
economic projects or data have not been reported or when the values of Chinese materials and
labor have not been included.

[Terry]

Whatever...long as there's still plenty of free internet porn, Skynet can do whatever it wants.

[sadaist]

i bet they install an interlock device...

Is one really needed in an unmanned plane?