On Wed, May 21, 1997 at 09:39:57PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
At 8:07 PM -0800 5/21/97, Willaim H. Geiger III wrote: [...]
"think" and "government" should never be used in the same paragraph. I was laughing so hard at the prospects of government drones trying to compete in the private sector I pulled a muscle.
Believe it. I suspect the "we can help you" program Kent Crispin is working on (some form of key recovery) is just such a program.
Nope. [...]
None of these "commercialization" efforts went anywhere, nor was it ever appropriate for taxpayer-funded labs to enter into competition with privately-funded enterprises like Cadence, Daisy, Cray, etc.
To be sure, LLL and LANL do pretty nice jobs of making hydrogen bombs. Now that H-bombs are passe, "remediation" is one way they're seeking contracts to survive. (Remediation of nuclear waste and existing weapons.)
And things like the Extreme UV project. Look for an announcement soon.
As I said in a previous post, your spies aren't serving you well. However, it is just as well that you remain poorly informed. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html