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January 28, 2009
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I was watching a good documentary about J. Robert Oppenheimer. SciAm's article about the documentary. My interest has peaked enough to put his biography on my reading list. From the book:
Asked in a closed Senate hearing room "whether three or four men couldn't smuggle units of an [atomic] bomb into New York and blow up the whole city", Oppenheimer responded, "Of course it could be done, and people could destroy New York." When a startled senator then followed by asking, "What instrument would you use to detect an atomic bomb hidden somewhere in a city?" Oppenheimer quipped, "A screwdriver" [to open each and every crate or suitcase]. There was no defense to nuclear terrorism and he felt there never would be. - 1946
Also, I have come onto the Vista bandwagon and it is an ugly view. My main problems with Vista are that my tabletpc does not come out of sleep mode and I have to do a manual shutoff. Then, out of the blue, my ctl-alt-del will stop working and then, I have to do a manual shutoff. On top of these Vista problems, it seems that Firefox might be having a conflict w/ Zonealarm since the problem also causes me to do a manual shutoff. Computers shouldn't cause this many problems. My research has lead to the same conclusions, reinstall Vista and give up on the firewall or the browser. Sigh.
Posted by azileretsis at January 28, 2009 01:34 AM
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