Today's fastest machine, NEC's Earth Simulator is comparatively slow - about one-thirtieth of a petaflop - but fast enough to worry the United States government that the country is losing its computing lead to Japan.
Givens said retailers should be required to notify consumers about merchandise containing RFID chips and that they should not only disable, but destroy, the chips at the checkout counter. Bowen, who is the chair of the legislative subcommittee on...
Miller said the final recommendation could include legislative, regulatory or self-regulatory approaches. Corporations listed on US stock exchanges would have to certify that they have conducted an annual computer security audit, according to a...
But Miller argued that legislative reforms to the L-1 programme could reduce the amount of foreign direct investment made in the United States. Earlier this year, ITAA president Harris Miller testified in Congress that "the overall programme is not...
In a test on a computer owned by silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com, the software identified Mirc - a client for the Internet Relay Chat network, where files can be swapped, but where tens of thousands of wholly legal conversations happen...
Recently, the House of Representatives passed "Buy American" legislation that would force the Department of Homeland Security to buy products mostly made in the US. According to the new DiamondCluster report, worries about anti-outsourcing...
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