From: Alexander 'Sasha' Chislenko (sasha1@netcom.com)
Date: Tue Feb 23 1999 - 09:03:38 MST
Interestingly enough, the next release of Pentiums III, 800MHZ,
will put them into a supercomputer category and so will trigger
corresponding export restrictions. - See story at
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990222S0011
What will the government do now?
The answer should be simple: whatever it was planning to
do when this happens. The export restrictions aren't new, neither
is Moore's "Law", so this event was predictable, _long_ time ago.
But no, the law is static, and now there are again expensive
lobbying efforts for raising the definition of the supercomputer
(once?), etc.
Why is that that the regulatory bodies are so delusional they
assume we live in a static world - where their very purpose
should be formulated now as assurance of smooth growth
of the society they should understand well enough to govern?
Are they too stupid to extrapolate apparent trends, or there is
something else in the system that makes it ignore them?
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Alexander Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>
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