[Cryptography] NSA says China's supercomputing advances put US at risk

[Henry Baker]

At 12:15 PM 3/17/2017, James A. Donald wrote:
>99% of politics is more pandering for a bigger place at the government trough.
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>If you look at any government program up close, it is almost entirely waste and corruption.
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>Sometimes, often, the waste and corruption is inextricably linked to vital government programs that really need to be done, like ...

funding programs in Committee Chairmens' districts -- e.g., Lockheed-Martin figured out how to spread out the gravy into every important Representatives' and Senators' districts and states.

As every NASA scientist and engineer will tell you, the worst environment in the Universe isn't the hard radiation and single-digit-Kelvin temperatures of outer space, but that inside the Capitol building.

BTW, why does NSA need floating point arithmetic?  E.g., why do they need a flop-house?