-Caveat Lector- http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2002/jan/03/010308008.html Bush sounding more like Clinton every day! No wonder he protected him! They are all on one side! The NWO side! - Bill
WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Today: January 03, 2002 at 7:10:12 PST Bush Eases Computer Exports WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's most popular and powerful computer technology will be available to Russia, China, India and Pakistan because of a Bush administration decision to relax Cold War-era restrictions. The move, sought for months by the technology industry, was made official by President Bush on Wednesday. From his ranch in Crawford, Texas, he notified congressional leaders that he was raising the threshold for government approval of computer exports to "Tier 3" nations, a category that also includes Israel. Since 1990, the export controls have been relaxed almost yearly to keep pace with advances in technology. Under the relaxed export standards, individual licenses and prior government review will be required only for the export of computers that perform more than 190,000 MTOPS, or millions of theoretical operations per second. High-end computers available at some retail computer stores as well as the Internet can provide that level of general processing power. The current threshold is 85,000 MTOPS, a performance standard that has become commonly available for years. "These reforms are needed due to the rapid rate of technological change in the computer industry," White House Deputy Press Secretary Scott McClellan said. "Single microprocessors available today - by mail order and the Internet - perform at more than 25 times the speed of supercomputers built in the early 1990s." Several major technology companies supported Bush's decision. The decision allows "export controls to keep pace with rapid advancements in computing technology," said Jennifer Greeson, a spokeswoman for the Computer Coalition for Responsible Exports. She represents companies that include Dell, IBM, Intel, Unisys, Apple and Sun Microsystems. Intel's upcoming Itanium microprocessor can be exported because of the rule change. Several Apple and Dell laptop computers will also qualify for exportation. But the computer industry wants more change. Greeson's group has long argued that the government's unit for measuring computer processing power - the MTOP - is a poor way to judge whether technology is safe to export. They feel it is too general and doesn't reflect a computer's purpose. "Some of the computers excluded in the past have had no potential to be used for modeling nuclear explosions or missile guidance systems," Greeson said. "They have not posed any kind of security risk." The United States maintains its virtual embargo on computer exports to Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan and Syria. Bush's revised export rules implement the general policies of the Export Administration Act, legislation controlling commercial exports that could be put to military use. The act expired in 1990 and has since been kept alive through temporary extensions. By his action Wednesday, Bush also removed Latvia from the list of Tier 3 countries and reclassified it as Tier 1, putting Latvia in league with Western European and other U.S. allies whose computer imports from the United States require no prior government review. Both the House and the Senate have passed separate bills to end Cold War restrictions on exports of computers and other high-tech items. The differences between them are yet to be resolved, something that must be done before Congress can send the legislation to Bush for his signature. -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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