Dear Friends:
In the last few
days, the U.S. government announced a new ban related to travelers who come from
Mid-East and North African countries.
About this ban, Wall Street Journal at “U.S. Laptop Ban Unsettles Business Travelers”
by By Margherita Stancati and Nicolas Parasie wrote: “U.S.
officials early Tuesday said they will ban
passengers from carrying most electronics larger than a cellphone into the
cabin on direct flights arriving from eight countries in the Middle
East and North Africa. The restrictions
apply to flights that nine foreign airlines operate directly from 10 airports
in the designated countries. Those include regional business hubs Dubai,
Abu Dhabi, Qatar
and Riyadh. No U.S.
airlines are affected because they don’t directly serve the airports subject to
the restrictions.”
And this was my comment in the blog of the story: “The fact is that a smart-phone can be also
the "button" to activate a bomb.”
Similar statement I
posted in Twitter:
Today, technology
offers advanced devices in the level of laptops, digital tablets, cameras and
also smart-phones.
Some of the new
smart-phones have more power than a lot of laptops available in the market and
the risk that any of the electronic devices can be use as bomb activators in
near similar.
Like the laptops
(portable computers), the smart-phones have powerful microprocessors, internal
memory and input-output interfaces to link other devices by cable and wireless
connection.
From the other side,
thanks cloud computing and Internet of Things, the smart-phones can integrate
information systems that could be used for good or bad purposes.
The devils know all
the secrets of how technology works and precisely the brains of evil are enough
brilliant to hide sophisticated “weapons” in small devices like the standard
phones that everybody uses to contact friends and family.
In summary, the ban of laptops in the cabins of the
airplanes do not guarantee us that we are living in safe world.
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Next, you can read others
of my recent comments in the blog of the WSJ – Journal Community during the
last few days.
Domingo Trassens
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MY BLOG COMMENTS
Good point:
"Another day of grilling avoiding missteps" and trying to put in the
side the criticism of Sen. Schumer.
Some politicians
with power enjoy grilling others only for morbidity.
03/22/2017 10:16:21 AM
4 Recommendations
Posted In Neil
Gorsuch, How Would You Vote?
(This story is about
the complex questions the Democrats are asking to Judge Neil Gorsuch – the
President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court – in the Senate hearing.)
In the current
circumstances, Democrats don't have solid arguments to resist the nomination of
Judge Gorsuch.
In short words, the
Democrats are trying to destroy the integrity of Neil Gorsuch as revenge
against the Republicans. Their attitude is silly and nasty.
03/21/2017 09:44:45 PM
4 Recommendations
Maybe the business
travelers can transport their digital files in small memory sticks and download
them in their destinations in local compatible computers. Today, the most
important is the digital information. You find machines everywhere to process
it.
The fact is that a
smart-phone can be also the "button" to activate a bomb.
03/21/2017 04:46:27 PM
3 Recommendations
(Till the
publication of this story, a series of Republican lawmakers are showing several
doubts about the current text of the bill.)
Perhaps, GOP can
lose seats in 2018 for supporting a wrong healthcare law. Who knows?
03/21/2017 03:56:19 PM
5 Recommendations
(This story posted
by WSJ from Beijing says:” Microsoft Corp. has finished
development of a Windows 10 version customized for Chinese government use,
which could boost its China
prospects after sales were hit by Beijing’s
cyber-security crackdown.”)
My Comment: While
Microsoft is developing a special version of Windows 10 for China’s Government, Chinese experts can learn more
secrets from the software company.
Sometimes, delicate
businesses can put our technology secrets in dangerous hands.
03/21/2017 01:50:07 PM
4 Recommendations
Maybe, French
presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron – a moderate politician - can avoid the
Le Pen’s earthquake.
03/21/2017 07:59:29 AM
1 Recommendation
The story says that
FBI probe could hurt Donald Trump.
Before, James Comey,
FBI Director, damaged the Hillary Clinton political career.
03/21/2017 07:44:52 AM
1 Recommendation
(We have to remark
that like Intel in the segment of computers, Qualcomm is the leading
semiconductor maker for the smart-phone niche.)
Qualcomm is acting
like a leader has to act. It is offering
its “skill” in smart-phone processors to everybody including the low-price
phone niche.
03/20/2017 09:59:07 PM
2 Recommendations
Posted In Team
Trump Meets a Messy World
(This story comments
the visit of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House.)
Angela Merkel is not
perfect. However, through her trip to Washington, she showed that she doesn’t fear cold
receptions and criticism. She is stronger than the nuclear storms of powerful
men.
03/20/2017 09:42:18 PM
5 Recommendations
A long life walking
across the finance world and with devotion for the philanthropy ended at
101. Our condolences to his family!
03/20/2017 09:07:54 PM
8 Recommendations
(This story comments
that the new more advanced microprocessors are surpassing the predictions of
the famous Moore’s Law posted by Gordon Moore, one the
co-founders of Intel.)
The mathematics of Moore’s Law is surpassed, but the principles that
inspired the Moore Law remain.
03/20/2017 04:54:30 PM
2 Recommendations
(According to this
story, Apple is making new efforts to consolidate its businesses with the
Chinese government.)
Apple can make good
businesses across China, but it will never conquer completely the heart of the Chinese.
Recent news show
evidences that Chinese are "copying" a lot of features that
originally were exclusive from Apple devices
03/19/2017 09:19:21 PM
1 Recommendation
(This story talks
about the new movie “Beauty & the Beast” produced by Disney.)
Disney always paints
with art and feelings great stories for the heart of everybody.
03/19/2017 07:07:42 PM
2 Recommendations
The North Korean
leader continues with the series of provocations because he is looking for a
military confrontation. For a psychopath like Mr. Kim, destruction and death is
personal pleasure.
And he knows that China till now is in his side behind the scene.
Thanks the
friendship with the Chinese, North Korea is becoming a huge threat.
03/19/2017 05:05:51 PM
5 Recommendations
Posted In Tillerson
Tells the Korean Truth
Good point from U.S.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: The United States wants actions against North
Korean regime now.
03/18/2017 09:46:47 PM
2 Recommendations
France doesn't find the way to go away from the terror wave.
03/18/2017 05:51:27 PM
4 Recommendations
(This story comments
the disagreement between U.S. and other nations of the G-20 group about
free market and protectionism. The last G-20 conference was hold in Munich, Germany some days ago.)
If we as a country
don’t have unity in crucial economic issues, we cannot expect that 20 different
nations in the G-20 reach agreement. We are living a very difficult moment.
03/18/2017 05:02:33 PM
2 Recommendations
The Trump's opinion
about NATO was a courtesy for his guest Angela Merkel.
03/17/2017 10:57:02 PM
2 Recommendations
Posted In Mike
Flynn Worked for Several Russian Companies, Was Paid More Than $50,000,
Documents Show
If all these information
is true, Mike Flynn was managed dirty businesses behind the scene. It is better
that he was forced to resign by the Vice President Pence.
03/17/2017 07:02:07 AM
1 Recommendation
France continues walking across a violent and dark tunnel. Always bad news
come from there.
03/16/2017 02:47:03 PM
3 Recommendations
In relation with The
Netherlands elections, the pending question is: Will the Dutch results impact
in the French and German elections of the current year?
In France and Germany, till now the voters didn't take a clear
decision about their preferences.
03/16/2017 11:01:23 AM
1 Recommendation
Posted In A
New Strategy Against ISIS and al Qaeda
ISIS can be destroyed, but its ideology will
remain alive.
03/16/2017 12:46:09 AM
2 Recommendations
The European and
American immigration problems are different, but both are serious problems.
03/16/2017 12:41:49 AM
2 Recommendations
(Intel,
semiconductor leader, is buying Mobileye, an expert in autonomous cars
business, a new technology niche where there are strong players now like
Google, Mercedes Benz, BMW, GM, Uber, IBM and others.)
Mobileye can help
Intel to grow in the autonomous cars business. However, its acquisition by $15.3
billion is expensive.
03/14/2017 11:27:47 AM
1 Recommendation
(This story makes an
analysis from the Chinese perspective about the vulnerability of the United States in the current moments.)
America is vulnerable, but China too. Today all the countries - powerful or
non nations, big or small - are vulnerable.
03/14/2017 10:59:23 AM
6 Recommendations
(This story comments
that President Trump gave special powers to CIA for the use of drones in
special command operations against enemy targets.)
Is this the start of
the Trump drones wars? We will see a lot of more about drone mission soon.
03/14/2017 10:53:06 AM
2 Recommendations
The trip to Washington was a good initiative of Angela Merkel,
coming to US to meet directly one of her critics, President Trump.
Despite the
differences of style of both leaders, a personal meeting seems a good step for
the future relationships between U.S.- Germany and U.S. – E.U.
03/13/2017 09:05:48 PM
6 Recommendations
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SOURCES:
1) External Sources:
Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Twitter and PBS NewsHour.
2) Own Sources: My
own research for previous publishing projects like TTT of Comlab Corp and
others.
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