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North Korea

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North Korea: It’s Got What Plants Crave

by Susana Polo | 4:41 pm, June 7th

According to – we’d like to point out that this bit of news is not from, say, some weird!news aggregator, but, in fact – the BBC, North Korea has developed a liquid panacea. A “super drink.” Made of “microelements.” Which makes you smarter, whitens your skin, and keeps you from looking old. It also has no side effects.

We wish we were making this up.

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North Korea Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion — On Its Founder’s Birthday, No Less

by Robert Quigley | 2:20 pm, May 12th

North Korea‘s nuclear ambitions are well-documented: While the country’s dictatorial leader, Kim Jong-il, has recently expressed a willingness to talk about nuclear disarmament, the country has also hinted at further nuclear weapons test plans.

But then: Plain old nuclear reactions have been done before; how about nuclear fusion, which has never before been sustained in laboratory conditions? And why not announce its discovery on the birthday of Kim Il-Sung, North Korea’s founder and the father of Kim Jong-Il? Take it away, North Korean Workers Party newspaper:

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Indian Government Wants Its Own Operating System

by Robert Quigley | 10:15 am, May 11th

First they spend $200 million to develop their own microprocessor, now this: The Indian government is currently looking into developing its own operating system, both as a means of curbing cyberattacks and “end[ing] the reliance on foreign operating systems.” But is this really a good idea?

 

The Times of India reports:

The overwhelming belief among government bosses is that an indigenous low-grade, but clean, software could nix the chances of foreign states infiltrating the computers of key Indian establishments and compromising the country’s security. “A sanitised, lower level operating system and application software may be preferred to the advanced versions, which necessarily require access to internet for upgrades,” the official said. The new software could be deployed in key departments that have been under constant cyber attacks. The taskforce [working on a plan to make an indigenous Indian operating system] also includes officials of the Prime Minister’s Office as well as defence, home and telecom & IT ministries.

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North Korea’s Official Operating System, Red Star: as Dubious as You’d Expect.

by Robert Quigley | 2:37 pm, April 6th

Being suspicious of both Western companies and an unmonitored Internet, the government of North Korea has been at work developing its own operating system, called “Red Star.”

The BBC recently got wind of some of the Red Star OS’s specs per a Russian blogger, and it largely consists of repackaged Linux with a preinstalled Firefox browser renamed “My Country.”

Now, there’s nothing wrong with using open software — unless its main purpose, once rejiggered, is to “monitoring user activity.”

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