-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/2014 02:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i was trying to be delicate, but what i was told is that being > manufactured in china was enough to make them ineligible for entry > into secure US military installations. you can make of that what > you wish -- it's what i was told by people in a position to know. > AFAIK, that was a US Military mandate from almost the moment IBM sold their laptop (PC?) business to Lenovo. I worked in a Secure Facility in Asheville, NC with the AF Combat Climatology unit there (I managed the $3m HPCC that processed and delivered all weather data to them) several years ago and that was about the time Lenovo bought that from IBM. It was a big deal then because quite a bit of the equipment in that SCF were ThinkPads and the big question was what to do about repair/replacements going forward. (All that said, I have no problem being indelicate about it. I mean, the NSA reads all our crap anyway, why fret over the Chinese? reading it, too?) - -- Mark Haney Network/Systems Administrator Practichem W: (919) 714-8428 Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.12.10-300.fc20.x86_64 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTB6UMAAoJEM/YzwEAv6e7wIEH/38MgwfOCpepuxAXcoptTlWE pwtgUnL98MLhJMMFNMyXJS4RbCOiJMJvUTIlD1SgIfz/oUxykOLit/F5ebR+09yD /pdm8tb+HQR8PWjc6ybN1X04qQjc9JUGB5C/1Ou5IHK0N1GDVxh9ZF+8xkdcbnqM vlTmQ7L5c4WNGrbdOSGPwOOQxJRdjdxKjYB0uVv9giPAi7hyG15oKmlv3Y9hNrEL 1W9fwpT8h5gmSKFNhJU4PIodfw8j7ELEFg5sWj6tA63KfhdKvDNALuyaaF40wWK0 HJYIFquOGDN6X1RN/tr8B/GuTw55veOEx+9GDzGWfSd7MeWHqwqN9tRb1K8P1YI= =/jlG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
