"This has little to do with the Nobel Prize, after all, the Nobel Prize focuses on academic contributions and influence, as well as a scientific category that will be created later." Lin Xiao laughed and said, "Now what I'm concerned about is how to transform the productivity of science and technology, and forget about the rest." ”

"At the end of the day, it's all you focus on is how to make money." Han Ya said Lin Xiao's true purpose in one bite.

"Pretty much, it's not a bad thing to focus on making money." Lin Xiao nodded and admitted, "Now we must make full use of our limited resources to prepare for future crises, so there must be no problems in terms of funds." ”

Lin Xiao's idea is also the most practical, after all, to deal with the major crisis that may come later, he must use a lot of strength to integrate resources, concentrate the most business people from all walks of life, and launch a resolute struggle for the ultimate fate of mankind.

All of this costs money, and it costs a lot of money.

So now Lin Xiao has shown a lot of interest in these black technologies given by the Yalanxing people, and he also hopes to transform these black technologies into productivity in the shortest possible time, improve the level of human science and technology, and at the same time, gather a lot of funds in order to produce more high-end weapons to cope with future changes.

Although the registration of a patent will be very shocking to the breakthrough progress made by Huaxia, it can also bring quite amazing economic benefits to Huaxia, which is incomparable to other things.

"The Russians, for their part, are building new high-power rocket engines for us, and in three months, the launch will be able to take place." Han Ya looked at the records on her schedule and said to Lin Xiao, "This time, this is the first practical launch of their latest high-thrust rocket, I hope there won't be any problems." ”

"If all the rocket technology of the Russians is adopted, there should be no major problems, and this launch is not very demanding, and there is no need to launch satellites or anything, and the difficulty is relatively small." Lin Xiao analyzed, "It is also very clear that Russia's commercial rocket launch project has had a lot of problems recently, so if they mess up again this time, then their business reputation in rocket launch will be lackluster, which is also something they don't want to see." ”

In previous years, after several rocket launch failures in a row, the Russian space agency became much more cautious.

In the years that followed, there were more than one case of temporary cancellation of rocket launches because of technical failures.

Last year, Russia's Russian space agency announced that a Russian-made rocket carrying a communications satellite had malfunctioned after launch and failed to reach its intended orbit.

According to footage from Russian television at the time, the rocket caught fire and exploded in the upper layers of the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

Experts said that the engine of the third-stage rocket failed, and the rocket and all the debris burned up in the atmosphere, because the Proton-M launch vehicle was used at the time, and there have been many similar situations before, so the space agency said that a special committee was set up to analyze the data from remote sensing surveys to find the cause of the emergency.

In addition, the Russian side, during the investigation, stopped the launch of all Proton series rockets.

Proton is a carrier rocket developed by the Soviet Union in the sixties of the last century, and has undergone many transformations and upgrades, and the Proton-M launch vehicle is its latest version, which was put into commercial launch in 1996 and is currently the main force of Russian commercial rocket launches.

The year before last, a Proton-M carrier rocket carrying three GLONASS-M navigation systems suffered an engine failure and crashed shortly after liftoff from the Baikonur launch site, causing losses of more than $200 million.

The failed rocket launch sparked tensions between Russia and Kazakhstan, which banned the launch of Proton rockets on its territory.

The aviation industry, once the pride of Russia, was preceded by a number of Russian-made rocket accidents in a short period of time, and the failed launch finally prompted the Russian government to make a painful decision to reform the aviation industry.

Now the Russian side has indeed made a lot of determination and efforts in the launch of commercial launch vehicles, and the launch that Lin Xiao ordered from them is also an opportunity for them to turn over.

Therefore, they will definitely do their best in this launch.

"Hopefully everything is okay." Han Ya nodded and said.

"There shouldn't be any problem." Lin Xiao is more confident in this.

Han Ya browsed some information on the Internet without any trouble, clicked on the page about the Nobel Prize, and couldn't help but say, "Hey, there is no mathematics prize in the Nobel Prize, and mathematics is also a basic science." ”

"Ha, there's a story to tell." Lin Xiao smiled when he heard this, "It is rumored that Nobel had a girlfriend who was thirteen years younger than him, but she later eloped with a mathematician, which greatly stimulated Nobel, and he never talked about marriage, and he was still a bachelor until the end of his life." It is precisely because of this that Nobel unceremoniously excluded mathematics when establishing the Nobel Prize. ”

"Really?" When Han Ya heard this, she couldn't help but be dumbfounded, "He's so rich, he has to hang himself on a tree?" Could it be that this ex-girlfriend who cuckolded him really has such a big charm? ”

"It's just that he has lost confidence in women, after all, he has strong assets, and he probably doesn't want to let anyone divide the family property, so he simply won't marry, besides, unmarried and unmarried doesn't mean that he will be a man for the rest of his life, and some women have messed with him in the past." Lin Xiao said, "In fact, Nobel's neglect of mathematics was influenced by his time and his scientific outlook. In the second half of the nineteenth century, research in the field of chemistry generally did not require advanced mathematics, and he himself could not foresee the huge role that mathematics would play in promoting the development of science, so he neglected to establish the Nobel Prize in mathematics. This explanation is quite reasonable. ”

"In that case, why not establish a Nobel Prize in Mathematics now?" Han Ya expressed doubt.

"Well, so, there is indeed a certain gap between the official statement and the folk news." Lin Xiao said with a smile, "To this day, we can't say what the specific reason is. All in all, for a great person, people prefer to see his great and righteous side, and it is better to ignore those who do not conform to the image of the high, and to be denied by His Holiness. ”

"Recently, the struggle between the United States and Russia has become more and more intense." Han Ya looked at the information on the computer and said to Lin Xiao casually.

"What's the matter, tearing up the war?" Lin Xiao asked.

"The Russians exposed spyware that the Americans were hiding inside their hard drives." Han Ya replied.

It turned out that it was Russia's anti-virus lab that said that the NSA had created spyware that could be hidden in hard drives, and that top manufacturers such as Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba were not spared, and that the agency used this technology to eavesdrop on most of the world's computers.

The Russians said it found the spy program infected personal computers in more than 30 countries, most in Iran, followed by Russia, China and some Middle Eastern countries, and targeted government and military agencies, telecommunications companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media and Islamic militants.

Regarding the incident, a former NSA employee told Reuters that the Russians' analysis was correct, and another former intelligence officer confirmed that the NSA developed espionage technology hidden in hard drives, but said he did not know what espionage activities were carried out by the NSA based on this software.

A spokesman for the N.S.A. declined to comment on the matter.

The Russians also released details of the technology, stating that the spyware stores malicious code in the firmware of the hard drive, which is automatically executed every time the computer is turned on, gathering intelligence.

"Hard drive firmware is considered by spies and cybersecurity experts to be the second most important asset for hackers on personal computers, after the BIOS code used to boot the computer." "These hardware firmware can infect computers over and over again, and this malicious code can allow them to steal files or eavesdrop on any information they want, but the NSA only selectively establishes complete remote control with certain foreign targets, after all, too frequent espionage activities will expose these problems." ”

According to the in-depth analysis of the Russians, this malware can work on the hard drives of more than a dozen companies, basically covering the entire hard drive market, including Western Digital, Seagate Technology, Toshiba Corporation, IBM, Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

However, Western Digital, Seagate and Micron all said they were not aware of the spyware.

Toshiba, IBM and Samsung all declined to comment on the matter.

The Russians say the authors of the spyware program should have obtained the patented source code for the firmware of these hard drives.

The source code could serve as a roadmap for an attack, and it is almost impossible to rewrite the hard drive's firmware based on publicly available information, and it is not known how the NSA obtained it.

A spokesman for Western Digital said the company did not provide its source code to government agencies.

Of course, even if hard drive manufacturers share their source code, they will not admit it, after all, this is a big taboo.

"The discovery of the Russians could further undermine the NSA's surveillance capabilities." "Snowden's Prismgate scandal has hurt U.S. relations with its allies and hurt U.S. ......sales of technology products overseas," Han Ya said.

"Americans are self-defeating, and there are more and more disgusting things that have been exposed." Lin Xiao said.

The two were chatting, and Dou Fang ran in and shouted in a fuss, "Deputy Director Lin, those red-eyed scientists you invited have made a mess again, and the entire laboratory has been blown upside down!" ”