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2004-11-14 Home Front: WoT
Pentagon Envisioning a Costly Internet for War
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Posted by Fred 2004-11-14 1:38:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Who said that at some point technology is indistinguishable from magic? ...

I read it and cannot but notice parallels with Mahabharata and some parts of Vedic Shastras.
Posted by Cornīliës 2004-11-14 2:37:41 PM||   2004-11-14 2:37:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Internet in the sky,"

Uh, you mean SkyNet? I'm headed to the Mexican desert.
Posted by beer_me 2004-11-14 2:37:46 PM||   2004-11-14 2:37:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there a Rantburg portal for this beast?
Posted by Seafarious  2004-11-14 2:41:13 PM||   2004-11-14 2:41:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
Posted by Darth VAda  2004-11-14 3:02:18 PM||   2004-11-14 3:02:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone needs to take Vint Cerf aside and 'splain to him that the first set of intercepter missiles for "Star Wars" are on line.

Not that he'd listen. It's more important to have the important position, politically, than have the least bit grasp on the facts.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-11-14 4:23:28 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-11-14 4:23:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure to NYT reporter the internet is like magic, but to anyone who understands it, its remarkably simple. Its power is its simplicity. I think the clever and high risk things are what they intend to do with it, not the network itself.

BTW, I believe the "Any sufficiently advanced technology .." predates ACC. I think it used to be called the Harvard Law.
Posted by phil_b 2004-11-14 6:59:00 PM||   2004-11-14 6:59:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I hope none of it runs under Windows ... it would be *very bad* if it got hacked.
Posted by Tony (UK)  2004-11-14 7:12:13 PM||   2004-11-14 7:12:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 There are some interesting implications to this. Will this system talk to a differ system-ie,the similar system the EU wants to build. Will the US export military equipment that has the system?
It looks like military planners believe US in future will fight alone,and bring in allies to handle rebuilding/reconstruction/peace-keeping.
Posted by Stephen 2004-11-14 8:05:00 PM||   2004-11-14 8:05:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Build the onion, peel the onion, build the onion, peel the onion... TCP/IP, to the great surprise of its Parc Place inventor, just flat works. Amazing fact, that.

Stephen - mebbe they just didn't want to take a meeting... and another... and another... etc.
Posted by .com 2004-11-14 8:13:55 PM||   2004-11-14 8:13:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 If you're designing for a limited user base, you can get really fascist about things - hard encryption end-to-end, for example, and a specialized TCP/IP protocol that drops unauthorized (unticketed) packets at the first switch they hit while setting alarm flags fingering the transmitting IP. Might even be able to get physical coordinates of peepers...
Posted by mojo  2004-11-14 8:19:20 PM||   2004-11-14 8:19:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Call it STAR WARS, SPAWAR, SATWAR, or GLOBAL MISSLE DEFENSE, etc. the bottom line is IT WORKS, AND DUBYA IS PROCEEDING FULL STEAM AHEAD. International [now Global] Leftism-Socialism-Communism-Progressives dev their anti-USA 2020 max timeline and are running scared because Dubya, America, and GMD is about to their only and greatest ace, the NUCLEAR BULLY STICK, as OBSOLETE, IRRELEVANT, AND DEAD AS THE DODO, ALL BUT OFFICIALLY GUARANTEEING THE EARTH/TERRA FIRMA BELONGS TO AMERICA AND WESTERN DEMOCRACY-CAPITALISM! This is why the Left are tripping all over themselves, inverting and perverting and converting and subverting anyone and everyone, anything and everything, mis-informing and disinforming, to FORCE AMERICA UNDER NATIONAL SOCIALISM, i.e. COMMUNISM, and "SOCIALIST" OWG BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, AND BY 2020 BEFORE AMERICAN GMD AND AMERICAN BATTLESPACE DOMINANCE AND STILL EXPANDING AMERICAN HYPERPOWER-PLUS AND AMERICAN/US-STYLE GLOBAL CONSUMERISM GETS TOO STRONG FOR ANYONE ANDOR EVERYONE TO RESIST! Communism = Islam/Rad Islam > BETTER FOR EVERYONE TO FAIL, OR BE DESTROYED, THAN FOR SOCIALISM, includ FAITH/GOD-BASED SOCIALISM, TO LOSE FACE OR POWER! Gorbachevism > iff the East can not be brought up to the standards of the West, the West will be brought down to the standards of the East - IOW, COMMUNISM/LEFTSOCIALISM WILL WIN BY LOSING AGS AMERICA, NOT WIN BY WINNING!
Posted by JosephMendiola  2004-11-14 9:38:07 PM|| [http://n/a]  2004-11-14 9:38:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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