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P2P Goes To War

Posted by Hemos on from the kablam-smash-gnutella-napster dept.

lostdogfound writes "OpenP2P.com has an interview with Michael Macedonia, the chief scientist and technical director of the U.S. Army's training facility known as STRICOM, who says peer-to-peer technology could help the military build less expensive and more effective training simulations. It sounds like a holodeck sort of environment, and he hints that some major theme parks are interested in the technology."

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  1. Sun Tzu said it best... by mellifluous · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The ultimate deployment is formless.

    If you cannot analyze your opponent's organization, then you cannot fight it. This is especially apropos in the digital battlefield, where a P2P network minimizes the dependence on any one node.