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Sandia Labs Creates "Sim-Terrorist Attack"
linuxwrangler writes "This article in the San Francisco chronicle describes the new "Weapons of Mass Destruction Decision Analysis Center" software created at Sandia labs. Work started on the software, modeled after the popular Sim* series of games, well before 9/11. It is designed to simulate a "war room" atmosphere and looks like a cool way to put geek toys to practical use. Now if I could just download the tarball...." Be sure to examine the picture of it running on their CAVE like system.
From the photograph it looks like they're using win2k. Probably really easy to get rid of the attacks, just run the sim for more than 12 hours straight without a reboot. Boom, no terrorists, just a BSOD>
Sure I guess video games are useful for combatting terrorism, but I think minimizing saber-rattling would work a little better. George W Bush: TR said "speak softly and carry a big stick" not "run around and attack countries because they're arab" or "support jerusalem because the damn palestinians are a bunch of arabs"
Come on, as "extreme" as these attacks are, it's not like they're unfounded. They hate the US because we're a bunch of saber-rattling bullies. If we simply butted out of the stupid conflicts into which we continually interpose ourselves, there wouldn't be so many people who hate the US.