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Sandia Labs Creates "Sim-Terrorist Attack"

Posted by chrisd on from the i-want-a-copy dept.

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.

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  1. Cool Toys? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I don't see any cool toys in the pictures.

    It looks a lot more like non-technical people spending government money and trying to come up with something to show for it. And not doing a very good job...

  2. Re:tar ball? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And linux uses something I cough up after a pack of cigarettes. "Linux. As useless now as it ever will be." "Linux. We don't want you as a user." "Linux. If you can't write your own OS you can't use ours."