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UCB, USC To Build (And Hack) A Model Internet
darksoulz writes "Associated Press stories from TheKansasCityChannel.com and TheChamplainChannel.com have an interesting report today. It appears that the U.S. Government has given a $5.5 million grant to the University of California, Berkley and the University of Southern California so that they can build a model of the internet, so they can hack it. They are trying to find better defenses against hacking, without breaking the real Internet. The first phase is scheduled to be completed by February."
Watch for someone to sue these guys under DMCA and government hacking laws because they create their own net and hack it.
(Just like you'll have a few lawyers salivating over the lawsuits if someone creates their own copy protection method for CD's and cracks it during testing. DMCA!!! DMCA!!!)
I mean, will sixty percent of it be model porn?
http://mediagoblin.org/
Why do you need 5 million for that? How many computers can it possibly take? 50? 100? Let's say 100. That's $100,000 (and that's generous these days) Let's say $200,000 to lease building space and power for 2 years (also generous) and let's pay 3 professors part time, plus 10 students work study wages (Figure $50,000 per professor and $20,000 per student...$350,000)
What do we got?
$100,000 parts
$200,000 space
$350,000 labor
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$650,000
What's the other ~5 million going for?
Oh wait... they must need Windows licenses and full copies of Outlook to properly test the hacks...
So basically they just spent $5.5 million built the worlds most expensive intranet? Man with that kind of money I would've rather had the government buy 2 more toilet seats.
That smell is REWARD!
$250,000 = lifetime supply of cheetoes and pr0n!
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
I want on that internet! This one sucks, please oh please for the sake of all that is good and fermented, let me off this one! :)
Of course he went to Cal-Tech (Which I've always heard was a trade school for surfers
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
... but can I be the RIAA and sue all the users of your model internet???
This is in the name of science!
I won't be real bad, just demand they hand over all their old video cards when they get new ones.
I'm still running my old Voodoo 3 3500, yeah baby it still ROCKS!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
I hear they already have the free pr0n servers up and running. Just waiting for the rest of the system to be built. ;)
Tech support companies the world over are tired of people calling up and asking, "Is your internet better than the internets of other companies?" They made a plea to the US government to do something about it, who, out of embarassment for the American people's stupidity, promptly made up a new reason to make another, lower quality internet.
From now on, rather than spending several hours trying to explain the concept of the internet to people who have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time, tech supporters will be able to simple say, "Yes."
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
It's good to see that the UCB is still in business, even after their show got cancelled. It makes me wonder if this project is somehow related to their Bucket of Truth project.
You're only as smart as your brain.
And then, the simulated /. will announce that a simulation of the simulation has been announced, and it will have a simulated /., which will announce that a simulation of the simulation of the simulation has been announced, and it will...
Oh, STFU will you! Cracking is, and always has been, the breaking of copywrite protected software and similar things. You Eric Raymond clones get your pantys in a bunch about people supposedly using the word hacking wrong but then you idiots go off and use the word cracking wrong. Fscking hypocrites...
And for what its worth, people used the word hacking to mean what you think it means for roughly 14 years (from 1969 (the TMRC and all that) to 1983 (the year Wargames came out)). While people have been using it to mean breaking into computers for about TWENTY YEARS. From the release of the movie Wargames in 1983 untill the present day, the word hacking, in popular usage, has meant breaking into computers. Get over it.