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The War Of The Virtual Worlds

Posted by timothy on from the attn-chris-dibona dept.

man_ls writes "The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute is working with the U.S. Joint Forces Command to harness supercomputer power, to simulate a virtual continent for use in urban battlefield situations. The simulation, set in the year 2015, involves 100,000 entities to simulate, although the system can support more than a million."

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  1. supports entities? by cwebb1977 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You mean "targets", people about to be killed? Oh yeah, those entities...

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  2. Uh oh by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    working with the U.S. Joint Forces Command to harness supercomputer power, to simulate a virtual continent

    It would seem Dubya and friends have much more ambitious plans than single defenseless countries in the middle east after all...

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  3. Power of Supercomputing by reporter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This article is the perfect reason why we are better off with the West having a lock on supercomputing. Having the best supercomputers means that we can have the best ability to defend ourselves from external hostilities: Islam, China, etc.

    There is no equivalence between China and the West. The West should have the best computers and the best weapons. Western values (e.g. democracy, human rights, compassion, equality of women, etc.) are the finest human values in the world, and we have a vested interest in ensuring their survival -- and dominance. The hordes of immigrants fleeing to the USA (and the rest of the West) is a big clue.

    On a side note, what percentage of the 100,000 entities in the battlefield simulation will be robots? The Department of Defense has been trying to increase the number of robotic/autonomous fighting vehicles in order to minimize the loss of human life on the battlefield.

    Further, we must eventually ratchet up the number of entities to more than 10 million. The Chinese (including those in Taiwan province and Hong Kong) have a well known disregard for human life (e.g. the rape and murder of Tibetans). The Chinese would readily sacrifice 10,000,000 civilians (not merely soldiers) by using them as human blockades against American mechanized armor.

    1. Re:Power of Supercomputing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      Are you a Chinese pig? You smell like one.

      Millions of Chinese kill female fetuses with malice and planning. This sick behavior is the reason that the ratio of male babies to female babies is 1.20.

      The normal ratio is 1.05. The USA and Japan, both Western countries, have a ratio of 1.05.

      In order for the ratio to be so lopsided in China, millions of Chinese must have a brutal attitude towards women

      Further, thousands of Chinese (include Taiwanese) buy human organs cut from unwilling prisoners.

      Are you a Chinese bigot? You smell like one.

      The only racist here is you, pig. You think that only White people are Westerners. There are plenty of Westerners whose grandparents came from Vietnam, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, etc. You got that, Chinese bigot?

  4. Re:Bush Mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and when you logged into Kerry mode did it first make you emulate 4 months of Vietnam, receive minor wounds, then spend the rest of the time changing your mind on being aggressive or passive? A sort of "Flip Flop" simulator where you spent half your time with a Charcoal Sphere, the other half of the time with your population in open rebellion?

  5. fuck you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    thieving filth