Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control

coondoggie writes "BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or classes of users, and automatically make quality-of-service decisions. The advanced network technology is being developed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and will include support for features like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization that will let data with a higher priority will be handled more expeditiously than traffic with a lower priority."

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Re:20th century statist thinking

[megamerican]

Why does the "government" have to have an inefficient, non-competitive monopoly on armed force?

Looking at the countries where the government doesn't have an effective monopoly on armed force, I really prefer the monopoly in that case. At least as long as it is democratically controlled.

So 51% of the population can put the other 49% into camps?

The 2nd amendment was supposed to ensure that the government didn't have a monopoly on armed force.