Yeah, I concur, and am suprised no one's moved in this direction yet. It's sorta like NT or 2000 - same basic OS, but enhancements depending upon whether it's intended for an end user or 1000 of them....
Wars are fought by countries against countries - nationalities - sovreign states. Groups with a cohesive government recognized by OUR government.
Terrorism is fought by groups or individuals against groups or individuals. If you boil it down to it's lowest common denominator, we're simply talking about crime. Terrorists commit crimes, much like your local neighborhood Bank Robber. Most bank robberies today are NOT -
1) Walk in 2) Point gun at Teller 3) Recieve windfall of cash 4) Profit!!!!
They are much more sophisticated activities conducted by groups of criminals, many times including an 'insider' who helps with vault combinations, security systems etc., all with the intent to accomplish a goal. In this case, to get the money out of the bank.
Is this, by chance, sounding like a terrorist event in N.Y. in the recent past? Let's see... they were a group, they had some insider information / help to pull it off, and they executed a criminal act to accomplish a goal. You could argue that loss-of-life makes it Terrorism as opposed to crime, but I'd just have to dig up some examples of the Mob activities in the 30's in Chicago to use as my next example...
So, getting back to the topic directly - this device is intended to reduce casualties and collateral damage by preventing enemy weapons from reaching their target, which will certainly help out in our next 'War' situation......but only the intelligence community can introduce defensive systems to accomplish the same goals in a criminal/terrorist situation.
However, the competitive nature of man is what drives this project... seriously, don't you think that everyone who installs the SETI@Home client dreams of being 'the one' who computes the package that proves the existence of extraterrestrial life? Without this, or perhaps the dream of having your computer be the one that discovers the cure for cancer, or any of the other distributed computing project's goals - your level of participation will be quite low....so, you have to plan your project with this in mind... dangle the carrot in front of the rabbit, but ENSURE that they can't actually get to it and eat it.
How about the SourceForge analogy? Suppose someone were using SourceForge's free service to develop a product which would compete directly with SourceForge's commercial offering.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a link to the SourceForge 'Xbox-Linux' project.
Yeah, I concur, and am suprised no one's moved in this direction yet. It's sorta like NT or 2000 - same basic OS, but enhancements depending upon whether it's intended for an end user or 1000 of them....
I certainly agree... to some extent.
...but only the intelligence community can introduce defensive systems to accomplish the same goals in a criminal/terrorist situation.
Wars are fought by countries against countries - nationalities - sovreign states. Groups with a cohesive government recognized by OUR government.
Terrorism is fought by groups or individuals against groups or individuals. If you boil it down to it's lowest common denominator, we're simply talking about crime. Terrorists commit crimes, much like your local neighborhood Bank Robber. Most bank robberies today are NOT -
1) Walk in
2) Point gun at Teller
3) Recieve windfall of cash
4) Profit!!!!
They are much more sophisticated activities conducted by groups of criminals, many times including an 'insider' who helps with vault combinations, security systems etc., all with the intent to accomplish a goal. In this case, to get the money out of the bank.
Is this, by chance, sounding like a terrorist event in N.Y. in the recent past? Let's see... they were a group, they had some insider information / help to pull it off, and they executed a criminal act to accomplish a goal. You could argue that loss-of-life makes it Terrorism as opposed to crime, but I'd just have to dig up some examples of the Mob activities in the 30's in Chicago to use as my next example...
So, getting back to the topic directly - this device is intended to reduce casualties and collateral damage by preventing enemy weapons from reaching their target, which will certainly help out in our next 'War' situation...
I concur.
...so, you have to plan your project with this in mind... dangle the carrot in front of the rabbit, but ENSURE that they can't actually get to it and eat it.
However, the competitive nature of man is what drives this project... seriously, don't you think that everyone who installs the SETI@Home client dreams of being 'the one' who computes the package that proves the existence of extraterrestrial life? Without this, or perhaps the dream of having your computer be the one that discovers the cure for cancer, or any of the other distributed computing project's goals - your level of participation will be quite low.
Just think of all the Pr0N I'll have to pay royalties on!