Such as preventing SPAM from infiltrating... :)
Vint Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet, is now a consultant to the Pentagon on the project. "I want to make sure what we realize is vision and not hallucination," he told the Times. "This is sort of like Star Wars, where the policy was, 'Let's go out and build this system,' and technology lagged far behind," he said. "There's nothing wrong with having ambitious goals. You just need to temper them with physics and reality."
The Laws of Physics are always enforced, unfortunately. The GIG will not be an easy nut to crack.
BTW, I once heard that the term "Surfing the Net" was really "Cerfing the Net" as in Vint Cerf. Was I dreaming?
5.56mm
And how would this prevent a nut with a car bomb from killing our troops? Don't forget the basics and get caught up in all the toys.
This is based on a 1970 Multihop Packet Radio Network idea called ALOHA, developed at the University of Hawai by Norman Abramson. http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/a/al/alohanet.html
Cool -- I'm ready to open my account!
I thought Algore invented the Internet?
Not to wee-wee on anybody's parade but wasn't this thing sorta, kinda what the Terminator or Matrix flix were about???
Don't let the UN get this system after we've developed it.
We should also have the key to destruct in place if need be.
Willie Green is deeply saddened for all the copper industry workers.
had a pretty haunting "vision" of this sort of thing myself about ten years ago.
lesseee... if it takes 2 decades to build, and another decade for business to push it into the nooks and crannies of everyday life -- for our own good and convenience, of course -- I guess I might be about dead by the time my every breath is recorded and Orwell starts spinning in his grave [whew]. My poor kids, though....
Can we believe anything from these guys??
I'm no hardware guru, but wouldn't a wireless internet system be really easy to jam by a determined enemy? What am I missing here?