Glut of data from battlefield a new command problem

Washington Times ^ | 3/19/03 | Paul Martin

[kattracks]

CAMP AS SALIYAH, Qatar

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[Billy_bob_bob]

It's called data-mining, and I'm sure the Pentagon has the problem well in hand.

[txzman]

I can just see it now.

Battle starts, all sorts of icons move wonderfully across the screen. New icons pop into view - the Iraqi Republican Guard.

Master Sgts are commanded to electronically give the orders for a sweeping end run by American armor.

Then, at the height of anticipation, all the monitors go.... BLUE!

The dreaded Blue Screen of Death pops up - simultaneously on 14 wide screen monitors. 'WTF! yells the general'.

And the only sound that greeted him was the quiet clicking sound of 6 Windows servers rebooting at the same time....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[First_Salute]

Has actually been the no. 1 complaint, coordinating the input with the outbound target routing, I am given to understand.

[Spruce]

I bet the BSOD will actually be a drop to term with a CORE dump.