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- pak314, on 07/20/2009, -2/+41They will call it "Skynet."
- badqat, on 07/19/2009, -1/+32The military has a purpose. To defend our nation. It's one of the few things the federal government is supposed to be doing that it does do. Pre-emptive wars are not its purpose - but the folks who volunteer don't get to set that agenda.
War Games and planning for scenarios are what they do - they're always looking for the way to win. Thus, they're interested in advanced technologies to communicate in any circumstance that they might encounter.
As an added bonus, much of this technology is re-purposed for civilian use, by all. There have be many wins for the whole of mankind, like being able to waste time on digg, for example. - badqat, on 07/18/2009, -3/+27Well, they're sort of responsible for the magic that is TCP/IP, so let 'em buy stuff that we can actually use.
- MtheoryX, on 07/19/2009, -0/+19Private scientists and entrepreneurs aren't nearly well funded enough.
If not for military or university funding, we wouldn't have half the cool ***** we have now. - Tarmogoyf, on 07/20/2009, -1/+15Thanks for the internet and GPS. Now we'll have that disgustingly awesome wireless net.
I love what comes out of the killing fields! - Nintendesert, on 07/20/2009, -1/+8It's so people like you can bitch about it on the internet Pak.
- freshgrease, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6Three comments down from the top was enough to faze you?
- sexybobo, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6Lets not forget nasa i love tang and my cool mattress.
- dagamer34, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6GPS wouldn't exist without military spending, and probably neither would the modern day microwave. Say what you will, but there are PLENTY of civilian uses for the technology they develop. It's basically the federal government's R&D department.
- milliamp, on 07/20/2009, -1/+6Over wireless nodes?
- frankdozier, on 08/10/2009, -1/+6Hey, speak for yourself, buddy....that company has put my kids through college! I won't even tell you about my retirement package. . .you'd ***** yourself. Progress needs super-rich corporations to think this kinda stuff up. Companies like this one makes ***** happen, dude. What do you make happen that doesn't include bodily fluids?
- JasonCox, on 07/20/2009, -1/+5Ah, there it is; I was beginning to wonder where the required Skynet comment was. Dugg.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4Because they have interesting projects? Because you can work there and continue to keep getting promotions as an engineer instead of being forced into the management track?
- Soniti, on 07/20/2009, -2/+6Joke's on you *****- Raytheon is a private company, not part of the US Military!
- Xalorous, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3They need to rename this. Remove the 'wireless' part so that numbskulls like you will get that this ain't what you use to connect your Mac to your Airport.
Tactical, Encrypted (military grade), radio communications network including VOIP, voip, (one is voice, the other video) and WLAN connectivity.
Linksys routers are not an enterprise solution, much less a tactical, military solution. Picture mounting one inside a tank, then you fire the gun a few times. Then you find where the pieces of the router went.
I won't start on 'servers'. - TheOneKen, on 07/20/2009, -1/+4To BotchaMcCoola, the inventions are done by private industry. Just funded by the government. Do you think we should send our soldiers into battle with primitive technology?
To Pak, it's so that our casualties are very low. We can survive on much less of a military budget, but we'll lose far more soldiers. - MattRK, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2"But I don't know why we need to spend on the military equal to the military spending of the next 9 countries combined."
There's a reason the USA has the best military force in the world. - theratdotus, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2wetnet from diamond age
- SquareWheel, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2"Die for Digg"
- depro9, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Tesla would not be happy his technology was funded by a pack of murders. His whole driving force in his life was knowing his inventions would end war one day. Tesla inherited from his father a deep hatred of war. Throughout his life, he sought a technological way to end warfare.
- Soniti, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2But the fact remains that they are a private company.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2And yet they manage to be a more interesting company than all of the purely private companies out there.
- Enlefo, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2While both of those are awesome pieces of software... it's a totally irrelevant response.
- TheOneKen, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2You can't just design something like this out of your garage anymore. You need a great deal of money for the hardware. The military is better funded than most other entities that do tech R&D.
- Xalorous, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2No animal testing was used in the development of this product.
- Xalorous, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2The guy in the field is going to be using the data link for text communications and perhaps downloading small images (maps) or small encrypted files (orders). He's going to be using separate channels for voice and video. Point is, 10/100 is robust enough to use in a tactical environment. Gigabit would just be degraded and have to downshift to 100 Meg anyway.
- Xalorous, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Necessity is the mother of invention. When there is a problem serious enough to merit it, private companies will spend their money to save mankind. Oh, *****, no they won't. They'll only save themselves. And maybe the board. We're *****...
- Xalorous, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1and the semiconductor...
- Xalorous, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Oh, suuuure, that's secure.
- secrity, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1There are some things that the US military does do their own R&D work on; two examples are uniform and camouflage development and field rations. The US military also did their own atomic bomb R&D during and immediately after WW11.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2They should just DDWRT or Tomato.
- feureau, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1"Skynet" Always with the name. What is it with people and that name?
- SquareWheel, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1That's like a million times better!
- Soniti, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Of course they're a contractor.
But administratively, no part of them is connected to the DoD, or the US military.
Microsoft is also a military contractor, are you going to say that they're run by the military too?
JOKE'S ON YOU ***** X2! - BrBybee, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1It was inserted as the 3rd post. Why don't people read before they post?
- mesasone, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1I don't think the Military actually does any R&D, they contract private companies to design products to their specifications. I work for a company in the Aerospace and Defense industries, and that is the impression I get anyway. But I'm just a peon.
- frankdozier, on 08/10/2009, -0/+1You probably better not hold your breath. The problem is that no scientist/inventor can forsee the innovations that can be for the good of the country until after they have been used for destruction. Nobody knew you wanted to be able to find out how to get to a shoe store in Seattle from El Paso. . .but generals have ALWAYS needed to know where their people are and how to get them from one place or another. That's only GPS. . . .there are similar examples for other innovations.
- IgorUnchained, on 07/20/2009, -2/+3Add this to the "corpse eating robot" (I know...I know...it is a vegan now), the robot snake, "Big Dog", the microwave gun, and the rest of the crap on Batman's Belt that seems to be only possible if the military spends taxpayer's money to give themselves the best.
I wonder when we will have a scientist/inventor who will invent something for the good of the country BEFORE it is a tool for death and destruction, instead of vice versa? - Paranor01, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1@IgorUnchained: When will people like you finally realize that discovery or new technology is just neutral. It's not good, nor bad. It only becomes that from the person(s) who use that discovery or technology. They make it good or bad from what they want to use it for.
It's all comes down to the human in the end. - Paranor01, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1Ham is only good when it's bacon
- secrity, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1Raytheon is one of the more interesting MIC companies. One cool thing that they did long ago is that they built the first good-performing* transistor radio. Of course the Japanese quickly took over that market.
* Regency built the first mass market transistor radio, the TR-1, but it only had four transistors and performed poorly; the first Raytheon transistor radio, the 8TP, had eight transistors and performed very well. - secrity, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1The Wright Brothers owned companies that sold aircraft and contracted with various divisions of the US Army and with other armies world-wide. The US Air Force didn't exist until after WWII.
Some of the companies that the Wrights were involved in that manufactured aircraft were the Wright Company, Wright Aeroplane Company, and Curtis Wright. - Xalorous, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1The idea here (RTFA) is that they're tying together battlefield networks to provide real-time connectivity between the ones running the show and the ones at the tip of the spear. All wirelessly.
- bagpulistu, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1my wireless network SSID is "skynet"
- TheOneKen, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1You're correct, mesasone, the military doesn't do the actual R&D. It's all contracted, with funding and direction from the military.
- xGORDOx, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Wireless Net - $155 Million.
Obama Ham - $2.5 Million.
Obama Ham > Raytheon WiFi
Obama Ham: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/contracts-recip ... - mr138, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Look.
No one here has had the ham ok. Maybe it's like, the best tasting ham ever, we don't know.
We just.
Don't.
Know. - fangor, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1A) Not if they use gigabit throughout.
B) In an environment where there is the possibility of links going down unexpectedly, you want a surplus of bandwidth to work with.
C) Not that much more expensive than 10/100 nowadays - xGORDOx, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1Obama Ham > Paranor01
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