John Pike
John Pike
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We're the sole remaining superpower, the only country that's sent people to the moon. If the Chinese sent people to the moon they'd take us down a notch.
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It depends on how many nodes you're talking about. A minimal survivable radio network for emergency crews, the improvement of state emergency-management operation centers ? these kind of steps are feasible. But when people start talking about a nationwide survivable network, I tell them, 'Welcome to what's called the real world.' No one is going to pay for such a thing.
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I think there will be growing interest in using biometric scanning at international access points in order to catch known people coming in on false papers. The problem is, even if all these searches disclose the identity papers of some of the perpetrators, that will not tell you necessarily what their mother named them since none of these people travel under their own names,
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The story most people around the world have is that the Americans are up to their old tricks - committing atrocities and lying about it. And that's completely incorrect.
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If you're not going to have a lunar landing until 2018, how are you going to keep people and Congress interested?
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They had all the radios in the world. They had complete interoperability. That was not a hardware problem. That was a people and procedure problem.
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We knew it would be easy money if we could find a place.
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What are you training for? To kill insurgents.
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The problem for the enemy is that computer security vulnerabilities will almost certainly prove fleeting and unpredictable,
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To make sure there is some money left over at the end of the year, they're going to cut costs. A good place to cut costs is security.
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We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.
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There are a lot of politics. Some on the panel are past politicians who have been meeting with politicians.
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Possibly, in a post-Sept. 11 environment, we do need to think about restricting the availability of information that would be useful to terrorists. But if we're going to do it for online satellite imagery, there are a lot of other sources of similar information that we're going to have to try to restrict as well.
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If we give the Air Force enough money and enough time, the Airborne Laser will probably achieve many of its goals.