John Pike
John Pike
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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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The problem for the enemy is that computer security vulnerabilities will almost certainly prove fleeting and unpredictable,
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The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.
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Is the problem that they are only just now beginning to understand how serious the damage was? Did they not have a contingency for a disaster of this magnitude?
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The whole story is hard to put together,
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There's some interest here in retrofitting barns. Most farms in Southern Illinois don't have a lot of on-farm storage. And the local elevators and terminal elevators are not set up to hold grain. They have to move it out.
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Private companies are in business to make money,
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Some would say it's time to recognize that the world has changed - that the number of intelligence questions that can be answered with images from space is very limited.
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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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If we give the Air Force enough money and enough time, the Airborne Laser will probably achieve many of its goals.
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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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What are you training for? To kill insurgents.
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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.