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Comment Re:Cyberterrorism is a silly concept (Score -1) 165

Call it terror, modern warfare, or Sponge Bog Squarepants if you wish, but annoyances such as a widespread power outage that occur frequently enough will eventually disrupt a country's economics and productivity on a large scale. Take, for another example, the threat of a mined harbor. That $100 device floating somewhere in the shipping lane (if it's even there) is designed to restrict access. Why is the US military spending many billions of dollars each year on mine countermeasures? In part, it's because your cheap explosive device is stalling millions of dollars per day on commercial traffic. A simple mine can be deployed by any country or organization. Likewise, destroying power infrastructure, oil supply lines, or communication lines can be done by anyone with the initiative. Still think a power outage is a minor inconvenience?

Comment so? (Score -1) 131

"The software uses a mathematical model to evaluate and process the spatial and temporal dimensions of waves inferred from the interaction between the radar's electromagnetic energy and the sea surface. The result is displayed in a color-coded image." You mean it does filtering, beamforming, and displays results to a GUI? How profound! That sounds awfully similar to what we've been doing for the past 50 years in Radar/SONAR... The only difference here is what we're trying to detect. I imagine the target strength of a 70' tall planar wave is much easier to detect on the ocean surface than for example a Mig fighter jet flying at low altitudes.

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