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It is February 24 1955. AT&T has just created the first transistor, the Pentagon has just started developing the first nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, and in San Francisco... in a hospital in San Francisco, Steve Jones is born.

The Pentagon's forthcoming cyber strategy will formalize the possibility of a physical response to a virtual attack, according to published reports.

The Pentagon’s risk-taking research agency is kicking off a new program to turn everyday cameras into autonomous ‘bots with problem-solving smarts.Darpa is already after all kinds of highly intelligent robo-critters.

I wanted to briefly follow up the discussion about blurring on-line maps.

I am currently reading a very enlightening book entitled Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World.

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Military information technology folks wondering if their use of Apache, Perl, Linux and other open source software is copacetic with the brass will soon get some answers from the Defense Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer.