{"id":199071,"date":"2007-09-11T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/11\/pentagon-computer-boffins-want-budget-increase\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T21:39:00","slug":"pentagon-computer-boffins-want-budget-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/11\/pentagon-computer-boffins-want-budget-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Computer Boffins Want Budget Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the PowerPoint <sup>&reg;<\/sup> in the Pentagon<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/09\/10\/chinese_military_net_attack_circus_rolls_on\/\">claiming that Chinese hackers can shut down the US Navy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just the standard budget time practice of the US military painting potential adversaries as 12 feet high with death ray eye beams.  It\u2019s how they get the big contracts now, so that they can get the lucrative consulting gigs after they retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the PowerPoint &reg; in the Pentagonclaiming that Chinese hackers can shut down the US Navy. It&#8217;s just the standard budget time practice of the US military painting potential adversaries as 12 feet high with death ray eye beams. It\u2019s how they get the big contracts now, so that they can get the lucrative consulting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}