[...] games blogger is obligated to do on occasion   He wrote a little ditty entitled “A brief SF tale“.  Take a quick read-through before going [...]

The brass on the island realised what has happening and banned the use of the term “Benny”.

The squaddies (soldeiers) stopped using “Bennies” but came up with a new term “Stills”, as in they’re “Still Bennies”, get it?

The brass got to hear of this, “Stills” was also banned.

The squaddies stopped using “Stills” and started using “Andys”, as in “And they’re Still Bennies”.

The brass gave up.

From experience, it doesn’t share the same bandwidth at all. But civvie apps, such as Exchange, do sit on that bandwidth and that means that most of the emailed failsafes (everything or loaded on the high-priority network logged gets emailed to at minimum five people as well) and sooner or later, some (usually civilian) bod is going to notice that mail has slowed down to a pathetic crawl.

Often, mail itself is the reason why things die – last Christmas a video of some squaddies in Iraq doing a spoof music video crashed the Aldershot cluster completely. While mail is, to everyone actually doing any work, merely a redundant failsafe and not all that important, to the beancounters it’s the #1 priority app.

Start hurting their abilitiy to send lolcats around and things start getting locked up very quickly.

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My understanding is that the reason given is actually bandwidth. I must say that it startles me that the same network handles both the mission-critical traffic and the everyday stuff (an example they gave was losing control over drones because of streaming video!)…

Perhaps Cisco could sell them a QoS routing solution?

[...] Raph Koster has a brief story on his blog which points out that in the new media age, whenever you plug up one information hole, another one opens. (Also of note to me as he mentions a personal interest: OpenCroquet) Perhaps the best course of action would be to tighten the regulations of what soldiers are allowed to talk about and then reprimand those who do not obey the rules but then, you know what those wiley Americans can be like with their rights to free speech. [...]

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