This one's named after Robert Metcalfe , the inventor of the computer networking protocol Ethernet.

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If the user enters the wrong password several times and then is connected to the Internet, the company will locate the computer through its Internet protocol address, information that can help law enforcement agencies recover the computer, Lide said.

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Robert Metcalfe, who three decades ago invented Ethernet, the first great electronic protocol for computer networks, foresees a "gigalapse"--a blackout spanning one billion person-hours.

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