What Ares is
The Ares P2P filesharing software has come of age recently and is now most definitely considered one of the leading and most popular ways in which to share files with friends (and strangers). From version 1.9.0, data sharing was enabled between two peers behind a firewall, and Ares is one of the few filesharing systems that works reliably on some university and college campuses.
What of the name “Ares”? Here’s a very brief run down on where this name has appeared before. See if you can spot any resemblance between the current, can we say ‘fashionable’, usage and other its other uses.
Most recently (and not a work of fiction, unless you listen to the conspiracy theorists), is the NASA Ares rocket, designed as a launch craft for the very heavy payload (read: crew) that will be going to the moon in, wait for it, 11 years.
Finally and most significantly is the Greek war god Ares who, by all accounts, was a thoroughly nasty man. Slaughter, murder, terror and despair were his staple diet.
Found a common theme running through these three? No, me neither.
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