[aldo_14]

Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships

EDIT: whoops

[TopAce]

Are you expecting us to read all that?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by TopAce
Are you expecting us to read all that?

Of course.

[Gloriano]

So british navy start use windows in warship computers well  good for them Win 2000 is quite reliable or it could be bad

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I would if I were you. Then I'd write a letter to the MoD and every other person who has power over these money grabbing ****ers.

The only reason for choosing windows is some under the able money passing by M$. They've probably massively cut costs.

That guy was fired for voicing a sane and well researched opinion. You tell me that there's nothing going on there.
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[Fineus]

Heh, God save the Queen indeed.. because Windows certainly won't

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]I would if I were you. Then I'd write a letter to the MoD and every other person who has power over these money grabbing ****ers.

The only reason for choosing windows is some under the able money passing by M$. They've probably massively cut costs.

That guy was fired for voicing a sane and well researched opinion. You tell me that there's nothing going on there.
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Let's not forget the inherent stupidity of middle and upper management.... thye probably chose Win2k because the secretary they're secretly boffing uses it to write their expense forms.

[Carl]

Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
So british navy start use windows in warship computers well  good for them Win 2000 is quite reliable or it could be bad

you never have any real opinions or thoughts of your own, do you?

[Gloriano]

Originally posted by Carl


you never have any real opinions or thoughts of your own, do you?

That was my opion, anyway it's really suck that they chose M$ windows there is more reliable systems for warships so it's smell that M$ gets something from it or M$ gives something

I really hope they don't get idea putting Win 2000 to Nuclear submarines that would be really bad

and windows overall is security risk one reason is IE there is no way to remove it

[GoulMeister]

Bill Gates is trying to TAKE OVER THE WORLD, he puts windows into the submarines and takes them over, holding the world ransom, hee is then dictator of the world and forces us to use windows in everything, fridges that connect to the internet, tvs with windows etc.

[Hippo]

yeah, $5 on Gates built himself a backdoor into the system... That way, he WILL have his own army..

[DragonClaw]

I can see it now... British naval crew playing Call of Duty on duty

[Flipside]

If Bill doesn't build a back door, you can garauntee some 16 year ld kid will. The sensible thing is to use a complete non-standard system, since this would reduce external knowledge of the system for security reasons.

I never thought the BAe would stoop that low to be honest, they used non-standard systems for most of their stuff when I worked for them. It's an invite to catastrophe to use something that has documented security weaknesses

[Cyker]

"Right yeoman, target those incoming bombers, launch SAMs!"

"Aye aye s-wtf?!"
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"Captain, this is Engineering, what the hell are you doing up there?! The nuclear engines just shot up by 1000K!"

"Engineering, our C&C systems just suffered a major-what?"

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*Above, the bombers fly overhead. The bomb bays are open and inside we can see huge WiFi antennas. There is a CoolWebSearch logo stenciled on the side of them...*

[vyper]

It royally (no pun intended) pisses me off that British warships are using M$ software that could probably be surpassed by bespoke software written in the UK.

Imagine it - 20 years from now we're about to go to war with someone like China and the final order for weaons free is given - and NetSky.Z (I'm assuming it'll have reached the end of the alphabet by then) pops up and crashes the network. Oops, we just put the engines into full reverse, sinking our main aircraft carrier and damaging a sub below us.

This country is being run by idiots.

[vyper]

Btw, what if, for whatever odd reason, US and British forces came into conflict.

What happens then? Would US forces have back door access to our software? I'd bet yes. Outsourcing is not good tactics

[01010]

Anyone else get an eerie sense of foreboding? I'm thinking of the film Wargames right now.

[an0n]

This is ****ing bull****.

I ****ing bet you this is part of America's global domination plan.

Using code developed by the most evil corporation - since Sweeny Todd became a registered trader - to control thermonuclear weapons is absolutely ****ing insane.

[Flipside]

Actually, the military relationship between the UK and the US these days is 'they design it, we get it working properly'

Most of the tracking and targetting software used to be hard machine-coded onto Eproms which gave standard output to visual displays. It wasn't as pretty as some things, but you don't really 32Bit colour depth and 1600 x 1200 resolution for a radar display, as long as the system itself knows exactly where the plane is, a 'dot' is sufficient.

Also, hard-coded systems are a damn sight faster than going through some kind of 'portway' like W2K, with less chance of corruption. When a command has to pass through a load of non-user 'verifiers' it runs this risk of failure or misinterpretation, both of which could be disastrous I'm sure people remember the 'feet and metres' incident during WW2 where troops got shelled because they gave range in Metres, being European, but the British artillery assumed they meant feet, imagine that on a Nuclear scale

[Ghostavo]

I'm thinking about BattleStar Galactica (the Cylons)