[plug] Roger, Red One, you are cleared to GPF!

[Leon Brooks]

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0807/news-navy-08-07-00.asp

Quoting from that:

> Officials from Microsoft Federal Systems last week attended an
> initial design review of the Navy?s future CVN-77 aircraft
> carrier. The company has been selected to lead information
> infrastructure development for the ship and to define the
> overall systems architecture for high-performance information
> exchange. 

1. There goes the budget.

2. I wanna be on the other side of any firefight involving those
carriers. It's all very well having the USS Yorktown freeze up, but what
happens when Microsoft get to mess with, say, avionics? Even if it's
only approach-and-landing? A blue-screen on a HUD could be a bit lethal,
both for the pilot and anyone in his way.

3. I bet someone installs Linux somewhere in the structure on each and
every one of those boats. (-:

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