-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Hutchins
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 01:11 pm, jeffslists wrote:
This sure is scary. I didn't think the Brits were that stupid.
OSS torpedoed: Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_windows_for_warships/
We have Windows running Nuclear Power Plants (remember the Big Blackout?) and nuclear weapons. Why should the Brit's fall behind?
No we don't. Windows may be utilized ***in*** nuclear power plants, but the actual control of the plants is by highly specialized software and hardware, and there's no way you're going to convince me that tactical weapons are using windows. I used to do MILSPEC electronics and I've never seen anything that even hinted of DOS never the less Windows being used. Besides Windows would never have the response time necessary to do the course corrections needed for tactical weapons. I will say that this article is very scary indeed, but not knowing what the UKs CMS controls it is hard to say what the risks are. I find highly improbable that Windows is being used for targeting, tracking or control mechanisms in these warships. But if it is, they have serious trouble ahead for them. But then these are the same people that forgot to thaw their chicken before shooting them at train windows.
£0.02, Brian
I saw a program on History Channel about steal technology and when they showed a British (or Scandinavian country ship) stealth ship from the 'Captains' point of view it looked like Windows desktop was running on one of the monitors.
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Densmore Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:32 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: RE: In the UK windows will now control thermo-nuclear ICBM's
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Hutchins
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 01:11 pm, jeffslists wrote:
This sure is scary. I didn't think the Brits were that stupid.
OSS torpedoed: Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_windows_for_warships/
We have Windows running Nuclear Power Plants (remember the Big Blackout?) and nuclear weapons. Why should the Brit's fall behind?
No we don't. Windows may be utilized ***in*** nuclear power plants, but the actual control of the plants is by highly specialized software and hardware, and there's no way you're going to convince me that tactical weapons are using windows. I used to do MILSPEC electronics and I've never seen anything that even hinted of DOS never the less Windows being used. Besides Windows would never have the response time necessary to do the course corrections needed for tactical weapons. I will say that this article is very scary indeed, but not knowing what the UKs CMS controls it is hard to say what the risks are. I find highly improbable that Windows is being used for targeting, tracking or control mechanisms in these warships. But if it is, they have serious trouble ahead for them. But then these are the same people that forgot to thaw their chicken before shooting them at train windows.
£0.02, Brian _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
Paul Taylor wrote:
I saw a program on History Channel about steal technology and when they showed a British (or Scandinavian country ship) stealth ship from the 'Captains' point of view it looked like Windows desktop was running on one of the monitors.
They have something called Windows Naval Edition. They drive warships with it. *shudder* I believe many people in the Naval Dept. were told to send back "free" copies of software that MS sent them for evaluation. There's a can of worms I don't want to open.
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