OT Don't read this (was Re: Altair MBL source)

Hi, chris <cb at mythtech.net> said: Someone should tell the Royal Navy, there are plans to install a command and control system based on Windows on RN nuclear submarines. Gerald Wilson, who used to work for Marconi and the Defence Procurement Agency told the BBC: "It is inconceivable that we could allow the possible accidental release of nuclear missiles. The people who survived such an exchange, if any, would certainly regard such a thing as a crime against humanity. And I can't help feeling that even planning to deploy such systems on Windows, with its unreliability and lack of security, is itself some sort of crime in international law." Windows 2000 is already used in the Type 45 destroyer for combat management software. Marconi are reported to have said: "... we have stopped making SW transmitters and antennas, our reason for being now ... shoddy naval software. -- Cheers, Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com The future was never like this!