Blue Screen of Death: The Royal Navy’s decision to save money by using Windows for Submarines, a version of Windows XP, as the operating system for its ballistic-missile subs seems especially shortsighted. .
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Blue Screen of Death: The Royal Navy’s decision to save money by using Windows for Submarines, a version of Windows XP, as the operating system for its ballistic-missile subs seems especially shortsighted. .
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I remember a joke about this when the USN wanted to use Windoze on its vessels: the ships could then go down by themselves.
Priceless:
During the Cold War, false alarms were also triggered by the moon rising over Norway, the launch of a weather rocket from Norway, a solar storm, sunlight reflecting off high-altitude clouds, and a faulty A.T. & T. telephone switch in Black Forest, Colorado.
These machines have been carefully and ingeniously designed to kill us. Complacency increases the odds that, some day, they will. The “Titanic Effect” is a term used by software designers to explain how things can quietly go wrong in a complex technological system: the safer you assume the system to be, the more dangerous it is becoming.
“This vehicle is automatically controlled by a computer for your safety, Nothing can possibly go wrong…go wrong…go wrong…go wrong…go wrong…..”
It brings to mind the novel and movie Fail Safe, doesn’t it?
Are. You. Effing. Kidding. Me. Nuclear submarines that aren’t running on Linux or Unix or some top secret military version thereof? The mind boggles.
He’s wrong about Stuxnet. That didn’t go after the Windows machines, though it might have gone through them. That worm went after the Siemens control systems in the Iranian facilities. Those same types of control systems are in use worldwide in things like dams and water treatment plants and refineries and steel mills and anywhere there’s big industrial processes going on.
Yes, or Dr. Strangelove from the same period.
Anyone who thinks the highly customized versions of XPe deployed by Microsoft into industrial applications like this bear any resemblance to the consumer builds of Windows whatsoever instantly loses all credibility on all computer topics, forever.
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Please, Eric, tell us again – before we kiss our loved ones goodbye – how many accidental nuclear explosions have we had since 1945?
Forever… Ha.
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I love this: Microsoft — Warning Event Notification: Low Disk Space.
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Yeah, but you get a 1-800 number for tech support….so what’s the big deal?
There’s a difference between Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove. The attack in the former was as a result of both a hardware malfunction and Soviet jamming. In the latter, General Jack Ripper goes mentally off the rails and sends in his bombers.
All together now:
We all live in a Windows submarine.
Windows submarine.
Windows submarine….
This should probably also go under the tag “Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors”, as “Windows for Submarines” is not a product which actually exists. That title was a joke by one of the developers in a blog post describing the SMCS NG program. Not only did other sites run with it, the Register’s article actually printed it as “Windows for Submarines(tm)”.
It is curious, for 8 years we witnessed the unfolding disaster and incompetence that was part of Obama’s legacy and nary a peep from our media but watch them go when it comes to something that may or might happen; nuclear holocaust, Global Climate Armageddon, Islamophobia, the list is endless.
The best part of the story is that no one really bothered to call Carter.
Or Collosus ,the Corbin Project
So it’s really MS-DOS? Which did eventually become reliable. I’m afraid it is much cheaper to bribe than it is to produce really reliable code.
After one version of Windows brought a USN fleet carrier to a grinding [so to speak] halt, something which the IJN never quite accomplished, you’d think they’d have learned their lesson. MS is all about making Bill Gates richer – nothing else.
The RN would have used iSub but it only allows crews to water-ski on the surface, and film playing whale pods while automatically synching iTunes soundtracks to the footage.
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I assume you’re referring to the Yorktown, which wasn’t a fleet carrier, and was a testbed for the Smart Ship program – as in, “this is where we work out the bugs”.
Some people’s hatred of Microsoft knows no bounds. Or rationality.
Microsoft deserves it’s hatred. How Gates ran the company in the 90’s to the cronyism of the 2000’s to get out of its anti-trust troubles. It can’t be denied either that the code was garbage compared to clean code that is found in most *nix application and operating systems.
But I’m supposed to bow at the feet of Microsoft because I am on the right side of center. Some other conservative types feel you must support corporations just because they are corporations, otherwise you’re a dirty commie! haha. As with everything there are bad and good which includes companies.
It can’t be denied either that the code was garbage compared to clean code that is found in most *nix application and operating systems.
Keep beclowning yourself. No, really, don’t let me stop you.
Whatever they are running in the subs has been working for years. They are probably not connected to the Internet and designed to do a specific job. The O/S they are using is mostly irrelevant. It’s only there as a platform for the applications.
“It is shocking to think that my home computer is probably running a newer version of Windows than the U.K.’s military submarines,”
Why shocking? Windows 10 and most of the more recent versions suck. They are more complicated and require continuous, mandatory updates.
As long as the underlying hardware doesn’t have to be upgraded or continues to be compatible with XP, why change it?
“Keep beclowning yourself. No, really, don’t let me stop you.”
Yeah Daniel, Microsoft’s constant hacks, viruses and blue screens have been a running joke for years and years. Also, they love the NSA and the NSA loves them.
Oh, they release apps and use server technology that run on or use Linux now. So even they figured out what was best.
So yeah, keep the Microsoft worship going.
Oh, they release apps and use server technology that run on or use Linux now. So even they figured out what was best.
So yeah, keep the Microsoft worship going.
Don’t forget that DOS looks and acts like a diluted version of Unix.
Windows 10 and most of the more recent versions suck.
so true. my internet computer runs w7, the office computer runs w98, and the livingroom computer runs Linux u14 on the flatscreen TV. I don’t need or want ‘upgrades’ which are too often Verschlimmbesserungen ie. improvements that make things worse, disimprovements.
Daniel, there is a saying, “they do not know that they do not know”, which is quite often relative in here to technical issues. Canada’s air defense is another one of those issues. Logic dictates certain parameters, lack of logic over rides these “parameters”. :-)))
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Look, cupcake, I made good money with Microsoft crap.