[X4U] Windows for Warships

[Paul Moortgat]

A report in the newspaper from yesterday stated that each Windows user 
loses 6 hours each month due trough crashes.  The survey was done with 
more than 1.3 million people.  Worldwide they lose 2.4 billion hours.  
See http://www.microcost.com/en for it.

Paul Moortgat

On 20-sep-04, at 19:32, Eugene Lee wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:22:35AM -0700, Vicki Allwardt wrote:
> :
> : Recently someone posted that the airport shut down on the west coast
> : was due to a Windows program.  When I reported that info to my nephew
> : whose wife got caught in it, he sent me this article.  Very sobering
> : information.
> :
> : 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_windows_for_warships/
>
> Cool.  I wonder who will get the honor of crashing the Royal Navy?
> Russian script kiddies?  European script kiddies?  American script
> kiddies?  Al Quaeda script kiddies?  Army of God script kiddies?
>
> If the Royal Navy were to enter a miliary conflict, have their
> Windoze system crash, and lose the fight, it's their own fault.
> Heaven help any nation stupid enough to depend on the Royal Navy
> and its insecure computer M$ infrastructure for military support.
>
> The wise reader will of course see that BAE Systems is getting a
> huge payoff to convert the Royal Navy to M$ Windoze.  Humanity's
> greed will lead to its eventual extinction.
>
>
> -- 
> Eugene Lee
> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/