Why in the name of all that's holy would you use a Microsoft product on a mission like this? Just about the only thing you can trust about MS is that their software is buggy.

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mronetwo 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because they have the power to insert themselves in places like these. It's a bigger problem. There are places in which companies with Microslop's level of quality have no business to be, but they're already there.

	▲	shimman 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The fun thing about this, is it can change at anytime for any reason. All we need to do is get the right people in power, a good step toward this direction would be to actually support abolishing big tech (which many primary challengers have as a platform position).

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SanjayMehta 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

USS Yorktown, the aegis missile carrier comes to mind for some reason.

I think it was the same ship which shot down a passenger airliner.

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HeyLaughingBoy 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I believe that the use of Windows NT for Aegis control was fleet-wide, so that problem wasn't unique to the Yorktown. That just happened to be where it was discovered.

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mrguyorama 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You are wrong on all points.

The US shot down Iran Air 655 using the USS Vincennes, a Ticonderoga class ship. The shootdown was before Windows existed.

It's controversial what to "blame", but I generally blame the captain, who defied all reason and caution to shoot down an aircraft that they never identified. He went gung ho and maybe got tunnel vision but he should have been outright court martialed. That should have been treated as "No, this is not acceptable behavior for someone of the rank of captain even if you hadn't shot down an airliner"

Windows has zero relevance to that.

	▲	SanjayMehta 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not wrong on all points. Just the identity of the terrorist which shot down the airliner. But it's the same gang of habitual war criminals who all need to be Nuremburged.

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robin_reala 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“Guns don’t kill people, Windows does”?