Re: [SLE] laptop security -- physical security

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:51 -0400, Ken Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:34, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 23:55 +0200, Jerry Westrick wrote:
Nuclear Power plants running on Microsoft Windows platform?

Gives a whole new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death"!

Damn, that is scary!

Yellow glow of death at midnight. Then you really know MicroSoft
crashed another one.

I like to watch NASA TV on the web during the active space missions. During
the most recent shuttle mission I was amazed listening to a rather lengthy
session of astronauts and ground control trying to diagnose a problem with a
computer on the shuttle that controlled something pertinent (but fortunately
not life-sustaining) to the mission. They kept rebooting this thing and
reporting "it BSOD'd again". Eventually they replaced it with a spare that
worked.

Which doesn't mean that the shuttle uses Windows. It may very well
indicate how much of a cultural metaphor that screen has become.


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