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More on the Swedish Stealth Ship
Dr.Knackerator writes "The BBC is running a story on Sweden's new carbon fibre stealth ship, the Visby. As well as being the first stealth ship, it is controlled by 'state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system'. 'But Kockums and the Swedish Navy deny it could be sabotaged by hackers and say that even if it did they could fall back to traditional steering and navigation'." We had a previous story about this as well.
feeling slightly moist at the phrase "Swedish Stealth Ship" ? -
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Zee BBC is roonneeng a stury oon Sveden's noo cerbun feebre-a steelt sheep, zee Feesby. Bork bork bork! Es vell es beeeng zee furst steelt sheep, it is cuntrulled by 'stete-a-ooff-zee-ert cumpooters useeng a Veendoos NT oopereteeng system'. 'Boot Kuckooms und zee Svedeesh Nefy deny it cuoold be-a sebuteged by heckers und sey thet ifee iff it deed zeey cuoold fell beck tu tredeeshunel steereeng und nefeegeshun'." Ve-a hed a prefeeuoos stury ebuoot thees es vell.
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'state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system' OMFGLOLROFLMFAO
sorry... couldn't help it.
You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford...
And the Swede's are using traditional stearing in 5...4...3...
Is everyone all of a sudden gunning at the Swedish ships?
Maybe the powers that be saw Tomorrow Never Dies one too many times.
Ahoy matey, thar' she blows!! Sez the one hax0r to another..
The m.c. ecsher paint job.
I think perhaps if you bomb it a bit, it comes apart.
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Well at least James Bond will find that one easier to destroy than the last stealth ship he dealt with, all he would have to do is give it's IP to some script kiddies.
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Windows 2000 or Server 2003, most likely, and those are simply not operating systems to be laughed at. No laughing at Windows 2k or 2k3?? You do realize this is /. we're talking about, remember?
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Sweden has a warship? Like a ship with guns? When did this happen? Holy shit!
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...but it'll be easily spotted by all the outgoing packets coming from the spyware, troyans and virusses "installed" on WinNT!
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The phrase "Where would you like to go today ?" could not be more fitting in this case.. question is, where do you actually end up ?
"We use a secret angle on our Type 23 frigates which enables our ships to reduce their radar signature to an absolute minimum." (emphasis added)
WTF? There are only so many angles in the first place, and can't you just look at the ship to figure it out?
Hey, this is /.
What you're expecting quality journalism?
I was at a job interview recently and those of us who were there being interviewed were chatting about fun jobs we'd like to have.
One of the guys there told us that a friend of his, who had previously worked for an arms company, was being recentltly interviewed for a job at a Formula 1 racing team. When asked what he could tell them about his previous job and how he could use that experience in the job he was interviewing for he repliad that, because of the classified nature of his work he couldn't tell them much about what he had been doing. He could, however, help them to make their racing cars invisible to radar.
No but, yeah but, no but...
I see that you are attacking a lesser third world country. Would you like to
0 - Launch Missiles
0 - Fire Cannons
0 - Hide
--WooooHoooo--
So the crew would look something like...
1 Captin
1 First Mate
50 Enlisted To Man Stations
103 System Admins to keep NT's "blue screen of death" from sinking the ship
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In fact, though the OS is NT, the language used to program the ship was state-of-the-art Java. It was very simple to create the stealth ship; they just used the method call:
this.setVisby(false);
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I'm sorry, we just couldn't find the Finnish ships to report about them. I know they're around here somewhere...
Seriously, there have been stealthy ships before, but the Visby-class is the first of a new generation.
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These days if any kind of vehicle gets hit with any kind of major ordnance it's a crater anyway - or in this case, a rapidly filled hole in the water.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You're probably right, but here I was looking forward to articles about the world's first warship capable of delivering 50 57mm shells and 10,000 penis enlargment e-mails per minute.
Captain to Engine Room (through the low-tech voice tube): Switch to manual control IMMEDIATELY!
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Named after the person who decided to use NT for the "State of the art" computers.
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Mmmmm. Swedish Stealth Fish.
I vish to use a protractor on your steelth wessels!
Most scandinavian fjords are actually found in Norway. ;-)
Never heard of a swedish parrot pining for the fjords, have you?
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Excellent idea...
Bluff the world... Say you have an invisible navy - no one will be able to disprove it! Everyone will think Sweden is the next superpower...
The fastrack to world peace.
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