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.

Comments

And now... In Swedish.

[lewko]

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.

Re:And now... In Swedish.

[kunudo]

It's not about replicating Swedish, you bafoon. It's the Swedish Chef from dialectizer... You know, as in the FUCKING MUPPET, which did say 'und'?

Yes, I know. He was wrong too.

Why stealth?

[aixou]

Is everyone all of a sudden gunning at the Swedish ships?

Maybe the powers that be saw Tomorrow Never Dies one too many times.

James Bond

[Claire-plus-plus]

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.

Re:Hmmm.

[Flounder]

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?

It may be invisible to radar...

[mwvdlee]

...but it'll be easily spotted by all the outgoing packets coming from the spyware, troyans and virusses "installed" on WinNT!

Stealth cars

[DataCannibal]

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.

Clippy

[merky1]

I see that you are attacking a lesser third world country. Would you like to

0 - Launch Missiles
0 - Fire Cannons
0 - Hide

Windows NT at the helm

[LabRat007]

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

Re:Windows NT you say?

[superdan2k]

Wouldn't that be spelled, "4h0y m4t3y, th4r 5h3 bL0WZ0RZ!"?

NT is a good choice...

[Rick.C]

... if all you want to do is steer. Oh, and control engine speed. No problem. And maybe integrate the radar. Still no problem. And run LSASS to make sure that there are no NT license violations. And RPC to check if anyone wants to use the C$ share. And SVCHOST and SPOOLSV and WINLOGON. And CSRSS and SMSS and maybe WOW. And IE4 for the user interface. And MSTASK to monitor it all...

Captain to Engine Room (through the low-tech voice tube): Switch to manual control IMMEDIATELY!

Re:The US has had a stealth ship since the mid-80'

[Dr. Smeegee]

I vish to use a protractor on your steelth wessels!

It's a brilliant bluff

[Nevrar]

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.