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US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader

Posted by timothy on from the I-want-one dept.

First time accepted submitter Dimetrodon (2714071) writes "It is an unspoken rule of military procurement that any IT or communications technology will invariably be years behind what is commercially available or technically hobbled to ensure security. One case in point is the uncomfortably backronymed NeRD, or Navy e-Reader Device, an electronic book so secure the 300 titles it holds can never be updated. Ever."

3 of 249 comments (clear)

  1. Re:In the navy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe now they can find the fucking missing airplane, flight MH370.

  2. They only need one! by aliquis · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's only need for the one book!

    Bible or the Khoran. Your choice!

    (No this isn't my opinion, "it's fact!", no really, I don't believe so.)

  3. Re:More choices! by aliquis · · Score: -1, Troll

    You forgot The Book of Mormon and a few others.

    Guess I should had only mentioned one.

    Then I could have said "THOSE ARE ALL WRONG!"

    Damn religinuts are retarded.