[Gllug] Signatures
John HEARNS
John.Hearns at cern.ch
Wed Jul 10 14:37:11 UTC 2002
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 tet at accucard.com wrote:
>
> >> I have this terrible vision of a cruise missile doing a traceroute.
> >
> >Somehow I doubt even the US military would use Microsoft to make their
> >"smart" bombs. They have enough trouble with them as it is!
>
> The US military has made its share of mistakes, though. For example,
> military bases with .mil domains used to have latitude and longitude
> in their whois entry, which for obvious reasons became known at the
> time as ICBM coordinates...
>
I think I am right in saying that the Atomic Weapons Research
Establishment will now appear on Ordnance Survey maps, as of the next
editions.
There is a rather big hole, or maybe woodlands, marked on there at the
moment.
But as you can buy one metre resolution satellite images off the net these
days, the Govt (quite rightly!) have recognised that keeping the place
off the maps is futile.
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