Information security, recycling and irony

[Jeff Kinz]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:37:42PM -0500, Fred wrote:
> On Friday 03 February 2006 17:49, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:29:58PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote:
> > > The US Navy is trying to do (did?)  it on ships.  My aunt was working on
> > > it.  They were able to save tons of weight on each destoyer, etc by
> > > converting away from paper to electronic media.  That means they can
> > > make the ship faster/less draft/carry more weapons & ammo.
> >
> > I heard about something like that, all manuals were digitized and they
> > had a giant laser printer on board that would print and bind books
> > on an as needed basis. Incredibly quickly.
> >
> > And when you were done with the manual, you just dropped it on the enemy
> > to get rid of it.
> 
> Couldn't they just download the manual to a PDA? Not that I want to make the 
> military even more efficient at killing people, but...

This was years before PDA's existed fred, possibly decades.

Now they don't print them out, they are accessed remotely and displayed
on a personal "heads-up display" that they wear.



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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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