http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14009910

Is it, really?
kavli@bollox:~$ host www.facebook.com
www.facebook.com has address 66.220.153.23

This is an IPv6-enabled site:
kavli@bollox:~$ host www.astmate.com
www.astmate.com has address 109.74.3.168
www.astmate.com has IPv6 address 2a02:750:5::164

  -- K

Have you never seen "Connection reset by peer"?

It's this Peer-guy you're looking for.

I've got a friend who tries to make a business around that, selling cloths and fabrics made of wool, artificially polluted with common allergenes. http://www.astmate.com/
His hypothesis is available on the webpage under "more info", if anyone is interested reading it. (I have no kickback from this business)

WMD? Like in "Windows of Mass Destruction" then?

Well. The beam dumps has to absorb the equivalent of 87kg TNT when they abort a beam. (I don't know the equivalent in Libraries of Congress) You wouldn't live long if you happened to stand in front of it.

  -- K

At least here in Scandinavia, it's becoming very popular to track hunting dogs using GPS.
In the bad old days, tracking using a transmitter on the dog and a highly directional Yagi antenna was, and partly is quite common, but with the new, relatively affordable GPS based trackers, dog owners can now get their dogs position directly onto their mobile phone.

Like this one (swedish text):
  http://www.outdoorexperten.se/p-6739-zodiac-tracker-myway-hundhalsband.aspx

€800 can seem steep, but a hunting dog can be worth a lot more, and looking for a dog for hours can be quite tedious.

I won't start a discussion about the choice that the Royal Navy did.

All I can say is that the technical management at CAWCS/Force Vision never saw Microsoft as a viable alternative. At least as long as I was working there.
But sure, we used other operating systems as well. Among those OpenVMS and Solaris 7 and 8. Most of the development was done on Sun/Solaris.
We even had Windows systems for office support, but on a physically isolated network.

Disclaimer:
As a former external consultant I'm not speaking for the Royal Dutch Navy.

Having worked for the Royal Dutch Navy for several years as a programmer and software architect, I'm impressed by their use of open source software on board their combat platforms. For instance, the Landing Platform Dock 2, HrMs Johann de Witt, uses GNU/Linux as a main component in the Combat Management System. Other platforms, including their submarines also uses various degrees of open source in combination with older proprietary systems.