Times they are a changin' (Score 1)

Do you remember the good old days when the Military wanted something and then just took it. When the hell did Big Brother decide that it could no longer think for itself and started shopping out security to the likes of Bill Gates and his cronies. Someone up in Redmond must have done one hell of a job on some poor DOD rep to convince them to borrow, because that's all you ever really get to do with Windows, an operating system to go into such sensitive areas.

There's a serious question here, though. I am a bit concerned that the military is either unwilling or unable to produce their own operating system to their own standards. No matter what certification they come up with, using and outside supplier still allows that supplier to dictate how that operating system functions on basic levels. While this may seem trivial, these basic levels force the networks to be setup a certain way to some extent and if I have to pay the military to protect my worthless ass the least they could do is get off their asses and write their own operating system. When did this change happen, from the government inhousing security matters such as this to outsourcing them to private companies? Maybe I'm ignorant, naive, or hopped up on elmers glue, but I want Big Brother back. Sure he used to beat the pulp out of me, but Bill Gates yanks my pants down in front of the neighbors, runs away laughing and when I pull them up I find my wallet is gone. Bruises heal, and no matter how many web certifications of NT I see, I won't feel safe until I see men with ear pieces outside my windows and silent black helicopters hovering over my house.