I work on this system and as it says in the article you quoted, they are not actually "replacing" traditional radar. We still very much use Radar but the GPS-like system (it is not the same as the GPS in your car) allows us to position planes even closer to each other to allow more planes to share the same amount of space.

In addition, the current plans (including about the next 10 years) are all about making the current human air traffic controllers more efficient and reliable and the systems are all still based around human interactions which I really don't see changing anytime soon.

It benefits the country because a part all of that money spent on MS products goes towards the GDP and taxes. Although Red Hat is based in the US, they don't make the kind of profits that MS does and thus don't contribute to the economy as much.

Zero day attack, exploitation of unpatched software vulnerabilities

You are all looking at it the wrong way. Think of the all those children who are having picture books read aloud by their kindergarten teachers! They are having a society of piracy ingrained at such a young age! We must arrest all the teachers immediately for the sake of the children.

It's all about the Realism experience

Wishing I had mod points because this is one of the most insightful post I have ever read on /

This was my first thought after seeing the title. Don't see any other way that the NSA would recommend an OS unless they get something out of it.

Hmmm... My Treo stops working whenever the I put my hand over the antennae or point the antennae downwards. Thus I am safe from this effect 1/2 the time! Woot! Damn I need a new phone.

My grandfather was involved in the naming of both of these rather large Japanese companies as a VP when they were trying to cross over to the U.S. and I have heard the stories hundreds of times so I figured this is a good venue to share them.

Panasonic (Originally Matsushita) actually got the name of their company from a review of one of their speaker systems. The article said that they had great "all around sound." All around translates to pana and sound translates to sound.

Epson (Originally Seiko) made a small printer named the EP-101 which was the worlds first compact, lightweight digital printer. My grandfather found large demand in it in the U.S. so they needed to create a new name to use(Seiko is a watch corp in the US). He told them the story about how Panasonic came about the name and left on a flight back stateside.

When he got back, he had a message waiting already and they told him that they were naming it Epson. He told them that is a horrible idea because people would confuse it with epsom salt. They told him it was his fault because it was his idea and explained that they were naming it based on their first product sale like panasonic did. So the name comes from "son of EP" to the more consumer friendly Epson.