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From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: Air traffic control system in Java
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:13:24 +0100
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2011/03/02/air-traffic-control-system-is-not-safe-say-uk-controllers-40091970/>
>
> And the arguments about it are flying through the air
> as fast as the planes :-)

WTF!? Isn't air traffic control supposed to be a real-time task? And they do
it in _Java_?


Vinzent.

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