Yeah right, I'll bet $10 that the Air Force has a team working on a firmware hack right now. If they haven't already cracked it.
Air Force Might Be Troubled by PS3 "Other OS" Removal
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Though I wouldn't be surprised, I could see some tension being created over it between Japan and America.SilentHunter7 said:
Though it involves the Air Force, Sony is a private business, with no official ties to the Japanese government. The only tension that will be there would be purely between Sony and the US Armed Forces, who will probably put Sony down on their list of companies not to buy shit from.Silver Patriot said:
There's no way in hell this will affect diplomacy.
I meant the Japan goverment would notice that the U.S. Goverment is not almost openly breaking Sony's (A Japanese Company) rules because they don't feel they have to listen. You know what I mean? I don't think that they would go to war or anything.SilentHunter7 said:
Holy crap! That explains where all the PS3's have gone lately. No wonder it's difficult to get hold of them these days. Frigging USAF.
Yahtzee takes potshots at Americans because they make up the largest demographic in his audience...Corohan said:
...and Americans tend to like understanding all the pop culture references and having a good chuckle at their own expense.
So, the US Military complains and everyone makes fun of Sony...how about we all point a finger and laugh at the US Military for failing in the first place and using PS3's as supercomputers!
SONY will probably sell the original hardware/software at a higher price than the fixstars [http://www.fixstars.com/en/index.html] to the USAF. this is just the USAF PR group trying their hand at politics to get them to lower the price. Especially as the amount of original hardware/software dries up.
The USAF didn't exist until 1947. The war ended in 1945. It was the National Security Act of 1947 that created the Air Force, which was formed in a large party from what was then known as the Army Air Core. In other words: It was the Army, not the Air Force that bombed Japan.Straying Bullet said:
A couple of little tidbits: The Plutonium-239 that was used in the first nuclear bomb, and used to make the Fat Man bomb was produced in a reactor in Hartford, Washington. Go Washington!
The pilots who where selected to fly the mission trained in Wendover, Nevada (a town that sits on top of the border between Nevada and Utah. Many of the buildings still survive and what is left is used for field training exercises by the Air Force.