Remember that things change very slowly in the military, especially things that are not directly mission critical. Disposing of surplus is probably the last thing to be updated as conditions change, so don't be surprised when then rules don't reflect the modern world. The first application for computers was calculating tragectories for artillery shells. The calculations were done and printed in books used in the field. Now the calculation is mostly done in real time in the field. Modern tanks even track the change in shape of the barrel during firing and add that into the mix to make the shell hit the desired target. Anything that allows you to navigate, plot targets, make corrections to better hit targets on the fly, etc., would be considered part of the weapons system. This was important in the area of computers when the military had better computers than the public, now the public usually has better (in computing power) computers than the military. >From what I can see today the people who have the fastest and most powerfull computers are either 'high end' engineers and researchers, or serious game players. :-)) Dumpster diving is a fine art and there are newsgroups and mailing lists devoted to it. It is also a great way to get parts for hardware hacking as you will be much more likely to rip apart something free from the trash than something you just paid lots of cash for. michaelwrote: > I havn't done it in years, however, I used to *dumpster dive*. > >Perhaps it's ignorance on my part, but could you give me an example of how > >hardware the likes of which we're talking about here could be used as a > >weapon? -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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