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Posted on 02/17/2012 5:37:42 PM PST by kronos77
When the Air Force Special Operations Command decided to buy 2,861 made-in-China Apple iPad tablet computers in January to provide flight crews with electronic navigation charts and technical manuals, it specified mission security software developed, maintained and updated in Russia.
The command followed in the path of Alaska Airlines, which in May 2011 became the first domestic carrier to drop paper charts and manuals in exchange for electronic flight bags. Alaska chose the same software, GoodReader, developed by Moscow-based Good.iware, to display charts in a PDF format on iPads. Delta Air Lines kicked off a test in August for electronic flight bags and the carrier said it planned to use GoodReader software.
Originally developed for the iPhone, GoodReader won rave reviews, which helped make it the best-selling non-Apple iPad app until its developer, Yuri Selukoff, quadrupled its price from 99 cents to $4.99. PC Magazine said GoodReader "transforms your iPad into the best reader, file manager and annotator on the market."
Macworld also raved that Good.iWare, Selukoff's company, "hit a home run" when it developed the iPad version. "What adds an extra sparkle to GoodReader is that it supports most common document file types, while also allowing you to save and view Web pages (either in HTML or Safari Web archive format), and download, listen to, or view photos, audio and video files," the publication said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nextgov.com ...
You gotta be kidding me?
A Chinese made device running Russion software for US Air Force aircraft? What could go wrong? Nothing to see here, move along.
America is incresingly becoming a nation of lawyers, artists, and psychologists. The ard sciences and engineering are too much work. It's the softening of America. The lawyer types think they will out game the Russians and Chinese. Hasen't this been the case in Western history where soft merchant city states are overrun by roaming hoards of nomads. Sort of like the Romans hiring German soldiers to do their fighting.
The real scientists in this country are likely being pushed out of work since they will not drink the kool-aid of AGW (Lysenko II), while the engineers are not only replaced by H-1B’s but also find it hard to work in an absurdly politically correct environment.
In June, 2010 a dozen or so deep cover Russian spies were gathered and arrested. As Far as I know they are still arrested. At that time, statements by all US security agencies stated flatly that Russian espionage today is more intense than during the cold war!
One inconvenient issue never discussed is, these spies were deliberately trained and sent to the US with a purpose, more than a decade before they were unmasked.* They posed as families and had children born here, as part of their cover.
Question...
Are these children citizens of our country and protected from deportation?
* A Russian defector who had been in a position to know for decades of specific teams of deep cover spies sent to the US triggered the mass arrests.
I wouldn’t be comfortable with this concept, even in today’s software/electronics manufacturing environment. There is just too much at stake for the military.
So it’s truly is over
Born here? They are, of course, “natural born citizens” and eligible to run for POTUS! Nevermind the fact that their parents are only here to spy on us.
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