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US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications

Post by cronus » Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:20 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22892166

US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications

The US Navy is dropping a requirement that its official communications be issued in capital letters.

A message was sent to all commands on 30 April, notifying them messages would soon be able to use a mixture of lower and upper cases.

The former policy was a legacy of the fact teletype machines adopted in the 19th Century did not have lowercase letters.

The order itself was, ironically, delivered in all capitals.

"Lower case messages are here to stay; they provide a more readable format, which can delivered to and shared on any of the current Web 3.0 technologies (chat, portals, wikis, blogs, etc)," said James McCarty, naval messaging program manager at US Fleet Cyber Command, in a press release.

He added that the move was part of a shift to a new messaging system called the Command and Control Office Information Exchange (C2OIX), which would come online in August.

It will allow messages to be delivered by email, which the navy says will save it about $15m (£9.5m) a year.

Mr McCarty acknowledged it would take until 2015 to ensure all the navy's systems were able to cope with mixed text, and until then C2OIX would have to convert messages into upper case where necessary to allow the legacy equipment to process them.

"The US Navy has made up its mind that not everything is a crisis and some messages are just normal," Michael Clarke, director of the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London, told the BBC.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:34 pm

The capitalization was a hold-over from telegraphy.
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Re: US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications

Post by pErvinalia » Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:38 pm

"Web 3.0"? Lol. Those listed technologies are Web 2.0. I bet they have a fucking twitter account and all walk around with iPad's strapped to their wrists.
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Post by Ian » Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:15 pm

My boss told me about this today. He took it as a sign of the Apocalypse. :hehe:
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Ian wrote:My boss told me about this today. He took it as a sign of the Apocalypse. :hehe:
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Post by laklak » Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:25 pm

Next thing they'll take the crayons away from the jarheads.
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Post by Jason » Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:28 pm

In the navy.. :whistle:
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Re: US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications

Post by Ian » Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:30 pm

Mark my words, within a few years the CIC computers on all warships will be compatible with a PlayStation.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:39 pm

Ian wrote:Mark my words, within a few years the CIC computers on all warships will be compatible with a PlayStation.
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Post by Ian » Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:42 pm

God forbid. May as well just surrender to Canada.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:16 pm

Ian wrote:God forbid. May as well just surrender to Canada.
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Re: US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications

Post by klr » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:56 pm

But WrITIng in miXed cAPItALs makes iT HarDER TO FoR CoDEBREAkerS ...
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Re: US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:57 pm

klr wrote:But WrITIng in miXed cAPItALs makes iT HarDER TO FoR CoDEBREAkerS ...
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Re: US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications

Post by Seabass » Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:16 pm

Hmmm. My old man is a navy vet, and he writes in all caps. It all makes sense now.
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Re: US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:21 pm

Seabass wrote:Hmmm. My old man is a navy vet, and he writes in all caps. It all makes sense now.
All Navy logs are supposed to be written only in caps. I have no cursive left after 20 years of that.
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