Like the Death Star on Endor, JEDI created a ton of fallout and stormy weather in cloud market

Late on Friday, word broke that the US Department of Defense had decided to award the massive 10-year, $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative contract to Microsoft. Coming at the tail end of the Friday news dump period, the decision caught everyone a bit off guard. Now, having had a weekend to digest the news, where do …

[pinkmouse]

Erm, B5 pic with a JEDI related story? Fire that sub-editor! :-)

[n10cities]

IKR?? Yesterday, they showed a picture of Spock (A STAR TREK CHARACTER) while mentioning another JEDI article.

Someone needs to turn in their geek card (or we are being trolled by El Reg, knowing the amount of weeping, wailing and knashing of teeth that would ensue).

[chivo243]

Hi ho the Dario, a trolling they will go!

[Ordinary Donkey]

But do you ever wonder whether the commenters who object to the pictures are on the level themselves?

[bobdehn]

When they use a still from Battle Beyond The Stars, THEN will I be impressed.

[Anonymous Coward]

John Boys Ship

But if they used the Spaceship from Battle Beyond the Stars then they would have had to put a NSFW icon on it.

(Dont deny the thought has never occurred to you)

Space Boobies.

[Robert Helpmann??]

Re: John Boys Ship

I'm hoping for something from the live action version of Space Battleship Yamato.

[Arthur the cat]

Re: John Boys Ship

Or for those differently inclined, the Lexx spaceship.

[Anonymous Coward]

By Grabthar's hammer that would be a sight to behold.

[Stevie]

By Grabthar's hammer that would be a sight to behold.

8o)

[Teiwaz]

Nope

SpaceHunter : Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

After all, somebody much like the Overdog currently runs the US, and the Khemist also did nasty things to children.

[IT Hack]

Re: Nope (space hunter)

Good grief! You and I are probably the only people to have watched that...blast from the past that!

Also Barbarella.

/mic drop

[Fungus Bob]

Re: Nope (space hunter)

Nope, I'll admit to watching it too.

[pinkmouse]

Hmm, now I get it. Sorry, I've been away.

But now I'm waiting for the picture on the next story of a giant red robot, that instead of the article when clicked on takes you to a recording of the cover version of Starfleet, (80's anime redub, sorry I forget the name of the original series), performed by Brian May and Eddie Van Halen.

I think my copy of the 12" is filed next to my geek card...

[Luiz Abdala]

I hope this story keeps going, so El Reg can post pics from Firefly, Battlestar Galactica (both), Star Trek (all of them)... and perhaps Lost In Space. Hell, whatever live-action came out... Flash Gordon?

Lost In Space would be perfect.

Some Picard facepalms too.

[cdrcat]

I thought the Borg was the traditional M$ reference. Or is that reference too dated*†, or taken over by Gooplle?

* I have never received a geek card, so I can't hand mine in.

† Where can I buy a geek card? Preferably electrically and physically S100 compatible.

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Here We Go Again.

El reg has been trolling us by (usually) using a publicity still from B5 every time JEDI gets a new story.

It still catches people out.

[A Non e-mouse]

Re: Here We Go Again.

Some people just don't get El Reg's humour.

Where's the Modaratrix when you need her?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Here We Go Again.

"Where's the Modaratrix when you need her?"

Some say she lives alone on an island in the Pacific, shooting and eating anyone who tries to make contact

Others say she went was surprised by a gaggle of commentard fan's and in the ensuing melee-turned-murderous rampage was subsequently captured and imprisoned, never to see the cold, harsh light of a English winter again.

Others say she was just a normal person who managed to escape the madness of ElReg forums.

Who will ever know?

[Ordinary Donkey]

Re: Here We Go Again.

She wrote a book or something.

[John 104]

Re: Here We Go Again.

Reminds me of the T-shirt with the pic of the Dalek on it and the quote "R2-D2! I loved him in Star Trek!"

[John 104]

@cdrkat

One does not 'buy' a geek card. It is earned. If you didn't earn it, you can't have one. Sorry.

[Arthur the cat]

One does not 'buy' a geek card.

One does not simply 'buy' a geek card.

T,FTFY.

[John 104]

Thank you!

[Benchops]

WHERE'S GATE?

B5 deserves to be on any page, but everyone knows that Gate is the 3rd best "Star" franchise?!

RDA! RDA! RDA!

[macjules]

And tomorrow I fully expect to see a Blake's 7 image,

[Fungus Bob]

Dark Star!

[Alister]

B5 pic with a JEDI related story?

WOOOOSH!

Have you not been following this story on El Reg?

[Matthew Smith]

Whoosh.

Get the hell out of my galaxy

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Whoosh.

10/10 reference. And now I feel old.

[Luiz Abdala]

Re: Whoosh.

The "get the hell out of my galaxy" was delivered by Tron himself.

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree entirely- anyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the past forty years ought to know that the Jedi were a part of "Star Wars", not "Babylon 5".

Captain Kirk must be rolling in his grave.

[phuzz]

See, it's people like you with no sense of irony who utterly spoil the joke I was preparing, about how those silly elReg editors had mistakenly put a picture of Buck Rogers when they meant to use one of the spaceship Serenity from Star Trek.

[Tom Melly]

"That's the joke," as Cartman would say...

[Dynamite]

They would probably have used the cast of DS9 if they went with AWS as it is also a product built by someone else that the government techies will need to take control of (at least their little corner of) and then bring in someone else to manage for them.

[Daniel B.]

Ewww

So just like the Jedi, they got owned by the Dark Side?

[phuzz]

Re: Ewww

So in your analogy, the US Department of Defence, an organisation who's main purpose is killing people, is the light side?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Ewww

Ah yes, those famous pacifists the Jedi…

[Zog_but_not_the_first]

Jump!

Jump NOW!

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Re: Jump!

Kosh?

[LenG]

Re: Jump!

Lorien, if I remember correctly.

[Michael Hoffmann]

Re: Jump!

I'd have to watch that episode again (In the Shadow of Zha'ha'dum(sp?) part 2, IIRC? can't believe I can remember that without looking it up), but I always thought it *was* indeed Kosh, whose "soul" had somehow entered or become part of Sheridan after the former's assassination.

I thought the voice was distinctly Kosh and not Lorien. Seeing as I have them all on VHS(!) still, it'll be a bit of an effort to check (yes, I bet I could get them all from less legal venues).

[big_D]

Re: Jump!

It is time to pull out the DVD collection again. I re-watch it every couple of years.

[Steve Kerr]

Re: Jump!

From memory - It was Kosh that said jump not Dorien as Kosh was the bit of soul still stuck in sheridan

[Just Saying 132]

Re: Jump!

Yes, it was Kosh who said, "Jump. Now!" If you recall, the Vorlon could "break off a piece of their consciousness" and place it in another individual so there was a piece of Kosh still alive in Sheridan at the time. It later had to be drawn out of him by Lorien to fight the not so nice Vorlon. (Sorry, I just got done watching the series. I have it on DVD.)

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Re: Jump!

My use of the Kosh? should perhaps have been a !.

The original intent was the moment when Sheridan wakes after having been linked with & while Kosh was being torn apart.

Icon - As that's how the Vorlons are\like to be seen.

[jmch]

Re: Might not be all positive press for MS

"what backdoors will the Pentagon have demanded?"

I would be highly surprised if they demanded any backdoors into their own system for which they have the front-door keys!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Might not be all positive press for MS

>I would be highly surprised if they demanded any backdoors into their own system for which they have the front-door keys!

But into any other systems.

A suspicion of quid-pro-quo might go along with any order this big.

Microsoft might turn over the keys to the Dems email server, while all Amazon could offer was Bernie's Christmas wish list

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Might not be all positive press for MS

AFAIK the DoD system will be a separate cloud - it won't host someone else's machines too.

And I'm quite sure the DoD also required for itself a version with its own backdoors removed....