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FAA Pushes Air Traffic Control Systems Into Service
An anonymous reader points us to this AP story about the FAA forcing new air traffic control systems into service, over the objections of technicians and air traffic controllers. The Transportation Department's Inspector General notes that many critical bugs remain unfixed. We reviewed a book that discussed the lessons to be learned from software engineering projects; and we had a recent story about Great Britain having all sorts of problems with their new air traffic control software.
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The flag icon for Slashdot's 'United States' section is missing its first stripe - the stripe that represents Delaware, the first state admitted to the Union. While a simple oversight could be forgiven, it should be known from here on out that Slashdot is in fact aware of the missing stripe, and even worse, refuses to do anything about it!
This vulgar flag desecration and rabid anti-Delawarism must be put to a stop. Let the Slashdot crew know that we will not accept a knowingly mutilated flag or the insinuation that Delawarians deserve to be cut out of the union. I ask you, what has Delaware done to deserve this insolence, this wanton disregard, this bigotry?
This intentional disregard of a vital national symbol is unpatriotic. Why, the flippant remarks CmdrTaco made about our flag border on terrorism! I urge you to join the protest in each 'United States' story. Sacrifice your karma for your country by pointing out this injustice. Let's all work together to get our flag back. Can you give your country any less?
I know you'll say, "that's crazy," and maybe even mod me down because you think I'm off my rocker, but I think this actually will have a good effect on our favorite operating system, Linux.
Imagine: the buggy (and needless to say proprietary) flight control software is installed. Two months later, plane crashes are at an all time high. The FAA is in an uproar, the media is clamoring for a solution, America is in turmoil.
*ring ring*
What's that? It's the phone. Who is it? Someone named Linux Torvalds...says he has a solution to our problems.
Bing bang bong boing boom, Linux is running the major world airports. Due to the superior stability and dependibility of Open Source Software, Linux is now the poster boy for good production values. The few hundred lives lost in the meantime will be well worth the benefit to software that is Free as in Speech.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Better yet, the next time terrorists try, they probably won't be able to do it with this new buggy terrorist-proof software! It's brilliant!
"Old man yells at systemd"
spot on brother!
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It is great to see open source software such as atc finally getting the recognition it deserves. Perhaps some of these bsdgames (especially atc) can be incorporated into some Linux distributions. After all, that is the beauty of open source. These features might be what gives Linux that "edge" over Windows that we have all been waiting for.