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CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code
skids writes "Coders hate having to rush code out the door before it's ready. They also hate it when the customer starts making unreasonable demands. What they hate even more is when the customer reverse engineers the product and starts selling their own inferior product. But what really ticks them off is when that buggy, knockoff product might be used by targeting systems in military unmanned drone attacks, and the bugs introduce location errors of up to 13 meters. That's what purportedly happened to software developer IISi, based on an ongoing boardroom/courtroom drama that will leave any hard-pressed coder appreciating just how much worse his job could get. The saddest part? The CIA assumed the bug was a feature. The tinfoil-hat-inducing part? The alleged perpetrators just got bought by IBM."
If you put an assert in any embedded code I would fire you.
What about the earth being a sphere (Isa 40:22) and hanging on nothing (Job 26:7)...?
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Actually the *Bible* was assembled from books that the church chose to include and "destroyed" the rest they didn't approve of.
I for one would like to spend a month or two in the catacombs beneath the Vatican to see if some of those could be found.
- Dan.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.