NASA has acquired a new fleet of 1980 model Fords. It is believed this latest acquisition will allay fears of the Iridium satellites surviving re-entry and crashing into areas of dense human population.
I'm sure NSA/CIA/FBI dream of wasting their budget watching the people of America mow their lawn/scratch their ass/drive to work. You people are way too paranoid.
It's not supposed to be anything by itself. It is just the opposite of the popular "Make money FAST!" I think we should slow down a bit. We have ~80 years to live our lives. Why do we have to do it FAST?
This isn't a web browser. It's a spacecraft being sent millions of kilometers into space to a moon of a different planet after several years of travel. It is a critical system. Do you really want a "Mozilla style effort" on your car's ABS brakes? How about a bazaar development model for a aircraft's fly-by-wire system. Try looking at the space shuttles programs. They aren't written in C. This spacecraft would have it's own programming language, and knowing NASA it will have 5-6 code audits for each line of code in the system. Why bother making it open source when most hackers are not interested in the code proofs and hardcore language semantics that would be required to even be able to talk to the software team on this project.
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Tech 1: Quick! Launch that nuke to get rid of those mechs.
Tech 2: Just a second, there's a few too close, I'll pop 'em with my railgun before they get in range... there, now I can launch.
<ground begins to rumble, alarms ring>
Supervisor: What the hell!!!
Tech 1 and 2: Oh F#@$!
Superclock! I still use it.
Nah, he's probably a proper moron.
NASA has acquired a new fleet of 1980 model Fords. It is believed this latest acquisition will allay fears of the Iridium satellites surviving re-entry and crashing into areas of dense human population.
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Long-term, cheap, flying surveillance vehicals. Everyone, everywhere, monitored, doing everything.
Hmmm... Shouldn't that be:
Long-term, cheap, flying surveillance vehicles. Everyone, everywhere, monitored, doing *nothing*.
I'm sure NSA/CIA/FBI dream of wasting their budget watching the people of America mow their lawn/scratch their ass/drive to work. You people are way too paranoid.
Well, exa of course.
It's not supposed to be anything by itself. It is just the opposite of the popular "Make money FAST!"
I think we should slow down a bit. We have ~80 years to live our lives. Why do we have to do it FAST?
Oh wait, that's always repulsive!
Sorry
This isn't a web browser. It's a spacecraft being sent millions of kilometers into space to a moon of a different planet after several years of travel.
It is a critical system. Do you really want a "Mozilla style effort" on your car's ABS brakes? How about a bazaar development model for a aircraft's fly-by-wire system.
Try looking at the space shuttles programs. They aren't written in C. This spacecraft would have it's own programming language, and knowing NASA it will have 5-6 code audits for each line of code in the system. Why bother making it open source when most hackers are not interested in the code proofs and hardcore language semantics that would be required to even be able to talk to the software team on this project.