Were you worried about Y2K? Well the IDL is worse!

[Cyberman]

Many might find this humorous of course if you were one of the 6 plane pilots this happened too it was NO laughing matter. The F22 raptor is one of the newest high tech planes in the US military. At 125 million US each one might consider doing some heavy duty testing on all code in the machine. Apparently there was one bug that was missed. This bug not only wiped out... well heck just read this.

 

[Falcon4ever]

Great... and they are supposed to be replacing the F16 here... .

 

[A.I.]

We (Australia) don't need computer glitches to crash our planes. Old aircraft, dodgy equipment and government blunders sees to that.

 

[WhiteX]

Our planes still use perforated cards.

 

[Cyberman]

Well I'm glad too see incompetance isn't an invention of the US!

Sorry it just seemed a really sad point of a stupid 2 line typo that nearly killed 6 people and wasted 750million dollars worth of equipement.

Cyb

 

[smcd]

Sorry it just seemed a really sad point of a stupid 2 line typo that nearly killed 6 people and wasted 750million dollars worth of equipement.
Cyb

It's an indication we rely too much upon technology?

 

[Cyberman]

It's an indication we rely too much upon technology?

Actually we rely too much on skilled individuals who like everyone else can make mistakes. This is why I began peer review on my code that I produce comercially. This allows someone to say "This is a mistake what the freaking heck hey goof ball.." etc. Also I am a strong advocate of modular construction. Each module is given UNIT test and beat the snot out of. This saves time in the long run and more important makes for better code in the long run and far fewer mistakes. Bottom line when they are talking about a single line of code wiping out everything, I am VERY certain they tried to centralize everything. This is a very BAD idea for something that has to be highly reliable. It reminds me of wiring someones car with all white wire or something.

Cyb

 

[A.I.]

It's an indication we rely too much upon technology?

Maybe. But then technology can save lives as well. Airbags, brake assist, hands free kit, speed dial, pre-emptive text - very useful when your changing lanes.

 

[smcd]

hands free kit, speed dial, pre-emptive text - very useful when your changing lanes.

EEK! talking on the phone (or TEXTING! wtf?! ) is a bad bad bad idea. Studies have confirmed it to be akin to drinking and driving in terms of what it does to your alertness and responsiveness.

 

[Cyberman]

Texting might be dangerous across the internation date line too... Oh yes apparently programmers didn't learn the lesson of Y2K and have been using 2 digit year numbers again. I won't live long enough to find out what happens, but really isn't that just plain thoughtless? I suppose what my father told me was true "half of the people are asleep and the other half are soon to be asleep". LOL.

I think you need to throw out your cell phones and move back to nature

Cyb

 

[smcd]

Heh, when all the panic about y2k I simply thought "why not roll the date forwards and see what happens?" instead of waiting around for any impending doom of sorts - apparently not many "smart" people thought of testing like this?

 

[A.I.]

EEK! talking on the phone (or TEXTING! wtf?! ) is a bad bad bad idea. Studies have confirmed it to be akin to drinking and driving in terms of what it does to your alertness and responsiveness.

Yeah, maybe but atleast you don't get a hangover the next day, though you might get a bit of a headache if you hit a semi!

On a more sober note, technology could have saved 300,000+ lives in the tsunami disaster if warning systems were put in place. lain:

 

[WhiteX]

Tech is good, no doubt of that, the issue is, as Cyb putted it, that tech is still made by humans and everybody messes up once in a while, God, i wonder the issues that Windows for warships will have.