On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:05:41 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> A NASA rocket exploding is something like an M$ product having a
>>> severe security vulnerability.
>> 
>> NO, it isn't.  People haven't died because of MS security
>> vulnerabilities.
> 
> Yes, but that's because nothing M$ makes is *capable* of killing anybody
> [directly]. So a security flaw is about the most serious malfunction it
> *is* capable of. :-P

That is the most serious malfuction, probably, but equating that with the 
loss of life doesn't work for me.

>>> So far, NASA has had, what, 2 major incidents like this? In its entire
>>> history?
>> 
>> Three that caused fatalities.
> 
> I was almost right. :-D
> 
> Either way, the number of severe security issues from M$ dwarfs this
> number by any reasonably reconing.
> 
>> Now, if you count the rockets that were unmanned that blew up, there
>> were a fairly significant number of very spectacular failures.  Find a
>> copy of "When We Left Earth:  The NASA Missions" to see some archive
>> footage.
> 
> Isn't that like counting the number of bugs M$ had *and fixed* before
> "launching the product"?

Um, no, because they happened during launches.  They just happened to be 
unmanned launches.

Jim

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