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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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