Posts by HammerOn1024 197 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Dec 2019
As usual, the DoD can't make up its mind. One reason for this is CYA, the other Congress, and is 30%/70%. Congress is great at mandates but not funding them initially nor sustainably. I remember when the F-35 maintenance was contracted to be maintained by LMT and thought "Yeah, that's a bad idea." for a multitude of reasons. But no one listens to the "Evil Contractor" (Fuck you Obama), even when they are the "Disinterested 3rd Party" who's job it is to give good advice to the government given the information available at the time.
The classic example of Congress falling flat is GPS M-Code: All DoD systems were to be able to receive M-Code in 2017... it still hasn't happened and it will be at least another decade and a half. The reason is pure cost: Cost of creating the new chipset production line to the complete boxes. Even with modifying existing systems, instead of wholesale replacement, it costs in the area of $40,000 - $60,000 per RECEIVER, to do the upgrade. And these upgrades can't be done in the field. New box's are in the $80,000 - $100,000 range. Now throw in the downtime for the item the box is pulled from, sent back to the OEM for re-manufacture - pulling a card out and replacing it with a new one - ATP'ing at the OEM, retesting at the Program Office to re-certify the modification, and one gets to understanding the costs involved with 10's of thousands of devices: missiles to nuclear powered ships, subs, aircraft, HUMVEEs, tanks, radio's, etc.
"...where Elon Musk has failed."
Wow.. how arrogant of you. He has not failed as he does have running engines and WERE used on the April test of Starship. So, SpaceX WAS first! No, they didn't make orbit, that wasn't the intent of the flight. It was a FIRST attempt with a system 3 times the size of a Saturn V!
Back under your bridge troll.
Dear JP Morgan CEO and Board,
This is squarely on YOUR shoulders. You hired the vendor, you failed in supervising them and verifying their deletion procedures. Did you even bother testing them on a replication system BEFORE going live? Probably not.
If I was a stock holder, I'd call for your ouster and file a suit for failure of fiduciary duties.
It is worth noting that when the original contracts were let to Boeing and SpaceX, the Boeing CEO dismissed SpaceX. His 'We'll beat them by over a year to a first flight.' or a statement to that effect, was laughable then, and it's hysterical now. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
"Critical infrastructure covered by public funding? No budget for that!"
And we you have it in one!
Dear US Congress,
Write an actual BILL, shocking I know since you only do "continuing resolutions" these days since you are so inept, that allocates FUNDS specifically to implement Cyber Security! I believe that bill would be a whopping three lines long.
And yes, you are, Congress, a bunch of village idiots.
It's the banks fault people are being stupid and sending money to unverified accounts?
Back under your bridge Pocahontas.
Try using a credit card instead dummy's. That way if the deal goes south, one can dispute the deal and get ones cash back.
If the vendor won't take a credit card, WALK!
So, you build next to a derelict INDUSTRIAL SITE and one day the owners of the site decide to reactivate it... Huh.
So you think you have a right to sue them do you Bucky? Did you offer to buy that land? How about having the zoning changed?
No?
Huh...
Go away kid, you bother me.
- W.C. Fields
Wait... you want the DOE to do... WORK!? Is there any particular century or decade you'd like those results in? The world is already AWASH in studies on liquid salt reactors: Why more seat cushion fodder?
Dust off the 1950's and 60's plans, update them and BUILD ONE!
In the immortal words of Monty Python: GET ON WITH IT!
By the time your planned outreach happens, it's to late.
One needs to capture hardware minded kids in grade/middle school (US - 5th through 7th grade). Waiting for collage, when the bright kids have already choose their path, is way too late.
By your method, you'll get the wandering kids that haven't made up their minds. Typically not the mental type one wants in hardware.
Because the job of the Supreme Court of the United States is to interpret, not re-interpret the U.S. Constitution. If one wants to change the interpretation, one needs to change the document.
It is not a hard concept... well, for most anyway. There is a miserable, yet determined minority, that this concept seems to escape.
There are two well defined, written in ink on nice parchment, methods for changing the Constitution: The U.S. Congress, with the backing of the states, can make amendments, or the states themselves can call a Constitutional Congress and avoid the Fed's all together.
It's there for anyone to read... well, for most anyway. There is a miserable, yet determined minority, that this text seems to escape.
This reminds me of a MASH episode where a bomb landed in the middle of the compound during the Army-Navy game. Trapper and Hawkeye were sent out to defuse the bomb while Colonel Blake read them the instructions to defuse it.
They got to the part about cutting the wires to the fuze which Blake dutifully called out and Trapper, I think, cut. The next instruction Blake calls called out begins with "But first..." and, as you may well guess, everyone's "Ohnosecond" face came full on!
Trapper and Hawkeye ran for it. The bomb exploded. It was a CIA propaganda bomb. Leaflets flew everywhere.
"People don't understand the VM subsystem, even when it's written in C,"...
Then you need new people.
RUST... just more bloatware for script kiddies.
From the tales of "Real Men Don't Use Pascal": If you can't do it in FORTRAN, do it in C. If you can't do it in C, do it in Assembler. If you can't do it in Assembler, do it in Binary. If you can't do it in Binary, it's not worth doing!
A better, and closer, location would be Ascension Island. One could build the components on the east/gulf coast of the US, ship and assemble them at a pad that's only seven degrees north of the equator. So the vehicle would get almost all of the earths spin for liftoff.
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