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> “The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June [2014],” Justin Oake
by wtn 1y ago
> “The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June [2014],” Justin Oakes, a spokesman for the Eighth Air Force, said in an email. “This replacement effort exponentially increased message storage capacity and operator response times for critical nuclear command and control message receipt and processing.”
- actionfromafar 1y agoIncreased response times …
- apt-apt-apt-apt 1y agoLuckily, he is not an engineer for the fire-nuke-or-nah module.
- BirAdam 1y agoI mean, I’m sure that he accidentally a whole word, but I do find it entirely possible to increase response times by leaving older systems. There was a certain immediacy to older tech that simply doesn’t exist anymore. I just hope that they didn’t move to a recent version of Windows with forced updates and whatnot, or a recent version of Ubuntu which defaults to unattended updates.
- M95D 1y agoI hope it doesn't boot without internet! (Because I'm probably in a target zone.)
- snickerbockers 1y agoi wish more people understood that 'exponential' is a rate of change and no value can be said to be 'exponentially' larger or smaller compared to any another value.
- kube-system 1y agoI wish more people understood that metaphorical colloquialisms are not intended to be taken literally.
- snickerbockers 1y agoso is it exponential growth or decay he's talking about?
- Saigonautica 1y agoI can't help but imagine this is just a USB flash drive.