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Phew. If they "upgraded" these things so they would work "in the cloud" or whatever then I'd be concerned. I certainly don't want to see a story about how gen
by massysett 13y ago
Phew. If they "upgraded" these things so they would work "in the cloud" or whatever then I'd be concerned. I certainly don't want to see a story about how generals can now launch the missiles from an iPhone app.
- taylorjbrennan 13y ago"In the mushroom cloud," one might say.
- tedks 13y agoBut don't you want to see the HN headlines once the startup scene gets involved with nuclear weapons? * Nukey (W16) aims to "disrupt global thermonuclear warfare" * Show HN: My Nuclear-Silo as a Service sideproject (NSaaS) * Nukey set to be "Uber of mutually assured destruction" with new iNuke app * Nukey has been acquired by Dropbox
- clarky07 13y agodoesn't have to be in the cloud to have USB and thumb drives. i'm not sure it makes sense to use 8-in floppy drives. EDIT: what happens when a drive dies? there just aren't a lot of new 8-in drives to be had i don't think. Do we have a special supplier that sells them for 10k each?
- cnvogel 13y agoAssume that a ridiculous amount of effort went into designing and testing this device, and that this 8in drive is connected to devices that will not have an sd-card reader or USB controller available for $5 off eBay. It might just be cheaper to buy 100 8in drives for 10k each, instead of upgrading the control systems to use thumb-drives. You'll also have to do all the paperwork to change documentatino from "insert Top-Secret launch diskette into drive" to "put Top-Secret micro-sd card into the top-secret-launch-diskette-substitude-reader-assembly (TSLDSRA)".