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Comment Re:Off by 13 meters? (Score 1) 279

by sabre17 on Friday September 24, 2010 @05:32PM (#33692494) Attached to: CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code

Easy to say unless you just happen to be 12 meters from the "bad guy" and you aren't socializing with the baddies.... Also the Hellfire II has several warhead variants; it was originally designed for anti-tank use but Al Qaeda doesn't operate too many tanks so I suspect the fragmentation warhead is commonly used.

CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code 279

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 24, 2010 @03:30PM from the fighting-terror-with-ctrl-c-and-ctrl-v dept.

skids writes "Coders hate having to rush code out the door before it's ready. They also hate it when the customer starts making unreasonable demands. What they hate even more is when the customer reverse engineers the product and starts selling their own inferior product. But what really ticks them off is when that buggy, knockoff product might be used by targeting systems in military unmanned drone attacks, and the bugs introduce location errors of up to 13 meters. That's what purportedly happened to software developer IISi, based on an ongoing boardroom/courtroom drama that will leave any hard-pressed coder appreciating just how much worse his job could get. The saddest part? The CIA assumed the bug was a feature. The tinfoil-hat-inducing part? The alleged perpetrators just got bought by IBM."

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