Worms in space: NASA confirms International Space Station infected

and the thing is still in the air?

So let's get this straight. We have people on a multi billion dollar space station running windows machines as administrator? Why have I suddenly lost faith in the space program?

> Why have I suddenly lost faith in the space program?

Challenger and Columbia didn't do it for you?

good point. And the mars rover....

Quoting:and the thing is still in the air?

Technically it's not air anymore :)

Quoting:And the mars rover....

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080824&mode=class...

I think it was part of a NASA experiment to see if porn surfing would infect a computer in zero gravity :;

I remember a great article, mostly photos, that I probably found through LXer, about how NASA uses TONS of Red Hat. Gotta get that on the Space Station. I wonder how the Wi-Fi is up there.

I worked at NASA for 7 years.

It's just as corrupt, inefficient and greedy as the post office, or your local DMV, whatever. It's a bureaucracy far more interested in continuing its own bureaucratic existence than in anything else.

I was a minarchist until I got some experience with government bureaucracy. No longer do I think "reforming" is any good, since all it does is perpetuate the bureaucracy.

The best thing that NASA could do for space exploration is DISBAND.

Recommended reading: Victor Koman's _Kings of the High Frontier_

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Here's the article on NASA using lots of Red Hat and Fedora:

http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2008/02/fedora-on-final-front...

Turns out I found it through Digg.

Windows and Norton go together like flies and manure. Yeah, I have a bad attitude about the so-called security industry- I think they're parasites.

Quoting:I think they're parasites.

Well if you want an argument, you won't get one from me.

When I read it yesterday, I only had one sentence in mind

>>How stupid can one be....after all these years/

nikkels

Quoting:It's just as corrupt, inefficient and greedy as the post office, or your local DMV, whatever. It's a bureaucracy far more interested in continuing its own bureaucratic existence than in anything else.

Well, considering that US space program is stagnant and can't do much anymore, but costs as much as usual, it's pretty plain obvious. If it wasn't, I would be deeply shocked that space shuttles are *still* considered top-notch technology and suitable for space flights. But somehow I'm not.

The Space Shuttle program (and its peers) use "latest and greatest" only where necessary. Older technologies are better understood, including their failure modes.

In other words: Things break. The older something is, the more we know about how it breaks. Newer, untested technologies that break in poorly-understood ways are unnecessarily hazardous.

Back when I was still doing Windows installs, I was using Avast for antivirus.

We use eTrust at the office with XP, and while I don't administer it, I also haven't had any problems with it. No viruses either.

I'm still getting over the fact that they're using Windows on a space station.