Re: on the arjf this ack emma.
- From: Rusty_Hinge <rusty.hinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:05:23 GMT
The message <49AFF483.1030909@xxxxxxxxxxx>
from Jim Price <d1version@xxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:
John Williamson wrote:
Austin Shackles wrote:
spittin' feathers at a report about the MOD's procurement cockup with
chinooks.
they've had 8 Mk3 chinooks sittign around for 8 YEARS 'cos they were too
tight-fisted to ohl the software that goes with them (OWTTE), and they're
now being downgraded to Mk2 so thay can actually use the sodding things.
wanna bet this fiasco is costing about double what it would have cost to
just do the wbo right in the first place. To say nothing of the
possibility
that ordinary soldier's lives might have been lost for want of a chopper.
The MOD say the report "says nothing new". It's still saying they're
fecking incompetent, but.
Reported last year too, IIRC. The story I heard mentioned that they'd
been too tightfisted to buy the source code, though, not the executable.
But it *was* the Beeb, so who knows?
I'm sure there are a couple of hackers on the dole who could reverse
engineer the software. It'd probably be cheaper.
Hmm. Chopper hackers wanted. "We seem to have an application from a Ms
Bobbit"...
Woman in following car to hubby: "Gee Honey! Will ya look at the size of
the tool on that gnat!"
--
Rusty
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