Notices by Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@infosec.exchange), page 2

@clacke Closest I know of is a verse in "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim

@inthehands I'd feel safer living next to a nuclear power plant than a MPD station

@Dasy2k1 @inthehands if the rewards are aligned with the right goals, you'll get the results you want

Training helps get there more efficiently, but it is literally a case of getting the result you pay for

In the US we buy military armored infantry vehicles and body armor for our police departments, what results are we paying for?

@inthehands do the police solve more crimes than they commit?

Prevention is an illusion, the only thing the police can provide is after-the-fact accountability

@goatsarah @thomasfuchs and maybe, just maybe, their recent successes have left them overconfident and inclined to cut corners

Because building a Saturn V quality launch pad would have slowed them down, a *lot*, it isn't something that you just bang together over a couple of months.

Sometimes "move fast and break things" actually, you know, *breaks things*

@goatsarah @thomasfuchs landing rockets was hard, but even there it had been previously tested out in the DC-X program.

Just nobody cared enough to try to scale it up before SpaceX.

Launchpad design had been done wrong before, and the lessons learned were incorporated into heavy launch facilities in the US, Europe, and even Russia.

SpaceX got overconfident and built a pad that wasn't fit for purpose and that they should have known wasn't fit for purpose.

Period.

That wasn't "oooh, let's try something new!"
It was "let's cheap out on stuff while the regulators have their backs turned"

@goatsarah @thomasfuchs
This was so predictable that at least one person predicted it before the launch.

This wasn't unknown territory that needed to be tested, this was all tested 60-70 years ago and people took notes.

And amazingly enough the physics involved hasn't changed.

https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to

@goatsarah @thomasfuchs the launch facility that SpaceX uses in Florida was built to handle a less powerful rocket than Starship and has features that are completely missing from the Boca Chica pad

And all of those features are so well documented that interested laypeople are familiar with them, let alone professional rocket engineers

They thought they could get away with cutting corners on the launchpad, and the cut corners turned around and smacked them hard.

If that facility isn't outright shut down, it won't be seeing any launches for a couple of years

@thomasfuchs I don't think this is something that is readily legislatable.

I mean, we could probably write a law holding companies responsible for damage done by a product or service of theirs not living up to its advertised capabilities, but I think we've already got that?

@mattblaze
It works with ISO dates also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601