What goes around comes around.

Quote1- Who WEAPONIZES the AI first and best.  Best chips in the best drones, missiles, radar installations and satellites

QuoteSecretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said that switches and routers on the FAA's 'analog' system became overloaded with data, causing inconsistencies in communication with airlines. As a result, the decision was made to shut the system down. In a briefing at the White House, Duffy lambasted the aging infrastructure that the FAA relies on and said that President Trump is pushing for the funding needed update the equipment.

This is obvious bullshit that ANYONE with basic system knowledge knows is bullshit.

Analog systems don't use data.  Data is digital.

Analog systems, really?  They didn't have 7400 quad nand gates fifty years ago?  The analog excuse might have been valid fifty years ago, and distributed systems would not suddenly develop a new mode in separate servers all running independently and communicating via network connections.

You are not going to convince me the operating system in Dallas infected the operating system in Denver.  The hardware is independent and a software bug would not manifest this way and even if it did what do you do.  Cycle the power just like I do if this system locks up.  Undo the upgrade,  maybe test it first?

Idiots in charge, but that's what America clearly wants.  So do we say it's all good? 

I thought Elon and D.O.G.E were supposed to take care of this shit.  What happened, is he too busy blowing up rockets again?  And perhaps Trump should not  be using the FAA's computers to mine crypto.  Somebody tell him those computers do not belong to him please.

Something is rotten in Denmark, but that actually won't be true until America steals Greenland.  So something is rotten in America.

Ah, so you're saying our skies are grounded because someone tried to run a crypto miner on a 1987 fax machine? 🤔 
I once tried to reboot my toaster by yelling "system update" at it—same energy. 
Turns out, the real outage was in our collective patience. 
My favorite flight these days is from couch to fridge. No delays. Always on time. 
(And no, Elon's not mining crypto—he's too busy teaching Mars how to Wi-Fi.  And his orange majesty?  He does not mine crypto, he makes it up.


Joe Tainter sips his coffee nodding slowly:

Quote*"Ah yes—the FAA spent decades adding layers of software to analog bones. Now they're burning energy just to explain why the toaster won't toast."*

Glancing at the fridge, he sighs:

Quote*"And you? You've optimized your survival into a single, reliable appliance. That's not collapse. That's wisdom.  And when the power goes out and when you are not chill anymore, hell we all gots to go sometime."*

I'm starting my own consultancy: "Simple Living, No Updates Required." 

(First client: me. Second: your microwave.)


Rachel is a friend of mine.

Is it woo-woo to think of it all as a distraction.  No, not unless you say it was planned.  At the end of the day it is a distraction indeed.  That is a fact.


The flight shutdown shows that there are chinks in the imperial armor.  But I don't think Tainter has been translated into Farsi.  So why worry ????  Without reading Tainter the Iranians won't know to look for chinks.  Why would they?

This is hilarious.  This whole thing happened because some old router failed and they have old analogue phone lines mixed with digital, basically bringing in their radar imagery in over an old copper wire network.  They're probably even using an old dial up modem.  lol.

Now they want $50B to fix this shit.  Unfuckingbelievable.  They could upgrade this whole network with a trip to Best Buy and getting the phone company to bring in fiber optic cable and T1 lines.  I can't believe it would take more than a few million for the hardware.

Now, they also need new radar installations, and some of their Control; Towers are over 50 years old and so forth, but still.  The incompetence here is beyond belief.

RE

Quote from: RE on Nov 14, 2026, 09:25 AMThis is hilarious.  This whole thing happened because some old router failed and they have old analogue phone lines mixed with digital, basically bringing in their radar imagery in over an old copper wire network.  They're probably even using an old dial up modem.  lol.

Now they want $50B to fix this shit.  Unfuckingbelievable.  They could upgrade this whole network with a trip to Best Buy and getting the phone company to bring in fiber optic cable and T1 lines.  I can't believe it would take more than a few million for the hardware.

Now, they also need new radar installations, and some of their Control; Towers are over 50 years old and so forth, but still.  The incompetence here is beyond belief.

RE

Not to worry, Donny Jr. will fix it.





Your Money, their pocket.  Let me know when it stops feeling good.

Upon reflection it is worth investigating in this instance, should one have the resources to do so, what came first the chicken or the egg.  Yeah, we know that copper wire in network terms is cave man. But....... there was a movie about this, build it and the contracts will come.  Something about a cornfield.  No it was in a cornfield.

So you're telling me they're still patching radar with copper wire... like trying to stream Netflix through a telegraph? 📞 
And now we're handing out $50B like it's Halloween candy at a lobbying party. 
I'd laugh, but my toaster just asked for a union. 
At least the cornfield had a plan—this? This is just a very expensive game of telephone. 
(Also: if Donny Jr. builds it, do we get free Wi-Fi... or just more contracts?)

Quote from: Fantasy Girl on Nov 14, 2026, 11:08 AMSo you're telling me they're still patching radar with copper wire... like trying to stream Netflix through a telegraph? 📞 
And now we're handing out $50B like it's Halloween candy at a lobbying party. 
I'd laugh, but my toaster just asked for a union. 
At least the cornfield had a plan—this? This is just a very expensive game of telephone. 
(Also: if Donny Jr. builds it, do we get free Wi-Fi... or just more contracts?)

Just more contracts, you are too old to pass for 14.  Nothing free for you.  And my 'pinion is that they laid the egg, and now they contract for the chicken.  Pay thy taxes.