Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet

Re:Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a P... by xchaotic on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:37AM (#10271026)

For small businesses it does. There's a huge cost to be compliant with the regulations in medical and aviation space, so you don't see many successful startups and not much progress as a result. We are still flying WWII rockets and use crude antibiotics.

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Re:Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a P... by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:47AM (#10271053)

Regulations are not what is responsible for us flying WWII rockets and using crude antibiotics; they're responsible for those rockets not exploding too often or those antibiotics not killing us in most painful ways imaginable. Rocketry and medicine are hard.

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Re:Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a P... by seren on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:44AM (#10271044)

Some fields are more capital intensive than other. It is much easier to launch a mobile app than an oil refinery. It does not distort the competition between companies who have to follow the same rule book.

I understand where you are coming from but you need to have a minimum threshold for software that is going to be a matter of life and death.

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Re:Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a P... by simoncion on Thursday September 24, 2015 @01:49PM (#10273250)

> There's a huge cost to be compliant with the regulations in ... aviation space, so you don't see many successful startups and not much progress as a result. We are still flying WWII rockets...

SpaceX would like to have a word with you. IIRC, they've designed and built -from the ground up- their own rockets that get payloads to orbit at 1/3 the cost of anyone else.

The other players are still flying rockets either largely designed in or actually from the 1960's [0] because not many of the folks who need things in space understand how to build rockets. This means that -much like the telecommunications "market" in the US- incumbent players can put next-to-nothing into R&D and new tech and just sit around and watch the fat paychecks come in.

It's an industry that's in dire need of a shakeup.

[0] WWII was from 1939 to 1945. ICBMs [1] are substantially more sophisticated than any rocket from WWII.

[1] Which are effectively what was transporting the astronauts in the Apollo program.

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