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[โ€“] Gork@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right, but at the very least the government goes through a commercial grade dedication screening for these types of things. It's not like Norfolk Naval Shipyard just goes "eh let's just put a X-box 360 controller from Amazon on it and call it a day."

Fair enough, I was just pointing out that isn't necessarily a bad idea. The way they did it obviously is, since even Boeing said it was a bad idea.