Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update

[Kushalafang]

alephnull said:

antfromtashkent said:
Can someone explain to me why they need to update the firmware if there only using the machenes for the hardware?

If you are running a large cluster, invariably you are going to have a large number of nodes with hardware failures. They can't replace broken machines with new ones and they can't send them back to sony for repair without getting the new firmware.

They are the US Airforce they can just ask Sony not to upgrade the firmware, is it really that hard to understand?