Linked by Adam S on Wed 9th Jul 2008 12:59 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
Windows Even if you love it, there are some things for which Windows is clearly a silly solution. Richard Stiennon lists 10 of the worst uses of Windows he's seen, including using it to display a static green arrow over the open TSA security lanes at Detroit Metro.
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lethal radiation doses
by unclefester on Wed 9th Jul 2008 13:44 UTC
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Cancer patients sometimes get fatal doses during radiation therapy due to keyboard error. In the old days of manual knob twiddling this was extremely unlikely. However a simple typo can now be fatal due to accidently giving 10x the required dosage.