Linked by Adam S on Wed 9th Jul 2008 12:59 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
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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RE: lethal radiation doses
by Jon Dough on Wed 9th Jul 2008 14:21
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Member since:2005-11-30
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.
Typos are made on any OS. Good programming practice for such an application -- no matter what OS it is running on -- dictate that code for error checking and verification of dosage be included.
Member since:2006-03-07
Off by 10 happens even with knobs. More often than you would imagine. You see you have to read and understand the order, and the bottle, then dial it in. If the order and the bottle are in different units then you better hope the coffee machine was not broken at the start of the shift!
RE: lethal radiation doses
by Vanders on Wed 9th Jul 2008 17:48
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Member since:2005-07-06
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2007-01-13
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.