Star Top 10 Worst Uses of Windows
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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RE: lethal radiation doses
by Jon Dough on Wed 9th Jul 2008 14:21 UTC in reply to "lethal radiation doses"
Jon Dough
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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.

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