I heard that one in a lecture on software ethics. All they did was forget to
repopulate the dosage field after changing the type of radiation used.
I'm glad I don't have to deal with issues like that too.
Dave Watts wrote:
>
> > See you are letting the software train you...
> >
> > Tell that to the folks who depend on software to
> > control the space shuttle that determines whether
> > they live or die...
> >
> > Of course.. software is to complicated now a days
> > guess we will have to tell the NASA people to go
> > ahead and shut down the space program...
>
> Don't think that there aren't bugs in these sorts of systems too. Why do you
> think the space shuttle has redundant systems?
>
> I saw an interesting book recently, the name of which escapes me, which
> talked about the effect of bugs on software projects. It discussed one well
> known bug which was responsible for the death of a few people - a common
> X-Ray system had a software problem which would occasionally cause the
> patient to receive fatal amounts of radiation! I'm very happy to know that
> as a CF programmer, no matter what I do wrong in my code, no one's going to
> die.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
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