2010/2/8 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > It is pretty obvious that software is taking over more and more. > In many systems people trust the software more than humans. > There are humans making those software and they are more or less very > often buggy. > Humans make mistakes. > There are millions of computer instructions and as we know there are > often bugs in the code. > When one side of a conflict has weapons of superior quality they tend to > win. > After some time the other side will get the same or similar weapons. > What happens then. > Some of these weapons are very sophisticated and expensive. > Some are very small and inexpensive. > Many of them are bound to get into the wrong hands. > It is scary to read that a number of clever people stand around and > let a computer system make deadly decision made on inferior deductions > like the one when they shot down the passenger plane. > The system was not even in automatic mode. > It is a bit strange to see that much of the sci-fi movies seem to be > coming alive. > It is interesting to think about all the good things our software and > computer systems can do for us. > It is also a bit scary to see what they can do if they are used against us. > The people who are willing to have an operation to put a bomb inside > their bodies and blow themselves up in order to kill others as well is > a scary situation. > This technology in their hands is very very scary. > > What has this got to do with J ? > I have no idea. > Has this anything to do with C ? > > Who really cares what computer language is used to control bombs? > > Here's one of the good impacts of software and computers:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7013967.ece The interesting stuff (about fly-by-wire) starts on page 3 near the bottom. Robby ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
