Дана Tuesday 01 November 2005 20:45, Christopher Nelson је написао(ла): > > I don't know about guns, but riffles don't have any safety switch. > > And comparing a gun to software is utterly silly, I have > > never been able to kill my self with software, but I won't > > even try to point a riffle up my nostril even if I know the > > barrel is empty. > > 1) all legal semi-automatic or automatic weapons have a safety. (in the > U.S.) All legal weapons and as far as I know all illegal weapons as well in Serbia have a safety. > 2) other types of weapons have *implicit* safeties which require you to > deliberately unlock, load, and relock a mechanism. Bolt action rifles > meet this requirement. Revolvers have an implicit safety in that you > must first cock the hammer. Double-action revolvers have a safety. Knifes have safety for closing the holster. Even Japanese Katanas have some sort of safety (the sword cannot get out of the case on it's own, most of the time). > 3) I was talking about shooting yourself in the foot. I have a friend > who shot himself in the leg with a .44 because his horse shied while he > was roping another horse, the lariat got wrapped in the holster, and > *boom*. He didn't have his safety on, or else the safety was badly > designed if it could be accidentally depressed.
Has anybody heard the saying: "In C you can easily should yourself in the leg, but in C++ you can chop your arm off"? I thought you were referring to that... > 4) bad software *does* kill people. Software controls pacemakers, > airplanes, cars, and many other devices that people depend on for their > life. All control systems (except analog ones which are not used too much at this time) use some sort of micro-controller. Those control systems control the behaviour of elevators, water supply, nuclear plants, etc. Therefore, not only that bad software can kill people... it can kill clusters of people at once! -- Filip Brcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWWeb: http://purl.org/NET/brcha/home/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 40994923 Yahoo! brcha MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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