On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:44 PM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > the idea > that we shouldn't put blinking lights and sirens on the crushomatic 9000 > because people might eventually ignore them doesn't strike me as being > all that smart.
I'm sorry, but you're really not getting the point. The crushomatic already *has* a blinking light and a siren and everyone is *already* ignoring them, because they go off all the time, whenever a person gets closer than 6 feet. So we have no way to warn them when there *really* is a danger, like when a person is about to put their hand into the blender. The solution is to make the machine less dangerous (e.g. if you open the lid the motor is cut off), not to argue that the siren is really important. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
