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When Bad Software Can Kill
bhoman writes "A wrist computer that tracks and calculates safe diving times and
limits for SCUBA divers had a dangerous software bug that may have been covered
up by company executives.
This SF Chronicle Article
details the problem, product, company, and some of the lawsuits.
According to the Chron article, company execs tried to cover up and
deny the problem for years, but their
official website
makes it look like they did a voluntary recall."
Eat shit out of my big black nigger asshole, bitches!
look at your life man. you are sitting on a computer typing 'eat my shit you nigger bitches'. is this what god intended for you? is that jesus plan for your life?
Looks like it's running a little slowly...
:)
here is a mirror.
posting ac (don't want to be labeled a karma whore
Everybody who has an university CS degree will agree with me that much time and effort is spend to encourage students to produce nice and correct programs. However this strategy is a failure so far. Again and again bugs, errors and other problems turn up more often these days in spite of the increased educational efforts.
This is because the CS community failed to accept the core of the problem: error in programs are a mathematical problem which must be attacked by mathematical methods. All modern approaches to correct code are indeed management orientated - take programming by contract, extreme programming etc.
But what does it mean that a program fails to execute correctly ?
It means that mapping induced by the program in the trajectory space doesn't agree with mapping induced by the specification. And that is a purely mathematical problem, ladies and gentlemen. The question if two mapping coincide is a basic mathematical question (the equivalence problem) which even dates back to Euclid and Platon.
So instead of throwing more and more management rubbish at poor CS graduates, people should analyze the mathematical structure of the problem and find there the answers they seek.
I think that it's very sad that CS people still ignore this issue and stick to their old established ways. Sometimes I believe this is not motivated by scientific arguments but a rather psychological inferiority complex: as mathematician have the reputation to be smart while CS people only count as code nerds, computer scientists tend to despise most mathematical approaches as "too academic" or "imfeasible".
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Instead of self-indulgently frittering away your life on "diving" and all the costly paraphernalia, why don't you do something useful like volunteer work at a homeless shelter or visit the elderly in a nursing home. Why are you so selfish?
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Man just think if this had been an open source project. Drivers could have detected the flaw and reprogrammed the application on the spot. HEck they could have had a membrane keyboard with them and done it while diving.