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Mass Fatality Identification System

Posted by timothy on from the strange-necessites dept.

Shipud writes " Bio-IT World is running a story on how Gene Codes corporation created the Mass Fatality Identification System (M-FISys) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The story goes into the details of processing large amounts of data, aiming for a 99.9% accuracy rate, and extreme programing."

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  1. extreme! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    extreme programing

    One of the philosophies of extreme programming is "once and only once". Glad to see you applying this philosophy to that redundant "M"! Down with unnecessary repetition!

    1. Re:extreme! by WegianWarrior · · Score: 2, Funny

      If you want extreme, you should check out these extreme guys... extremly fast!

      --
      Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
  2. Handy after a nuclear war by torklugnutz · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the even of identification will be done in the following manner: The 30 of us that survive, that aren't cockroaches, please raise your hands.

    --
    Often in Error, Never in Doubt.
  3. Wheeee! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mass fatality system! Oh boy! All of my many nefarious plans will see fruition, I just hope it's open source. Oh, it's an Identification system? Slot off /.!

  4. Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see..

    new technology ... check.
    mass fatatilies ... check.
    extreme programming ... check.

    Yep, Slashdotters will love this one. :)

  5. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    In a clone infested future this will be useless

  6. Re:am I the only one.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    My communication skills have improved drastically.

    Sadly, not to the point of using paragraphs.

  7. Don't all the dead bodies lying around. . . by kfg · · Score: 1, Funny

    pretty much identify it as a mass fatality? I'd think that would at least be a major clue.

    Or are we going to start giving them names, like hurricanes?

    "In mass fatality "Jane" today. . ."

    What am I missing?

    KFG

  8. How ironic... by BladeMelbourne · · Score: 4, Funny
    Isn't it ironic that the Extreme Programming site is written in HTML 3.2 & JavaScript 1.0?

    Markup languages are hardly extreme, but surely they could push the bounds of the latest standards and do something truely extreme. ;-)

    Mike

    1. Re:How ironic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      methinks you don't know what XP is all about!

      extreme programming is not about any particular language, but about a way of programming.

      and that way is to STRAP ON A PARACHUTE AND JUMP OUT OF AN AIRPLANE AT 5000 FEET WITH YOUR POWERBOOK, ECLIPSE IDE, AND NOTHING ELSE!

      EXXXXTREEEEEME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

  9. Re:am I the only one.... by marko123 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll look at it, but I can imagine myself just pissing off my programming partner by inserting characters right where her cursor is until she smashes the backspace key... on my head.

    --
    http://pcblues.com - Digits and Wood
  10. Remember...in extreme programming by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
    There is no 'I' in team, but there is a 'me' in extreme.

    There is also a 'ramming' in programming, but I got nothin' for that.

  11. Re:Cash's Credibility - just reduced to Zero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    haha - even the moderation is funny - flamebait! hahahahahaha

  12. Re:am I the only one.... by aricusmaximus · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Otherwise, you run the danger of looking at the code later, and not being in that mental ecstacy of understanding everything at once"...

    okay, someone has to stop coding while on LSD...

    "conceived of a frightfully, inhumanly efficient and clever way of doing something that no human may ever imagine again."

    Okay, and I imagine this happens to you, how many times a day? Month? Year? Lifetime? And of those times, what percentage of the time do you look back and wonder what the hell you were smoking? Or worse yet, have to come back to your "clever code" and modify it? Perhaps having someone else there to provide sanity checks might help?

    Unless it's a solo poject for pure comp-sci research (and even then you're going to have to write a paper on it), your code doesn't exist in a vacuum. Whatever "clever" code you make will be a headache to whomever has to come afterwards to change, modify, or maintain it. Especially if it's "something that no human may ever imagine again."

  13. Re:am I the only one.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do tell me more about how carbon unit pairings lead to friction. I sense a fascinating analogy.