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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!

  2. 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 /.!

  3. 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. :)