"Geeks" and licensing - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Dec 2001

---- On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Robert Schaefer
(rschaefe(a)gcfn.org) wrote:

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  >
 > > I'd also include Geeks who program any machine that could
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  accidentally
 > > kill someone
 >
 > That has been documented.  I believe the machine in question was
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  called
 > the Thorac and it irradiated two people to death.  I'm too sleepy to
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  > search on Google right now or I'd
provide more information.
...

 I watched this, too.  Seems if they edited one blank, went down and
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  filled
 in another, then went back up and changes the prevoius blank, it would
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  ignore the intensity settings and jsut go
straight to glow-in-the-dark.
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  Hell of a way to buy it.

 --
 Jeffrey S. Sharp  
 Bob

  And it's a classic PDP11 driving the whole
thing with RT11... I remember the lawsuit
and DEC's saying we can't comment on it.

The code for the application was less than
operator fail safe... Hell, less than
fail-resistant.

Bill