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From: lev@slced1.nswses.navy.mil (Lloyd E Vancil)
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Subject: Re: Techno Terror
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Date: 30 Apr 91 22:22:21 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.020847.12423@osh3.OSHA.GOV> chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) writes:
>Good point, but they could probably make all kind of claims about
>super-high security and closed systems and the like.  If I were a
>"victim" of such a horrible system I (being a programmer myself) would
>be much more afraid of a bug or crash than a "terrorist".  I know of
>NOBODY, including myself, that I would trust to write an application
>that had my very life in its hands so completely.  Have you ever of an
>application that was completely free of bugs?

No flames here but, when was the last time you flew in or out of a major 
airport?  More and more, the number I heard was >80% of all commecial
ariliners are automatically landed by a computer.  Then there are the
traffic computers on the rails.

Plain and simple fact, clear to anyone who spends time behind the wheel
in LA/DALWORTH/BOST-DC or CHI-GARY, is that we have to do something.  I
like to drive too, too fast and out where there ain't no traffic, but
we are talking about terrible congestion and all of the problems attached
there-to.
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