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Comment Pancreatic cancer the worst there is (Score 0) 371

Just check out the pancreatic cancer survival stats. It's something like 10% survival one year after diagnosis, 4% five years afrer diagnosis. Detection almost always at latter stages when surgery not an option. Very nasty and fast cancer.

Jobs has classic symptoms - wasting away, losing weight.

My own father perished five weeks after diagnosis (stage iv). My father in law died nine months after diagnosis (stage ii).

Comment bah!!! (Score 0) 92

the silly notion that human-reviewed code is somehow safe is a childish fairytale. i don't care how many of you repeat this old wife's tale - it's trivial to prove wrong...

if this were true, we would never ever see a software crash. all it would take is a careful human 'review'.

the dustbin of software system history is quite replete with 'code-reviewed' systems.

the same religious belief drives those who think that they are the only keepers of back doors and that these are so well hidden as to never be discovered by others.

lessee - how many bugs are there in these 'vetted' kernels?

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