My guess is that the 'most dangerous' toy would be a marble.
Small powerful magnets. If you swallow two a few hours apart, you run a real risk of death. Swim goggles would be my guess for #2.
Serialized workflow is the enemy of scalabilty. I would do it in many circumstances because the benefits of the tool (Word in this case) outweigh the costs of the workflow it requires. But I wouldn't confuse that with consciously choosing a serialized workflow.
It many cases were a customer of mine has multi-user editing problems, I find that the root cause is that they store bits of information with different use patterns in the same document. Simply splitting the document often fixes the problem.
Git and SVN are different products. SVN is centralized and git is distributed. If you want to create a centralized repository and only allow people to have access to certain parts of it, SVN is a much better fit for that workflow. Neither allows the user to browse the document repository with first checking it out. Well, they both have web interfaces, but those don't support a good editing workflow.
That's not the whole story. Unfortunately, very few vendors in the market see value in the old fashioned "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" philosophy. Instead, most have some strange profit angle that ends up reducing the utility of the stuff they sell. You see too many ad-ladened smart phone apps, subscription services, or good ole' vendor lock-in in the affordable stuff.
For example, I have a garage door opener that has automation features. Unfortunately, every time IOS or Android update, either me or my wife can't use the smart features for a few months. They have a halfway decent app, but it will never be integrated with anything else and they won't publish an API spec to allow me to use an alternative method of control. This is very short-sighted. Opening up an API won't make the geek money rain down on you tomorrow, but if a critical mass of vendors do it, the market will mature to the point where you can put something together out of cheap components.
Exactly how many nuclear disasters does it take before we figure out how to do what these other countries are already doing?
It took zero. We stopped building Nuclear plants before Chernobyl (29 deaths) or Fukushima (1 death) happened. Now that we had one due to old tech and misuse and one due to neglect and a huge earthquake, it's still the wrong thing to do.
Should you fire the person that is likely legally bound to make a very nonsensical call?
That's an idea. It would certainly speed up the process of getting these policies reviewed and revised and fix the "sorry my hands are tied" attitudes that people making sense keep getting stonewalled with.
And exactly what the fuck do you know about fear?
I too am a parent. I am much more afraid that my child will be harmed by a friend or by her own choices than by a stranger shooting up a school or a by drug dealer. These zero tolerance policies don't address any fear I have. The links you provided don't represent anything I'm afraid of.
I agree we shouldn't live in fear, but we need to keep our eyes open.
... followed by why you live in fear.
Bad things have always happened. Bad things will continue to happen no matter how much you try to control them. The idea that you will only accept a situation after you have wrung the very last ounce of risk out of it is pretty much the definition of cowardice. Bravery would be doing something despite great risk - I'm not advocating that. Rather, sending your kids to school when there is a statistically low chance of harm is simply the sensible thing to do.
OK, so I guess I'm wrong, the NFL has no experience with inflating footballs. There are multiple balls inflated for each of the many games each week throughout the season and this has been going on for quite a few years, but they still don't really know anything about inflated leather balls. Right.
They asked for the help, that's the point of the article. If they were confident in their conclusions, this thread wouldn't exist in its current form. I am not making some wild assumption that they don't know what they are doing - the NFL asked for help.
I realized that they probably only asked for help because they wanted to get a response from someone with an un-assailable reputation, not because they are buffoons. But, it still happened, and pointing out that they know what they are doing does not advance the conversation.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro