EricB504 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Diminishing returns (Score 1) 478

by EricB504 on Thursday September 05, 2013 @01:36PM (#44767339) Attached to: Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk

... To exterminate everyone in a country you might need a bomb, but you might also use a genetically targeted bio weapon....

There was an episode of Babylon 5 about this subject. (http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/guide/004.html) The bioweapon was programmed to kill anyone who was not "pure" and ended up killing everyone since no one matched its programmed standards.

Comment Re:Then stick people in them (Score 1) 431

by EricB504 on Saturday December 04, 2010 @06:35PM (#34446084) Attached to: Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet

Already designed and patented. http://www.et3.com/

Comment Re:What's with NASA and software? (Score 1) 95

by EricB504 on Friday March 14, 2008 @02:21PM (#22753302) Attached to: Cassini Geyser-Tasting a Bust

They now are thinking it wasn't the software but a temporary power cord.

from the article on cnn:

"Canadian engineers initially suspected the trouble could be with a timer, and they created a software patch to fix it. But Pierre Jean, Canada's acting space station program manager, said experts now believe the problem stems from a design flaw in the temporary cable that is supposed to provide power to Dextre until it is fully assembled."

I agree with you that they should have tested this thing more thoroughly.

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