On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:31, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:56, Timothy Pick wrote: > > We shouldn't ask "what won't we be able to hide from our users?", but > > "what is making decisions about our lives and being hidden from us that > > we have the right to examine?". > > Air Traffic Control software is _the_ system which I think should be open > for examination by any and everybody. Obviously one can't have the general > public altering it willy-nilly, and expecting their u-beaut version > 0.0.45-rc1 being installed in LAX control, but seeing as General Public > has paid for it's development, I cannot see why he should not be able to > at least review and learn from it. One day some keen youth of whatever sex > and age might see the sort of problems which caused the Ariane5 rocket to > fail. If [s]he did that before launch then a lot of money might be saved. > I understand that the figure of E500,000,000 was involved in the Ariane 5 > debacle.
And vote counting machines - Diebold's the posterchild for how _not_ to do it. While the ACT has managed to get it right. Wesley Parish > > http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/resources/IanS/SE7/CaseStudies/Ariane >5/ -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
