Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11

Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by amelius on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:14PM (#11490744)

> Part of why human drivers are allowed today is because the people who bear the cost of driving decisions are directly involved in making those decisions.

This gives me weird visions of Google engineers with a necklace that explodes in the event that one of their cars causes an accident :S

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by amazon_not on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:13PM (#11491275)

I wonder if you've read Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton?

Unremovable, remote controllable lethal necklaces are a central plot device in the mercenary invasion. They are put on randomly chosen civilians as "collateral" to ensure co-operation and disincentive insurgency.

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by seanp2k2 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:35PM (#11491972)

The difference there is that one person's mistake driving causes one accident. One person's mistake programming might cause a thousand.

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