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--- Martin Page <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk> wrote:
>
> Surely the GIS machine should have been designed so that controllers
> couldn't call down airstrikes on themselves.
>
> We're talking about a real time, high-stress and high-fatigue situation and
> a design that's the equivalent of having the rifle muzzle swing around to
> point at the user every time the magazine empties.
>
> If you were documenting the device in question, how would you highlight this
> potentially lethal feature so that you could sleep at night?
First, I would fight like hell to have the device redesigned to be safer for
the user. Barring that, I would make damned sure they understood, in training,
how it worked and what the consequences of such a reset would be.
The documentation would have the biggest Danger Warning I could put in it.
(Oh, and I don't particularly appreciate the flippant responses some have given
this question. In my opinion, it's a serious writing/training/design issue.
This is one of those situation where you not doing your job properly--leave
your politics at the door when you take the job--can get people killed.
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