Another Darwin Award candidate

http://business.financialpost.com/2010/05/31/fp-tech-desk-woman-sues-google-after-walking-directions-led-onto-busy-highway/

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:34:53 -0400, budman@frozenorth.ca wrote:

http://business.financialpost.com/2010/05/31/fp-tech-desk-woman-sues-google-after-walking-directions-led-onto-busy-highway/

Quoting from the article:

"Ms. Rosenberg clearly had more faith in the beta-version of a computer
algorithm humming in the depths of some Google server in California than
she did in her own common sense".

Whose common sense would *you* trust? :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 6/1/2010 4:40 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
http://business.financialpost.com/2010/05/31/fp-tech-desk-woman-sues-google-after-walking-directions-led-onto-busy-highway/


Damn good point, Gene. Some people are just too freakin' dumb to live.
Hopefully the Court will not attempt to overturn Darwin's law of
survival of the fittest.

.
n

The big loser, here, will be the attorney who took the lawsuit. In
this situation, 99% of the blame will be on the plaintiff, and 1% on
Google. Suppose the settlement is for $75000. Google would have to pay
$750 of which Rosenburg would get $450 (60%) and the Attorney $300.
This is either one cheap attorney or a very stupid one. In fact,
Google will probably give him $100 to go away and that will be the end
of it. Rosenberg will probably get nothing.

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:34:53 -0400, budman@frozenorth.ca wrote:


I agree that the woman must have been kinda stupid to walk along an
expressway, whatever.

But I feel it necessary to point out that Google's disclaimer "Walking
directions are in Beta" is substantially deficient in providing an
adequate warning in plain language.

I mean, what the fuck does "in Beta" really mean anyway?

I know it - you know it - but will the court agree that Ms.
Rosendiddly should have known it?

I doubt it!