[funsec] Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells)

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, January 18, 2006 00:15:53 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu 
wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:24:28 CST, Paul Schmehl said:
>
>> I once did the math on that.  700 complaints in 10 years from some
>> millions  of cups of coffees sold worked out to be a 0.000000000972%
>> complaint ratio.  Or something along those lines.
>
> That's the number of people who had to be paid off to make *other*
> lawsuits go away.
>
> I'd expect that if I got sued 700 times because my product did the same
> exact thing, I'd ask myself if maybe I was doing something wrong...
>
Oh, good Lord - there were 700 *complaints*, not 700 lawsuits.  The 
"coffee" suit was the first time McD had been sued on this issue.  Read the 
case.
>
> So - which part of "she had no reason to expect that the coffee was
> dangerously hot" was her fault?

Ahh...anybody who has ever bought a cup of McD coffee knew it was very hot. 
Your hands could tell you that.  I'd hate to tell you how many cups I've 
drank, and I can assure you I was well aware they were very hot.  In fact, 
I liked that feature, because it kept the coffee hot for a longer period of 
time when you were driving.

But I never once considered taking the *paper* cup, putting it between my 
legs *and* removing the lid to see what it might do.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/