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by dahart 3790 days ago
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57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.

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That's really in there! There are lawyers with a sense of humor?
Not just lawyers. Someone in charge must have authorized that. Which is, frankly speaking, amazing! Too many companies are too serious for their own good, it's a refreshing change.
Occam's razor makes me think it was slipped in by some web developer.
I really doubt that. Changing a legal contract is not something you do without approval. That sounds like a quick way to end up unemployed.
Just curious - why am I suddenly seeing so many people referencing occam's razor? It is happening way too frequently to be a coincidence. Was the idea featured someplace recently? It seems like just about every tech-ish thread on reddit and HN has one "Occam's Razor" dude for the last couple weeks.
That would be the simplest explanation.
Well played.
"Occam's Razor, now with 6 blades and soothing aloe strip" https://twitter.com/vgr/status/691823304471121924
Could just be Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon/frequency illusion.
I wouldn't be so sure it's not a coincidence.

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/theres-a-name-for-tha...

Yeah, that would be true if I hadn't already heard of it I guess. I've also seen a lot of people talking about baader-meinhof, so I suspect it might just be that pop psychology is the tech bro humblebrag du joir this week.
Maybe they're coming out with a zombie game...?
Certain types of safety-critical systems are regulated with liabilities coming in. They have to be built in a rigorous way to show the developer attempted to counter some amount and types of risk. There's a niche market that uses tech like OpenGL to build GUI's and simulators for safety-critical systems. I think this clause is a smart dodge of unknown risks rather than a joke.

Relevant page: https://www.khronos.org/openglsc/

Example companies doing that stuff:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110224145307/http://www.altsof...

http://www.esterel-technologies.com/products/scade-display/

You made the same mistake I did - read the second half of the paragraph more carefully. There's a special clause in there!
I was going by quoted section here. Just read it. Lmao that's epic and a worthy use of their game engine!

Hmm. So, original part might be serious with a joke after or entirely some BS. Who knows.