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AWS Service Terms – Zombie apocolypse in section 42.10
- perihelions 5y agoI feel "viral infection" is overly narrow wording. Sure, rabies, the classic zombism analog, happens to be a virus. But given there are also many known transmissible, behavior-controlling infections that are *not* viral, it seems premature to assume this property would hold for upcoming zombie epidemics. For instance: ophiocordyceps [0,1] is a fungus, and toxoplasmosis [2,3] is a single-celled eukaryote. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15651231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15651231 ("'Zombie ant' brains left intact by fungal parasite") [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15376654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15376654 ("Rage Disorder Linked with Toxoplasmosis") [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
- belter 5y agoI love reading Service Terms and Software Licenses. I find them fascinating. Where else could you have so much fun. For example a company creating software licenses that threaten its own employees publicly? :-) https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/db18c-express-license.html https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/db18c-express-lice...