{"id":1925,"date":"2011-02-15T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2011-02-15T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:22:16","slug":"micromort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Micromort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a useful unit of measure that I just found out about, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/\">Bruce Schneier&#8217;s security blog<\/a>: it&#8217;s called a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Micromort\">micromort<\/a>, a one-in-a-million probability of death. Curiously, according to the Wikipedia, your chances of dying on a train due to an accident are the same as your chances of dying due to cosmic radiation received while flying on a jet: 1 micromort every six thousand miles.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1925' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a useful unit of measure that I just found out about, thanks to Bruce Schneier&#8217;s security blog: it&#8217;s called a micromort, a one-in-a-million probability of death. Curiously, according to the Wikipedia, your chances of dying on a train due to an accident are the same as your chances of dying due to cosmic radiation <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1925' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,51,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-computer-security","category-society","category-37-id","category-51-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}