One is what the iSeries team refers to as direct and it is like pSeries Linux I/O. The I/O device is assigned specifically to the Linux partition and is fully managed by the Linux OS. The lists of devices are linked from the Linux on iSeries web pages at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux/support.html.
The gulag system according to Russian statistics caused 1,053,829 deaths [1] or maybe 1.6 million. The Nazi death camps alone killed 3.2 million people[2] (in a period of 4-5 years 1941-1945), not to mention the endless number of labour and POW camps where millions perished as well.
In Russia 68 civilians were killed in the 1979 Sverdlovsk incident when weapons grade anthrax accidentally leaked. Bioterrorism is also a possibility with a series of fatal postal attacks in carried out in the USA in 2001. 6. Cholera. Cholera is one of the most infectious diseases and is easily passed through contaminated food and water. Historically it has ripped through communities leaving half dead, even now it is estimated to kill 120,000 per year. In the past epidemics killed millions. Cholera kills through rapid dehydration.