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When Computers Go Wrong
Barence writes "PC Pro's Stewart Mitchell has charted the world's ten most calamitous computer cock-ups. They include the Russians' stealing software that resulted in their gas pipeline exploding, the Mars Orbiter that went missing because the programmers got their imperial and metric measurements mixed up, the Soviet early-warning system that confused the sun for a missile and almost triggered World War III, plus the Windows anti-piracy measure that resulted in millions of legitimate customers being branded software thieves."
The biggest computer mistake of all time has to be Microsoft's using 2 digits for the year! How quickly we forget!
.. Blub falls right in the middle of the abstractness continuum. -- Paul Graham
In the first sentence: alleged.
Whether true or not, there are consequences for theft.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)