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Comment Re:Bad Mischaracterization (Score 2, Insightful) 551

Look up Therac-25. Actually, here I'll do it for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 tl;dr: Radiation therapy machine had buggy software, existing code was used on new hardware which allowed a previously-unnoticed bug to engage a high power beam without shielding. Patients experienced severe pain and burning; three died.

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