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Then again, the printer is just not working. It's not randomly printing things you don't want. In the same sense, a broken autonomous tank would just stop dead

Then again, the printer is just not working. It's not randomly printing things you don't want. In the same sense, a broken autonomous tank would just stop dead in its tracks instead of suddenly killing everything that moves. Those failure modes have always been very rare.

DanBC 11y ago
http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...? > In this article I present in which way scanners / copiers of the Xerox WorkCentre Line randomly alter written numbers in pages that are scanned. This is not an OCR problem (as we switched off OCR on purpose), it is a lot worse – patches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous way: The scanned images look correct at first glance, even though numbers may actually be incorrect. Without a fuss, this may cause scenarios like: ... wedding parties being hit by drone strike?
- goldenkey 11y ago
  But they shot AKs in the air as celebration! Only a mistake that kills an entire family tree.