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Apparently they made the rats work on maintaining legacy software.

• SpikeDad 9y ago
  Good thing this study wasn't around during Y2K - the rats would have killed themselves.
• turbinerneiter 9y ago
  While getting paid? No, they sent them to get their Ph.D.
  • scarmig 9y ago
    They train the doctoral rats to induce depression in other rats for research purposes, thus completing the cycle.
• rxhernandez 9y ago
  With the addendum that it's Class 1 biomedical device software and no one has any real clue about how it works.
  • wavefunction 9y ago
    That sounds kind of fun, if perhaps lethally risky for whatever poor soul is relying on the device. If there weren't the results of mistakes leading to death or illness, I'd think black-box re-engineering a device like that would be one of the more interesting projects to take on.
• gjvc 9y ago
  Many a true word spoken in jest. Damn.
• oblib 9y ago
  Now that is funny!
• itronitron 9y ago
  and then updating the documentation and test plans