Re: [LUG] Microsoft in flying car FUD

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PL-J wrote:
> Hi
>
> On the subject of computers giving silly answers, (or programmers making silly 
> mistakes), there is a story of a Artillery Computer which, in a test version 
> of the software, tried to fly the proj all the way around the world.  What I 
> mean is, say the tgt was one K east, it pointed the gun West, did its sums 
> and then decide the tgt was out of range.  Spherical trigonometry or some 
> such.

There's also a story of a radar system which had difficulty telling the 
difference between a nuclear missile and The Moon.

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