From: Rick D. <ri...@de...> - 2004-05-26 22:33:11
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On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 14:32 -0700, Sean Walker wrote: > > > Yeah, I do. I remember several stories of home-automation-gone-bad. Like > the guy who had voice activated dialing and had a HUGE phone bill. Come > to find out the dog barking was interpreted by the VR system as a dial > request to some number in another country. Gotta love it. > Well, it's not a HA story, but this reminds me of something which happened early on in my career at a large computer company. Some of my friends were working on a project which would allow our customers mainframe computers to automatically call in to field engineering when they encountered software errors. They had had some problems in getting the machines to connect. Finally someone decided to hook up a phone to the modem in case they might be able to hear a problem. The computer tried to connect and they heard: Ring Ring Ring Hello, Hello! Are you going to talk this time? The bug was found, and a little old lady got a nice bouquet of flowers from the big company. |