A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support. A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” would crash certain models of laptops. I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem. Not an artistic judgement.
One discovery during the investigation is that playing the music video also crashed some of their competitors’ laptops.
And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn’t playing the video!
What’s going on?
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My new favorite bug
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My new favorite bug
by lady_*nix » Sat Aug 20, 2022 11:08 am
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewth ... /?p=106994
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Re: My new favorite bug
by Sigma_Orionis » Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:29 am
Read about that. Talk about bizarre
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Re: My new favorite bug
by SciFiFisher » Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:49 pm
So... the software hates Michael Jackson? 
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Re: My new favorite bug
by lady_*nix » Tue Aug 23, 2022 7:43 pm
Grr, no. Wrong on two counts. And Janet Jackson should be getting a lot more respect than her brother these days TBH.
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