Public BSOD Sightings?

Sanksa Wott asks: "My travels over the weekend brought me to a very popular fast food restaurant, where, in the drive-through I was greeted with, what else... a blue screen! Since BSOD's can show up almost anywhere, I thought I would ask: 'What has your funniest/most interesting/noteworthy/etc. encounter with public displays of the BSOD been like?' Note: This isn't meant to be a troll, so lets be nice ;)"

You mean

[prostoalex]

Something like this? [piemaster.co.uk]

are you talking about this video?

[hitchhacker]

The famous Bill Gates crash video (1.63 MB) [scorpioncity.com]


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some of the ones I've seen

[ghamerly]

At a "future of technology" display at Epcot Center: the future is blue [dyndns.org]

In the San Diego airport: your flight is now... cancelled [dyndns.org]

In an interesting correlation, both of these pictures were taken on trips for the ACM World Programming Contest (different years), which made them even more relevant, since it leads me to think about good problem solving techniques.

Re:I saw one at McDonalds this weekend also

[netringer]

I still don't understand why neither the human or the computer could figure that one out. The computer model was human high-school female type, and the human assistant was a manager.

You don't understand? One of my favorite minor amusements is to always hand the cash drone small change to make the change work out and watch the fun that results.

The tab comes to $6.62. Hand 'em two fives, two nickels and two pennies. Watch as the clerk counts it up and keys in the $10.12 they have (that will take longer than it should.) Then the POS computer tells them to hand you $3.50. Watch as they get the 3 dollars, then three dimes before the light bulb goes off and they figure that it will work as two solid quarters. They put back the dimes, grab the quarters, and hand you your change.

One of three things will happen: The clerk will think you're some sort of math wiz; The clerk will spend the rest of the shift wondering if you knew it would work out that way; The clerk will begin worrying that you ripped 'em off in a quick-change scam.

How often do you have opportunities to amaze mere mortals?

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[intelnavi]

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