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Very public error messages

This Flickr pool is a collection of those little moments the sysadmins of very public machines wish you'd never seen. Fried payphones, non-functional gas pumps, and belly up ATMs. As the cameraman behind the photo above wrote, "

Something about seeing windows errors pop up at airport terminals doesn't give me a good feeling." I couldn't agree more.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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Mysterius said 9:19AM on 2-22-2007
Popular Science Magazine features these sorts of error messages, taken from thisisbroken.com, in one of the back sections. They're quite amusing, as long as you're not the one being inconvenienced. :D
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Nick said 9:31AM on 2-22-2007
I was one on a trans atlantic flight when the screen of death appeared on the LCD screen in front of mid movie.
I thought "This is a fly by wire 'plane and they use windows!!!"
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Atanas Boev said 2:45PM on 2-22-2007
And another public error message in this post gives out the poster's username and that he is using windows:)
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sathan777 said 7:40PM on 2-22-2007
My sister was under observation in hospital (the kind where they open your skull and place a monitoring grid directly on the brain)and I had to sit there for hours on end watching an EEG display waiting for her to have a seizure so they could inject her with isotopes and film the event.
If you knew how many error messages displayed and the times the system (WIN2K) had to be rebooted you'd really think twice before letting them slice an dice through your grey matter....
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