[jrockway]

This reminds me that I should start asking Therac-25 questions in interviews.

[DanBC]

Searching for that led me to this website about a variety of serious bugs.

http://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/bugse.html

[Wingman4l7]

(A classic case study -- a radiation therapy machine that was badly programmed, resulting in several accidents where patients were given massive overdoses of radiation).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

[wlll]

This is one of the reasons I opt-out of airport scans. The less I stand in-front of something emitting radiation the less chance there is for a software error to cause me to get a higher dosage than was intended.