[eli]

This gets sort of philosophical. What would be an example of a computer error?

[ccozan]

That would be a pure hardware error. For example a cosmic ray hitting a cell the DRAM and flipping a bit. Or maybe the Intel FP-Bug, could also be a computer error.

Anything else in software is a programming error, but not necessarily a programmer error, since it might start with wrong HW specs, compiler bugs, etc.

[eli]

So "computer error" is when the hardware designer screws up and "human error" is when the software designer screws up? That seems pretty arbitrary.

[oh_sigh]

A computer seeing an instruction, be deciding on its own free will to not follow it, an do something else.

[jackgavigan]

I think that if the computer decided to exercise its own free will, the resulting error would pale into insignificance.

"Screw that batch processing job. I wanna get to 2048!"