Engineering Degree From Cereal Boxes
 

How does stupid stuff like this happen? Engineering degrees from cereal boxes?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/confused-photocopiers-randomly-rewriting-scanned-documents/

It is unlikely an engineers were involved. Most software people aren't engineers.

It also sounds like some of the errors might character recognition issues. If you use character recognition in a price list you are taking a chance.

Does NASA use Xerox copiers?

The culprit is JBIG2

JBIG2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hopefully, access and door logs are being reviewed to find the source.
Or, just chalk it up to 'the past' and forget about it.

I got my degree at the bottom of a few thousand cases of beer......had to collect the UPCs and mail em in

You too?

you mean stupid stuff like not being able to post a clickable URL? or what?

<I just had to... couldn't wait any longer...>