e viruses cause and that they are wrong and don’t demonstrate anything except the maliciousness and stupidity of they authors. It is amazing the amount of money spent each year on useless software that will never would be used or never work properly. As in the example in chapter 5 in which 22 US service men died because of a radio interference in its computer-based fly-by wire control system. In the first section of chapter 6 is about Database Disasters. I don’t think those are Database Disasters I think those are Data entry disasters. In the past years I have heard a lot of cases of people which have had their identities stolen or people and later on in their life’s have experienced problems do to crimes committed by the identities thieves. Even dough government is aware of that officials fail to completely remove the erroneous information from databases. One of the examples I found terrifying in this chapter was the one of the three young men that filled their car with gas and the owner became suspicious and reported them to the police so they could check on them. When police checked on their tag number a record came up that the car was stolen a few years earlier. As a result one of the young men got shot under his nose disfiguring his face for the rest of his life. In the first example in chapter 7 where the woman died because a miss calculation of a computerized dispensing machine miscalculated the required dosage of a pain relieving drug and as a consequence the woman went into comma a died later on. Despite this error by there is more probability for a human to make a mistake that for this machine to have made the mistake. In the section where it discusses whether computers are intelligent I agree with the people that say that computers are intelligent. As the example given by the authors where computers beat 99% off all chess players still it is not intelligent because it figures out it’s plays by brute co...
