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== Technology ==
* The 1981 Cadillac El Dorado had a balancing problem which was corrected by installing a steel plate underneath the driver's seat. This saved Frank Lawrence "Lefty" Rosenthal from a car bomb attempt, which served as the inspiration for a scene in ''[[Casino]]''.
* The 1981 Cadillac El Dorado had a balancing problem which was corrected by installing a steel plate underneath the driver's seat. This saved Frank Lawrence "Lefty" Rosenthal from a car bomb attempt, which served as the inspiration for a scene in ''[[Casino]]''.
* Electronic novelty items that speak or sing while moving a part of them, such as singing fish. The fact that a fish on a plaque is flapping its tail to the music and lipsyncing is funny enough as it is to many people, but let the batteries get low and they get slowed and off-keyed when they try to move themselves. The effect is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3YKda3gaSY pretty funny].
* Electronic novelty items that speak or sing while moving a part of them, such as singing fish. The fact that a fish on a plaque is flapping its tail to the music and lipsyncing is funny enough as it is to many people, but let the batteries get low and they get slowed and off-keyed when they try to move themselves. The effect is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3YKda3gaSY pretty funny].
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** This happens with the old edutainment toy Speak n' Spell, but that's a [[Nightmare Fuel|Bad Bad Bug]].
** This happens with the old edutainment toy Speak n' Spell, but that's a [[Nightmare Fuel|Bad Bad Bug]].
** The [[wikipedia:Simon (game)|Simon]] memory game would actually run faster (and its notes would play higher) if the batteries started to get weak, making for a more difficult challenge. However when the batteries were really weak, the device would no longer work properly and would simply become a light show.
** The [[wikipedia:Simon (game)|Simon]] memory game would actually run faster (and its notes would play higher) if the batteries started to get weak, making for a more difficult challenge. However when the batteries were really weak, the device would no longer work properly and would simply become a light show.
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** The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[The Nth Doctor|11th Doctor]] Sonic Screwdriver toy can make one of two noises when you press a button (it toggles between two different SSD sound effects). However, if you tap the button quickly, you can get it to emit a third, completely different noise. Don't do this too often though, because it can damage the noise-making electronics.
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* Genetic mutations. They make species evolve into having useful new traits and create wild new species.

== Biology ==
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* Genetic mutations. They make species evolve into having useful new traits and create wild new species... when they don't kill the species instead.
* The Cowpox virus. Being affected by this benign disease makes one immune to the far deadlier smallpox. This observation and subsequent successful use of a preventive treatment against smallpox forms the basis of vaccination medical therapy.
* The Cowpox virus. Being affected by this benign disease makes one immune to the far deadlier smallpox. This observation and subsequent successful use of a preventive treatment against smallpox forms the basis of vaccination medical therapy.
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* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[The Nth Doctor|11th Doctor]] Sonic Screwdriver toy can make one of two noises when you press a button (it toggles between two different SSD sound effects). However, if you tap the button quickly, you can get it to emit a third, completely different noise. Don't do this too often though, because it can damage the noise making electronics.


== Software ==
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* Microsoft Sam has a very interesting way of saying [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0joNsmWUQ "soi" and "soy"]. This sound has come to be referred to by some as the [[Fan Nickname|ROFLcopter]].
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* The [[Development Hell|still-alpha]] Windows-clone ReactOS got a bug in its hard disk driver that caused it not to register and prevent access to disks - or it would have, had the Plug-n-Play infrastructure not been so screwed up that it set everything up anyway.
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Revision as of 18:56, 11 July 2022


Examples of Good Bad Bugs in Real Life include:

Technology

  • The 1981 Cadillac El Dorado had a balancing problem which was corrected by installing a steel plate underneath the driver's seat. This saved Frank Lawrence "Lefty" Rosenthal from a car bomb attempt, which served as the inspiration for a scene in Casino.
  • Electronic novelty items that speak or sing while moving a part of them, such as singing fish. The fact that a fish on a plaque is flapping its tail to the music and lipsyncing is funny enough as it is to many people, but let the batteries get low and they get slowed and off-keyed when they try to move themselves. The effect is pretty funny.
    • Some synthesizers, like the Hing Hon EK-001, can sound like they're dying if they're low on batteries, too.
    • This happens with the old edutainment toy Speak n' Spell, but that's a Bad Bad Bug.
    • The Simon memory game would actually run faster (and its notes would play higher) if the batteries started to get weak, making for a more difficult challenge. However when the batteries were really weak, the device would no longer work properly and would simply become a light show.
    • The Doctor Who 11th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver toy can make one of two noises when you press a button (it toggles between two different SSD sound effects). However, if you tap the button quickly, you can get it to emit a third, completely different noise. Don't do this too often though, because it can damage the noise-making electronics.

Biology

  • Genetic mutations. They make species evolve into having useful new traits and create wild new species... when they don't kill the species instead.
  • The Cowpox virus. Being affected by this benign disease makes one immune to the far deadlier smallpox. This observation and subsequent successful use of a preventive treatment against smallpox forms the basis of vaccination medical therapy.

Software

  • Microsoft Sam has a very interesting way of saying "soi" and "soy". This sound has come to be referred to by some as the ROFLcopter.
  • The still-alpha Windows-clone ReactOS got a bug in its hard disk driver that caused it not to register and prevent access to disks - or it would have, had the Plug-n-Play infrastructure not been so screwed up that it set everything up anyway.
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