Reddit updates

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-big-def-con-question-would-you-work-for-the-nsa
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130805/08323124067/lawmakers-issued-license-plates-that-make-them-invisible-to-traffic-cams-parking-tickets.shtml
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/7/4596898/korea-wireless-charging-buses-kaist-olev
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/383479/resistive-ram-crams-1tb-onto-tiny-chip

More like Slashdot.jp updates, am I right?

I guess that's why they call this place /prog/.

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning
Some idiot didn't read the fucking manual where it EXPLICITLY TELLS YOU THIS MAY HAPPEN and now it's all over the bloody media:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23588202

Here in the office we have a document with all the 'e's replaced by 'o's posted above the scanner. We knew this a long time ago, to the compressor there's no difference at all between the pixels representing a 6 and an 8 and those representing blank space with some noise.

tl;dr: lossy compression is lossy, who knew?

>>4
The difference here is that the guy is putting a sensationalist spin on it, making it sound like OCR (optional character recognition) is some sort of conspiracy to fuck up scanning and mess with your documents. It's a conspiracy!

>>5
your mom's a conspiracy