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A Physicist with the Air Force

Posted by michael on from the meet-new-and-interesting-people,-and-kill-them dept.

An anonymous submitter - anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today, sigh - sent in this tale about the duties of a physicist during World War II.

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  1. Database Crash? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are they finally admitting that MySQL sucks and is unreliable? Nah, that would, like, assume they actually had software engineers working on this site.

    1. Re:Database crash? by duffbeer703 · · Score: 1, Troll

      Slashdot is a pretty big volume website.

      Combine high volume, unreliable software and a toy database with the often-demonstrated technical incompetence of the staff and you have the disaster that is Slashdot.

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      Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
  2. bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    > anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today

    yet again proof that slashdot is a bunch of incompetent retards

  3. DB crash explained: Anne did it by Anomymous+Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's now common knowledge that the database was brought down with a packet storm directed at port 3306, in retaliation for OSDN/Andover refusing to settle the sexual harassment case involving the female network admin who was fired after refusing to engage in oral sex with one of the editors.

  4. Re:That explains it! by buttfucker2000 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here's the detailed bug report on what caused the crash.

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    Free Anne Tomlinson!!
  5. Re:CT: What happened today? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dude, we can't just come out and say that Anne Tomlinson hacked us...unless we do it anonymously...(heh, heh, heh)

  6. Re:not the end of the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Gah! I click Reply and it goes back to the main page! But i need to post, it says 0 comments! Reply! Reply! Augghhh!"

    I resemble that remark. Curse you, Slashdot!

  7. Re:my husband norman by buttfucker2000 · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck off bitch

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    Free Anne Tomlinson!!
  8. come back anne tomlinson all is forgiven by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    or is it welcome back anne tomlinson...?

  9. mooo mooo by Anonymous+Pancake · · Score: -1, Troll

    hello jello

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    The Slashdot Effect: A new for

  10. Re:Database Meltdown - Gory Details, Please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, if this were a professional outfit, you might say that the damage to their reputation was the worst of it. However, since Slashdot only has a reputation as a giant pile of bug-infested spaghetti code, that doesn't apply.

    Oh, and don't expect any sort of "openness" about the recent problems from the Slashdot higher-ups. Only outfits such as Microsoft, who have reputations to defend, ever publish explanations of bugs.