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Debug your Code, or Else!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the trip-down-ramification-lane dept.

Trevor Lovett writes "I ran across a collection of famous software bugs that have caused large scale disasters including the explosion of the Ariane 5 rocket due to integer overflow and the misfiring of a US Patriot missile that caused 28 deaths because of accumulated floating point error. "

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  1. especially important in healthcare.. by pstreck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is quite amusing, but a software bug in my field can result in patients lives being lost. It's kind of scary sometimes :)

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    Later,
    Phil
  2. Pain & Suffering caused by fatal VxD errors an by mcwop · · Score: 2, Redundant

    the BSOD. I still have nightmares.

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    "I don't think it's selfish, to eat defenseless shellfish." -NOFX

  3. Re:but dont forget by btellier · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Also, I remember hearing about this good looking hacker chick who used extremely large fonts and a camoflaged computer. Due to Penn Jillette's incompetance he failed to notice this good looking individual's ability to literally fly through the network, superman style, before crashing into the garbage file. Teller had neglected to take out the trash and was summarily beaten. In the resulting hilarity, more large fonts are exchanged and a virus is disassembled via Matrix-style code-fu. Near the end of this caper one of the hax0rs in question has sex with another human being, possibly as a result of his cult following of thousands of IRC kiddies boasting knockoffs of his nick.