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History's Worst Software Bugs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the when-software-goes-bad dept.

bharatm writes "Wired has an article on the 10 worst sofware bugs.. From the article 'Coding errors have sparked explosions, crippled interplanetary probes -- even killed people. Here's our pick for the 10 worst bugs ever, but the judging wasn't easy.'"

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  1. M$ by manojar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nothing about Microsoft?

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    Manojar - pronounced like Manager
  2. This shit, always the same. by Superfarstucker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are the people that acknowledge, hey, that was a major fuckup, there must exist a better way to do this, and then there are those eggshell walkers who claim:

    "I'm qualified because I gave the director head and I let the manager prime my asshole, oh, and I have a Master's in bullshit. If everyone developed software MY way [which incidentally, pads my job security, being that I otherwise perform absolutely no function] these kind of things wouldn't happen!"

    And it's just these sort of inflexible dick brains that end up fucking everything up! I propose, on average 90% of everything is shit, but with these sorts, there is no average, it's pure shit.

  3. Re:The meat of the article... by wbren · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The former dinosaurian population of the Yucatan Peninsula might disagree...
    Oh ye of little faith. The dinosaurs were not killed by an explosion on the Yucatan Peninsula. Rather, the dinosaurs were intelligently removed from the Earth by the Creator. The crater was then carved deliberately (and obviously intelligently) by the Creator, to test our faith.
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    -William Brendel