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That Man Who 'Deleted His Entire Company' With a Line of Code? It Was a Hoax (pcworld.com)

Posted by msmash on from the false-alarm dept.

An anonymous reader writes: As many Slashdot readers speculated, the story about a man deleting his entire company with a line of code was a hoax. Marco Marsala, the owner of a Web hosting company claimed on a forum earlier this week that he deleted all the data on his company's server. Stack Overflow, which runs the forum, says that the post was a hoax, and pointed to an article on an Italian news outlet, which describes this whole fiasco as a "marketing effort" (in Italian) to promote Marsala's company. "It was just a joke," Marsala told the paper.

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  1. Re:Idiot by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

    And anyone who remains his customer after this is an even bigger idiot.

    Perhaps he can become a government contractor...

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  2. Re:Idiot by khasim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plz help!

    I've accidentally routed all the toilets at work into the hamburger machine. I will be in trouble if anyone finds out how much poop is in the hamburgers.

    Ha ha! It was just my marketing idea. Plz buy my hamburgers.

    Why is no one buying my hamburgers?

  3. Re:Interesting tactic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suppose they really really believe, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

    Well, if it works for Donald Trump...

  4. Re:Interesting tactic by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's Italian. It would be more like "That's some nice data you got there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it..."

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  5. Re: Interesting tactic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are only 4 kinds of Italians: mafiosi, fascists, communists and dead. And they're all lazy.