• Amazon typo knocked websites offline
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39151932[/url]
So when does a typo kill the internet, forever?
how do you succeed in killing half the internet with a typo? can't say as I'd imagine the higher ups would look too kindly on that, unintentional or otherwise
Wonder if someone got fired over this. At least it wasn't rm -rf /, I guess?
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;51905181]Wonder if someone got fired over this. At least it wasn't rm -rf /, I guess?[/QUOTE] rm -rf / would have been much better than what happened since rm hasn't actually deleted root without --no-preserve-root for ages.
[QUOTE=J!NX;51905127]So when does a typo kill the internet, forever?[/QUOTE] When 1 and 0 get converted to l and o.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;51905181]Wonder if someone got fired over this. At least it wasn't rm -rf /, I guess?[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/18/hoax-man-didnt-delete-biz-with-line-of-bad-code.html"]Hoax: Man didn't delete biz with line of bad code[/URL] I guess that's old info, but there you go.
oops At least they got it sorted out.
[QUOTE=Talvy;51905349][URL="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/18/hoax-man-didnt-delete-biz-with-line-of-bad-code.html"]Hoax: Man didn't delete biz with line of bad code[/URL] I guess that's old info, but there you go.[/QUOTE] Yeah but then there's [t]http://i.imgur.com/PQsbPe8.jpg[/t] Never forget
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