Man accidentally deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

dugan · 04-14-2016, 02:18 PM

Yes, it's just summarizing a ServerFault thread, but the fact that it made The Independent isn't meaningingless:

Man accidentally deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

I'm sure everyone here can guess what that "one line of bad code" was?

dugan · 04-16-2016, 11:41 PM

And yah, it turned out to be a hoax the next day.

timl · 04-17-2016, 02:35 AM

Which makes you wonder the level of investigation (if any) the "quality" press takes when it comes to IT matters.

I notice the item is still prominently displayed on the "tech" page

kony · 04-17-2016, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by timl

Which makes you wonder the level of investigation (if any) the "quality" press takes when it comes to anything

fix'd

timl · 04-17-2016, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by timl View Post
Which makes you wonder the level of investigation (if any) the "quality" press takes when it comes to anything
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Nope. The quoted article was taken from the Independent which is a newspaper. To the best of my knowledge it reports news quite well. Similarly old newspaper sections - business, finance, sport, arts, travel and probably plenty more. However with technical issues it is so easy to just take feeds from a number of providers and not review items before they go to press.

TheNutCase · 06-16-2016, 12:22 PM

http://www.snopes.com/man-deletes-company-code/

vb_1989 · 06-17-2016, 05:35 AM

If you want to do this please use rm -rf/* with root