Given that the performance of the Patriot missile was much over-hyped in the first Gulf war, should #3 be on there? Do we know that the missile would have intercepted the Scud if launched?
Infamous Software Bugs
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#22There are a lot of bugs more infamous than this...
this page is bullshit.
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#23I would add Therac-25[1] and the 500 mile email[2] to that list.
[1]: http://www.ccnr.org/fatal_dose.html [2]: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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#24Well...I'd say that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 has become much more notorious than the Arianne launch; but it's also a UX fault, not a straight-out software error.
Yep, also I would say that Heartbleed is definitely deserving of a place.
I agree, Heartbleed is a big miss. Before reading the article, the two that came to mind were Y2K and Heartbleed. Notwithstanding all the recent security breeches (e.g., Ashley Madison, Sony) that could be attributed to "bugs".
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#25I came across this recently, really interesting list with further links Software Horror Stories : http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nachumd/verify/horror.html
It's a shame the list ends in 2004. I imagine the last decade's worth of software-related horror would be quite interesting
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#26If I wasn't one myself, I would say that the human is the biggest bug of all.
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#27Given that the performance of the Patriot missile was much over-hyped in the first Gulf war, should #3 be on there? Do we know that the missile would have intercepted the Scud if launched?
The article does offer a suggestion as to why the Patriot was so inaccurate. Hitting a missile means you need to get within a few meters of the target, and the conversion error would exceed that after just a few hours of operation. It also gives a plausible solution to how it escaped testing: The tests would likely have been run on freshly powered up systems.
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#28Small copy/paste error on the php section:
There are two ways to run a PHP app on nanobox. You can eitherconfigure the generic ruby engine, or use a framework specific engine.
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#29Well...I'd say that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 has become much more notorious than the Arianne launch; but it's also a UX fault, not a straight-out software error.
Agree and also would of thought they would have a sensor on patient that measures dosage independently of the system giving the dosage. But from what I can tell - they do not.
How would you sense that without risking either deflecting the beam (which could cause harm/cancers in other body parts) or reducing the beam's intensity (which could cause treatment to be less effective).
This is one of those ideas that sounds a lot easier than it likely is.
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#30Great article, but IMO it missed one of the most important bugs of all, the one with the Hubble Telescope and its mirror