A Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail

http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail

by johns • 18 years ago

22 18 18 years ago

hugh2• 18 years ago

Missing dots don't kill people, people kill people!

Hexstream• 18 years ago

Indeed, the sickest thing about this story is that it's the missing dot that's emphasized instead of mass killing with knives over words.

jrockway• 18 years ago

But that's the "fun" part. People brutally stabbing each other is booooring!

In reality, I'm sure this guy would have murdered someone else anyway. I don't think one text message is enough to drive a sane person to attempt murder. The phrase "ticking time bomb" comes to mind.

daniel-cussen• 18 years ago

All for the want of a cellphone pixel.

parenthesis• 18 years ago

Unicode is good for your health.

cbryan• 18 years ago

Hmm... The software apparently didn't pass the Turkey Test.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001075.html

edw519• 18 years ago

This is hacker news (in more ways than one).

LogicHoleFlaw2• 18 years ago

Slasherdot: News for Kurds, Stuff that Splatters

mxyzptlk• 18 years ago

You have to be careful when typing languages where "they are fucking you" and "you run out of arguments" are only one letter apart.

jcl• 18 years ago

Due to the dirtiness of the human mind, I expect most languages have innocent phrases that are one letter apart from suggestive ones. E.g.: "You're such an uninteresting person... At parties, you're always telling dull stories and boning everyone."

xirium• 18 years ago

Punctuation and capitalisation can also be problematic: http://www.bash.org/?367896

alex_c• 18 years ago

Linkbait title at its best.

noonespecial• 18 years ago

Perhaps the deep and abiding problem here is not that all cellphones are not nationalized, its that there are people in this world that kill each other over SMS messages!

But yeah, sure, go ahead and fix the dot. I'm sure that will solve everything.

Tichy• 18 years ago

I guess those people have a slight evolutionary disadvantage in our modern world.

A Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail

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