Again from Slashdot...this site, has lists of awful things that happened because of software programming errors...Think twice before you leave a comment that says //Fix later ;) [More Info]

"I ran across a collection of famous software bugs that have caused large scale disasters including the explosion of the Ariane 5 rocket due to integer overflow and the misfiring of a US Patriot missile that caused 28 deaths because of accumulated floating point error. "

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