Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? 396
Miracle Jones writes "As Amazon struggles to re-list and re-rank gay, lesbian, and adult books on their website after massive public outcry against the secretive partitioning process, they are claiming that the entire situation was not the result of an intentional policy at all, are not apologizing, and are instead insisting that the situation was the result of 'a glitch' that they are now trying to fix. While some hackers are claiming credit for 'amazonfail,' and it is indeed possible that an outside party is responsible, most claims have already been debunked. How likely is it that Amazon was hacked versus the likelihood of an internal Easter weekend glitch? Or is the most obvious and likely scenario true, and Amazon simply got caught implementing a wildly-unpopular new policy without telling anyone?"
Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
Alll that fuss (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To avoid this.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wildly unpopular? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:To avoid this.. (Score:5, Funny)
Eventually, technology is going to make our very genes a matter of personal preference. It will be interesting to see which side the gay community comes down on then, since even if homosexuality really is a strictly hereditary phenomenon, there will truly be a choice. Of course, that will work both ways.
If you're making a veiled threat at lesbian porn there is going to be fucking hell to pay.
Re:To avoid this.. (Score:2, Funny)
And the walls, don't forget the walls.
They always watching.
Good scientific experiment. (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, will do. Links please.
Re:Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
California, of all places, couldn't agree on gay marriage. Imagine then the rest of the country.
Iowa, of all places, could agree on gay marriage. Imagine then the rest of the country.
Re:To avoid this.. (Score:5, Funny)
>I chose to be white. Yep, you heard correctly.
>Me being white is a choice. Stand up oppressed minorities! You too can choose white.
Micheal Jackson, is that you?
Re:Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know, one time I was writing a Huffman compressor for an applied information theory class and I couldn't find this weird bug where it would email racist statements to everyone in your address book every time you tried to compress a file larger to 50kb. Took me several hours to fix, and my solution was under 100 lines of Python.
I can fully sympathize with companies who have to deal with overly sensitive people who think that bugs like this, which emerge quite frequently in sufficiently complex systems, are the result of bad calls or poor intent, rather than the simple technical glitches that they are.