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fleg writes:
"The Guardian is reporting that while the author of The Snowden Files was writing it, paragraphs started self-deleting."
From the article:
By September the book was going well - 30,000 words done. A Christmas deadline loomed. I was writing a chapter on the NSA's close, and largely hidden, relationship with Silicon Valley. I wrote that Snowden's revelations had damaged US tech companies and their bottom line. Something odd happened. The paragraph I had just written began to self-delete. The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping.
[ED Note: Some of author's claims are of course unverifiable, but his insiders view of the early days of the story are interesting even so.]
(Score: 1) by willyg on Friday February 21 2014, @03:42PM
Sorry, but this brought back a memory from a bad 1980s movie - Perfect - in which one of the characters deletes a story by backspacing over an expose article on a portable word processor (I believe was a portable TRS-100 or some such beast).
Seriously, a plot device that's over 30 years old, and you expect us to buy that???
Try selling major urban bridges - I hear there's much more money in that!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089798 [imdb.com] for those of you with too much time on their hands. I can't be bothered to track down the scene, and I can't stand to watch it again.