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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 edIII on Friday February 21 2014, @09:14PM
That happens a LOT to me. I bet he is using a wireless keyboard.
For some reason it's very easy for the input to slow down by 99% for a second or two, and then all of the sudden start typing out everything stored in the buffer.
On my wireless keyboard it's the E key. It will put out 40 of those bastards in a row sometime.
He mentioned the mouse. I bet he is using Windows. If his system is having problems everything can slow down, but all of those inputs, mouse events, and clicks are stored.
He was just spazzing out on his system, it came back, and started to do *everything* he asked it to do while spazzing out :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.