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Voters News Service: What Went Wrong

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-about-everything dept.

ddtstudio writes "Baseline Magazine has a pretty good recounting of how even the national TV networks can have a computer network go wrong -- in this case the night of the last U.S. election. From the article: "VNS had been trying to rewrite and retool the system for years. This was just the most recent attempt and it failed miserably." Oracle, IBM, BEA Systems -- all crashed."

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  1. Re:Oh BooHoo by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    The British monarchy has become somewhat of a running joke, but the prize piece of entertainment is not the adulterous adventures of some of the Queen's children (and their respective spouses), but the disappointingly-frequent racially-prejudiced "gaffes" by the Queen's husband, Prince Philip.