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Computer Error Grounds Japanese Flights
zephiros writes "Mainichi Daily News reports that a "computer glitch" in Tokyo air traffic control systems resulted in the cancellation of 203 flights this weekend. At 7am Saturday, the error "caused the names of airlines and flight numbers to disappear from radar screens." A Japan Times article suggests the problem may be related to upgrades on a system which exchanges flight plans with the Defense Agency. Makes one wonder about the integration and maintenance risks of systems like CAPPS II."
Must have been running linux.
No "Har har must've been running Windoze. M$ sUx0rs!!!" comments.
So I guess they are using Windows? :)
Suhit
Ummm,
Don't they have change control.
whatever.
This will most likely lead open source software such as atc finally getting the recognition it deserves.
Imagine: the buggy (and needless to say proprietary) flight control software is installed. Two months later, grounded flights are at an all time high. The FAA is in an uproar, the media is clamoring for a solution, America is in turmoil.
*ring ring*
What's that? It's the phone. Who is it? Someone named Linux Torvalds...says he has a solution to our problems.
Bing bang bong boing boom, Linux is running the major world airports. Due to the superior stability and dependibility of Open Source Software, Linux is now the poster boy for good production values. The few hundred lives lost in the meantime will be well worth the benefit to software that is Free as in Speech.
Perhaps some of these bsdgames (especially atc) will be incorporated into some Linux distributions. After all, that is the beauty of open source. These features might be what gives Linux that "edge" over Windows that we have all been waiting for.
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Is it true that ol' Howie Hughes used to keep his piss in jars and refused to shave or clip his nails in his later years? I hope so, because it means I'm not alone.
I like to collect samples of my bodily excreta in all forms. Of course, eating it afterwards is required.
When I was a kid and broke my arm I had to wear a sweaty, stinky cast for about 4 weeks. I used a coat hanger to scratch inside the cast. To my delight it started bringing back treats after a few weeks of fermentation. Greyish leathery scraps of skin sloughed off from my sweaty arm. They tasted mostly salty, with a bit of rot to spice them up. I took a butter knife and pressed it against my arm after the cast was off to scrape off all the dead skin. I collected a fair bit, and saved it to eat afterwards. I chewed a tiny scrap at a time, since it was fairly tough stuff.
Now I just scratch myself with my nice long fingernails to see how much dead skin I can get for a tasty snack. Toejam is good for this. Of course, the long nails are great for picking spackles off the nasal cavity. Everyone at some time or another has eaten nose jewels - no need to wax poetic about them (although an epic in Beowulf form would be appreciated).
I decided to shave my body a few years back so I saved all the hair in a mason jar. Looked interesting... all the pubes and ass/leg/chest/underarm hair settled to the bottom. My pubes are black, while the rest of my hair is blondish. I could turn the mason jar upside down to do a pimp-in-fur-coat impression (roundish curly lump of pubes on the bottom, straight hair in the rest of the jar). Didn't eat much of it, although when you shave your head it gets really greasy - follicles just cumming all over your bald pate, spewing their greasy loads of sebum to no avail. Not a bad taste, but heavy, like olive oil.
I tried tasting piss. Thumbs up in my book. Salty with a hint of cola crispness. I've tried playing with urine a few times. I filled up a styrofoam cup with piss and let sit for a few weeks. Afterwards there was a orange-yellow sludge, about earwax consistency, which smelt pretty funky. I forget what I did with most of it, although I recall it was really sour.
Haven't actually bit down on a large grogan yet. Have just satisfied myself with licking my fingers after the final "I'm clean" check in the can. The shit itself tastes, well, like shit. Hard to describe; I prefer the pinworm larvae/ass lubricant/E Coli cheese that builds up around the rim on a hot day. Mmmmm. Now that goes great on garlic toast.
And of course semen. Yummy. Reminds me of egg drop soup taste. The salty unmistakable scent of semen along with the consistency of egg roll sauce (why is it semen always brings to mind chinese food? I dunno - the old sum yung guy joke?). I like the taste, but the thick sludginess of it ain't the best to roll around in your mouth. Have to content yourself with savoring the aftertaste. Referring to a previous thread, why would you worry about the taste of your own cum, from your SO's mouth? As long as it's still warm it does down ok - the saliva in her mouth usually waters it down to a manageable "hint o' cum".
Smegma: Affectionately known as penis butter: nice cheesy texture, earthy taste with a tang. I like mine, anyways. As one of the uncircumcised, the ol' choad hood allows smeg to ferment and lead to all sorts of wondrous odors and odd tastes. Now if only I could produce enough of the stuff to spread on sandwiches - could replace vegemite.
Earwax: Ah, earwax, juvenile treat. I used to love this stuff. Stick your #2 pencil in ear, and nibble on the earwax-crusted eraser all afternoon. I remember saving up a bit in my desk at elementary school. I took scratch n' sniffs (newly trendy) that had been scratched to oblivion and mooshed earwax all over them, then handed them around for people to guess what smell it was. A few guessed lemons or lemon cleanser of some sort but no one twigged on to earwax (the dumbasses, didn't they notice the decal was all greasy?). Has a nice tang, but hard to get used to. Tastes vaguely of soap or some plastic solvent.
Eyeshit: Crunchy, salty - not unlike potato chips without potatos.
Blood: A hackneyed old fluid; and no, it doesn't taste "coppery" as the horror cliche goes. Tastes like iron. If you know what really badly iron contaminated water tastes like, that'd be it. Good ol' hemoglobin. Haven't gained my "red badge of courage" yet so I can't judge menses for a taste difference.
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I'll bet you they were running linux. They should have picked FreeBSD instead.
Bet it wasn't an open source application. If it had been open source, this problem would have never happened. With millions of eyeballs detailing the code, we'd have found and corrected this bug before it ever occurred. Whats more, if the flaw did get thru, the operator could have jumped in and fixed the problem real time.
Bet its an MS solution. MAybe not a Microsfot app per se, but something constructed by one of the Borg's disciples. Close source and full of bugs.
I'm not flying to Japan until I get some answers.