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Database Glitch Grounds American/US Airways

Posted by timothy on from the abort-retry-fail-land dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to numerous news sources, all American Airlines and US Airways flights were grounded for two or three hours this morning. Both problems were caused by a computer glitch in the systems hosted by EDS. Quote: The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down."

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  1. EDS by nuxx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Interestingly, last night while at a party I burned my copy of an EDS book which was ghost written for the old CEO. Yep, the same CEO that got EDS investigated by the SEC, caused a bunch of employees to lose jobs, etc.

  2. Offtopic reply to sig by gaijin99 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Nice sig, but shouldn't it be "support diversity", or "support weirdness", or something similar? The first ammendment just guarantees people a right to speak, it doesn't mean I have to listen.

    For my money, I see so many "Fuck Whoever", and "GNAA" posts when I read at -1 that I only bother when I'm moderating. Their first ammendment rights a) don't apply to a privately owned board, and b) don't mean I have to wade through the crap they spew to see the good stuff.

    I'm completely offtopic here, but it bugs me to see the whole "first ammendment guarantees an audience" argument.

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