Car Hits Utility Pole, Takes Out EC2 Datacenter

1sockchuck writes "An Amazon cloud computing data center lost power Tuesday when a vehicle struck a nearby utility pole. When utility power was lost, a transfer switch in the data center failed to properly manage the shift to backup power. Amazon said a "small number" of EC2 customers lost service for about an hour, but the downtime followed three power outages last week at data centers supporting EC2 customers. Tuesday's incident is reminiscent of a 2007 outage at a Dallas data center when a truck crash took out a power transformer."

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Murphy's law

[pwnies]

Whatever can go wrong will rings pretty true here. Makes for an exciting day of work for them though I suppose; unlike yours truly.
*Goes back to reading /.*

Re:Murphy's law

[The Hatchet]

Fine grammar is just a formality. Language is a wonderful, ever changing tool. We can use it however we please. Sure, some mistakes are terrible, and accidental, but that does not mean that grammar need be as valuable as gold. We doth need remember that language cannot be controlled without losing that which it is used to create.

We can say things like "I don't grammar" and they convey meaning just as well as saying "I don't pay great attention to or check my grammar" It might sound a bit off, but it does what language is meant to do: convey meaning. The faster and better we can convey meaning, the better we are language-ing. So indeed the phrase "I'm don't grammar" may be terribly flawed, but it conveys meaning quicker and more efficiently than the other statement, so it can easily be said that it has fulfilled its purpose better than the grammatically correct phrase.

Every time I meet a grammar nazi in person I spend about half an hour giving them a speech on why they should go to hell.

Also: I might note that /. comments are terrible for correcting grammar, using crappy comparisons, and crappy attempts at being condescending. It is so much, it often covers up or ignores the important points of a debate. It is just as bad as watching intelligent debates degrade to anger or degrade to moronic babble. I would seriously like to see more focus on what is important, and less on this kind of crap, as a general rule. Maybe then someone could learn something besides how to be better at being a useless, progress impeding grammar nazi.

I suggest you cease and desist. Then we can all get on with our lives.