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BSOD Issues On Deepwater Horizon

Posted by Soulskill on from the blue-screen-of-literal-death dept.

ctdownunder passes along this excerpt from a NY Times article about a rig worker's testimony concerning the April 20 accident at the Deepwater Horizon well: "The emergency alarm on the Deepwater Horizon was not fully activated on the day the oil rig caught fire and exploded, triggering the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a rig worker on Friday told a government panel investigating the accident. ... On Friday, Mr. Williams added several new details about the equipment on the vessel, testifying that another Transocean official turned a critical system for removing dangerous gas from the drilling shack to 'bypass mode.' When he questioned that decision, Mr. Williams said, he was reprimanded. ... Problems existed from the beginning of drilling the well, Mr. Williams said. For months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what the crew deemed the 'blue screen of death.' 'It would just turn blue,' he said. 'You’d have no data coming through.' Replacement hardware had been ordered but not yet installed by the time of the disaster, he said." The article doesn't mention whether it was specifically a Windows BSOD, or just an error screen that happened to be blue.

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  1. Re:BSOD by DWMorse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Futurama quotes in obvious jest will mod your posts flamebait! Hah!

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  2. Re:They didn't fix a lot of things by spun · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How about down with self-serving bureaucracy? you know, the kind that insulates its ideology from reality so much that everyone else is left holding the resulting inevitable calamity.

    This is exactly why I don't vote Republican.

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  3. Re:They didn't fix a lot of things by spun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't realize Bush W. was a Democrat.

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  4. Re:Cutting corners is the name of the game by plopez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you're off topic. monetary and budget policy isn't what my post was about.

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  5. Re:They didn't fix a lot of things by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I prefer the term "Republicrat". What he did to expand spending and government should earn him an honorary induction into the Democrat Hall of Fame. :)

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  6. Re:They didn't fix a lot of things by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    U.S. law does not apply in Australian waters. Australian law does. How about we stick to what we are discussing: U.S. Law.

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