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Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading
mitcheli writes: In short order, some major outages occurred [Wednesday] morning. First United Airlines reported a system wide grounding of all flights due to "technical difficulties" with little details to follow. Following that, the New York Stock Exchange reported "technical difficulties" while suspending all trading. While initial reports on NYSE state that there is no malicious activity as a result of the outage, few details have been released at this time. "NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols. Additional information will follow as soon as possible," the NYSE said in a statement on its status page.
The rest were just "sons of glitches".
The Wall Street Journal website went down about the same time.
Thanks, OpenSSL. Mark my words.
It was about time.... more to come people...
FIRST!
Treat the stock market like a casino, and you'll be OK.
I bet it is more than just technical glitches...
More to come people, in the mean time, keep paying attention to the TV telling you how good our economy is....
Penetration malware goes public, now this?
This is why I don't let my servers get automatic updates. :-D
...as long as John McClane isn't a fictional character...
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Some clueless office jockey rolled his chair over the intertube to the Internet. Happens all the time.
This is really scary, and it seems like a lot of people don't even think about it at all.
Think about it. Some entity somewhere gets into multiple infrastructure systems, shuts down power, water, gas, takes down key sites like facebook and twitter so people can't communicate, stuff like that. Then, on top of that panic multiple attacks around the country at nearly same time.
Just the confusion and panic alone would be scarring to most people.
"Nah, that'll never happen", maybe not, but holy shit, imagine if it did.
Seems like something major is happening. Someone declare war on the Internets?
IT'S HAPPENING!
We'd all be safe from this calamity if the traitor John Snowden hadn't sold our country's secrets to the Soviets.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
A wake-up call to politicians that the security back doors they continue to foist upon everything can be used against them. I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be an attack from Anonymous just to demonstrate that point.
I just checked my bank account, and I have about $4,000,000,000 more or so than I did yesterday ... for some reason. So I'll be happy to take care of some inconveniences this may cause. I just have to go out and, um, buy a few things first.
Saw some amazon data services and liverail outages on the east coast, maybe that's near root cause?
... which is Southern New Jersey. Can log in but cannot enter profiles.
Leap second strikes again
https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/618626955433349120
Why did it took so long Slashdot? This is old news already.
I warned them about upgrading to the beta of Windows 10, but they refused to listen.
Just go back to jumping into frame and making funny remarks, Johnny!
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
QFT
...welcome our new Skynet overlord.
Routeing loop took down United
If NYSE is down to "technical" reasons it's because one or more of the high-frequency-theft algorithms has lost its shit again and messed everything up.
Mark my words, this will be about protecting the clowns who are skimming off the top from their own stupidity and greed.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
please do not sell your chini stocks or fly to somewhere you still can.
Interestingly enough, trading--even of NYSE listings--seems to be continuing along just fine without the NYSE.
It's almost enough to make people start to wonder aloud whether or not they're still relevant.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
I sure hope these hacks make flight prices cheap!
systemd is the entity
This is to protect from the rush to dump Chinese stock. There might be no honor amongst thieves, but this is a professional courtesy.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Trillions of dollars have been wiped off the Chinese stock market recently, there are endless tails of high level breaches and some different headlines - even just for a day - would be mighty helpful to the Chinese authorities.
The military rule for mishaps, that I read somewhere, goes like this:
Are we sure, there are only two major problems today?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
They hate the Chinese so they are not preventing Americans from removing their money from their stock exchange scam to buy Chinese stocks. Those stocks are very nicely priced so any rational person would want to move money out of the Republican-controlled US and into a better market. The Republicans screwing us over hard. They know if they can keep us poor that their plan to stack us like cord wood at Gitmo will be more likely to succeed.
Abdullahfarozammarokudammafuckacamel called from windows and told me I had a virus, he fixed my PC for $475 per year.
You wonder how the next attack on the US will happen? Just look at what happens when computers go down because of whatever reason. Its result is still the same.
Attacks on our commerce is the best and most effective way to hurt the US or any major developed Country. When money starts coming out of the markets and economy you have very bad results. Even if its a short term issue, the results can be significant especially since the US is still in a unstable state in our economy.
Yes, things have become better, but at a snails pace and practical any disruption of this recovery can have a negative impact. It makes sense to attack our stock markets, transportation, communications and banking. Take Greece as an example of how quickly people make a run on banks at just the thought of a collapse of their economy. Plus add in 20% unemployment and you have a Country on the verge of bankruptcy. The US is not so sound that a Greece could not happen.
This would be funny except Ron Paul had said:
"My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy."
See, i am not even a stalwart Ron Paul guy, but I do respect him a political philosopher. The feel of the idea seemed off to me, so I did an entire 10 sec of Google searching to check. It is easy to hate and disparage others, because you were told to. It is harder not be a lap dog and think for yourself.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
Apparently Skynet goes live July 8th 2015, though in this timeline it's an evolution of flash trading algorithms rather than a DoD project. In a panic they shut down the exchange.....
The fully electronic portion of the NYSE is called ARCA.
ARCA didn't go down. The NYSE floor went down.
Only the NYSE floor was taken off line.
ARCA, the electronic trading part of the NYSE stayed on line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYSE_Arca
Went there to make a withdrawal during lunch and they where doing everything by paper & pencil. $300 max withdrawal. They said it was a problem with a 'Global Internet Provider, the same one used by the airlines that are down.'
I guess the ominous fiber-cable cutters finally found the right cable to cut.
Someone switched the DNS where all the Wall Street clients went to United servers and vice versa. It's the simple things in life with cloud computing that make you chuckle.
All Your Base Are Belong to Us.
* Carthago Delenda Est *
Except Snowden gave the information to everyone, US and foreign.
Riddle me this: How do you give it to the American People WITHOUT also giving it to everyone else, US and foreign?
Do you REALLY think 321 million people can keep a secret?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
...that nmoone is dumb enough to believe that this was a "technical-glitch"
and was in no way related to the China collapse of their exchange. -- hey,
Trump would agree...
People think it's over with and gone but it's not gone, I saw it in the woods a few minutes ago.
Linux in the Enterprise isn't fault tolerant.
He could have released only information related to NSA activities involving US domestic concerns but instead he released classified information related to the NSA foreign activities. Activities that are 100% legal under long standing US law and in accordance with the organizations mandate. He violated the US Espionage act in just about every way possible. And although it is not against any law he is has shown himself to be quite an idiot. If he was smart he could have found a way to release the information anonymously but he wanted to be a rock star. He could have traveled to one of the South American paradises for asylum before he dumped the information but he didn't and thus he ended up living under the watchful eye of one of the most repressive security services in the world. He and his pet journalists also took it upon themselves to be the final arbiters of what foreign intelligence information was safe to release. Why should anyone trust these people with that type of power? These same people have also been granted the power to cherry pick what information they release and when they release it. They release the information for political effect and keep their names on the news. Make no mistake. The journalists handling the information have profited and bolstered their careers for their efforts.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-01-31
Repeating this fascist crap over and over doesn't make it true.
I am one of the biggest supporters of Snowden on this site. What he said is true. However, I accept the loss and think it was worth it to have had the other information released. I think he should be pardoned. However, he did break the law. It does not even need a trial - you can judge for yourself. I think his breaking the law was justified and that a judge or jury should refuse to find him guilty. You can say that he is not guilty because he has not been tried. That does not mean he did not break the law. Courts do not find you innocent - they find you not guilty. He is as guilty as they come but should not be prosecuted.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Are you a fucked-up piece of shit in real life, or do you just play one on Slashdot?
Bean counters consider engineers and IT workers to be fungible, so they like to boost quarterly profits by getting rid of experienced company employees and filling the seats with much less expensive and less experienced contractors who don't fully understand the jobs they are filling. No idea if that's what happened at NYSE and United, but I've seen it happen other places and result in "glitches".
about the New York Stock Exchange
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
I just checked my bank account, and I have about $4,000,000,000 more or so than I did yesterday ... for some reason. So I'll be happy to take care of some inconveniences this may cause. I just have to go out and, um, buy a few things first.
I guess a few billion here, a few billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it