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Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading

Posted by samzenpus on from the skynet-has-become-selfaware dept.

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.

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  1. United was due to glitches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The rest were just "sons of glitches".

  2. Patch Tuesday by Salo2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why I don't let my servers get automatic updates. :-D

  3. Re:This triggers my WW3 theories. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And imagine if a cloud of Space AIDS enveloped the solar system and mutated into a super-intelligent race of eyeball-eating beetles and took over the Earth. Holy shit, we have a lot of preparing to do!

  4. Leap Second by watermark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leap second strikes again

  5. Re:Ron Paul was right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know nothing John Snowden :P

  6. Re: Just the beginning by SlithyMagister · · Score: 4, Funny

    My TV doesn't tell me that, it tells me it's flat, with some bad indicators.

    My TV is also flat, but the indicators all work

  7. Re:This triggers my WW3 theories. by njnnja · · Score: 5, Funny

    Speaking of Die Hard and "key sites" like facebook, one of my favorite scenes in any movie is in the first Die Hard when the terrorists shut down the building, there are a bunch of cut scenes to big locks engaging and the building going into lockdown. However, one of those scenes is a very dramatic shot of the escalators stopping. Because of course that would prevent anybody from getting to the next level of the building. Similarly, if Facebook and Twitter were shut down, only the totally clueless would be hindered in any meaningful way.

    Facebook and Twitter - the escalators of the internet.

  8. Now we finally know when! by blue9steel · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.....

  9. Re:This triggers my WW3 theories. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What if we make the up escalator go down and the down escalator go up? What are you going to do now smartass?