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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.
Anon tweet last night:
"Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street.... we can only hope."
https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/618626955433349120
You could be right. KB2952664 this morning left some of our Windows servers unable to boot. Microsoft claims it is supposed to be only for Windows 7 SP1, but we're seeing it installed on servers. I'm sick of having servers go down nearly every week because of bad updates. We have automatic updates disabled, but Microsoft still sneaks the updates in.
"from their own stupidity and greed" should be written as "from their own greed." Stupid is not what you call people making centi-millions off the rest of us.
Did you mean by "centi-millions" tens of thousands (correct meaning of centi-) or hundreds of millions (should be hecto-)?
I hate to be "that guy", but if the latter, it's the second time I've seen centi- used to mean hundreds instead of hundredths in less than a week.
However, one of those scenes is a very dramatic shot of the escalators stopping.
Go back and watch that scene again. I think it got cut out of the 4:3 version of the DVD, but you can briefly see that at the bottom of the escalators the terrorists had placed signs that read "NO WALKING UP ESCALATORS".
Not so funny anymore, is it?