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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.
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!
Are you sure it just wasn't unintentionally DDOSed by millions of day-traders wondering what happened to the NYSE?
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
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.
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.
Look at the timing more closely -- was this tweeted after the Chinese markets had already crashed? One could easily predict that today would have been bad for Wall Street regardless of any crash.