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'IT Issue' Grounded All United Airlines Flights In The US (nbcnews.com)
For two and a half hours -- no take-offs. An anonymous reader quotes NBC News:
All of United Airlines' domestic flights were grounded Sunday night because of a computer outage, the Federal Aviation Administration said as scores of angry travelers sounded off on social media... U.S. officials told NBC News that the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, had issues with low bandwidth. No further explanation was immediately available for what United described only as "an IT issue."
An hour ago United tweeted that they'd finally lifted the stop and were "working to get flights on their way." 66 flights were cancelled just at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, the Chicago Department of Aviation told the Associated Press, and though the article doesn't identify the total number of flights affected, "Chicago-based United Airlines and United Express operate more than 4,500 flights a day to 339 airports across five continents."
An hour ago United tweeted that they'd finally lifted the stop and were "working to get flights on their way." 66 flights were cancelled just at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, the Chicago Department of Aviation told the Associated Press, and though the article doesn't identify the total number of flights affected, "Chicago-based United Airlines and United Express operate more than 4,500 flights a day to 339 airports across five continents."
Gotta love rebooting when MS wants you to reboot.
I love reading when a company that is critical dependent on their IT infrastructure to function, cuts as many corners (and jobs) as possible in IT to save a buck, then has it all blow up in their face.
Target, Home Depot, United, Yahoo, etc.....they'll save millions, until they end up losing billions.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
How exactly airplane accidents being at an all time low is a result of capitalism? Are you one of these crazy people who worship capitalism as a deity?
Airplane accidents don't happen that often anymore because of strict regulations and aircraft being generally more intelligent. Capitalism has directly caused a lot of accidents, like Alaska Airlines Flight 261 (airline was too cheap for proper maintenance), Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (manufacturer was too cheap to fix a known design error), American Airlines Flight 191 (again, airline too cheap to do proper maintenance), JAL Flight 123 (yep, again maintenance) and so on. Yay capitalism. Same goes for delays and lost luggage, by the way. Strict regulations making it difficult for the airlines to weasel themselves out have helped, not capitalism.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Non-sequitor. We haven't nuked anything, and not for events much more egregious than preventing takeoffs of a single major airline which experienced a rather trivial IT outage - the type of thing that has happened all-too-often at the airlines without any outside interference.
You missed the sarcasm.
Under 8 years of Obama, the US completely ignored hacking by China and Russia - China stole the entire OPM database of cleared US government workers, and Obama did nothing. No response at all.
Hell, Obama knew about Russian hacking of the DNC last summer - and did nothing. Why the hell do you think the Russians thought they could get away with hacking the DNC? Because Obama had let it happen for years.. Obama didn't even bother with some bogus "red line" threat of retaliation.
"OMG RUSSIAN HACKING!!!" didn't become a big deal until Hillary needed an excuse.