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Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Nearly 2 Hours (cnet.com)
A major power outage brought a major portion of the Consumer Electronics Show in the Las Vegas Center to a standstill for nearly 2 hours today. The lights went out at around 11:13 a.m. PT, just as the second day of CES 2018 was ramping up, and didn't turn back on until around 12:34 p.m. PT. CNET reports: It came a day after more than an inch of rain fell in Las Vegas, which caused flash flooding in the desert city. (Wednesday's weather is clear and warm, and it's unclear if the power outage was at all related.) The first reports of the blackout came from the convention center's Central Hall, which houses the giant booths for show mainstays including Sony, Samsung, LG and Intel -- though Samsung's booth still had limited electricity thanks to its own private backup power. By noon, security guards were refusing entry to parts of the Convention Center. The website of Nevada Energy, the power provider, listed the cause of the problem as "customer-owned electrical equipment."
So now 1h 21m is nearly two hours?
Anyway, I find that hilarious, but of course I wasn't there. As long as no one was hurt, we can all laugh.
How about? Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Just Over and Hour
Ho the fuck is 1 hour 15 min close to two hours....
Go back to doing what you are good at squeezing zits and flipping burgers!!!
Beau! Hey man! Your eeeevil arch enemies, the RUSSIANS, did it. MSNBC told me so!
Since when 1 hour and 21 minutes is "nearly two hours"? I hope you didn't write any of the software installed on my machines.
So, I guess we can blame climate change?
Dark Reflection
...are all now sitting there with big grins and expecting a huge increase in traffic.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I guess emergency power isn't needed now that everything is in the cloud.
... where availability is compromised by some attacker flooding your flash storage with spurious data :-)
Dem hackers sure can hack them computer systems.
Looks like you are not so high tech after all. Time to go back to water power.
Yeah, They probably had windows upgrades pending. My last one took several hours because I disable svshost.exe's access to the internet until I want to update.
Cause by rain yeah!, did anyone check to see where George Clooney was at the time?
all the backup power is for the slots and tables
...says the BeauHD fake account... auto tag -1 Troll ... you belong with the rest (APK,creimer and all) of what make Slashdot a cancerous place.
Takes a lot longer than two hours to dry a conference room floor but not much longer than that to bug and rip. Remember what kind of people attend these things. We need video.
Please stop with this crap.
It was not "Nearly 2 hrs", it wasn't even one and a half.
Whoever runs Slashdot thesedays is doing a shit job. If you keep this crap up you might as turn Slashdot into a clickbait kitten pic site.
Fuck off, this site's become a joke.
Why does Samsung have their own power? Are the electronics too sensitive and the convention center grid is too noisy?
Not one joke about the the lack of power to the robotic poll dancers? You guys are slipping.
Just looking at the president's schedule, it seems trump had 90 minutes of "executive time," just when this hit so I'' bet twitter's Nevada data center pulled down the grid due to some juvenile emotional outburst form DC.
....Or not
You mean All the backup power is for sluts and booth babelicious babes
Said it would take 4 hours but it only took 2
Hasn't anyone here seen Oceans Eleven?
Yea yea yea. Or forgotten it as yet another George Cloney / Brad Pitt / Matt Damon / Andy Garcia / Julia Roberts / Elliot Gould / Casey Affleck / Carl Reiner / Wayne Newton / Eydie Gormé / Angie Dickinson / Steve Lawrence vehicle.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
But the rain had been over for nearly 20 hours at that point. Why did the water take so long to short that transformer? On the other hand it is entirely believable that the roof leaked into that transformer room, since it was leaking everywhere else in the convention center. Apparently whomever built the thing didn't understand water at all.
I read the internet for the articles.
There might be some cash missing.
Canâ(TM)t keep the lights on
Backdoored products that nobody will ever trust anymore
Traitor imbecile President
Soon, hyperinflation from a currency so weak the only value is its absorbency to wipe your butt
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(sorry for using a Brand name. No ill intent.)
"Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Nearly 2 Hours"
"The lights went out at around 11:13 a.m. PT, just as the second day of CES 2018 was ramping up, and didn't turn back on until around 12:34 p.m. PT".
So power was out for an hour and 21 minutes, not "nearly 2 hours". If they weren't ready to hit the ground running when the power came back on, that's their problem.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
No wonder, electricity providers are still operating with 60s tech..if they "modernized", typically it is the same way as Edison did. How about investing in that rather than a pointless border wall?
I can see it now, next year's show will be filled with companies eager to show off this new product called a flashlight, where you can carry the light of the sun around in your hand where ever you go. It will be bigger than plastic!
actually this was a scheduled event so that that makers of 'consumer electronics' would know how it feels to talk to "Steve" from the USA when dealing with product issues......