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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
So, I guess we can blame climate change?
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...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.
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
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.
... robotic poll dancers...
huh whaaa? You're kidding, right? I never even dreamed of such a thing. Now my life seems strangely empty.
Unless it's Russian robotic poll dancers : the next phase in the war on the American voting process.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
The article's headline calls it a 2-hour blackout, so by that metric, /. editors know math a little better than CNET.
Nah, that sounds more like Scotty from the Enterprise. He always told Kirk that a repair would take longer than it actually did so he would look like a miracle worker.
"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!