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- Shar3Mor3, on 11/10/2009, -0/+27So, the experts were in the dark about this? How dirty can you get, blaming poor hackers because your not cleaning your hardware properly.
- angel.wardriver, on 11/10/2009, -0/+27Sure, they blame hackers for everything.
- JohnnySoftware, on 11/10/2009, -0/+13The huge northern US + southern Canada blackout was traced to lack of some necessary maintenance and a not so good computer-based alert system that.... didn't.
- Falldog, on 11/10/2009, -0/+11My cat just threw up. ***** hackers.
- KiSA, on 11/10/2009, -0/+10Add that to the list of crap 60 minutes has reported as fact.
- ThatsNotPudding, on 11/10/2009, -1/+10Oh, sure they'd say that THEY'RE IN ON IT!!
- wandersfar, on 11/10/2009, -0/+7Their MPAA propaganda last week tried to link torrents to organized crime and now this?
Two fails in as many weeks. Quality journalism, 60 Minutes. - lnxfi, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6WTF is up with the damn top 3 dragon age stories? Did EA give Digg a billion dollars?
It won't go away even with adblock.
I was going to at least check it out... but now F it. - BeesKnees21, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6Actually the US initially pointed their finger at Canada. In the end it was found that First Energy was largely responsible in Ohio as well as other US Distribution companies that failed to take their obligations and responsibilities seriously.
The cause was much more complicated than just maintenance and their computer system, the staff was largely inadequate. They did not plan reactive VAR compensation properly or transmission loading. Protocols were not followed for the huge power swing and they had no planning for system stability. By the time the fault had cascaded over several districts it was impossible to stop. When we're dealing with hundreds of thousands of volts in overvoltage and Gigawatt power swings your breakers will not trip because the ionization of the air will allow the current to pass through with little impedance.
When it came time to start power again batteries had to be sent out of state to start the smaller generators that feed the larger gens. No one had thought that ALL power would ever be removed so the idea to have spare batteries on hand never occurred to them (it takes DC power to start these machines).
You can read the full report here: https://reports.energy.gov/BlackoutFinal-Web.pdf - kingjaydub, on 11/10/2009, -0/+5The Blowfish are guilty by association.
- cybertrust, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4CBS: Still Rather biased. When in doubt, just make it up if it sells ads.
- Joe_rigby, on 11/10/2009, -1/+5In Soviet Russia, high voltage insulators negligently maintain you.
- Paktu, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Never ascribe to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence.
- chrissku, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Nobody likes a snooty insulator. They're rude.
- kingjaydub, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2That's what they want you to believe. Bring on the conspiracy theories.
I personally think Elvis and Tupac did it. - HighlanderBR, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2WOW, new blackout here in Brazil!
- fragMasterFlash, on 11/10/2009, -1/+3Sooty? Nah, I blame Hootie.
- sierrabravo, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2i love hearing about what happened years ago
/s - dromni, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2The U.S. just came out with this bizarre hacker conspiracy theory now. The official conclusion of the Brazilian government, years ago, was that of sootry insulators. So there is no one trying to use hackers as scapegoats, though maybe someone is using them for scaremonging.
- Ghostalker, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2After all, they're all the same...
- rusty0101, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2"All the Brazil power companies are trying to do is hide the fact that it was a failed attempt to bring down the infrastructure by the invading American forces how have long used this technique to bring down local communications systems with their anti-radar chafe." - not a quote from any news or conspiracy source.
Just love how the fact that natural processes can take down our infrastructure, and no matter the real cause it can be linked to some conspiracy or another. - cyssero, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Apparently the game is actually good, but after seeing the ads plastered everywhere I'm not going to look at it.
A game will sell on its own merits, not because you deep throat it down Digg users. - dvsbastard, on 11/10/2009, -4/+3You can use this tool to help protect yourself against this fairly common hack:
http://www.mclendons.com/img/products/10/10215670. ... - RiperSnifle, on 11/10/2009, -4/+1I blame Canada.
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