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- morgrar, on 11/26/2007, -4/+110Would you like to play a game?
- redfox2600, on 11/26/2007, -4/+103Well at least we know how to nuke the Russian, just send 5 missiles at a time.
- danrdanny, on 11/26/2007, -2/+90FTA: "Some 17,000 planes were grounded at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this year because of a software problem."
I'm guessing that LAX can't accommodate 17,000 planes without parking them on the 405. Probably grounded 17,000 nationwide. - Gabberwok, on 11/26/2007, -2/+74Why did they intentionally omit incidents that resulted in the loss of life? I would think those would certainly qualify for biggest IT mistakes of all time...
- acidbass, on 11/26/2007, -2/+46Duh! Money is WAAAAAY more important than human life..... you can buy a kid form cambodia for 5k US$.
- dattaway, on 11/26/2007, -1/+41The Sony battery recall was karma from DRM and getting in bed with the RIAA.
- evodude, on 11/26/2007, -1/+35Well, I think we all owe Lt Col Petrov a giant thank you.
- clubby, on 11/26/2007, -1/+29I think it's so we can laugh at the article rather than sob.
Fun fact: at NASA, they make the software guys eat lunch with the astronauts sometimes. It makes you more careful when you're acquainted with the people your mistakes will kill. - TheHayze, on 11/26/2007, -7/+32Odd, it may be my aging eyes (hah), but I don't see Windows ME on that list. I mean, that was a pretty big disaster.
- swiftheart, on 11/26/2007, -0/+24They actually meant about 17,000 *people*. About 60-80 flights.
There's only about five or six carriers (Delta, United, Continental, Northwest, USAirways) with more than 300 aircraft (Southwest is in 2nd place with 516 and American is first with about 700.) So there's only 3000-4000 airliners nationwide. - Culero, on 11/26/2007, -2/+25Great Scott!!!
- Breepee, on 11/26/2007, -8/+29If you think the IPCC is wrong, then please show us where and how. But please take thse basic things in consideration: burning oil,coals,gas emits CO2. CO2 is a known greenhouse gas. The CO2 we put ourselves in the atmosphere is significant compared to what there already. So it's probably, next to certain, that we're influencing the state of the atmosphere. How is that not something to think about? What will it take to convince you? We can always wait until New Orleans and the Netherlands are finally under water, but why take the chance?
On the other hand, if you are just saying they're wrong, because it's all so damn inconvenient for you, please have the balls to admit it and admit that you don't know jack ***** about the science that went into these IPCC-rapports. - Lazymoon, on 11/26/2007, -0/+19They said they omitted accidents which resulted in loss of lives.
- essjay, on 11/26/2007, -1/+20One of my lecturers in uni always told the story of when he worked on the navigation system for plane. it worked fine until the company tried, in an effort to save money, to port the software over to a different plane with minimum adaptation. Turns out the second plane was significantly faster than the first and it exceeded the set max speed hard coded into the software. Turns out, the navigational software didn't like this and tried to correct it by flying backwards, upside down and maximum speed. One ejected test pilot and a few 100 million later, and a lesson learnt. I have no idea if it's true though.
- grumpyrain, on 11/26/2007, -6/+25Where is Windows ME?
- saifatlast, on 11/26/2007, -2/+19Most of us... I wish I could read... I don't even know what I just wrote!
- brisbin33, on 11/26/2007, -0/+14apologies for being new to digg and only using this new comment system, but i think its a lot better than most comment systems around the net; anyone have examples of better ones?
- cmburns69, on 11/26/2007, -0/+13you're creepy
- IEatHamburgers, on 11/26/2007, -0/+13I'm 18 and I get that... good thing my 6th grade computer teacher decided to show that movie to us in class instead of actually teaching us stuff.
- nicepants, on 11/26/2007, -1/+14#11 - Daylight Savings Time 2007
- John213, on 11/26/2007, -1/+14Well that is QA's job is it not?
- acidbass, on 11/26/2007, -1/+14And the programmer says: Blame QA for not catching the bug before production.
- Zanneth, on 11/26/2007, -1/+13"2. The AT&T network collapse (1990)"
So when are they going to fix it? - Monsis, on 11/26/2007, -1/+13I'm just glad us 'Europeans' can spell.
- diggymow, on 11/26/2007, -0/+12They said they intentionally omitted ones that resulted in loss of life.
- FKnight, on 11/26/2007, -0/+11Yeah, this is heavy.
- GMorgan, on 11/26/2007, -8/+19Nothing to do with computer models. They only predict the consequences. Global warming follows from a very simple equation.
- ElRayQuieres, on 11/26/2007, -2/+12Everyone bitched about the old comment system too. Yeah, this one needs to be fixed up, but reverting to the old one is hardly acceptable.
- ICSU, on 11/26/2007, -0/+10That's why I didn't find Diebold there.
- wtfdan, on 11/26/2007, -0/+10Reddit?
- mokaone, on 11/26/2007, -5/+14WOPR?
- ElPieEater, on 11/26/2007, -0/+9Windows ME killed my inner child.
- TheRealM3D, on 11/26/2007, -1/+10The author is grossly misinformed about Y2K and its implications. There were numerous failures and glitches that occurred all over the planet in major computer systems, but since most critical systems in developed countries were fixed well in advance, the media chose not to report on the existing problems to avoid panic. Air traffic control went down in many places in the US and Europe and a number of nuclear power plants went into emergency shut-down to prevent the possibility of meltdowns. In undeveloped nations in Africa, South America and Asia, there were places that went weeks afterwards without power. No one really noticed because many of those places go without power a lot of the time for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with Y2K.
In short, "nothing happened" because IT professionals spent 18 months or so leading up to the event fixing critical computer systems and because what did happen was hushed up to prevent panic, riots and financial problems. Meanwhile, "nothing happened" in places in the world because affluent North Americans and Europeans don't really think anything happens outside of their own boundaries anyways. - Lazymoon, on 11/26/2007, -0/+9I recall a story of an old radiation therapy machine which had the wrong calculations and over overexposed a number of patients with near-lethal levels of radiation over the course of their treatments. Worrying.
- doubleaught, on 11/26/2007, -0/+7The author neglected to mention they fired the guy who thought it was a software glitch.
- InfamousAtheist, on 11/26/2007, -0/+7Unless... they watch old movies!
I'm 34, so I got it - but you've gotta give the kids (here and elsewhere) more credit. Not much gets by the kids I know. - IEatHamburgers, on 11/26/2007, -0/+7That wasn't an IT disaster, it was a disaster inflicted on IT.
- KyjL, on 11/26/2007, -3/+9I like it a Helluva lot better than the old one. But what I don't like is me being COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF USING OPERA TO COMMENT
***** you Firefox fans, I don't like opening another browser JUST SO I CAN COMMENT. - Dhalgren, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6I had a mechanical engineer professor who always made the comment: "I could never be an aerospace engineer because I always misplace a negative somewhere. All my planes would fly upside down"
- shermeco, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6Did we all for get about the North East black out in 2003
- LeRenard, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6They forgot that simulation tape left in the computers of NORAD which caused them to think there were incoming missiles. Or the Therac thing. Or the power grid collapse in the northeast a few years ago (similar to the phone relay problem) Or the guidance computer on the Eagle having overflow errors during decent (although that was due to human error earlier). There is a lot to learn in analyzing past failures.
- AshamedAmerican, on 11/26/2007, -2/+8How about a nice game of chess?
- Pxtl, on 11/26/2007, -1/+7Yeah - Therac-25 was conspicuously absent.
- LimeParrot, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5That's what I was thinking. The dude is my hero...
- inactive, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5Diebold's massive vote fraud?
- dakilla91, on 11/26/2007, -6/+11How about a nice game of chess?
- orlyfactor, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5Hell, I'd piss on the spark plug if I though it would fix it.
- RikkiTikki, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5You're sort of right, if you're talking on a time scale of a few hundred thousand years. More CO2 in the air makes it warmer, therefore causing more chemical reactions to take place (rain emptying the CO2 in the air to carbonate rock in the ocean) and the earth cooling off. Google the earth's CO2 cycle to learn more. In fact, now that I think about it, you have no idea what you're talking about.
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