No Power In The East

[Pissed_Macman]

I'm trying not to crack up because I know a lot of bad stuff is going to happen there when the sun goes down, but it's so damn funny because New Yorkers are always saying they wish LA and Seattle would fall into the ocean whenever there's an earthquake.

[mobrien_12]

Do they really say that?

[Stilly]

this makes me laugh because all us gun carrying, death sentencing rednecks down here in Texas have our own special power grid          

[avello500]

your in texas. sorry to hear that.
hows your ass feeling? j/k

[Stilly]

I was watching the news channel and they got their power back

and I didn't hear of any looting either

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: The Stiller ]

[M51DPS]

I'm over in North East Ohio, smack in the middle of the power outage. It really sucked because it was hot yesterday, meaning I no longer had fans. Mine went out around 4:30, then didn't come back until sometime around 10:30. According to the news 3 people died (two in New York and one in Canada) and they don't know what caused the blackout (they've been talking about technical error, fires, lightning, and even government conspiracy). All of the sudden bush's solution to the national energy crisis doesn't seem to be working. Plus he said in his speech that he sees no need to modernize the power grid. Somehow, I don't trust him.

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]

[Canadian Lover]

guuess what else?

alot of New Yorkers and Toronto citizins got stuck on there subways for 7 hours! I'm trying not to laugh eather!!!

[M51DPS]

Hey, was anybody else hit by the blackout? At all?

[jasonlane]

Have they decided how it actually happend yet?

I hear something about the telephone communications between the control centers and powers stations. Was this just a lack of communication or was the system actually down.

If it was fried was M$ to blame, for example Blaster brought down the 311 telephone network in NY earlier that day, no?

[Calum]

interestingly areas where microsoft computers control mission critical parts of the grid were affected by blackouts at times coincidental with the msblast outbreak. areas where BSD and QNX are responsible for mission critical parts were unaffected, as would of course be expected, or at least i have heard it said...


http://promote-opensource.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=204
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/333505

[jasonlane]

Hmmm, you would hope that mission critical systems would be running on something like QNX and not M$ crap.

But then again if the system failed ultimately because of non-critical systems, i.e the ability to coordinate the working of the grid through a crumby communicatons network, then perhaps M$ will get taken to the cleaners.

[lavacube]

My god please! *prays that M$ get's fucked*

[CommonSense]

MES Headquarters (aka my house) in Parlin (aka Sayreville, home of the ho-hum John Bon Jovi), New Jersey had an outage that lasted all of about five seconds on Thursday afternoon.  We're mainly on the PJM power grid, which serves NJ, PA, Maryland, DC, and some other areas.

Not all NY-area people want California and Seattle to fall off into the ocean; I personally love California and would rather be there.

Seattle, on the other hand . . . (shrug)  And Texas, for that matter . . . let 'em secede, like they've always wanted to.

Plus, we'd be rid of Microsoft.  And Bush.  Then America might actually have a chance of being a real democracy.  You know, like Canada (aka What America Was Supposed To Be).

[Pissed_Macman]

Oh yes, Canada, a great democracy where the government can pressure private radio stations to take completely harmless radio shows off the air. Yeah...

[Laukev7]

quote:Originally posted by Macman:
Oh yes, Canada, a great democracy where the government can pressure private radio stations to take completely harmless radio shows off the air. Yeah...

Ever read the Patriot act?

Oh, and check this out:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

[ August 20, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev 7.5 ]