BSOD on Deepwater Horizon

ctdownunder writes: "The emergency alarm on the Deepwater Horizon was not fully activated on the day the oil rig caught fire and exploded, triggering the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a rig worker on Friday told a government panel investigating the accident...Problems existed from the beginning of drilling the well...[f]or months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what the crew deemed the blue screen of death." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/us/24hearings.html?hp