Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment but wait, there's more! (Score 1) 35

in their haste to notify people, Mass emcon folks sent out an emergency alert via either IPAWS/EAS to the entire region (including other states) that the 911 system was down - causing those states to also activate IPAWS/EAS for their regions telling constituents to "PLEASE DISREGARD THE EMERGENCY ALERT THAT WAS RECIEVED. THIS WAS SENT BY ANOTHER STATE. MAINE'S 911 SYSTEM IS FULLY OPERATIONAL".

Sitting in a routine state emergency services committee meeting and having everyones phones detonate/alert was amusing.

Comment Re:structural failure can result (Score 1) 51

that airplane lost hydraulics after a unsatisfactory repair cause the tail to separate, emptied all 4 hydraulic systems, and decompressed the aircraft. With hypoxic pilots, a missing primary flight control structure, and minimal controls...dutch rolls were inevitable, but not the proximate cause of the crash.

Slashdot Top Deals

If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real good, you will get out of it.

Working...