(01-13-2018 09:45 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(01-13-2018 09:21 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Just heard that the government employee who pressed the button to send the emergency alert not only had to hit that button but also would've received a pop-up saying "are you sure you want to send this" after hitting the initial send button.

Hitting a first button and then also having to hit a confirmation button before sending the emergency text sends doesn't sound like an accident to me.

I think it may have been a hack. But it has happened before due to operator error.

A weapons scientist made the point today that we saw an example of what happens when a Cold War era system meets 21st century technology. There have been a lot of close calls in the past that never got out publicly. This wasn't a close call, but turned into a public relations nightmare for an entire state. In a sense, it's the scariest event for a population center since the Cuban Missile Crisis, even though there actually was zero danger whatsoever outside of people doing really stupid things as they attempted to take cover.

Trump was golfing and he knew immediately that Hawaii was safe. You know the pompadour had his phone on him. Why not tweet that? For 38 minutes people in Hawaii suffered. Out of all things that guy tweets he couldn’t tweet Hawaii was ok?

TDS needs a warning broadcast.

Wtf...... how can you defend that. Honestly. No snippets about TDS. How can one be so self centered not to put out a tweet that Hawaii is ok form what he has been told? Honest answer. You can’t defend it. He was too concerned with his sand wedge? Was having a bad round?

Defend that? I would love to see anyone try.

Incoming!!!!

So they're announcing on the news on TV that they are suspending the EAS system in Hawaii pending investigation.

Now why the heck would they announce that? Kim's listening.

We are being led by morons.

(01-14-2018 10:23 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  So they're announcing on the news on TV that they are suspending the EAS system in Hawaii pending investigation.

Now why the heck would they announce that? Kim's listening.

We are being led by morons.

You are being led by the nose by people who's business model counts on morons.

Hey Kim Jung Un..... we are shutting down our activation systems........


Hey bank robbers........ we are shutting down our alarms........


You do it. You don’t broadcast it.

#beingledbypeoplewhoflunked3rdgrade

(01-14-2018 11:24 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Hey Kim Jung Un..... we are shutting down our activation systems........


Hey bank robbers........ we are shutting down our alarms........


You do it. You don’t broadcast it.

#beingledbypeoplewhoflunked3rdgrade

Surf's up, Mach.

(01-14-2018 10:23 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  So they're announcing on the news on TV that they are suspending the EAS system in Hawaii pending investigation.

Now why the heck would they announce that? Kim's listening.

We are being led by morons.

No, Hawaii is lead by morons. Democratic morons.

What liberal Democrat leadership leads to....

A worker in a bureaucracy made a mistake. Mistakes happen. Now..What are the bureaucrats going to do to see that it never happens again?

I can about predict the solutions.... Additional manuals and educational videos on button pushing procedures and retraining modules set up...redundancy's set up with at least one new employee to overlook the button pusher...CCTV cameras installed and video recording of the button pushing with an uplink to the supervisory bureaucrat. New national conference in Las Vegas for the supervisors of button pushers initiated. In other words...MORE bureaucratic nonsense.

My solution....Install a $2 hard cover over that button that has to be removed in order to push it.

(01-14-2018 12:10 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  A worker in a bureaucracy made a mistake. Mistakes happen. Now..What are the bureaucrats going to do to see that it never happens again?

I can about predict the solutions.... Additional manuals and educational videos on button pushing procedures and retraining modules set up...redundancy's set up with at least one new employee to overlook the button pusher...CCTV cameras installed and video recording of the button pushing with an uplink to the supervisory bureaucrat. New national conference in Las Vegas for the supervisors of button pushers initiated. In other words...MORE bureaucratic nonsense.

My solution....Install a $2 hard cover over that button that has to be removed in order to push it.

To authorize he warning not only did the button have to be pushed but also a confirmation window comes up reading "are you sure you want to send this?" that has to be clicked to deploy. There are two stages to activating the alert so the system already has a fail-safe.

No way this was an inadvertent error by some underling. It was either done on purpose or their system was hacked.

(01-14-2018 12:24 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(01-14-2018 12:10 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  A worker in a bureaucracy made a mistake. Mistakes happen. Now..What are the bureaucrats going to do to see that it never happens again?

I can about predict the solutions.... Additional manuals and educational videos on button pushing procedures and retraining modules set up...redundancy's set up with at least one new employee to overlook the button pusher...CCTV cameras installed and video recording of the button pushing with an uplink to the supervisory bureaucrat. New national conference in Las Vegas for the supervisors of button pushers initiated. In other words...MORE bureaucratic nonsense.

My solution....Install a $2 hard cover over that button that has to be removed in order to push it.

To authorize he warning not only did the button have to be pushed but also a confirmation window comes up reading "are you sure you want to send this?" that has to be clicked to deploy. There are two stages to activating the alert so the system already has a fail-safe.

No way this was an inadvertent error by some underling. It was either done on purpose or their system was hacked.

Seems strange...but...
Never underestimate the ability of underlings to make multiple mistakes at once. Ive watched them in industry do it for 33 years. The sheer lack of common sense in many people never ceases to amaze me.

Wait for it.

This will be used as a way for the idiot left to segway into arguing that the outgoing nuclear codes are too easy to mess up as well.

Watch. It will come up this week in some media outlet.

(01-14-2018 12:30 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(01-14-2018 12:24 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(01-14-2018 12:10 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  A worker in a bureaucracy made a mistake. Mistakes happen. Now..What are the bureaucrats going to do to see that it never happens again?

I can about predict the solutions.... Additional manuals and educational videos on button pushing procedures and retraining modules set up...redundancy's set up with at least one new employee to overlook the button pusher...CCTV cameras installed and video recording of the button pushing with an uplink to the supervisory bureaucrat. New national conference in Las Vegas for the supervisors of button pushers initiated. In other words...MORE bureaucratic nonsense.

My solution....Install a $2 hard cover over that button that has to be removed in order to push it.

To authorize he warning not only did the button have to be pushed but also a confirmation window comes up reading "are you sure you want to send this?" that has to be clicked to deploy. There are two stages to activating the alert so the system already has a fail-safe.

No way this was an inadvertent error by some underling. It was either done on purpose or their system was hacked.

Seems strange...but...
Never underestimate the ability of underlings to make multiple mistakes at once. Ive watched them in industry do it for 33 years. The sheer lack of common sense in many people never ceases to amaze me.

I can easily see this as a stupid mistake regardless of a confirmation step.
The vast majority of problems like this are simple human error.

What I don't want to see is some attempt to idiot proof everything such that a real threat warning is missed by over complicating a simple decision. For example, some Hawaiian officials mentioned a change to require at least two people to initiate the warning. So what happens when one of them has to take a piss? Simple things cause the problems not some conspiracy.

Just makes you all warm and fuzzy that we have a steady hand at the ship..... no? You can’t expect Donnie J a Trump to be a proficient steward in times of duress. Donnie wouldn’t ever fly off the handle.... no?

BWAHAHA!

Too easy.

(01-14-2018 12:43 PM)Siborg Wrote:  

(01-14-2018 12:30 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(01-14-2018 12:24 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(01-14-2018 12:10 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  A worker in a bureaucracy made a mistake. Mistakes happen. Now..What are the bureaucrats going to do to see that it never happens again?

I can about predict the solutions.... Additional manuals and educational videos on button pushing procedures and retraining modules set up...redundancy's set up with at least one new employee to overlook the button pusher...CCTV cameras installed and video recording of the button pushing with an uplink to the supervisory bureaucrat. New national conference in Las Vegas for the supervisors of button pushers initiated. In other words...MORE bureaucratic nonsense.

My solution....Install a $2 hard cover over that button that has to be removed in order to push it.

To authorize he warning not only did the button have to be pushed but also a confirmation window comes up reading "are you sure you want to send this?" that has to be clicked to deploy. There are two stages to activating the alert so the system already has a fail-safe.

No way this was an inadvertent error by some underling. It was either done on purpose or their system was hacked.

Seems strange...but...
Never underestimate the ability of underlings to make multiple mistakes at once. Ive watched them in industry do it for 33 years. The sheer lack of common sense in many people never ceases to amaze me.

I can easily see this as a stupid mistake regardless of a confirmation step.
The vast majority of problems like this are simple human error.

What I don't want to see is some attempt to idiot proof everything such that a real threat warning is missed by over complicating a simple decision. For example, some Hawaiian officials mentioned a change to require at least two people to initiate the warning. So what happens when one of them has to take a piss? Simple things cause the problems not some conspiracy.

We have a "clipped" flip over button cover on one of our machines at work. If pushed?...It shuts down the machine in a manner that destroys the product currently in the machine but essentially saves critical components from overheating and damaging the machine. The operator has to pull the clip and flip over the cover to push this button. Something like this is all they need. No need for additional bureaucratic involvement. The simplest and most cost effective solution is generally one using common sense solutions.

Ill bet right now...The answer to this will costly and unnecessary. That is how government grows. It knows no other way than to expand beyond its original scope to solve even the simplest problems.