A recent report in the New York Times details a myriad issues that led up to
the eventual explosion that started the mess known as the "BP oil spill," but
aside from obvious mishandling of warnings and red flags, one particular issue
was troubling those working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig long before April
20th. Mike Williams, the rig's chief electronics technician, has come forward
with a multitude of icky details surrounding the negligence that was involved
in the catastrophe, with the one most germane to our discussion being the
following: "For months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what
the crew called the Blue Screen of Death." Williams continued, noting that "it
would just turn blue," with "no data coming through." Of course, it's not as if
BSODs are totally uncommon out in the working world -- Microsoft's Windows
powers the vast majority of systems that corporations rely on daily -- but this
one rubs just a wee bit differently. Hit the source link for the full spill.
[Image courtesy of Ultrasaurus]
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