[GLLUG] Microsoft may have had a role in the Gulf oil rig disaster

[Stanley C. Mortel]

Isn't this just peachy!!!
> The chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig has
> testified that a computer on the rig that monitored and controlled
> drilling operations had been freezing up and experiencing the blue
> screen of death before the rig's explosion that marked the beginning of
> the oil leak in the Gulf Coast.  The freezes meant the driller did not
> have access to necessary information about the well.  Michael Williams,
> who is a former Marine, also said that the safety alarm aboard the
> deepwater horizon had been switched to a bypass mode to avoid waking
> sleeping crew members.  The safety alarm was to alert the crew to
> dangerous levels of combustible gases.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179595/Tech_worker_testifies_of_blue_screen_of_death_on_oil_rig_s_computer?taxonomyId=83
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072305419.html?hpid=topnews

Stan