"Welcome to Friday the 13th," says DHS Secretary Mullins, explaining there's no connection between the FAA communications system failure and the Microsoft outage.
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Transportation Secretary Duffy announces that the FAA has lifted the nationwide air stop.
"TDM analog system got overloaded with data," according to Transportation Secretary Duffy.
@newsguyusa What he didn’t say: “…when we installed our new AI traffic controller software.”
@newsguyusa this reminds me very much of the excuses of the BOFH!
@newsguyusa he has not the slightest idea what he is talking about, obviously
"TDM ... "
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"analog?" .... Did ... um ... did they deploy this SMART "AI" system on, uh, a 1990s-era telephony switch network?
Like, something built on a frontier AI model that has to burn through an entire city's water supply and is deployed in a "cloud" of hyperscale DCs was left to communicate across all nodes in a national ATC network over ... something that uses a "TDM analog system"?
1992 is revoking your token allowance until you figure out what "56kbps" was.
Like, I'm an idiot no-nothing about this system but this woke up a brain cell from 2nd year "Network Theory Fundamentals" or something and I am just ..
The BEST way that sentence can be interpreted is that these political goobs have no effin clue what words mean and this is pure bullshit, not even real "spin".
Because every other reason can only come down to "criminally incompetent at every level".
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"TDM analog system got overloaded with data,".... From the SMART "ai" system they turned on yesterday...?!
@newsguyusa did anyone ask the most important questions:
- What made today’s amount of ATC data different than any other day’s?
- Why would the system be overloaded?
- Were there some excessive ‘extra’ number of flights?
@newsguyusa That's a meaningless answer. The data has to come from somewhere. Something they did when configuring the systems was not planned or deployed properly. They must have known the capacities of the newer and legacy equipment. They haven't said that there was a "failure" of equipment per se. This was very likely a planning and/or deployment failure.
@lauren @newsguyusa Technology failures are never a root cause. The root cause is always a human making an invalid assumption. Until that assumption can be properly identified, there's no way actually to learn from the failure and to do a better job in the future.
Let me read in the crystal ball... They "tested" artifical idiot agents chatter on a local 10Gbps / municipal 6Gbps between three points then let those agents to the X.25 144Mbps (on best routes) network used to carry 7b ascii schedules plus 14400 coded speech. Yeah, what could go wrong...
[Smth went wrong with me crosslinking previous post, too – If you got it twice, Lauren, my apologies :]
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I have to believe the deployment of 'smart' probably was not tested on legacy systems adequately. And the overload was very possibly due to traffic from the new system.
Push to Prod Friday the 13th. Bold choice. Doesn't seem like it worked out.
@lauren @newsguyusa Analog systems...famously easy to overload.
@newsguyusa Uhhhhh. Not sure if this is a thing.
"I didn't anticipate we'd have an outage like this," replies Secretary Duffy to a reporter asking why the FAA didn't have an emergency backup plan.
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Tell me you're not suited for a role like Secretary of Transportation without telling me you're not suited for a role like Secretary of Transportation.
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Sean Duffy is the dampest of paper bags. Couldn't carry a single item to a destination and smells poorly.
FFS... At least monarchists try to instill some sense of governance in their offspring... With these dipshits we just get pure, refined, and gloriously unmitigated incompetence.
It's literally gobsmacking. 😮
@newsguyusa [former Sec of Transportation] Pete Buttigieg:
“the system has many redundancies in it…. there were actually four different systems, and when one of them went out, another one could be brought online to cover that. So it is not clear to me why that redundancy did not prevent an outage of this magnitude in terms of scope and duration.”
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It's air traffic control not the drive-thru speaker system at McDonald's! 🤦♂️
@newsguyusa Pathological optimism. And TDM ain't analog FFS FAA!
@jalefkowit as you said: the best to ever do it
@newsguyusa NObody expects the Outage Like This!
@newsguyusa Impeach Duffy Too
@newsguyusa Literally the dumbest fucking people running this administration.
@newsguyusa "I fired everyone who anticipated we'd have an outage like this"
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Condoleezza Rice did it better.
@newsguyusa “Failure to plan is . . .”
@newsguyusa if only there might have ever been a way to predict or test for that.
@newsguyusa “This is what the leadership of President Trump looks like.” - Markwayne Mullin
@newsguyusa Dressed as Action Man?
"This is an emergency," says Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. "I want 50 billion dollars."
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When you put it like that, it sounds like a hostage negotiation.
#USPol #FAA
@newsguyusa A typical Republican response to a crisis, “Let’s throw some many at it.”
Unsaid is the addendum that they want to steer some very large no-bid contracts to their corporate buddies.
@newsguyusa so a hundred bucks from every person in the country or we’ll keep the seat belt light on for six hours without going anywhere AGAIN?
@newsguyusa Need $50 billon? Take some from the military or I.C.E.
"I can't speak enough about President Trump's leadership," says DHS Secretary Mullins before ending the White House news conference.
@newsguyusa he forgot the “lack of” did he not?
And then he spoke nothing of it since well yeah
@newsguyusa What a coincidence. As of October 16th, the Pentagon says the war with Iran had cost $47.1 B.
@newsguyusa you mean the dude who is tweeting about giving tax breaks to his big studio boss friends to save the movie industry?
@newsguyusa Someone should've asked "Why not?"
Yeah, I think Duffy mentioned several times that this was an Emergency! because he's still not convinced it's an emergency, and doesn't know what one is.
Mullin keeps blaming Congress and the need to implement a complete system h/w and s/w upgrade. Who wants these fuckups to be responsible for that?
He says Trump is doing a good job post-emergency. But refuses to say why we had an emergency. That's playing politics.
Old legacy equipment failed "and it will continue to fail," warns Transportation Secretary Duffy.
@newsguyusa it’s such a shame that a Republican House, Republican Senate, and Republican Executive were completely powerless for the past two years to do anything about this
@newsguyusa “old legacy equipment” sounds like a description of Trump.
@newsguyusa Sounds like a threat rather than a diagnosis, especially since most of what he said is nonsense technologically. Someone is doing their best to avoid saying what the actual problem was/is.
@newsguyusa Sean realizing he might be pulled before Congress in the new year....
Old equipment fails
@newsguyusa Go get the $50B from ICE.
@newsguyusa he’s a damn liar.
I think they have that much in gold bars hidden in the ballroom basement.
@newsguyusa In all fairness, so do I.
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ha. wait. what? did he say that? i don't know what's real anymore.
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You just know you're in deep shit when these two take the same stage.