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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by maxerickson on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:12AM (#16158248)
That's an interesting thing to be annoyed about given that a faster way to send out the false alarm notification is one of the mitigations they have put in place.
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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by joshstrange on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:27AM (#16158359)
No, I'm annoyed that people seem to think people sat around doing jack shit for some 30+ minutes instead of sending out the false alarm message. I'm confident they were going as fast as they can and I don't like the blaming of the operator for what was a failing in the designed software. I'm not even sure I blame the people that wrote the software as I'm sure they were given a very specific spec of what it should do and they met the spec.
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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by maxerickson on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:38AM (#16158451)
Right, but they are complaining about the whole system failing.

So even if the spec is where the "false alarm" button was omitted, it's still a reasonable complaint that the system was designed without it.

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