Count to ten when a plane goes down

Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down by fekberg on Monday July 21, 2014 @07:41PM (#8066680)

He might have been that times IT Administrator? We've come a long way over these past 30 years, but think about it for a second, if you're an IT Administrator today handling all the office machines, you probably have the power to click 1 button to turn them all off? (Depending on the setup of course..) There's obviously more access rights involved today.

Doesn't answer "who" put the button in there, I'm just thinking out-loud! :)

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Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down by Florin_Andrei on Monday July 21, 2014 @08:29PM (#8066847)

> if you're an IT Administrator today handling all the office machines, you probably have the power to click 1 button to turn them all off?

To err is human. To push the error to thousands of instances online at once - that's devops.

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Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down by matchu on Monday July 21, 2014 @07:57PM (#8066741)

The issue wasn't whether he allowed to press it; it was just way too easy to press accidentally.

Even if I have the authority to press the big red button, I'd like it to be behind glass and far from the light switch.

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