Server failure clears skies over London as flights are grounded
Flights are now departing again from London airports after airspace over London was closed this afternoon due to a computer failure.
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Flights are now departing again from London airports after airspace over London was closed this afternoon due to a computer failure.
Naked Security – Sophos
Responding to the recent demise of Verizon’s failed attempt at developing a competitor to Netflix’s streaming business, an AT&T executive tried to frame it as evidence that net neutrality isn’t really necessary.
“If the theory that ISPs have this incentive to favor their services were true, then Verizon is totally incompetent, because they went into this market with Redbox, and now they’re totally shuttering it,” AT&T policy executive Hank Hultquist said, according to the Washington Post.
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The Navy’s littoral combat ship (LCS) was supposed to be the ship of the future, designed to be easily converted from one role to another with a relatively quick swap-out of “mission modules.” But what the Navy got instead was a range of headaches and a ship with significantly less flexibility and capability than the ships the LCS was replacing. Now, as National Defense reports, the Department of Defense has cut the number of ships to be built nearly in half, and it has put future purchases on hold while it considers its options.
But there could still be good news for the defense contractors building the LCS: the options include a beefed-up version of the ship that could raise its cost further—and increase the profits of Lockheed Martin and Austal USA in the process. Considering the fact that these ships have already had significant problems (including “aggressive corrosion“ of one design’s hull because it didn’t include cathodic protection), yet another design change could cost the US billions more for a class of ships that has never lived up to its concept.
Stu Slade, warship analyst for Forecast International, told National Defense, “This isn’t a done deal. It’s certainly a setback for the LCS program viewed in isolation, but it’s one that could yet be reversed” because the cuts won’t hit until 2016—when the White House gets a new occupant.
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