If we push it'll happen.
Won't be easy.
We'll have to convince them to vote on killing their golden goose.
----- Original Message -----
From: George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Arson attack on FAA datacenter
I'm pretty skeptical of partisans and career politicians. Term limits.. but
it will never happen. Do a couple terms and then go home and work like everyone
else. No, instead they sit there for decades milking connections to get rich
and exempt themselves from the laws they force upon us, then collect a pension
after some scandal and/or their party disowns them and they finally fade away.
On 9/29/2014 7:27 PM, Jason McKemie via Af wrote:
To what are you referring? I'm pretty skeptical of mainstream media FYI.
On Monday, September 29, 2014, Mike Hammett via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote:
Do you live under a bridge?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: "Jason McKemie via Af" <af@afmug.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 7:23:11 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Arson attack on FAA datacenter
Little bit of haterism going on here, he's one of the better ones IMO.
Does he not hang out upstate enough for you guys?
On Monday, September 29, 2014, Mike Hammett via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote:
+1
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: "George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af" <af@afmug.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 5:07:43 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Arson attack on FAA datacenter
Damn, why couldn't it be Durbin that slit his own throat.
On 9/29/2014 5:04 PM, That One Guy via Af wrote:
im going with isis on this
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Nate Burke via Af <af@afmug.com>
wrote:
This is only a couple miles from our office. They had all the
local news choppers up in the air over it on Friday. I was surprised that it
didn't garner more national coverage. I guess since it wasn't the terror
threat of the day, it didn't get any traction. Just a disgruntled employee.
Even the first reports said it was not a terrorist act.
On 9/29/2014 4:36 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af wrote:
Oh yeah,
I'm in Chicago for a few days. Flew in on thursday before this
happened. My wife flew in on Saturday and ended up with a nasty delay in MSP
since there were very very few flights flying into the affected area, which
basically includes both chicago airports, and the two airports up in wisconsin.
Thousands of flights cancelled over the last couple of days.
That's the big news here.
-forrest
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Eric Kuhnke via Af
<af@afmug.com> wrote:
Anyone see this?
http://posttrib.suntimes.com/30167722-537/flight-delays-to-continue-after-arson.html#.VCnNuOeXtGE
http://www.metafilter.com/143174/ATCSCC-ADVZY-020-DCC-ZAU-09-26-2014-ZAU-GROUND-STOP
On Friday, ATCSCC Advisory 20 of 26-Sep-2014 went out. When
operators, controllers and airport managers saw the title, a gasp of disbelief
was heard. The problem was simple enough to state in three words, and complex
enough to cancel thousand of flights and cost hundred of millions of dollars:
ZAU ATC ZERO.
ZAU is the call sign of the Chicago Air Rout Traffic Control
Center (ARTCC), which covers northern Illinois and Indiana, southern Wisconsin,
western Iowa, and south eastern Michigan. There are two "sides" at an ARTCC.
ZAU-LO handed traffic destined for airports in the covered area, ZAU-HI handled
traffic overflying. Both were amongst the busiest in the country. ZAU-HI was
busy with traffic from the east to west, as well as European traffic heading to
Houston and Dallas-FW, ZAU-LO had to feed in traffic from airports like GYY,
MKE, RFD, PIA, and the two busiest airports in the area; Chicago Midway
International and O'Hare International, one of the busiest airports in the
world.
On Friday morning, Brian Howard, a contract employee of the FAA
and holding full credentials to the ZAU datacenters, set a fire in the telecom
room, destroying 23 of the 29 rack and disconnecting all the controller
stations from the associated radars and radio transmitters needed to watch and
guide traffic through the busy sector. As the consoles dropped offline, the ZAU
duty manager had no choice -- they called ZZZ, the FAA command center and
reported ATC ZERO -- no controllers available, control center offline.
--
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that
the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you
can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use
a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
