News Hawaii false nuclear alert

[Artlav]

On_the_Beach_(novel)

So that's what that movie i saw 20 years ago was.

 

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and...ts-intercept-russian-bombers-near-uk-airspace

More nuclear alerts!

Not really, just Russia doing a Happy New Year. Nice looking aircraft.

N.

 

[Pipcard]

This is what the alert selection interface actually looked like:

 

[4throck]

If true that's one of the worse software interfaces ever. :rofl:
The job of the interface is to prevent errors, not create them.

 

[boogabooga]

If that JPEG is true, then it was intentionally meant to be a drill, as opposed to something out of the blue.

What a drill indeed.

 

[Urwumpe]

If that JPEG is true, then it was intentionally meant to be a drill, as opposed to something out of the blue.

What a drill indeed.

Yeah - I would have added a dedicated "training" switch there and change the color of the application window, when training mode is active, so its easy to see if a real emergency happens....

 

[Pipcard]

This is what the alert selection interface actually looked like:

Turns out that wasn't the real interface.

Whatever the real interface looks like, it requires the employee to click through a second warning prompt before sending out the alert, according to state emergency officials.

 

[jedidia]

Whatever the real interface looks like, it requires the employee to click through a second warning prompt before sending out the alert, according to state emergency officials.

I've heard sources that claimed that that prompt doesn't actually repeat the action you're about to take. It just asks "are you sure you want to do this?" or somesuch.
No confirmation, though.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I'm imagining the microsoft paperclip popping up...

"It looks like you are trying to activate the Emergency Alert system. Would you like help with this?"

 

[boogabooga]

Apparently, it happened again, this time in Japan:

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/asia/japan-false-missile-alarm-intl/index.html

 

[Hielor]

Apparently, it happened again, this time in Japan:

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/asia/japan-false-missile-alarm-intl/index.html

As I understand it, slightly different scenario, since that was a news organization and not the government. Still... :facepalm:

 

[boogabooga]

NHK = Japan's public broadcast service = kinda the Japanese government.

 

[steph]

A bit unrelated to the NK crisis, but I found this gem a few days ago. Made in documentary style, it shows a possible escalation to nuclear war if USSR would have gone with a bang instead of a fizzle. I still don't agree that they would have launched. Somebody would have backed down. Grab some popcorn

[ame="http://youtu.be/J8MYM2B4qok"]World War Three 3 Nuclear War Documentary - YouTube[/ame]