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Major power outage hits CES, a consumer electronics show
Power in the North and Central halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center, which hosts CES annually, was out for nearly two hours on Wednesday. First reports of the power outage began hitting Twitter from convention goers starting around 11:14AM PT, and was slowly restored shortly after 1:00PM PT. Security evacuated most visitors from the affected halls during that time.
"A preliminary assessment indicates that condensation from heavy rainfall caused a flashover on one of the facility's transformers," reads a statement from the CTA, the organization that puts on CES. "We are grateful to NV Energy for their swift assistance, to our customers and their clients for their patience and to the staff for ensuring the safety and security of all attendees and exhibitors."
Post anything about CES below, if you can spare the electrons.
Also at Tom's Guide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @12:05PM (1 child)
totally agree.
also there's nothing "old coot" about this. this happens to everybody but i presume that the young generation with
a mobile phone as a real physical extension of their body don't report this because the "error" was "tailored just for them" : ]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12 2018, @03:55AM
This kinda "sometimes, it works" meme is all the younger people have known.
To the older folks like me, this kind of "sometimes it works, sometimes it won't, can you hear me now?" meme is just about as welcome as a slipping socket wrench.
The idea of downloading a whole webpage, then having it blank out suddenly while reading it... well, what would I think if I took my car to the shop, and they finally got the whole shebang done, then, just as I was driving it off the lot, some corporate clown, wearing his little "JavaScript" shirt, comes out of nowhere... we gotta undo everything! We cannot find the little cap that goes on the tire stem!!!
I take any steps I can to avoid those pesky little guys. Although I know they are just following orders from the businessman who put them up to it, they are a real pain in the butt to me, and even though the businessmen ( and their crony Congresscritters pass law to the same effect ) that I am not supposed to violate their wish-list, all they do is force me to do what I need to do covertly.
Shopkeeper analog: Business owner hires employee who keeps taking a dump at the business entrance. Customers are getting the muck on their shoes, sometimes there is even glass shards in the muck, forcing the people who did not enter carefully to go see a doctor to remedy the resulting infection.
Some people wise up to what that muck is, even though it has a coffee thingie on top, and start wearing galoshes.
The business owner is furious. How dare you wear Galoshes into my Business! He runs off to his Congressional Pals, asking Law to be codified that this is HIS store, and if you are going to enter, you WILL step into the muck! Oh, incidentally, keep those Hold Harmless laws in place so I don't get all those doctor bills. Hands shake, pens wag, laws are codified, and people still keep wearing galoshes. But now they start sneaking around trying to avoid observation by all those trackers the business is using... trackers who are probably keeping track of those who are wise to the pitfalls of blind obedience to corporate desire, unbacked by corporate liability.
The businessman loves the crap, but his customers hate it. It takes a special skill to think like some of the web businessmen these days, and its usually funded by the skills to talk other people out of their investment monies to run this thing until it slowly drains the financial resources of the investors.
When the whole thing winds down, both the businessman, and his webmaster, get their pay and bonuses.
And the investors first get lots of handshakes with men wearing suit and tie, then they get lots of papers - and I mean LOTS of papers - prepared by lawyers. Everyone's getting paid now. Then the investors get one final letter that after all the professionals have been paid, the total value of their investment is now zero. Followed by dead silence.
Been there, done that, both as an investor, and seen how the game is played by the business-man.
Enough to make one sick.