Monday, October 08, 2007

Technical Difficulties

Kristen Helm, a TBI spokeswoman, said a software issue “crashed the server” at about 1 a.m. Monday morning, halting all gun sales in Tennessee for almost three days.
Not that there's a broader lesson to be learned from this or anything...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've always said that such things cause economic damage. At one point the POC in my home state decided to change their hours, basically making it impossible for me to buy a gun unless I took a day off from work.

Anonymous said...

I hear there is fine print after "...Shall not be infringed" along the lines of "(except for software glitches, BATF whimsy, Senetorial confusion....)".

Kurt '45superman' Hofmann said...

Helm said human error wasn’t a factor in the technical difficulties.

If a "software issue" wasn't due to human error--what species, pray tell, did the programming?

Anonymous said...

and pray tell when it is acceptable to rescind unalienable rights because someone didn't or couldn't or wouldn't do his job correctly?

You fuck up,and I pay for it? I don't think so.

When their database is down they should have no power to prevent a damn thing. If that doesn't work for them, maybe they should do a better job.

Anonymous said...

If they simply must fuck up, they must be held to the standard of fucking up on the side of liberty and citizens' rights.

There is no honest excuse to do otherwise.