Comment Re:again, don't blame the computer (Score 2) 49
The system worked...why is this a story?
Because according to the source, and plausibly so, ships and aircraft were mobilized and nearly intercepted the ship. It was called off at the last second when the final check(s) showed it false. This is like saying the first response nuclear missile system worked during the Stanislav Petrov (1983), Norwegian Rocket Incident (1995), NORAD Training Tape (1979), and Faulty Computer Chip (1980) events nearly kicking off WWIII but were caught at the last second by a human. I’m not going to have very long to say I told you so when the giant push to remove all humans from everything happens so that last check before the end of the world just doesn’t exist.