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China Railroad Stops When Adobe Finally Turns off Flash
Apple Daily ^
| 1/17/21
| Hong Kong Apple Daily
Posted on 01/22/2021 9:49:06 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity
The railroad system in Dalian, northern China, collapsed citywide on Tuesday for up to 20 hours after the Adobe Flash programing software stopped running.
Adobe had announced as early as 2017 that it would cease support for the multimedia software on Dec. 30 last year. The American software company eventually ended the operation of all Flash content on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s chaos arose after China Railway Shenyang failed to deactivate Flash in time, leading to a complete shutdown of its railroads in Dalian, Liaoning province. Staffers were reportedly unable to view train operation diagrams, formulate train sequencing schedules and arrange shunting plans.
Authorities fixed the issue by installing a pirated version of Flash at 4:30 a.m. the following day.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: adobe; flash
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Wait. What? They got the system back up with a PIRATED version of Flash. I'm shocked.
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
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posted on
01/22/2021 9:51:14 AM PST
by
nevergore
(I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
This happened in our company, we still had a few apps written in Flex years ago that were still being used.
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posted on
01/22/2021 9:52:05 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
I bet they were already using a pirated version of Flash but then they had to switch to a hacked version of Flash to get it running again.
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posted on
01/22/2021 9:52:43 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
The Party will send some officials to jail for this.
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posted on
01/22/2021 9:53:58 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Someone’s going to the chulag.
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
As if they were using a licensed version.
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posted on
01/22/2021 9:54:35 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Even MORE shocking is that the system was running on a legitimately licensed, legal copy of Flash in the first place!
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posted on
01/22/2021 9:59:52 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Democracy Dies With Democrats)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
China Railroad Stops When Adobe Finally Turns off Flash Reported by "Apple Daily" - maybe it cut off their shipments of iPhones from their child labor factory.
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posted on
01/22/2021 10:00:46 AM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
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posted on
01/22/2021 10:01:47 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
I don’t know anything about what Adobe did for my computer but after several notifications, I uninstalled mine and haven’t noticed any difference......
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
This is hilarious. Adobe stopped supporting Flash because so few developers would use it any more. I got messages every other day, starting two months ago, that it would be discontinued. Surely the Chinese were already using a pirated version or they would have also received the messages.
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Authorities fixed the issue by installing a pirated version of Flash at 4:30 a.m. the following day.Everything is pirated in China. Even the Wuhan Flu was stolen from bats.
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posted on
01/22/2021 10:34:50 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
And they say Asians are the smarter ones. LOL
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posted on
01/22/2021 11:00:58 AM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
While it’s cute to see it happen in China, it’s scary to think that entire train systems can be shutdown by basically a ‘software glitch’.
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posted on
01/22/2021 11:06:46 AM PST
by
BobL
(TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity; rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; ...
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posted on
01/22/2021 11:17:41 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Back in the early days of the Internet, I was a Flash master, creating dazzling, leading edge, world class websites utilizing (then Macromedia) Flash. One of the last websites I built with Flash earned the 2007 W3 Silver Award for Website Creative Excellence.
I haven’t had Flash installed on my browsers in years.
It’s dead, Jim.
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posted on
01/22/2021 11:25:37 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(We flattened the heck out of that curve, didn’t we?)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
They had the AOL support number on their backup tape, but nobody could find the 8-track player.
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posted on
01/22/2021 11:28:51 AM PST
by
dead
(Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
The Opera browser uses Flash and it corrupted my Aptik transport software when I tried to install Linux Mint Cinnamon on a new system. I had to completely remove Opera for Aptik to work again. Adobe has caused numerous problems. The system would hang waiting for a response from Adobe. Flash, good residences that it is gone.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
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