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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Jan 16

    The employee who sent Hawaii’s false alarm should not pay the price for a system that "made it too easy for a simple mistake to have very serious consequences," an official saidhttp://nyti.ms/2DCIXh6 

    5:41 AM - 16 Jan 2018
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      1. Joy Henry‏ @joibella19 Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        Agreed. It was an honest mistake that had a very unfortunate consequence. We call for everyone to be fired so quickly w/o thinking about how technological negligence actually aides in causing human error. But we need to end our tensions with NK so that anattack is not an option.

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      1. Bojangles Bananas 🍌‏ @Bojanglesbanana Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        Agreed. You need 2 people to sign off on giving patients insulin and chemo in hospitals. It should not have been that easy to signal that alert.

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      1. D. R. Dick‏ @granitevoter Jan 16
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        .@nytimes Bad computer programming is going to kill us all.

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      1. Parker‏ @parkervb Jan 16
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        it never should have been an option for them. Poor design.

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      2. TheEagle 👆‏ @sunnahannabi Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        Let's be honest, an event as big as this doesn't just happen on accident. I mean they could be testing it or something, this has happened before. An employee with that much responsibility doesn't just go up to a button and scare millions of people, especially with suck a title.

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      3. TheEagle 👆‏ @sunnahannabi Jan 16
        Replying to @sunnahannabi @nytimes

        Such*

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      2. Ray Swartz‏ @Ray_Swartz_714 Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        Maybe, but we notice that no government employees ever get fired for anything.

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      3. Bull Moose‏ @BullMooseFuture Jan 16
        Replying to @Ray_Swartz_714 @nytimes

        Then you notice wrong.

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      1. bes‏ @noseymom718 Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        The accidental pushing of the button may have been a mistake but why couldn’t they get out word it was a false alarm? To me that was the biggest problem, the inability to retract the statement.

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      1. B3LlAL‏ @urza11373 Jan 16
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        In a country where everybody sues for any little thing, I'm surprised he and the agency is not up to their necks in class action suits!

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      1. kJ‏ @JCBolWag Jan 16
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        This was a deliberate act!

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      1. Taco Salazar‏ @TacoSalazar Jan 16
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        Taco Salazar Retweeted Kim Flaherty

        #UX experts agree.https://twitter.com/kimmyaf/status/952890748688650240 …

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        Kim Flaherty @kimmyaf
        I feel terrible for the person who accidentally sent out the Hawaiian missile warning. The news keeps saying “human error, he pushed the wrong button twice” But shouldn’t we be assessing the design of the interface that confused this user? #UX #DontBlameTheUser @CBSThisMorning
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      1. MemoryHold‏ @MemoryHold Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        I'm confused, though. The system is set up so this does not happen - on top of that, it was reviewed and upgraded In November of last year. This was not a simple single employee accident.

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      1. Jeff (dump Trump)‏ @redbeard36 Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        Nope. He should be fired. This was non trivial “mistake” you only had to spend five minutes on Twitter to see the despair and panic in people.

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      2. Winnie Eckert  🇨🇦 (#BlueWave) 🇨🇦 #FBR‏ @eckert_winnie Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        Not sure why this happened but I do not believe this was as simple as an employee pushing the wrong button.

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      2. Cathy‏ @cathyphi Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        No he should not. He just gave them all the biggest learning exercise they could have ever wanted. They now know MOST are not informed enough. Not ready. Not prepared. So, yes he made a mistake. In my day we had drills. This was a terrific drill.

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      2. D 🥃mb 🍭cr 🍒tsS 👑ck‏ @DumbocratsSuck Jan 16
        Replying to @nytimes

        Of course he should pay the price. Only an idiot, or a Dumbocrat, would fail to understand that. Such an attitude cause the problem in first place. Actions must have consequences. Governor of Hawaii should resign now. Double fail.

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