BlackBerry Outages Across North America 284
TheHappyMailAdmin writes "BlackBerry service in North America is out: no email, no BB Messenger and no web browsing. Last carrier estimate I got was 24 hours until service will be restored, with others saying they've gotten estimates from support from between 3 hours to 2 days. BES and BIS services are impacted, and it's across all carriers. Bad timing for RIM as people are wrapping up their holiday shopping..." Updated 18:11 GMT by timothy: Reader notheusualsuspect pings with a note that the service has been restored.
Can you hear me now? (Score:1, Funny)
Thank you Karma (Score:5, Funny)
BB users are the biggest type-A douchebags around. They differ from their hipster iPhone douchebag brethren by typically wearing suits, talking loudly on their phones while waiting in line, and driving faux-retro American sedans. I knew when I woke up this morning that it would be a good day, as if millions of douchebags cried out and were suddenly silenced. Merry Christmas to all.
A blackberry outage? Oh my! (Score:5, Funny)
Crap, no work emails on Christmas Eve? Whatever shall we do?
Re:Thank you Karma (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to see a medium-long facebook outage.
Certain hardcore users would get physical withdraw symptoms, coma, then death.
Re:Thank you Karma (Score:3, Funny)
Actually I mistyped this TLA (Three Letter Acronym). Should've been PETA. Most of the office staff would parade around wearing faux-fur coats and whine about the poor spotted owl and the mid-Atlantic one-eyed trouser trout...
Re:Oh god no internet on my phone! (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously though, you didn't actually come to slashdot and navigate through the comments on the default BB browser did you?
Re:Works for me (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Works for me (Score:5, Funny)
Actually they get their new stories via their Blackberry's.
[John]
Re:SMTP/POP/IMAP (Score:3, Funny)
At least with Microsoft, you don't have a single point of failure !
Yeah, there are probably dozens of points where the Microsoft stuff can fuck up and cause you grief! That's way better!
Re:Thank you Karma (Score:4, Funny)
Timothy Leary once said something similar.
Contact the engineer (Score:1, Funny)
I hope they have given the Engineers who will fix the fault something else other than a Blackberry phone ;)
Re:failure modes .. (Score:1, Funny)
Shouldn't they built in some sort of redundancy and allow for failure modes
Brilliant I say! Why I think you would be a hell of a CTO for our company. Such innovative ideas rolling around in that head of yours. I am summoning our current CTO and have him pack his things in short order. Welcome to Research in Motion!
Sincerely,
The Big Boss Man
Re:Best. Gift. Evar. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Central point of failure.. (Score:2, Funny)
Should have mentioned something else I found particularly funny. When our NOC found out about the BB outage last night, they sent an email to the BB users to inform them of this (which of course they weren't getting email).