The only time I did any software work for a law firm, audio tape was a major expense for the job.
As for broken data sets, it was a given that if the surveillance video magically failed during a “convenience store robbery” you would end up arresting the clerk. Yep, BP and Transocean just overlooked sending data to shore. I guess they were just too busy, what with the party going on below deck, and the well getting ready to blow to think about that.
]]>So yeah, Halliburton doesn’t look like the culprit here… looks like they were doing real-time CYA, and have the data to prove it. Now if they could just quit electrocuting our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan ;). (To be fair, that’s their B&R division, not their oilfield services division, and their oilfield services division basically operates as a stand-along company with no real connection to any other part of the company other than ownership).
]]>Here Halliburton didn’t, err, “blink”, their connection because they were doing CYA. They’d told the drill crew that the well was burping. The drill crew ignored them. So be it. Been there, done that ;). (I.e., made sure everything was being recorded and that my objections were on file so that when the inevitable disaster happened, it was gonna be someone *elses* ass, not mine, that was fired).
– Badtux the Oily Penguin
]]>It looks like the promise of possible bonuses trumped sanity.
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.-= last blog ..Out of kindness, I suppose =-.
— Badtux the Astounded Penguin
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