The U.S. Customs computer outage that left nearly 20,000 international flyers stranded on the tarmac for hours last weekend? That whole sprawling mess -- so bad, some people got sick and had to be taken to the hospital -- was caused by a single screwy network interface card on one single desktop computer in LAX international terminal.

Behold the Infocapalypse. Does anyone think we might want to spend some time making sure that that A BAD NETWORK CARD can't crash a large mission critical infrastructure?

Ugh.