This business still has plenty of maturing to do.

Getting into space is difficult, expensive, and dangerous. Out of control rockets can — and have — crash into inhabited towns. I greatly prefer a delayed launch to a lost payload or mission – or crew. I do not laugh at or mock a launch crew that plays it safe or over-sensitizes its computer programs. The alternatives turn out to be too expensive.

There was no REAL problem. It shut things down, when it sould have let it launch. So the computer was the problem…

The computer DID take care of the “simple” stuff. It saw a potential problem, stopped the launch, and alerted the ground crew. It is much better to clear up any confusions before launch than during launch or during the mission. If only the Mars Climate Observer (AKA Mars Surveyor), the first Ariane 5 rocket (Ariane 501), etc. had discovered their problems in time to do something about it…