Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

On Sat, 10 Aug 2024, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-08-09 09:05:52 +0000, D said:

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 05/08/2024 12:02, D wrote:

On Sat, 3 Aug 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/3/2024 6:18 PM, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-08-03 17:41:44 +0000, Paul S Person said:

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 15:26:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/2/2024 12:13 PM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 08:46:39 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

On 2024-08-01 07:58:16 +0000, BCFD 36 said:

On 7/23/24 00:56, Charles Packer wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:01:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

 xkcd: CrowdStrike
https://www.xkcd.com/2961/
 Make the best of bad times.
 Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike
 Lynn

 Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing?
My nephew's wife flew to Europe that day without incident.

 We were on a river cruise on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. We were about 2 hours late leaving from one port because of the problem. It makes no sense why this should be so.

 Various possibilities. For example, the Crowdstrike glitch could have affected the boat's navigation computers, the company's ticket buying and checking system, etc.

 Just wait till we all have chips in our heads that can be disabled (by disabling a server they must connect to) by something like this. Won't /that/ be fun!

 You first !  I will be the last and they will have to catch me first.

 I don't really expect to see that day, being 77 and all.
Well, unless it's part of Project 2025 and a certain D Trump gets
elected.
 

The awesome "The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047" by Lionel Shriver
has the entire population in the USA getting a money transaction chip at the base of their skull connected to Starlink in 2040 and cash money isoutlawed.
 https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X/

 I haven't read that, but that doesn't mean I didn't encounter the
concept of embedded chips somewhere -- oh, wait: /The President's
Analyst/ had it.

 There are quite a few fools who have had chips implanted into their arms so they can do checkout tap-n-pay, open security doors, etc. without having to go to all the "difficultly" of taking a card out of their pocket / lanyard or using a smartwatch.
 There have also been a few people with disabilities that have trialed
brain implant chips to allow them to regain some abilities. I don't think any have been fully successful, but some have worked better than others (Elon Musk's Neuralink trial "malfunctioned" ... unsurprisingly, just look at his failures with his rockets, his Tesla cars, etc. to know how much of an idiot he is and rushes things out to suit his own looney ideals).

 Only by failing can one find the right path to success.  Nothing was ever
invented without failures leading the path to it.
 Thomas Edison tried over 8,000 materials before he found the right element
for the first light bulb.
 Musk is the most successful rocket launcher ever.  He just had his first
failure in over several years of weekly launches.  He has sold almost ten
million electric cars.  Find me a single person or country that even meets
ten percent of his records.
 Lynn

 I find it interesting how many people complain about Elons incompetence,
yet, they have not managed to create several billion dollars companies
themselves.

 He hasn't.  He invested money in existing
businesses.

 You are incorrect.
 From leftist wikipedia:
 _Founder_, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, valued at 180 billion.
CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.
Owner, CTO and Executive Chairman of X (formerly Twitter)
President of the Musk Foundation
Founder of The Boring Company, X Corp., and xAI
Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI (valued at 80 billion) Zip2, and X.com
(part of PayPal) (value 61 billion)
 Now... what did you do?

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"Founder" means he invested his money creating the company in the hopes of making more money. Despite his massively obscene self-imposed "salary", he doesn't actually do anything useful there - the business' employees do all the work.

Ridiculous. I disagree with your definition of founder. Musk is very involved in his companies and as the CEO crucial to their success.

He invested in Tesla, then took over the company.
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He bought X / Twitter ruined it ... well, ruined it even more than the useless junk heap it was to begin with.
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The Boring Company has failed miserably, as so far has Neuralink.

Which is why I left those out when it comes to valuation. Sorry, you lost.

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One might agree with his ideology and ideas, but one thing he is not, and
that is incompetent and stupid.

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