Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 18:14:35 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote
in <v8n68a$3u46q$1@dont-email.me>:

On 2024-08-04 03:14:42 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

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 is>outlawed.
 
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.

 
Edison didn't create the lightbulb. At best he used the work of others
before him, at worst he stole the idea. Nobody really know for sure.
What is known is that Edison's "demonstration" of his lightbulb is known
to be highly dubuious - he purposely ended the deomnstration just before
he knew the filament would burn out.
 
Joseph Swan may well be the real creator of the lightbulb we have used
in homes for years. He critised Edison's demonstration and eventually
the two "worked together".
 
 
 

Musk is the most successful rocket launcher ever.  He just had his
first failure in over several years of weekly launches.

 
Musk's rocket and cars work despite him, not because of him. They are
the work of hundreds of people - he does nothing except supply the money
and spout off his big mouth.

Reminds me of someone I read about in my SF-reading youth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delos_D._Harriman

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-v