Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

On 8/4/2024 10:07 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 8/4/2024 2:14 AM, Your Name wrote:

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:

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

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

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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.

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

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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!

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

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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.
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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.
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https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/ dp/006232828X/

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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.

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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.
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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).

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Only by failing can one find the right path to success.  Nothing was ever invented without failures leading the path to it.
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Thomas Edison tried over 8,000 materials before he found the right element for the first light bulb.

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

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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.
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He has sold almost ten million electric cars.  Find me a single person or country that even meets ten percent of his records.

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Tesla cars are all horrible and unreliable (with numerous recalls), and the "self-driving" is a dangerous joke that should be banned from use in any sensible country.

 Funny. I've been driving my model 3 for 90,000 miles over 5 years. Its
by far the best, and lowest maintenance car I've ever owned. My
total cost for repairs over that time is under $300, and its never
had to go into the shop - they were both done in my driveway by Tesla.
 The vast majority of the 'recalls' you refer to involve over the air
software updates, done overnight while I sleep.
 Its far from perfection, but you spend too much time listening to the
astroturf anti-EV and anti-Tesla campaign.
 That said, I'm an FSD skeptic, though Autopilot really improves the
experience on long drives.
 pt

My cousin just traded his 2019 dual motor, big battery model 3 for a pair of model Ys.  He absolutely loved his model 3, the acceleration was unreal with four big guys in the vehicle.
Lynn