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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2024 22:14:42 -0500
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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.

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