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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 14:50:29 -0000 (UTC)
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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