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Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
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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:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 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.
> 
> 
> 
>> He has sold almost ten million electric cars.  Find me a single person 
>> or country that even meets ten percent of his records.
> 
> 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