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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 20:12:15 -0500
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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:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 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

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