Microsoft cloud outage

[BillM]

And to think the .gov wants everyone to go digital currency only. I been saying it for years that if you rely on a computer to run things it will collapse at some point and then where will everyone be.

I built my first computer late in 1978 or early 1979, a COSMAC Elf from Radio Electronics magazine. Had 256 bytes of memory. Yes, bytes. Not kilobytes or megabytes. That is 1/4 of a typewritten page of ASCII characters. Used 8 little red LED's as output. Cost about $350 to build, and that was with the memory chips dropping sharply in price from about $300 for the 8 chips to $100. One roll of wirewrap wire was $25, and I could afford only one roll. So a difficult to trace wiring error caused it to smoke on first power up. I think they're great toys, but still not ready for prime time.

 

[BillM]

So, I need to ask on behalf of a friend, but can one be a warlord with a beat-up Model 60, a rusty 870 and an out-of-time S&W 66?

I think you need to upgrade the 66 for that. I've got a snubby 66-1 that is in time, and has a nifty laser sight grip set installed, if you really want to upgrade.

 

[BillM]

Probably just a trial run by China before they permanently shut down our grid...no big deal. Anyone have any canibal recipes to share?

Make sure you cook them thoroughly. Kuru is no joke!

 

[XYZ]

Noticed this on the top of my Amazon delivery page.

 

[Frank Pope]

I keep telling the wife that if I don’t keep buying firearms & ammo that I won’t be able to be the warlord during the apocalypse.

And I'm sure she buys right into that?

 

[Big House]

Flights grounded and travelers stranded — including at JFK and LaGuardia — after tech outage cripples banks and other companies around the globe

https://nypost.com/2024/07/19/tech/microsoft-cloud-outage-causes-airlines-to-ground-flights/

My son is supposed to fly out of JFK via Delta tomorrow evening and he still can't check-in.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Must be a Microsoft storm cloud. As for me, ♫ I'm singin' in the rain! ♫

Life is cloudy enough. I don't need a high tech occluded front to complicate things.

Woody

 

[BillM]

Must be a Microsoft storm cloud. As for me, ♫ I'm singin' in the rain! ♫

Life is cloudy enough. I don't need a high tech occluded front to complicate things.

Woody

"In the cloud..." really means on someone else’s computer that you and I have no control over. No thank you.

 

[dennishoddy]

If folks think “cloud strike” is a safe security system then yes we’re toast. Everyone is scrabbling to block it cause it wasn’t “a software update issue”. Even Musk was fooled. Wake up folks, they were just checking to see how the Trojan was going to work. The best is yet to come.

Never forget Cloud Strike was the company that Hillary used to wipe her secret servers that were under congressional subpoena by using a program called bleach bit.

 

[Catt57]