Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Widespread IT Outage Impacts Airlines, Banks" video.

Although those are more localized problems, and not all are necessarily affected. Airports on the other hand involve millions of people trapped in another faraway community or even country, if not literally up in the air burning fuel flying circles waiting for a landing spot because someone else is stuck at their gate.
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Just wait til they digitize all the paperwork for the goods and services intrinsically associated with that payment! Oh wait
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@gur262 Now try going to a supermarket or hospital far from home, especially where you're not fluent in the language and don't have much local cash.
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Just got off work. Didn't even notice until I tried to get gas on the way home.
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Ironically farming is quite high tech itself these days. Farm tractors are among the largest inspiration for hacks because of how computerized they've gotten, and how their owners don't want to pay through the nose for routine services and simple modifications that older machines readily took.
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Ballots should always be paper, readable by both humans and machines. California uses a good model where they're all a "fill the bubble" type.
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My Crowdstrike-less Microsoft systems at home and at work perform just fine. I didn't even notice this outage until I tried to get gas on the way home and the station told me they have to go cash only at the moment.
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"Just works" part has an asterisk though. So much time spent finding fixes and installing updates for my specific setup.
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More like they're blaming "Sleepy Joe" since he's in charge right now and Trump must never be shown wrong.
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DEI staff conspired with another company Crowdstrike to publish a bad patch?
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Cash is an even bigger liability for theft and loss, and businesses have to handle way more of it than any individual ever would. That's why they overwhelmingly converge on digital payments as soon as practical.
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