I guess it depends on whether or not you are running a bank. A travel system should probably (note I said probably, as I’m no expert) have a primary failure mode that doesn’t immediately grind worldwide travel to a halt.

yep. had some dumbass friends in hs that made counterfeit money to use in the soda machines and the shit worked. but of course SS was there the next day investigating. then those friends learned about the microcode all printers have that show what kind of printer was used to make counterfeits.

This is a good party game, what can Trump do?

His insane fear of sharks probably keeps him out of the water also.

When I was in college, some guys found out the dorm change machines would take photocopied bills, so they kept doing that until (I heard) the Secret Service showed up.

Given his evident BMI, he might float reasonably well, so if he doesn’t know how to swim yet, it seems like now is a good time for him to learn.  Good fitness for the elderly, after all.

FYI sysadmins are always people to cherish because they’re trying to keep things going. The problem here was caused by a mistake made by a DEVELOPER and then a whole failing chain of QA people who thought it was fine to push an update to hundreds of thousands of system, automatically, all at the same time (same day),…

My person, the entire US commercial airline fleet numbers a grand total 5,882 planes.

In Q4 of 2023, there were 288,000,000 vehicles operating on US roads.

That is quite literally an order of magnitude more than the number of planes in the US squared

Seriously. Vote like you’d like the opportunity to vote again, at all, ever.

Vote. Vote like you’d like the opportunity to vote again in 2028.

A couple, but my argument would still shut em down. They pretty much avoid those types of conversations with me nowadays.

Why don’t the Republicans fix it? 

People do really dumb shit when they’re miserably hot, sleep-deprived (because it’s hot as hell), and surviving on “whatever hasn’t spoiled yet.” Put entirely too many guns in easy reach of those angry people and this is the natural result.

Sounds like Texas is full of no-go zones where bad actors make things too dangerous for us law abiding folk

See... we need a border wall just not one with Mexico. 

Stolen joke. “Texas has the gumption to show their Yelp rating on the state flag.”

So I guess all of the people that say “You get what you vote for” when something goes wrong in a blue state are still saying the same thing, right?

“We just are so much better than this.” Hmm, are you though, Texas? I certainly don’t remember anything like this happening when electrical workers came from across the country to help put things back together after Sandy.

OK hear me out, next hurricane we just let Florida and Texas go, they’ve have a good run, let nature take it back.

“If you’re interfering with somebody who’s trying to get the power back up, you’re not speeding up the process of getting the power back on; you’re slowing that process down,”