The Vodafone issue shows the importance of maintaining CASH.
Except even cash is very dependent on electronic systems in ATMs, electronic tills etc.
The only thing that I have bought for cash in the last months is a portion of fish and chips.
If an outage such as yesterday’s was to persist for a week, which isn’t impossible, you’d be grateful for that handful of beer tokens you had lying around the house.
It’s worth keeping a couple of weeks’ expected spending in cash, and remember from the pandemic time just how quickly things can go sideways in an emergency with panic buying and hoarding of essentials.
This logic doesn't follow. Neither your phone or your card need internet access to work.
The vulnerability lies with the supermarkets and their suppliers. Developing a backup system that would allow the UK to operate on cash only for more than a few hours would cost 10s of billions to implement.
The shop I used to work with collapsed after about 45 minutes when our internet went down.
And might one day be a very obvious thing we can't believe wasn't recognised or implemented sooner.
The point of cash is (aside from the issues of storing it) is that it allows instant trade with zero technology.
You can refuse the trade. But that has a cost too.
The Vodafone issue shows the importance of maintaining CASH.
Except even cash is very dependent on electronic systems in ATMs, electronic tills etc.
The only thing that I have bought for cash in the last months is a portion of fish and chips.
If an outage such as yesterday’s was to persist for a week, which isn’t impossible, you’d be grateful for that handful of beer tokens you had lying around the house.
It’s worth keeping a couple of weeks’ expected spending in cash, and remember from the pandemic time just how quickly things can go sideways in an emergency with panic buying and hoarding of essentials.
Ah, that would be why Mr Yaxley-Lennon keeps so much cash in a bag in his Bentley:
The Vodafone issue shows the importance of maintaining CASH.
Except even cash is very dependent on electronic systems in ATMs, electronic tills etc.
The only thing that I have bought for cash in the last months is a portion of fish and chips.
If an outage such as yesterday’s was to persist for a week, which isn’t impossible, you’d be grateful for that handful of beer tokens you had lying around the house.
It’s worth keeping a couple of weeks’ expected spending in cash, and remember from the pandemic time just how quickly things can go sideways in an emergency with panic buying and hoarding of essentials.
This logic doesn't follow. Neither your phone or your card need internet access to work.
The vulnerability lies with the supermarkets and their suppliers. Developing a backup system that would allow the UK to operate on cash only for more than a few hours would cost 10s of billions to implement.
The shop I used to work with collapsed after about 45 minutes when our internet went down.
The tills at a supermarket will work fine on local mode without internet access, they have a server on site. The issues are the card auth system and their stock ordering system, which means they’ll be empty of stock in a couple of days.
Youtube is telling me that Trump told Starmer to go away during his speech.
I can't watch it because I can't stand socially embarrassing situations - which means I watch very few of Sir Cringe's public interventions. Someone will have to tell me if it's as bad as the breathless social media commentary suggests.
This clip of Starmer is brutal and is getting a lot of online circulation.
It is brutal. I have to admit it did leave me feeling rather sorry for Starmer, a feeling I don’t get very often, but as much as I’m not a fan the cringe is off the charts. he probably thought he was going to get singled out for some extra praise.
Just watched it. Bloke misunderstands doddery old uncle. Can't see the big deal.
lol. Starmer is utterly crushed. You can see it in his sad little face, as Meloni laughs, mockingly
It’s so bad it almost makes me feel sorry for him. But, nah
Meloni is laughing even before Starmer makes his move.
She is, but at something else. You can see her biting her lip and trying not to laugh when Starmer is dismissed (not even dismissed - Trump just turns his back)
As the song puts it,
A man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest.
It's always happened, but I'm pretty sure it's worse now than it used to be. Partly because it's so easy to edit video and audio, so that often we are only presented with what we want to hear, and don't even have to do any disregarding. Partly because we celebrate people basically making stuff up and pretending that's what news is.
The Vodafone issue shows the importance of maintaining CASH.
Except even cash is very dependent on electronic systems in ATMs, electronic tills etc.
The only thing that I have bought for cash in the last months is a portion of fish and chips.
If an outage such as yesterday’s was to persist for a week, which isn’t impossible, you’d be grateful for that handful of beer tokens you had lying around the house.
It’s worth keeping a couple of weeks’ expected spending in cash, and remember from the pandemic time just how quickly things can go sideways in an emergency with panic buying and hoarding of essentials.
This logic doesn't follow. Neither your phone or your card need internet access to work.
The vulnerability lies with the supermarkets and their suppliers. Developing a backup system that would allow the UK to operate on cash only for more than a few hours would cost 10s of billions to implement.
The shop I used to work with collapsed after about 45 minutes when our internet went down.
And might one day be a very obvious thing we can't believe wasn't recognised or implemented sooner.
The point of cash is (aside from the issues of storing it) is that it allows instant trade with zero technology.
You can refuse the trade. But that has a cost too.
True. But supermarkets and banks have decided that the risk:reward isn't there to have a system that could operate at 100% on cash transactions. You'd need some sort of government intervention; regulation or investment.
Happy Last Ever Patch Tuesday for Windows 10 users who have not sold their soul to Microsoft for an extra year of updates Day.
In a world where computers now regularly last for 5-8 years without too much trouble in domestic environments, this probably goes down as one of Microsoft’s worst decisions of all time.
When they launched W10, the idea was that it would be basically the last Windows O/S, with everything afterwards just being updates.
W11 added little new apart from adverts, telemetry, and forcing Microsoft Account on everyone. It’s purely a commercial decision to get rid of W10, at the cost of hundreds of millions of computers. The sort of thing that antitrust regulators should be all over.
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The point of cash is (aside from the issues of storing it) is that it allows instant trade with zero technology.
You can refuse the trade. But that has a cost too.
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A man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.
It's always happened, but I'm pretty sure it's worse now than it used to be. Partly because it's so easy to edit video and audio, so that often we are only presented with what we want to hear, and don't even have to do any disregarding. Partly because we celebrate people basically making stuff up and pretending that's what news is.