Has anyone else’s sat Nav gone weird? Our car one was taking us in wrong directions… then telling us to do a u turn!
And another error… instead of going straight it wanted us to turn left, do a u turn (going right) then turn left again into same major road we were in all along!
I said to hubby not to pay attention to it so I whipped out the Melways road map book!

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See.
They'll never get rid of the CASH system, nor should they.
ALP and Albanese must be looking like total losers now, trying to push such an unreliable and insecure system of Economics as the one and only dependency for Economics.
Imagine War and a lot of these places get bombed and put out of action? So many industries and businesses will fall flat.
When it comes to the 'WEB' - one only has to burn a few silk threads and the whole web collapses.
They say spider silk threads are stronger than steel. But man do they burn faster than a dragster down the track.

You watch Albanese try to con Australians and keep pushing this one of his many very fallible gimmicks. 

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 20^th, 2024 at 4:07pm:

Yes. You never know? You might have one of those rare slightly made different ones that make a lot more money on the Collectors scene.

Every 100 years or more - there's always a Monetary change to deal with inflations.
The $50 note becomes the new 5cents. 

You will never get rid of a 'physical' presence of Money.
Just like you'll never get rid of the world's first and oldest Market - the 'Black' Market... because the colour of Money (and Mathematics) is 'Black'. 

Goose wrote on Jul 20^th, 2024 at 3:15pm:


The trouble is…. It’s becoming more sophisticated and even intelligent prudent folk can be fooled.
Last night I attended a dinner out of a school class reunion, it’s something we do on a regular basis now… one told me of her friend, who was very intelligent, berieved recently losing her husband, was enquiring RE: the superannuation of about $150k
Someone from the company called her RE: transfer.
She did the right thing to phone the company and asked if the guy worked for them, she was assured he does work for the company.
What happened was this scammer was posing as the rep, had details and the name of the guy at that company. Sadly she lost the money. My friend telling me said it’s not just gullible people that are scammed.
I think what our exiting PM Malcolm Fraser was right with his warning…. Our money would be safer hidden under our mattress etc

Sophia wrote on Jul 20^th, 2024 at 5:07pm:

Cyber-crime has grown to undoubtedly sophisticated enough levels to fool even highly alert and capable members of society. In reality they are sophisticated enough now to even fool "experts" in Cyber security itself. There has not been anywhere near enough spent on mitigation against and preparation for, system interference. Just wait until the first really expansive internet sub-sea cable attacks happen. We are not even close to being ready with fail-safe back up systems.
That aside however, I tend to also get drawn towards statements like this:

"This represents the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history"

What could that level of monetary empowerment mean for society generally, considering the beneficiary makeup? North Korea for example purportedly earns roughly 50% of it's income from Cyber-crime with an estimated work-force above 10 000 specialising in the field.

A similar issue was reported in 2010 when a defective update from McAfee, known as "DAT" file version 5958, triggered a worldwide shutdown of Windows XP PCs.

George Kurtz, co-founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, who is at the center of this current issue, was also the CTO of McAfee during its notorious 2010 glitch with Windows XP.
This connection further intensifies concerns over the recurring nature of such critical technical failures under his leadership.

https://www.businessinsider.com/crowdstrike-ceo-george-kurtz-tech-outage-microsoft-mcafee-2024-7