Law firms are lining up for a piece of the CrowdStrike class action pie.

NEW YORK, July 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (“CrowdStrike” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CRWD). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at newaction@pomlaw.com or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether CrowdStrike and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
htttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/shareholder-alert-pomerantz-law-firm-investigates-claims-on-behalf-of-investors-of-crowdstrike-holdings-inc—crwd-302201906.html

There are too many firms trawling for complaints to mention individually.
https://www.google.com/search?q=crowdstrike+class+action

Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 9:43 utc | 3

Wasn’t Crowdstrike the company in charge of cybersecurity for the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 Presidential elections? The year when the Klintonator was supposed to win? Crowdstrike blamed Russian interference when Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to achieve the Presidency.
Wonder whom Crowdstrike will blame for the bug in the security patch.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jul 20 2024 10:29 utc | 5

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@zoomafrika1
Sudan has gold. Congo has cobalt. Haiti has limestone. Afghanistan has copper. West Papua has crude oil. Every nation suffering from some form of genocide or intense suffering is attractive in the eyes of the western imperial machine of consumer capitalism. 😭😭
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Posted by: Menz | Jul 20 2024 10:40 utc | 7

So when do people see the Biden step down coming?
I thought it would have been last night but!
So throw a few dates out.
Posted by: jpc | Jul 20 2024 9:32 utc | 1
I don’t know about when the Biden step down is coming but i’ve seen Biden fall down the steps a few times already !!

Posted by: Fíréan | Jul 20 2024 10:58 utc | 9

Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 10:48 utc | 8
Did not know Force Majeure worked in Crowdstrikes dev-ops team. But, seriously, they have not got a leg to stand in terms of get out of jail provision in this case. It was their roll-out after all that caused glitches.

Posted by: Boo | Jul 20 2024 11:08 utc | 11

Law firms are lining up for a piece of the CrowdStrike class action pie.
There are too many firms trawling for complaints to mention individually.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 9:43 utc | 3
As I mentioned concerning the ICJ ruling , lawyers when they feel blood in the water…

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 20 2024 11:12 utc | 13

Ladies and gentlemen,the “Toxic Troika”:
https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/12142

Posted by: Apollyon | Jul 20 2024 11:27 utc | 15

Machine translated.

Summary of military operations in the Sahel from 1 to 16 July

2 hours ago

The armed forces of the Sahel Alliance, which includes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are fighting terrorists and separatists, gradually liberating their territories. Every two weeks, the Africa Initiative will report on major events in the Sahel theater of operations.
July 1. The army conducted intensive bombardments of the heights held by terrorists near the settlements of Doumbala, Lanier and Huarocuy in Banwa province (Boucle du Muhun region in the north-west of the country).
July 6. СорванаAn attack by jihadists on the city of Djibo in the north of the country was thwarted. Aerial reconnaissance earlier recorded a cluster of armed militants on the outskirts of the city. Recognizing the actions of the military, the militants retreated towards the city of Nassumbu, where they were hit by aircraft. An attempt to attack militia positions near the village of Namsigua was also unsuccessful and was thwarted by the Air Force.
July 12. Militants of illegal armed groups attempted to drive cattle captured in the town of Bonza in Banwa province , near a tributary of the Muhun River. They were attacked by soldiers of the 18th battalion of the rapid reaction Forces. 400 cattle were returned to their owners. The militants are dispersed.
July 13. The terrorists carried out an armed attack on the village of Moncuy in Boucles du Mouhoune, after which, having discovered the drones, they retreated to the outskirts of the village and hid behind trees. They were destroyed by an air strike . The number of militants has not been established.
July 14. The second group of terrorists from among those who carried out an armed attack on Monkui repeated the attack attempt, but later retreated into the forest to a small settlement. The house in which they were supposedly entrenched was discovered by aerial reconnaissance and attacked. Several people were killed.
Niger
July 3. Niger’s Defense and Security Forces (SDF) announced that they have killed more than a hundred terrorists after an attack in the village of Tasia Tera (Tilaberi region in the west of the country) last week, where more than 20 soldiers and one civilian were killed. The militants are tracked by reconnaissance drones for signs such as the use of two-and three-wheeled motorcycles, rapid movement on dirt roads, and moving to settlements that are poorly controlled by the troops. Their elimination is carried out with the help of attack drones, as well as by ground units. Earlier, the SBU tracked the survivors of the terrorist attack in Tasya militants who retreated in the direction of the village of Kokoloko. 30 terrorists, their warehouse and vehicles were destroyed.
July 5. About ten militants who participated in the attack on an army depot in Tasia were neutralized by the Defense and Security Forces in the settlements of Bankilare and Dargol in the Tera department (Tilaberi region in the west of the country). In addition, 22 other terrorists were arrested in the town of Meana and in the vicinity of the settlements of Tomare, Dargol and Kokoru in the Tera department. A truck carrying large cargo to terrorist locations was intercepted in Chava in the same area. According to the army, these are terrorists who participated in the shooting in Tasia and abuses against the population of Hama, Kakasobon, Gurmatchindi and Bolgaje. The operation took place after receiving information from a local source who reported the presence of militants in the weekly market in Dargol, and checking it.
July 8. The Katiba Hanifa group, affiliated with the JNIM ( Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group*) , claimed responsibility for the ambush against a mixed patrol of FDS (Gendarmerie, Guard and Police) between the village of Tamou and the town of Se, in the part of the region that borders Burkina Faso.. As a result of the battle, a serviceman was killed, 10 others were injured. The military repelled the attack, eliminating several terrorists. We managed to capture their vehicles and communication devices.
July 9. During the raid, the SBU arrested nine terrorists in the Bankilare, Torodi and Tunga sectors (Tilaberi region in the west of the country) and seized their material property.
July 10th. Seven soldiers were killed in an attack on a National Guard unit (GNN) in Tebaram, in the border area of the Tilaberi (Niger) and Tahoua (Mali) regions, where the Islamic State of the Great Sahara ( EIS, formerly EIGS) operates.
July 10th. Niger’s Department of Public Services (DSS) operatives raided the residence of a suspected terrorist in Gbeganou district, a suburb of Minna, the capital of Niger state. A firearm and a significant amount of cash were found. The suspect was responsible for the financial and logistical support of the terrorist group.
July 11. 69 people associated with the Boko Haram group * laid down their weapons and surrendered to the military authorities. Among them are both militants and their family members. Operation Lake Sanity 2, aimed at eliminating militant camps, brought the first significant results.
July 11. At least six terrorists were killed by Defense and Security Forces near the village of Abdou Gangani in Niger’s western region of Tilaberi.
July 11. Several hundred prisoners, including terrorist leaders and Islamist militants, have escaped from the Kutukale high – security prison, located less than fifty kilometers from Niamey, in the Tilaberi region. сбежали The escape was preceded by a mutiny. The prisoners broke through metal gates, barbed wire fences, and trenches. SOB units were alerted. A curfew has been imposed in the city of Tilaberi. The prison houses high-risk criminals: leaders of the terrorist groups Boko Haram, ISWAP, EIS and JNIM, former army officers convicted of State crimes who participated in the coup attempts under the former regime of Mahamadou Issoufou, as well as some civilian and military officials.
July 14. In the village of Mulle (Serkin-Yamma commune, Madarunfa department, southern part of the Maradi region), an attack was carried out by militants who entered from Nigeria. They stole a hundred head of cattle and captured two local residents. Soldiers of the Defense and Security Forces (SOF), involved in the operation “Hedgehog Hunt” (Faraoutar Bushiya), were alerted, clashed with bandits and recaptured cattle while trying to withdraw militants across the border.
HAD
July 1. 23 people were killed during armed attacks on the villages of Jigibombo in the rural commune of Doukombo and Socorokanda in the rural commune of Diallassagou in the Bandiagara region of central Mali. The militants looted villages and set fire to a public medical center.
July 2. The Director of Information and Public Relations of the Malian Armed Forces, Major Colonel Suleiman Dembele, said that the number of direct attacks on the country’s Armed Forces in June, compared to May, decreased.
* A terrorist organization banned in Russia
with maps ==> https://afrinz.ru/2024/07/svodka-voennyh-dejstvij-v-sahele-za-period-s-1-po-16-iyulya/

Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 12:07 utc | 17

Earlier on Friday, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years behind bars in a maximum-security prison for spying on orders from the CIA. According to the Federal Security Service (FSB), he acted at the behest of the United States, collecting information constituting a state secret about the activities of a Russian defense company. This shows what happens to you when you set foot and step into a no-go area and become a collaborator of criminals.

Posted by: AI | Jul 20 2024 12:56 utc | 19

AI @19:
All western corporate mass media presstitutes are agents of the CIA to one degree or another. At the very least they all chant in chorus with the Mighty Wurlitzer. Because of that the Russians are fairly safe with locking up any of the western big corporate presstitutes and feeling confident they got someone carrying water for gangster spooks.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 20 2024 13:23 utc | 21

The CrowdStrike principles will blame Force Majeure.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 10:48 utc | 8
They might give FM a whirl but it won’t wash. CrowdStrike wrote and executed a system upgrade containing a spelling/grammar error which should have been detected before it was approved.
There are many classes of business which are/were prosperous and can afford to fund a Class Action – airlines being but one example.
Cloudstrike’s smartest option would be to plead Stupid and start negotiating terms of settlement BEFORE the lawsuits begin. They’ve already apologised, which is a good start for an amicable settlement.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jul 20 2024 14:18 utc | 23

CS hack:”Look ma! I’m coding patches right on the update server! Who needs QC testing with these god-like programming skills? Anyway, if it breaks, the customers will tell us and we’ll just ship another patch like Boeing does.”

Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 20 2024 14:31 utc | 25

Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 20 2024 14:31 utc | 25
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Microsoft is also responsible for blindly trusting CrowdStrike. Redressing that culpability is a bridge too far.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 14:35 utc | 27

From other forum,…

If Trump succeeded in coming back, a criminal would become the potus.

LOL
Which potus isnt a criminal so far ???

Posted by: denk | Jul 20 2024 14:48 utc | 29

@ denk..
got your comment on the other thread… that is another excellent list of the destruction cia, or their friends in the uk and etc have wrought..
crowdstrike = cia… the politicians will find a way to get or let them off the hook.. cia needs to be broken apart.. microsoft does what it is told when it comes to ”security”… the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, all because of ”security” .. fear is the main sales product of the intel agencies.. they call it ”security” but it is fear meant to control you and everyone else..

Posted by: james | Jul 20 2024 14:49 utc | 31

@ denk | Jul 20 2024 15:07 utc | 32
i think your approach has a lot of merit! essentially think the opposite of what we are told… or – question everything…

Posted by: james | Jul 20 2024 15:20 utc | 33

@denk | Jul 20 2024 15:07 utc | 32,
May I add one line to your comment:

When G7, especially [five liars] accuse
China of the same ..
I presume innocent until proven otherwise.

And G7, especially amerikkka, are very likely doing what it accuses others’ doing at a worse extent.

Posted by: LuRenJia | Jul 20 2024 15:29 utc | 35

Posted by: LuRenJia | Jul 20 2024 15:29 utc | 35
————–
The English proverb
pot calling kettle…is too lame, suggesting equal blame.
Chinese say it better,
Bandits crying robbery .

Posted by: denk | Jul 20 2024 15:40 utc | 37

It occurred to me that the US may be doomed to an inferior, isolated status globally – if China and Russia master diplomacy. Russia is doing very well on this but China still has a ways to go.
The fundamental problem is that the US can overthrow, threaten, bully, bribe or invade but not much more. Real peace making requires a strong President rather than the succession of weak figureheads it has been cursed with. The days of Nixon and Kissinger are over. The intense partisan culture of the US means that there is always a political veto somewhere, along with overwhelming pressure to lie and dump inconvenient treaties at will. No credibility plus a fading dollar plus an ineffective military will freeze the US in foreign relations.
Trump would like to do otherwise but being one step ahead of impeachment constantly will stop him – which is sad for the world and the nation.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jul 20 2024 15:55 utc | 39

Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 20 2024 15:51 utc | 38
——————
IN 1997, William Cohen warned about other people engaging in such nefarious proj like race specific bioweapons, HAARPS like WMD which triggers flloods, earthquakes…
The rule bandits crying robbery applies.
Translation…
uncle sham was already up to its eyeballs in it, at the cutting edge
Rumours about Three Gorges disasters and fake videos have been popping up every other days.
Subject to verification.
All it show is that there’s a garden out there that means Chinese harm,

Posted by: denk | Jul 20 2024 16:10 utc | 41

Rumours about Three Gorges disasters and fake videos have been popping up every other days.
Posted by: denk | Jul 20 2024 16:10 utc | 41
youtube is swamped with them. Indian troll factories doing three shifts it seems. Though it could be coming from the Americans as well.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 20 2024 16:34 utc | 43

Weather war? Ugh.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 20 2024 16:41 utc | 45

The falun gong cultists are also big contributor.
Posted by: denk | Jul 20 2024 16:42 utc | 46
I had forgotten about them.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 20 2024 16:52 utc | 47

It is too easy for JD Vance. He will be rewarded with a bouquet of consequences.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 16:57 utc | 49

Updates like this get run through a maze of automated tests
Posted by: anon2020 | Jul 20 2024 17:01 utc | 50
—
CrowdStrike management has been repeatedly tested for responsibility and have always been found to be beyond culpability. Their action was directly attributable to this rigorous testing.
They will now be tested again. Ingrained habits are hard to break. Let’s see how it goes.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 17:11 utc | 51

Microsoft is also responsible for blindly trusting CrowdStrike.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 20 2024 14:35 utc | 27
It looks likethis company is a front for three letter agencies and some other people, like Clintons. It’s not about trust, it’s about following orders.

Posted by: rk | Jul 20 2024 17:40 utc | 53

/perches with wren friend near b’s window
/wren warbles sweetly
/leaves wren friend singing and hops down to a beer garden window sill
🙂 Good to see most are getting along better.
/preens & watches

Posted by: titmouse | Jul 20 2024 17:53 utc | 55

Trump’s remarks have also fueled skepticism about the US’ so-called promise to Taiwan island. Many people on the island are also angry, viewing these comments as akin to a gang breaking into someone’s home, forcing them to buy expensive items, and charging extortion payments for the so-called protection, Wang Wu-lang, secretary-general of the Cross-Straits Peace Forum, told the Global Times on Wednesday

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1316221.shtml
William BLum

For more than 70 years, the United States convinced much of the world that there was an international conspiracy out there. An International Communist Conspiracy, seeking no less than control over the entire planet, for purposes which had no socially redeeming values. And the world was made to believe that it somehow needed the United States to save it from communist darkness. “Just buy our weapons,” said Washington, “let our military and our corporations roam freely across your land, and give us veto power over who your leaders will be, and we’ll protect you.”
It was the cleverest protection racket since men convinced women that they needed men to protect them, for if all the men vanished overnight, how many women would be afraid to walk the streets?

PS
Somebody should do an autopsy on BLum,
RIP

Posted by: denk | Jul 20 2024 18:10 utc | 57

signing off….

Posted by: denk | Jul 20 2024 18:18 utc | 59

Nixon could go to China because everyone knew it was not the beginning of “peace” but a strategy to isolate the USSR. And it was a belated strategy at that, coming about a whole decade late! It strikes me a nice counterfactual history, what if story, could be about Kennedy’s visit to Beijing on Nov. 22, 1962.
Nixon was not a peacemaker and the “strength” of presidents is not even an issue. President of the US is a job title for Chief Operating Officer of Imperialism, I think is the way it should be made.
If weakness mattered, everyone here would be saying, vote Biden. But I’m not into chaos agent of acceleration nonsense. (De la Cruz for my protest vote, as of the moment.)

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jul 20 2024 18:41 utc | 61

It was the cleverest protection racket since men convinced women that they needed men to protect them, for if all the men vanished overnight, how many women would be afraid to walk the streets?
–All the men would never vanish over night. Women did meed men to protect them, at least until the revolver.
It is a silly “thought experiment” that throws reality put of the window. The biggest threat to men and women historically was evil men, and the only people who could stop evil men were other men.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 20 2024 18:57 utc | 63

There are many very well informed computer people on this site – I would appreciate your input. The Crowdstrike disaster came a couple of weeks after the US banned Kapersky Cybersecurity from operating in US (as far as one can make up because their name sounds Russian.)
Not difficult to see conspiracies where they don’t exist, but the speed with Crowdstrike held up their hands and cried “Sorry fellows – silly mistake!” makes one wonder if there wasn’t perhaps more to it.

Posted by: Montreal | Jul 20 2024 19:57 utc | 65

Kaspersky is well known and very good antivorus.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 20 2024 20:07 utc | 67

@ Montreal | Jul 20 2024 19:57 utc | 65 with the Crowdstrike question
It is unlikely external cyber attack because it only effects Microsoft, not Mac or Linux
Below is a quote from The Register with some detail

Speaking to BBC Radio 4 this morning, former CEO at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, Ciaran Martin, concurred with the current explanations for the outage.
“[CrowdStrike] have a range of products under this brand they call Falcon, and their Falcon sensor update, which a lot of companies will use to detect threats and so forth, seems to have been misconfigured in such a way that it wrecks Windows.
“And so if a company is using both CrowdStrike and Windows for its operating system, it seems that they get what people in the trade call the blue screen of death, and Windows doesn’t work, and that’s why airlines aren’t able to process, presumably, why Sky [News] hasn’t been able to broadcast. It’s also why, just simply for times and reasons, it seems to be emerging first in Australia.
“These complex systems always operate interdependently, so [for] the cybersecurity to do its job, the cybersecurity tool still has to be able to interact with Windows, so companies spend a lot of time, money, and effort on both sides of that equation, making sure that they’re compatible when you’re deploying these things. You have to make sure you don’t destabilize other parts of the network, and most of the time that works. Occasionally, it doesn’t – it appears that that’s not the case. It’s very rare for it to be as serious as this.”

I am reading the expected testing of the changes did not occur for some reason yet to be divulged.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 20 2024 20:18 utc | 69

aristodemos@38…..I don’t believe they have weather control just yet, more like weather affect. I watched some video from Dubai where they recently had floods of biblical proportions. Thought it weird at the time, but about three weeks later I seen some info on where Qatar was doing some weather mod experiments just before the floods in Dubai. Major coincidence, of course. As for China, they do cloud seed and mistakes do happen, see: Dubai.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 20 2024 20:53 utc | 71

Posted by: Whitney | Jul 20 2024 20:57 utc | 71
Liquid flows down, and trump was with his face towards the ground when he went down and was covered by ss.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 20 2024 21:06 utc | 73

Its a special kind of fake blood that doesnt soil white collars or get on hands, unlike real blood.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 20 2024 21:16 utc | 75

It seems that, for whatever reason, very few of us MoA barflies recall that Crowdstrike is the company that ran cybersecurity for the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 Presidential election year. After Trump won the election, claims of Russian hacker interference were put forward by Ukrainian-American journalist Alexandra Chalupa and the pile-on by US mainstream media outlets that Russia had interfered in the elections began from there.
Some time after Zelensky was elected President of Ukraine, the then US President Trump phoned him and asked him to look into the possibility of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 Presidential elections. Trump apparently mentioned Crowdstrike in the phone conversation and that th er company had a server in Ukraine.
One of the founders of Crowdstrike, Dmitri Alperovich, is or was a Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council. He had some association with Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on a digital project at the Council. Barflies may recall that Bellingcat came into existence a day or so before the Malaysia Airlines MH17 Boeing jet crashed in what was then eastern Ukraine, in July 2014. Higgins and Bellingcat have since been diligent in pushing the narrative that the plane was felled by a BUK missile system operated by Donbass fighters who managed to spirit it over from Russia just to shoot down the plane and then send the system back.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jul 20 2024 22:12 utc | 77

@ denk | Jul 20 2024 18:10 utc | 57
re: “let our military and our corporations roam freely across your land, and give us veto power over who your leaders will be, and we’ll protect you.”
Reminds me of the Requerimiento [Requirement] which was written in 1510 by the Council of Castile to be read aloud as an ultimatum to conquered Indians in the Americas.

. . .But, if you do not do this [give us your land, obey, etc.], and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him; and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their Highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us. And that we have said this to you and made this Requisition, we request the notary here present to give us his testimony in writing, and we ask the rest who are present that they should be witnesses of this Requisition. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jul 20 2024 22:27 utc | 79

Some believe that broken Windows® generates economic growth…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 20 2024 22:46 utc | 81

canuck | Jul 20 2024 22:21 utc | 77
That would be crushed rock with the fines rather than gravel as such. I’ve used it a few times rather than graded stone and sand and makes good concrete. From what I understand, strength of concrete depends mostly on the cement water ratio and also the strength of the stone aggregate.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 20 2024 23:11 utc | 83

Crowdstrike outage, Trumps ear piercing ceremony, US stuck stuck in space because the Boeing taxi broke down. Lucky the thing didn’t blow out a panel on the way up. US cant produce arty ammo, can’t produce patriot interceptors.
Need millions of immigrants to keep up the demographics because they can’t even produce babies anymore.
All just another normal day in collapsing empire.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 20 2024 23:20 utc | 85

Whitney@71….security talks to guy for over 30 mins. If true, the ladder in plain sight, the shooter walking around openly and on the roof, bystanders pointing him out to security, coloured bands for friend and foe missing. No coverage on just ‘that’ building, the lady in the ball cap going off cue and reaching for her phone camera taking some footage of the downed Trump, then she conveniently flops down, like when the dead move in a very bad B grade Ukraine War Snuff Movie.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 20 2024 23:25 utc | 87

@86
M, the deceased shooter was the patsy, the heavy/sniper was almost immediately behind and roughly same elevation.
If they could not stop the patsy…?
Seems USSS could not get anything right, Trump moved his head, body armor worked, and Trump got himself out of the line of sight fast.

Posted by: paddy | Jul 20 2024 23:34 utc | 89

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 20 2024 23:21 utc | 85
I had the pleasure of holding and reading a Kallierges Pindar a few months ago ($75K asking price). The paper was unblemished, made from recycled linen and acid-free. Now that’s data storage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Calliergi

Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 21 2024 0:09 utc | 91

Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 21 2024 0:09 utc | 90
You can pick one up for $14,500 AUD ($10,000 USD).

Posted by: Siddhartha | Jul 21 2024 0:24 utc | 93

Posted by: Montreal | Jul 20 2024 19:57 utc | 65
I spent most of my adult life in hi tech, working for all the biggies. Let me splain.
In 1983 when I joined, a software cycle included development, testing, and 3 releases:
— Alpha release, to internal groups for testing. This would last at least a month. Bugs found; bugs fixed.
— Beta release, to external customers who were willing to take some risks (in a limited environment) to get a first look at the new features. This would take one or two months. Bugs found; bugs fixed.
— Final release to the world. More bugs found; patches released
So between the time dev said product/feature is ready and the time the product shipped three to six months would elapse, and LOTS of testing would happen.
Initially, I worked for a mainframe company (Tandem) that shipped once a year or once every two years.
When I went to work for Apple in 1989, they had 3 releases a year, and I thought “what a sweatshop.”
Now, basically, beta is the final release and most of the testing is automated. Some products are updated as often as every two weeks….producing just in time disasters.
Most of QA (quality assurance) has been cut to the bone and then outsourced.
No conspiracies needed, just capitalism working as intended.

Posted by: JAB | Jul 21 2024 0:33 utc | 95

I think win7 was the last microcrap system you could control. From experience, if you’re looking into the wrong thing and keeping the spooks out, they just raid you and take the friggin computer. No I keep it simple – not that I’m up to much more – keep the dipshit low level scammers out and fully aware anything I do in the internet is under big brother’s evil eye.
But to get to the goodies, the information highway was shut down in 2013/14.
I was a latecomer to the net, but worked on the principle that anything you wanted could be found. And that was very much the case. You wanted to look into something that looked like government dirty shit, with a bit of persistence, you could pick up the shitty tracks they had left behind.
Now some stuff has simply been removed from the internet. Other stuff, it wont come up in any search engine even under a perfect search phrase. You have to already have the web address to find it.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 21 2024 1:22 utc | 97

Any more on the SS sniper that took him out?
From what I have seen and heard the last week, there were two pairs of counter-snipers behind trump, looking at the stage they were on the far left and far right buildings or barns (of the three buildings). It was one of the snipers on the right side that shot Crooks, not those two that appear in the many videos on the left barn roof.
These snipers were alerted to reports of someone on the roof (initially seen standing up using binoculars) but rules of engagement has it that without sight of a weapon they could not shoot. In fact it was hard to see Crooks as he was down on the low far side of the roof, with feet almost in the gutter when seen by people and reported. It was only a very short time after that he began shooting, and then because he could be seen his head above the apex of the roof they hit him.
Why wasn’t he seen shot earlier?
Looking at the building he was on, Crooks was on the far right end, near the car park side, and hidden behind two trees between him and the counter-snipers on the barn roofs behind Trump. People saw him because he was moving to his right to get out from behind the trees so he could get a line of sight on Trump. He then crawled up toward the apex to take his shot. The two counter-snipers closer to him still had vision issues because of the tree just obscured him, but the other pair had a clearer shot and took it because Crooks had started shooting.
The videos show the counter-sniper moving his tripod and looking up trying to see where Crooks was but he never took a shot. That is why that vision looks strange. But they were not the snipers who killed Crooks.
Crooks was the only shooter. all shots (5 or 6) were on a direct line from him. The first one missed Trump a second hit his ear. a third stuck the man in the left bleachers, a fourth hit the hydraulics of the crane with the speakers to the right of the right bleachers, the fifth/sixth shots stuck the two injured in the right bleachers.
And lastly I have seen a close up photo of him dead on that roof, with head wound and dried blood across his cheek/face with legs of three police/ss standing close around him. Very grim stuff.

Posted by: Fred | Jul 21 2024 2:15 utc | 99