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Maximum survival time without Internet?
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Q: Why do WASPs play golf ?
A: So they can dress like pimps.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday May 13 2024, @02:09PM
Not sure how your bank in particular works, or banks in general. But for healthcare the largest vendor of medical record systems (by market share), Epic, has provisions for local machines to store read-only copies of an entire hospital or region's tables for treatment. And seldom tested (or used) procedures for network outages - at least on the field operation level. But yeah, I've been to a bank experiencing connectivity issues and they were pretty much boned - "I can't do that right now."
I'd bet a lot of the crowd here remembers the days of using a manual imprinter for credit cards. Fill out the slip, put the card on the platen and the slip of that, pull the handle back and forth - shonk SHONK! Then get the customer to sign it. Oh, and telephone for a Code 50 authorization number if the charge was over $50.00 on the landline. Turn the slips in with your deposit and wait for your share of the money to be deposited. :)
I've got ham radios and a license..... I can theoretically talk to people 1, 5, 50, 500, or 5000 miles away. The American Radio Relay League's Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARRL-ARES, what a mouthful!) trademarked "When All Else Fails," because ham radio can still work. But by and large the Simpsons nailed it, those who do for the most part just say "I've got a ham radio!" with it. Unless you've got an actual plan and need, what good will it do but psychological prophylaxis? Still fun, but even now part of the cutting edge of ham radio now requires Internet.
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