[ExI] Thursday Fun Day in the UK

[William Flynn Wallace]

And such an easy fix for the overloading.   bill w

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 6:35 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> ...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
> Subject: [ExI] Thursday Fun Day in the UK
>
> >...It's been a funny old day here in the UK.
> On Friday a big electricity price increase will apply and customers were
> told to supply meter readings on Thursday to make sure correct charges were
> applied to their accounts.
>
> >...Guess what happened?????
>
> >...The websites of all the power companies promptly fell over as the whole
> of the UK tried to connect and submit their meter readings.  What a
> surprise!  :) Who would have thought that might happen!
> Isn't technology wonderful!
>
> <
> https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/18130141/ofgem-issues-bill-advice-sites-cras
> h/
> <https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/18130141/ofgem-issues-bill-advice-sites-crash/>
> >
>
> BillK
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>
> Hey, WE invented that!  We Yanks did it first, me lad.
>
> A few years ago the USA attempted to overhaul our medical insurance system.
> The government set up a website.  Roll-out day, it crashed.  Too many
> attempted to log on.  Unforeseeable I suppose.  Black swan event having all
> those people try to log on the very first day.
>
> spike
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