How did they "connect directly to the IP address"? Did they place a wiretap on each of the 84 IP address to siphon the data?
Like another poster said, they're probably relying on the BT client's list of addresses. If that isn't sufficient, it's trivial to set up a monitor like Wireshark and be able to identify exactly which IP address sent any specific block of data.
Gee, I never would have thought of that myself. Less sarcastically, the internal gateway is in fact on a UPS (as is everything else in the room), but that doesn't help a lot when the DSL link drops during a power failure. It's often faster to reboot the gateway than to let it try to resync hot.
Hehe, yeah, it's kinda like the story about the air traffic controller and the Cessna, Twin Beech, F-18, and SR-71 getting ground speed checks on the radio.
Likewise. I have a 12 Mbit business Uverse connection through AT&T. It has plenty of drawbacks - in particular the modem takes about 10 minutes to reboot/resync if the power blips, which happens several times a week where I live, and they can't decide whether or not I have problems with the physical line. One time they'll say, "oh yeah, we need to get that line replaced", and then the next it's "the line test looks fine to me". However, it's $65/month, I have 5 static IPs, IPv6 (finally) works well, and I can run whatever the hell I want on my connection. Every year or so, I get a quote from Comcast to compare. This year, it was $75/month for comparable service, plus another $30/month for 5 statics, plus $7.50/month for the modem rental (they won't allow customers to use their own gear with static IPs), and a $300 installation charge plus a 1 year commitment. I specifically told Comcast to contact me via email as I wouldn't be available on the phone during the day. Over a period of two weeks, three different sales reps called a total of 5 times while I was at work, and each time I responded via email and reminded them that they should contact me via that means. I never got a response, and eventually they just stopped calling. If that's how conscientious they are when trying to get my business, I shudder to think what the customer service would be like once they have my money.
AT&T sucks in a lot of ways, but they're cheaper, they're responsive, and if I have issues I can usually get in touch with someone that actually knows something instead of having to walk through a useless 45-minute script with some phone jockey. I'd like to avail myself of better/faster service, but Comcast seems to do everything they can to keep me from switching.
This is opposite programmers: we spend our time insulting each other.
Very true. And if we could actually perceive the emotions that are often involved, no one would get any work done because of all the restraining orders in place.
I have no idea why the "yellow before green" or the countdown timers are not more common, or why neither is used in America.
Because you never should let the enemy know what you're about to do! Seriously though, a lot of the crosswalk signs in the U.S. do have a countdown timer, and if you can see them you can have at least some idea when the traffic lights are about to change.
You think so? Apple has to license anything thats Lightning capable. Do you really think Apple will allow someone to sell a cheaper adapter then their own?
Unless Apple gets the entire U.S. Customs Service on board with it, there's not much they're going to be able to do, practically. Licensing has not been a particularly big concern for Chinese counterfeiters, nor has the Customs Service.
Interestingly, one of my best friends is a Chinese H-1B that was hired as a dev, but after four years is now the project manager where he works. Still getting strung along on the green card thing, too.
Can't do it on my truck ('02 GMC Sierra) unless you have REALLY long arms, but I have key locks so it wouldn't be a problem. In contrast, on my old '86 Silverado I could do practically anything from underneath. I could replace both the water pump and fuel pump together in less than 10 minutes.
AFAIK pretty much all airlines run scheduling software from a single company (I remember reading an article about how Southwest moved from an in-house system to the same as everyone else due to complexity issues), so it's not so much the airlines but this 3rd party that seems to have somewhat fragile software.
Dunno about the scheduling package, but most airlines contract with one of the major providers of reservations management services. At the time I worked in the field (little more than 10 years ago), the big names were Worldspan, Sabre, Navitaire, and a couple of others. I remember a HUGE clusterfuck that happened when Navitaire went down, and just completely screwed one of our major customers, grounding flights all over the country for several hours. Listening to the Navitaire folks and the airline folks screaming and pointing fingers at each other on the conference call was a hoot (once we'd shown that the problem wasn't at our end, of course), although I'm guessing the thousands of people stranded all over the country wouldn't have thought so.
The point is that an airline can experience a system failure somewhere and not have it be due to anything they did/didn't do. In that particular case, the airline hadn't done anything wrong, and their end of the system was up and working properly. I'm sure Navitaire wrote a big check after that incident.
You just use a jumper cable to bring power to the hot terminal on either the alternator or the starter.
If you can get the hood open. Not all hoods are easy to unlatch from the outside to get to the alternator, and plenty of starters are mounted such that you can't get cables on them. On my truck's starter, it has to come completely out in order to reach the terminals.
My mom's 2015 jeep cherokee latitude doesn't have key locks. If you have the fob, you can just open the door.
Assuming the car has power. Earlier this year I had to replace a corroded battery cable, and a lack of key locks would have made that a bit more challenging.
For some items I'm sure that's the case. Others, definitely not. The counterfeit Music Man and Rickenbacker electric basses commonly available on AliExpress are cheap, CHEAP ripoffs of the original (American-made) products, and don't feel or sound anything like the real ones. Another risk you take ordering these is if U.S. Customs happens to inspect the package, determines it's a counterfeit, and seizes it. Good luck getting your money back.
Beats me, I never measured. My eyesight numbers were from the twice-yearly eye exams and retinal photographs I had to have done in the late 90's/early 00's when I worked for a company that made laser markers/engravers. They could measure down to 20/10 and I could still see the letters clearly, so I don't know exactly how sharp my vision was then.
I don't know that I'd call them "utter trash" - every drive manufacturer has had problems over the years. The pair of Seagates in my server had more than 60,000 hours each on them and still had completely clean SMART reports when I finally pulled the machine, and of all the dozen or so other Seagates I've had in the machines at home (a 2TB Black), I've only ever had one fail. In fairness though, the server lived in a data center where the environment was tightly controlled and was turned on/off only twice during that period, and all of the other machines have always been on a UPS.
I know that's not enough data points to be anything more than anecdotal, but they've worked pretty well for me. I even had an IBM Deathstar for a few years and never had problems with it, so maybe I'm a disk whisperer or something.:-D
Agreed. In the last 20 years, I've had only two drives fail out of more than a dozen - the original 30GB (was either Quantum or Maxtor) in my G4 Power Mac back in 2008, and a 2TB Seagate in a home-built machine in 2012.
This is a common misconception, the "strength" of your teeth has almost nothing to do with your genetics and the environment.
I'm not sure exactly why, whether it's because of a high pH or whatever (never checked it), but I'll turn 50 next year, and I've only gotten one very small cavity in my early 30's that my dentist said didn't really need to be filled but would be good to have taken care of. Otherwise, I seem to have Teeth of Steel (tm). What makes it more interesting is that my dad has had four root canals and generally crappy teeth, my mom has had about half a dozen fillings, and my sister has had her share as well. Whether it's genetics or something else, I seem to have hit the lottery regarding my teeth and my eyesight (in my mid 30's I had better than 20/10, although it had deteriorated to 20/15 last time it was measured a couple of years ago).
You don't have to floss every day. Once a week is enough. Your dentist won't even be able to tell the difference.
Well, kinda. You have to floss frequently enough such that the plaque that remains after brushing doesn't have enough time to become calculus, because neither brushing or flossing will get that off. Some people can get away with once per week, and others will have to do it more frequently. Plaque can also give you bad breath, so while it might not be strictly necessary to floss often, your friends, family, and coworkers might appreciate it. Again, everyone's a little different in that regard.
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For sure. The various government entities make more from a pack of cigarettes than the manufacturers do.
You're being pedantic.
How did they "connect directly to the IP address"? Did they place a wiretap on each of the 84 IP address to siphon the data?
Like another poster said, they're probably relying on the BT client's list of addresses. If that isn't sufficient, it's trivial to set up a monitor like Wireshark and be able to identify exactly which IP address sent any specific block of data.
Gee, I never would have thought of that myself. Less sarcastically, the internal gateway is in fact on a UPS (as is everything else in the room), but that doesn't help a lot when the DSL link drops during a power failure. It's often faster to reboot the gateway than to let it try to resync hot.
Hehe, yeah, it's kinda like the story about the air traffic controller and the Cessna, Twin Beech, F-18, and SR-71 getting ground speed checks on the radio.
Sometimes, that's exactly what I want. A toggle for each tab to pause any active JS would be nice.
Likewise. I have a 12 Mbit business Uverse connection through AT&T. It has plenty of drawbacks - in particular the modem takes about 10 minutes to reboot/resync if the power blips, which happens several times a week where I live, and they can't decide whether or not I have problems with the physical line. One time they'll say, "oh yeah, we need to get that line replaced", and then the next it's "the line test looks fine to me". However, it's $65/month, I have 5 static IPs, IPv6 (finally) works well, and I can run whatever the hell I want on my connection. Every year or so, I get a quote from Comcast to compare. This year, it was $75/month for comparable service, plus another $30/month for 5 statics, plus $7.50/month for the modem rental (they won't allow customers to use their own gear with static IPs), and a $300 installation charge plus a 1 year commitment. I specifically told Comcast to contact me via email as I wouldn't be available on the phone during the day. Over a period of two weeks, three different sales reps called a total of 5 times while I was at work, and each time I responded via email and reminded them that they should contact me via that means. I never got a response, and eventually they just stopped calling. If that's how conscientious they are when trying to get my business, I shudder to think what the customer service would be like once they have my money.
AT&T sucks in a lot of ways, but they're cheaper, they're responsive, and if I have issues I can usually get in touch with someone that actually knows something instead of having to walk through a useless 45-minute script with some phone jockey. I'd like to avail myself of better/faster service, but Comcast seems to do everything they can to keep me from switching.
This is opposite programmers: we spend our time insulting each other.
Very true. And if we could actually perceive the emotions that are often involved, no one would get any work done because of all the restraining orders in place.
Like most people, I have access to chargers at my place of work.
Most people don't have access to chargers at work. You can't extrapolate your own situation to everyone else like that.
I have no idea why the "yellow before green" or the countdown timers are not more common, or why neither is used in America.
Because you never should let the enemy know what you're about to do! Seriously though, a lot of the crosswalk signs in the U.S. do have a countdown timer, and if you can see them you can have at least some idea when the traffic lights are about to change.
You think so? Apple has to license anything thats Lightning capable. Do you really think Apple will allow someone to sell a cheaper adapter then their own?
Unless Apple gets the entire U.S. Customs Service on board with it, there's not much they're going to be able to do, practically. Licensing has not been a particularly big concern for Chinese counterfeiters, nor has the Customs Service.
Interestingly, one of my best friends is a Chinese H-1B that was hired as a dev, but after four years is now the project manager where he works. Still getting strung along on the green card thing, too.
Can't do it on my truck ('02 GMC Sierra) unless you have REALLY long arms, but I have key locks so it wouldn't be a problem. In contrast, on my old '86 Silverado I could do practically anything from underneath. I could replace both the water pump and fuel pump together in less than 10 minutes.
AFAIK pretty much all airlines run scheduling software from a single company (I remember reading an article about how Southwest moved from an in-house system to the same as everyone else due to complexity issues), so it's not so much the airlines but this 3rd party that seems to have somewhat fragile software.
Dunno about the scheduling package, but most airlines contract with one of the major providers of reservations management services. At the time I worked in the field (little more than 10 years ago), the big names were Worldspan, Sabre, Navitaire, and a couple of others. I remember a HUGE clusterfuck that happened when Navitaire went down, and just completely screwed one of our major customers, grounding flights all over the country for several hours. Listening to the Navitaire folks and the airline folks screaming and pointing fingers at each other on the conference call was a hoot (once we'd shown that the problem wasn't at our end, of course), although I'm guessing the thousands of people stranded all over the country wouldn't have thought so.
The point is that an airline can experience a system failure somewhere and not have it be due to anything they did/didn't do. In that particular case, the airline hadn't done anything wrong, and their end of the system was up and working properly. I'm sure Navitaire wrote a big check after that incident.
You just use a jumper cable to bring power to the hot terminal on either the alternator or the starter.
If you can get the hood open. Not all hoods are easy to unlatch from the outside to get to the alternator, and plenty of starters are mounted such that you can't get cables on them. On my truck's starter, it has to come completely out in order to reach the terminals.
My mom's 2015 jeep cherokee latitude doesn't have key locks. If you have the fob, you can just open the door.
Assuming the car has power. Earlier this year I had to replace a corroded battery cable, and a lack of key locks would have made that a bit more challenging.
My guess is they can hack into the electronic ignition they can hack into the electronic door locks as well.
And if not, there aren't many cars that a brick won't unlock.
For some items I'm sure that's the case. Others, definitely not. The counterfeit Music Man and Rickenbacker electric basses commonly available on AliExpress are cheap, CHEAP ripoffs of the original (American-made) products, and don't feel or sound anything like the real ones. Another risk you take ordering these is if U.S. Customs happens to inspect the package, determines it's a counterfeit, and seizes it. Good luck getting your money back.
Beats me, I never measured. My eyesight numbers were from the twice-yearly eye exams and retinal photographs I had to have done in the late 90's/early 00's when I worked for a company that made laser markers/engravers. They could measure down to 20/10 and I could still see the letters clearly, so I don't know exactly how sharp my vision was then.
The platters made good frisbees, but the problem is that they go through car windows, and the dents in cars are deep, so frisbee with care.
And they can hurt too. Not that I'd have any personal experience with that....
Belt sanders are fun too!
I don't know that I'd call them "utter trash" - every drive manufacturer has had problems over the years. The pair of Seagates in my server had more than 60,000 hours each on them and still had completely clean SMART reports when I finally pulled the machine, and of all the dozen or so other Seagates I've had in the machines at home (a 2TB Black), I've only ever had one fail. In fairness though, the server lived in a data center where the environment was tightly controlled and was turned on/off only twice during that period, and all of the other machines have always been on a UPS.
:-D
I know that's not enough data points to be anything more than anecdotal, but they've worked pretty well for me. I even had an IBM Deathstar for a few years and never had problems with it, so maybe I'm a disk whisperer or something.
Agreed. In the last 20 years, I've had only two drives fail out of more than a dozen - the original 30GB (was either Quantum or Maxtor) in my G4 Power Mac back in 2008, and a 2TB Seagate in a home-built machine in 2012.
This is a common misconception, the "strength" of your teeth has almost nothing to do with your genetics and the environment.
I'm not sure exactly why, whether it's because of a high pH or whatever (never checked it), but I'll turn 50 next year, and I've only gotten one very small cavity in my early 30's that my dentist said didn't really need to be filled but would be good to have taken care of. Otherwise, I seem to have Teeth of Steel (tm). What makes it more interesting is that my dad has had four root canals and generally crappy teeth, my mom has had about half a dozen fillings, and my sister has had her share as well. Whether it's genetics or something else, I seem to have hit the lottery regarding my teeth and my eyesight (in my mid 30's I had better than 20/10, although it had deteriorated to 20/15 last time it was measured a couple of years ago).
You don't have to floss every day. Once a week is enough. Your dentist won't even be able to tell the difference.
Well, kinda. You have to floss frequently enough such that the plaque that remains after brushing doesn't have enough time to become calculus, because neither brushing or flossing will get that off. Some people can get away with once per week, and others will have to do it more frequently. Plaque can also give you bad breath, so while it might not be strictly necessary to floss often, your friends, family, and coworkers might appreciate it. Again, everyone's a little different in that regard.