Oh, and you're correct about the lack of undersea cable. Everything that goes down there has to be transported on satellite, and even that gets iffy at times, especially at places south of McMurdo. Connection to the Amundsen-Scott has been done by a combination of geosynchronous birds in inclined orbits and by medium-earth-orbit birds in highly eccentric Molinya-type orbits.
There's enough phone numbers down there it has its country code for mobiles, and that's supposedly what this malware does. It dials +88234 numbers. It probably just wardials numbers in certain blocks.
I don't know how UK mobile providers do it, but I had to call my cell provider (Sprint) to enable international dialing before I could dial past +1.
Still it is a hell of a lot cheaper than wardialing +870 (Inmarsat) numbers. Last I heard, those were going for 10Euro/min on the wholesale market.
Because your average customer service monkey doesn't know anything about "product activation" or "key blacklisting" or anything like that. They just point to the big sign above "Customer Service/Returns" that says "Opened media may only returned for an exact replacement".
The most guilty ones are the people holding half-duplex conversation on their PTT phones. Not only are they talking loud, but they have the phone on bullhorn mode.
*beep* *CHIRPCHIRP* HI HOW ARE? *CHIRPCHIP* I'M OKAY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? *CHIRPCHIRP* NOTHING *CHIRPCHIRP* WOULD YOU PICK ME UP SOME PADS AT THE STORE? *CHIRPCHIRP* OKAY *CHIRPCHIRP*
And they always have to hold their phones like the cool cops hold their walkie-talkies (antenna pointed to the ground, talking into the battery end).
Didn't *scare* me, just caught me unaware..."BOOOM! Hey..thunder? Nowait, shuttle!". I just moved to Florida, so the shuttle experiences are new (I drug my ass out of bed at 0400 2 weeks ago to see the sky light up from the night launch).
Larger satellite use magnetorquers to orient themselves in orbit. To use magnetics as a drive system, your spacecraft would have to be long so you could pulse a magnetic field down the length of it (think of it as a rail gun in reverse).
Works fine if you want to leave your Windows box on 24/7, plug another USB device into it, and install their ad-laden call manager software. Oh, and its great if you like non-existent tech support.
No free lunches, folks. Unlimited service for $19.95/year isn't possible unless that money is coming from ads, a ponzi scheme, or outright fraud.
It used to be one IP per HTTP Vhost until named-based virtual hosting came along. You can't do that with SSL, though. When I worked at a major hosting provider, it was not uncommon for a single server to have 25-30 IPs on it to run a bunch of SSL vhosts.
Exactly. I ran a very robust and high quality VOIP system for one of my former employers. It was VOIP from the customer's handset, across a 500ms geosynchronous satellite link, into our Asterisk box, into our Quintum IP->PRI gateway, and out via PRIs to the PSTN. It was near toll quality with no drops, gaps, or hiccups.
I can't say the same about my home VOIP service, which goes across the public internet from Texas to some place in Kentucky and often sounds like Mr Roboto.
Everytime the power at my place goes out, we lose internet and CATV. Apparently when CMA had to reinstall all their infrastructure after it got wiped out by Hurricane Rita, they didn't bother putting in backup power for the distribution nodes and amps.
That's why I always kept one of my old Sprint phones powered up and charged. Even though the service was terminated on it *and* it was roaming on to Verizon, it would have still dialed 911.
No they don't, at least not the majority of them. Putting in a line of sight microwave link from every site back to the MTSO would be next to impossible. Your average cell site is connected back to the MTSO via T1s or equivalent landlines.
I did my second incarnation of BBSing using a Datarace modem. It would only do 4800 when connected to other modems, but it would do 9600 if connected to another Datarace modem, but it did that by using up all of the voice bandwidth at once by going half-duplex over the line. I only found one other board that had a Datarace modem, but it shocked me the first time I saw "CONNECT 9600" when I was used to "CONNECT 4800".
If you have multiple PRIs, you can run NFAS (Non-facility associated signalling). You run 24B+0D on all but a handful of circuits, 23B+1D on those. The D channel carries enough signalling for call setup & tear down on all the PRIs in the NFAS group. That way, you're gaining an extra B channel per circuit.
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When shit works right - "Why do we need an IT department? They're just an expense!"
When shit breaks - "Why the hell are you using shit that has to be kept together with duct tape and bailing wire???"
+672 is not just for Antarctica, though. It is shared with Norfolk Island (a sort-of part of the commonwealth of Australia).
Oh, and you're correct about the lack of undersea cable. Everything that goes down there has to be transported on satellite, and even that gets iffy at times, especially at places south of McMurdo. Connection to the Amundsen-Scott has been done by a combination of geosynchronous birds in inclined orbits and by medium-earth-orbit birds in highly eccentric Molinya-type orbits.
+88234-86-7-53-0-9
I stand corrected. 88234 is not just for mobiles in Antarctica. It is a country code assigned "Global Networks Switzerland".
There's enough phone numbers down there it has its country code for mobiles, and that's supposedly what this malware does. It dials +88234 numbers. It probably just wardials numbers in certain blocks.
I don't know how UK mobile providers do it, but I had to call my cell provider (Sprint) to enable international dialing before I could dial past +1.
Still it is a hell of a lot cheaper than wardialing +870 (Inmarsat) numbers. Last I heard, those were going for 10Euro/min on the wholesale market.
Because your average customer service monkey doesn't know anything about "product activation" or "key blacklisting" or anything like that. They just point to the big sign above "Customer Service/Returns" that says "Opened media may only returned for an exact replacement".
The most guilty ones are the people holding half-duplex conversation on their PTT phones. Not only are they talking loud, but they have the phone on bullhorn mode.
*beep* *CHIRPCHIRP* HI HOW ARE? *CHIRPCHIP* I'M OKAY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? *CHIRPCHIRP* NOTHING *CHIRPCHIRP* WOULD YOU PICK ME UP SOME PADS AT THE STORE? *CHIRPCHIRP* OKAY *CHIRPCHIRP*
And they always have to hold their phones like the cool cops hold their walkie-talkies (antenna pointed to the ground, talking into the battery end).
Only if you can pack 20 kilotons of explosives around the hole.
The pilot is in constant communication with the tower through a very phone-like apparatus called a radio
Yep, and strangely enough, he's got it via headset. He doesn't have one hand on the radio mike, one on the throttle quadrant, and one on the yoke.
Well, we know its a bad troll. Everyone knows its not the *live* people in Chicago who vote.
combined with 350 million lines of #ifdef _LINUX_ or #ifdef _MACOS_ or #ifdef _UNICOS_.
then WHY the fuck we are not getting out of it ? despite ALL potential losses are covered in multiples ?
Because a good portion of that money wasn't used to cover a bank's bad debt. It was used to purchase competitors.
Here's the landing track:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/428601main_KSC217_mid_nooa.gif
Didn't *scare* me, just caught me unaware..."BOOOM! Hey..thunder? Nowait, shuttle!". I just moved to Florida, so the shuttle experiences are new (I drug my ass out of bed at 0400 2 weeks ago to see the sky light up from the night launch).
Larger satellite use magnetorquers to orient themselves in orbit. To use magnetics as a drive system, your spacecraft would have to be long so you could pulse a magnetic field down the length of it (think of it as a rail gun in reverse).
If so, you should feel sorry for him for living in downtown Hell, I mean Towson, MD.
Works fine if you want to leave your Windows box on 24/7, plug another USB device into it, and install their ad-laden call manager software. Oh, and its great if you like non-existent tech support.
No free lunches, folks. Unlimited service for $19.95/year isn't possible unless that money is coming from ads, a ponzi scheme, or outright fraud.
It used to be one IP per HTTP Vhost until named-based virtual hosting came along. You can't do that with SSL, though. When I worked at a major hosting provider, it was not uncommon for a single server to have 25-30 IPs on it to run a bunch of SSL vhosts.
Exactly. I ran a very robust and high quality VOIP system for one of my former employers. It was VOIP from the customer's handset, across a 500ms geosynchronous satellite link, into our Asterisk box, into our Quintum IP->PRI gateway, and out via PRIs to the PSTN. It was near toll quality with no drops, gaps, or hiccups.
I can't say the same about my home VOIP service, which goes across the public internet from Texas to some place in Kentucky and often sounds like Mr Roboto.
Ding.
Everytime the power at my place goes out, we lose internet and CATV. Apparently when CMA had to reinstall all their infrastructure after it got wiped out by Hurricane Rita, they didn't bother putting in backup power for the distribution nodes and amps.
That's why I always kept one of my old Sprint phones powered up and charged. Even though the service was terminated on it *and* it was roaming on to Verizon, it would have still dialed 911.
No they don't, at least not the majority of them. Putting in a line of sight microwave link from every site back to the MTSO would be next to impossible. Your average cell site is connected back to the MTSO via T1s or equivalent landlines.
Impacting our day to day to lives = terrorism has succeeded.
Its psychological warfare. The mind is infinitely more powerful than any bomb.
I did my second incarnation of BBSing using a Datarace modem. It would only do 4800 when connected to other modems, but it would do 9600 if connected to another Datarace modem, but it did that by using up all of the voice bandwidth at once by going half-duplex over the line. I only found one other board that had a Datarace modem, but it shocked me the first time I saw "CONNECT 9600" when I was used to "CONNECT 4800".
If you have multiple PRIs, you can run NFAS (Non-facility associated signalling). You run 24B+0D on all but a handful of circuits, 23B+1D on those. The D channel carries enough signalling for call setup & tear down on all the PRIs in the NFAS group. That way, you're gaining an extra B channel per circuit.
It does? 2 (B)earer channels for data and the (D) channel is X.25 packet and call set up & tear down. There's no "out of band".